Spooky

Good Morning everyone

Today is a little fun mixed media project inspired by 

 Make a halloween scene  

I started with an MDF frame, dug out lots of stamps and mediums and got playing.  Whereas last week my katzelkraft owl was out in the daytime, today its full on night time.  There is an owl that sits on my parents chimney at night hooting - always sounds spooky in the dead of night when everything else is silent.

Ive had this MDF box frame for years, i had the idea of the owls living in an owl barn and looking out the window to the dark of the grave

Frame approx 8x8" Inside frame size 6x6"  Please see last photo for how i did the frame & background.  I then found a chipboard grave stone in my stash which i covered with black gesso and dry brushed on some silver & gold paint.  I added with glue gel and added a skull and leg bone and a fly.  I die cut my spider & web from black card and brushed on silver & gold paint, i added crackle accents to the spiders body.  I glued the web to the top left behind the front frame.

I had the die cut ivy left from another project - its been coloured with brusho's.  I stamped and coloured my owls with inktense pencils and cut them out.  I went with bright colours as i didn't want my project to be too dark on the wall.  I got a dried hazel twig from the hedge and attached to the frame and then arranged my owls.  Tim Holtz words to finish.

I like using inktense pencils to colour images for home decor as ive found they are much more colour fast than using inks.

Of course i had to add glossy accents to the owls eyes

Peeking inside - these fab plastic flies i found in morrisons a few years ago

I first used a brick stencil on the outside frame with texture paste and on the middle piece i just added texture paste with a pallette knife to give a rough texture, once dry painted all with black gesso.  Once the gesso was dry i painted on patches of purple, yellow, green and blue paints to pick up on the colours i used on my owls.  I then dry brushed on more black to help the bright colours blend in but you can still just see them.  I then dry brushed over the top with silver & gold paint to highlight the textures. 

For my scene i cut a piece of white card for fit inside, i added a circle mask to act as the moon and then sprinkled on brushos in colbalt & prussian blue and purple pixie powder to add some shimmer.  Once completely dry i removed the mask and using a brush added a little colour to the moon to make it less white and stark.

I then stamped the big tree & eyes (sheena) in black and the smaller trees and the one with owl (choc baroque)  I coloured them with walnut & black soot oxide inks and added some shadow in the bottom of the frame and around my eyes.  The eyes i coloured with lime/lemonade oxide ink and a white gel pen.

Items Used:

Katzelkraft stamps - KTZ237 'Les Super Chouettes'

Chocolate baroque stamps 'howling moon'

Sheena Douglass stamps 'Little Red' & 'Scary tree'

Ivy, Spider & web dies

Brick stencil

Golden texture paste

Pebeo acrylic paints

MDF box frame

Derwent inktense pencils

Brushos & Pixie powders

Tim Holtz chit chat stickers

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you have a good week and we have a bit less rain than last week.  Stay safe. Hugs Emmaxx

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Halloween

Morning everyone, I hope that the forecast storm isn't effecting you all too bad. 

So its a new challenge over at Make My Monday  the theme this fortnight is

 I Put a Spell on You (HALLOWEEN)

or 

A Thank You Card

I had great fun making my first real Halloween card.  I dug out the chocolate Baroque moon howling stamp set ive also had for years, my wink of stellas and had fun. 

First i cut a black card blank using the largest Spellbinders grand labels 1.  I used the dies again to cut a black frame that i used silver gilding wax on it to give a distressed moonlit look.  On white card i stamped my little scene using various stamps from the set and extending the path with a black fine liner.  I then added pebeo drawing gum to mask them.

Using Wink of Stella pens in blue, purple, black, yellow & Orange i made a background using the wet into wet technique. Once completely dry, carefully remove the drawing gum mask.  

I glued the spiders web to the back of the frame so that it is hanging over the front.  I also added silver gilding to the web and spiders and crackle accents to finish on the spiders. 

I added a few highlights with a white gel pen. 

The photos don't sadly pick up the amazing sparkle of the wink of stella pens. 

Items Used:

Chocolate Baroque 'Howling Moon' stamp set

Spellbinders Grand Labels 1

Pebeo Gilding Wax Silver

Wink of Stella pens

Spider and Web Dies

Ranger Crackle Accents.

So if you fancy joining in the halloween fun do pop over to 

Make My Monday

Im often asked which card i use for my brusho backgrounds and I now use Craft UK white card for everything, they do smooth, linen and hammered, it die cuts, stamps, and takes all wet techniques perfectly and being 300gsm its perfectly for card bases.  

Sorry if i missed you last week, been out with a chest infection, after coming back from france with a cold.  So i will catch up with you all soon.  I hope you all have a good week. Emma