31 Days of Halloween - Day 24

Here we are at day 24 of the Smeared Ink 31 days of Halloween Blog Challenge.  The blog roll is over ther on the right, but if you're working your way through in order, then you’ve arrived here from Sarah’s blog.

Here’s today’s contribution.  

I've found this card under a number of different names – shutter card, peekaboo card, but I first came across it as a Magic Marquee card.   I went to town a bit and used stamps from three different sets on this card - "Spooky" on the front is from XXXX, the big spider and the sentiment are from Cheer All Year, and the little spiders on the Tangelo Twist background are from A Little Something.    I've also used Happy 

  Earlier this year I made a tutorial on how to construct one of these cards - here it is - 

The measurements I used on this version of the card are a bit different from those in the video.  The card is 8 ½ by 5 ½ inches, scored at 2 1/8 inches from either end to make a gatefold card.   The finished card measures 4 ¼ by 5 ½.The inner panel is 3 ¼ by 5 ½ and I used the 1 ¾ inch circle punch to cut the aperture.

I cut ½ inch off the end of the die-cut banner framelits from Stampin’ Up! (it’s the 4^th one counting from smallest to largest) and then scored and folded at ½ inch from the end.

On to Lisa F’s blog

31 Days of Halloween - Day 23

Hello there, and thanks for joining in the Smeared Ink 31 days of Halloween Blog Challenge.  If you've been working your way around the blogs in order, then you’ve arrived from Sarah’s blog.  However, if you're a free spirit and like to do your own thing, the blog roll is over there on the right.

Today I've made an ATC

It's based on a small canvas board coloured with acrylics - I did the stamping on tissue paper and glued it on with Pledge Multi surface wax.  Yes, the stuff you put on your floors.

The stamps are from De Stempelwinkel, and the I added some die-cuts.  Simples!

So that's today's project.  On to Lisa F’s blog now, and I'll see you again tomorrow.

Crafty Hugs,

Keren

31 Days of Halloween - Day 22

Hello bloggers, and welcome to my bit of the Smeared Ink 31 days of Halloween Blog Challenge.  The blog roll is over on the right, and if you've been working your way through in order you’ve arrived from Sarah’s blog.

It's a tag today.  The phrase "The ghost in the Machine" has always fascinated me. so I decided to do my own interpretation.

I used stamps from IndigoBlu and one of my ultra-useful Dovecraft alphabets along with die-cut gears and ghosts cut from vellum.  I'm rather pleased with the way it came out.

So now, please move on to Lisa F’s blog.  And I'll see you tomorrow!

XXX

Keren

31 Days of Halloween - Day 21

Day 21 of the Smeared Ink 31 days of Halloween Blog Challenge already!  If you're a Horrifying Hopper, it's likely that you’ve arrived from Sarah’s blog.  The blog roll is over there on the right , though, so you can easily get your bearings if you need to.

A quick project today.

I made this using the Gift Bag punch board.  Mine is the WMRK version – Stampin’ Up! have it in our catalogue now, but I’d already bought mine .  It’s a medium- sized bag and the sentiment is from the “A little something” stamp set. 

This time of year I stock up on “spooky” decorations. I use the skulls from small plastic skeletons quite a bit.  This leaves me with a lot of left-over body parts, so I was happy to find a use for some of them!

So now, onward to Lisa F’s blog, and I'll be back tomorrow!

Crafty hugs,

Keren

31 Days of Halloween - Day 20

Hello blogging peeps, welcome to today’s offering in the Smeared Ink 31 days of Halloween Blog Challenge.  If all has gone well, you've arrived from Sarah’s blog - but  if you've wandered in halfway through the proceedings the blog roll is over there on the right so you can get yourself pointing the right way.

Today is Tuesday, which is the day I share a tutorial on my YouTube channel – and also simul-blog with my goody-goody other self on Tuppence Coloured

Today I made this Explosion box.

The tutorial is here.

If you’re eagle-eyed, you might have spotted that I got stuck the DSP down with the lines up and down for two of the panels and side to side for the others...It’s a design choice, but after I filmed it the pattern was making my brain unhappy so I went in with some lighter fluid (US crafters can get something called Un-Du, but we Brits can’t get it over here) and un-stuck the offending panels so I could put them back the right way.  I felt better after that.

Confession is good for the soul!

I'll be back tomorrow, but meanwhile. please move along on to Lisa F’s blog

Crafty hugs.

Keren

31 Days of Halloween - Day 19

Hello bloggers! We're well into the Smeared Ink 31 days of Halloween Blog Challenge and if you're working your way around in order, you've arrived from Sarah’s blog.  If you're lost, keep calm and get your bearings using the blog roll over there on the right.

This treat bag is made using Stampin’ Up! cotton paper in Cucumber Crush.  Cotton paper has  has been described as – well, weird.  It’s very smooth and lightweight and you’d think it would be quite delicate and translucent.  In fact, it’s surprisingly robust. 

The bag is just big enough to hold a small treat - mmm...chocolate buttons....

I cut the bag using the SU mini treat bag die (but it wouldn't be too hard to make something similar with a score board and a craft trimmer.)   The eyes are punched circles of whisper white and basic black and I cut Frankie’s fringe (basic black again) with my fringe scissors. His eyelids are a punched circle of Cucumber Crush card cut into halves.

The treat holder inside is just a piece of Cucumber Crush card, cut with a Lots of Labels framelit (I do love this shape, it’s so elegant) and stamped with the “Boo” from the Cheer all Year set using – guess what ? – Cucumber Crush ink.

Apart from that. I just drew his features with a fine marker and he’s ready for Trick or Treating! 

So now, it's on to Lisa F’s blog to continue the hop.  I'll be back here tomorrow - see you then!

Crafty Hugs,

Keren

31 Days of Halloween - Day 18

Hello Horrifying Hoppers, and thank you for joining me on Day 18 of  the Smeared Ink 31 days of Halloween Blog Challenge.  If you're doing as  expected, then you’ve arrived from Sarah’s blog - but the blog roll is on the right if you've lost your bearings.

Today I'm showing this bauble.

I started by painting the inside of one half of the bauble with blue and purple glass paints, then I die-cut the house (and the gravestones in front of it - not very visible in the picture, but they are there!) from black shrink plastic and stuck them into the bauble with Milliput - I threw some Flower Soft and black flock powder over it while it was setting. 

I stamped "Happy Halloween" (I think it came from De Stempelwinkel) in white Staz-On ink onto  a strip cut from a shrink wrap bag ( I got mine from Amazon, originally for wrapping soap - they were very inexpensive) and then held it in place around the bauble while I heated it with a hairdryer.   Finally I tied a length of thick Bakers' Twine to the top so I could hang the bauble from the stand.

So now, proceed, if you would,  to Lisa F’s blog to continue the hop and I'll be back tomorrow.

Crafty Hugs,

Keren