Halloween ATC Swap

Hey Hey All

I thought I would share with you all my recent ATC's that I created for the Halloween ATC Swap organised by Charmed Cards and Crafts.

They had to be Halloween and have texture everything else was up to us, so of cause I had to take part and here they are 

I love love love how they turned out and I really did not want to part with them lol but I did send them on to Karen ready to be swapped.

Here are some close-up individual pictures of the ATC's 

I hopE you like what I have done with these ATC'S and they give you some inspiration.

Now while doing this blog post I  had a message from Karen with some BAD news, the ATC's have gone missing in Royal Mail GRRRR! all she has got is an empty envelope mailed to her.... The envelope has come un-sealed even though I asked the Post Office to tape it for me as I always do and they always have done UNTIL NOW!!!!.... So my awesome ATC's are missing and so is the self addressed return envelope which we include in, for Karen to send our swaps to us.

I am beyond devastated ..... Going to fly off into my dark little corner and cry for a while 

Kelly 

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Halloween Mixed Media Tag

Hey Crafters

So today I have my day three of seven days of Halloween makes to share with you all, this one was also done for a Halloween Tag swap I have taken part in.

So here is my Halloween tag

I love how this tag turned out and I hope the person who will be receiving it also loves it just as much as I do.

A close up of the tag 

For this tag I have used the following products:

That's Crafty Tag Surfaces

Texture Paste

Spider Web Stencil

Halloween Papers

Spider Webbing

Spellcast Ephemera and Fussy Cut Pieces

3d Gloss Gel Medium

Owl Charm

Orange and Black Ribbon

Metal Corners

Prima Alchemy Opal Magic Wax - Green

Kelly

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Halloween Mini Top Hat

Hey Crafters

Today is my second make in my 7 days of Halloween and as I previously mentioned on my last post that these will be spread out and not 7 consecutive days.

So here is my Halloween Mini Top Hat 

This was a lot of fun to make and I have so many ideas for different themes for my Mini Top Hats so watch this space ;) 

Now for more pictures 

Supplies used are as follows:

Texture Paste

Dylusions Stencil

Clay Skeleton Hand Embellishment

Spider Webbing

Fake Spider

Feather

Black Gesso

IndigoBlu Metallic Paints - Emerald City and Aladdin

Dyslusions Paint - Squeezed Orange

Prima Alchemy Wax - Amethyst

I hope you like what I have done here and it inspires you, Please do keep a look out for more of these Mini Top Hats in different themes.

Kelly 

xX The Crafty Bat Xx 

I would like to enter this piece into the following challenges:
Bleeding Art - October Challenge Halloween

Spooky Goings On

Hi all. 

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, so today I have a new project to share with you all and yesI know it is only August but Halloween is my favourite holiday so of cause I just had to do something spooky.

Now this piece I am sharing with you all today was inspired by Mike Deakin.....

So here is what I have been doing

Now I bet you are sitting there thinking what is spooky about this?........ Are you ready? ...... 

Oh hello Mr Skeleton ;) Yes it is a 3d picture. The above two pictures have both been taken with the flash on to show the colours and the metallic a bit more.

Now for some pictures of the canvas with no flash and some close ups

Close up pictures of some of the detail and texture on the canvas

I absolutely love how this turned out and can not thank Mike enough for the inspiration, as I have had some of these 3d Halloween pictures for a fair few years and they have just been sat in a draw, I may have to do the others so there is a set of them, If i do the rest I shall share them with you all.

The products I used to do this piece are as follows:

20cm x 20cm Canvas

Black Gesso

3d Halloween Picture

Cheese Cloth

Metal Embellishments

Mixed Media Stones (Medium and Large) - Imaginations Crafts

Metallic Acrylic Paints - Miss Moneypenny, Emerald City, Aladdin - IndigoBlu (two of the colours I made into a spray)

Dylusions Paint - Tangerine Dream (Made into a spray)

Pumpkin Chipboard

Dylusions Halloween Stamp and Stencil Set - Used the stencil 

Texture Paste

I hope you like my spooky mixed media canvas and it gives you some inspiration for Halloween, just like Mike's gave me inspiration to give this a go.

Kelly

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

I would like to enter this piece into the following challenges:
Altered Eclectics -  Anything Goes as long as it is mixed media
Creative Artiste Mixed Media - Anything Mixed Media Goes
Love To Create - Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes
More Mixed Media Challenge -  Anything Goes - Optional Brights

3D Witch Hat

Hi all.

Today's blog post is to share with you all my creation I have done for the monthly progressive challenge over at Simply Betty.

I wanted to do something a little different this month instead of the usual card or mixed media piece, as soon as I saw this month's image I knew straight away what I was going to do.

3D Witch's Hat

For this creation I used the following products:

Cast A Spell Betty Digi

Spectrim Noir Markers

Basic Black Card Stock

Designer Series Paper

Lemon Lime Twist Ribbon

Fresh Fig Ribbon

Paper Snips

Tombow Glue

Black Soot - Distress Ink

I hope you have enjoyed seeing what I have done for the progressive challenge and that it gives you some inspiration. I really enjoyed making this 3D project and then decorating it making sure I followed the guidelines for the challenge.

Kelly

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Scarefest 12x12 Layout

Hi all

Today I have a 12x12 scrapbook layout to share with you all, I had so much fun doing this layout.

Here is my layout 

I have used the Master Detective Papers for this layout, this particular paper from the collection was the ideal one for my layout from when we went to Scarefest at Alton Towers

We both dressed up and got our faces painted which was a first for my hubby to be, i was shocked when he told me that. So of cause he went as a Bat in his Bat Onesie hehe and I was a Skeleton in my Skeleton Onesie :D 

Now for some close up pictures of the layout 

I am so pleased with how this layout come out int he end I had a lot of fun putting it together and laughing at the memories from the day. It was an amazing day and night.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing my Scarefest layout

Kelly 

Xx The Crafty Bat xX

Spooky Forest

Hi all 

Today's post is a new piece I have been working on today, I am rather chuffed with this one, for some reason the camera didn't pick up the colours on the background as well as I had hoped. But I did take another picture of it out of the frame.

This piece has been made using a collection stamps from Lavinia, Stencil from Inkylicious and Distress Inks by Tim Holtz.

Here we have Spooky Forest

The background has all been done using Distress Inks in the following colours: Dusty Concord, Mustard Seed, Chipped Sapphire, Salty Ocean and Seedless Preserve.

Here is a better more close up picture of the piece not in the frame. You can see the colours much better in this one.

I couldn't help but not do a Halloween piece and have you noticed there are bats on the picture YAAAAAY!!! 

I would like to enter this piece into the following challenges:

Fantasy Stampers - Halloween Fun

Crafty Cardmakers - Things That Go Bump In The Night

Lost Coast Portal To Creativity - Scary or Weird

Make My Monday - I Put A Spell On You 

Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes

Crafting Be Design - Anything Goes