Spooksville...

It is almost that time of year again, when the ghouls and ghosties come out to play. often it is a mad rush, 2 days before to buy sweets, make candy bags, find costumes. why not get a head start this year and make these. quick and easy cards and candy bags, early.

You will need some monstrous images.  Jay over at Moonlight Creations has designed some cute monsters that you can print out and colour in.

I used Letraset promarker Autumn/Winter Ltd Edition Colours

Colour them just like you would anything else, don't forget to add your shadows and highlights, even monsters deserve attention to detail. 

these colours are so yummy...plenty of variety.. You get 12 colours plus the blender pen in this set. 

Here are some more finished monsters..

I took a piece of smooth card, and coloured it using Letraset inks.. I then added 2 borders around  the edge, a thick and a thin one, using my black promarker and a Letraset FINELINER... Then I drew in some bats as my background. 

next I printed out my sentiment on SAFMAT.. if you have never tried this stuff, you really must. it is fabulous for adding greetings. 

I cut out the sentiment and attached it to the card, and then added one of the monsters. 

for my next card I started with a piece of card that I ran through an embossing folding, and then painted. 

I added more texture and paint and treasure gold, then I attached a couple of the monsters. 

Now for candy bags. i took a simple DL sized brown envelope,(glued closed) measure it against the bar of chocolate, and then trimmed off the ends with fancy scissors. 

I matted some painted corrugated card onto black card, and finally added the coloured in monster bat. 

This 'topper' was added to the candy wrap..

I took another brown envelope, again glued shut. this time I folded in the edges and bottom to make a 'gusset' punched a hole in the top and voila you have a bag. I swiped some paint onto the bag and then attached the coloured in spooky house. 

It may look like a skinny envelope, but it is surprising just how many sweeties will fit inside. I put 15 of these sweets into my envelope/bag. 

There are more than enough sweets here to give as gifts.. 

if you are having a party, why not make invitation cards. Whatever you are doing at the end of the month have a spooktacular time..

I have a set of these Autumn/Winter Ltd Edition pens to give away. To be in with a chance of winning please do TWO things for me. 

1. leave a comment on my Letraset post... HERE... (on the Letraset blog)

2. Add your name to the linky below here. 

you will only be entered into the draw if you do both. 

ooh la la

I found this little card that I haven't shown you yet. While pottering about on FB my good friend KIRSTY posted about a little free digi image that she had just made. It was so cute I just had to colour him up using my FLEXMARKERS... click that link to find the markers still half price for the rest of  Jaunary.

I started with white card that I ran through a cuttlebug embossing folder, then I edged it with a blue marker. Next I printed the dog several times onto acetate,then I printed the dog bigger on smooth white card and coloured him in. As Kirsty provided a coloured and non-coloured version I finally printed the coloured version onto smooth card and made that into a tag.

( go HERE..to grab your free digi) 

Then I started to layer, but I needed a sentiment. I tried several on the top but they all looked bulky. I knew that I couldn't stamp on the bottom layer as it was all bumpy from the embossing folder. So I got out my TRUSTY SAFMAT This is fabulous stuff that pops right in the printer, you then print out whatever you want onto it , peel off the backing and stick it to your project. Because it is a clear film it kind of disappears once you stick it down, just leaving the text or image that you have printed.

So I printed out the word Bonjour! trimmed the film close to the text and stuck it to my bottom white layer, then added the acetate layer, holding that in place with brads and then finally I cut around my coloured dog and glued him on along with the tag.

to keep everything matching I also coloured the brads and the ribbons with my Flexmarkers.

So now onto some yummy giveaway news...

pop on over to the LETRASET BLOG... to be in with a chance of winning FREE FLEXMARKERS....GO DO IT NOW!!!