Sugar Skull Witch

I am having so much fun with this free stamp from the cover of Craft Stamper. I figured it would make a great little witch. 

I drew out a body and a hat.. and I stamped the skull on card that was first painted with Blush and Snowflake Fresco paint. 

I painted the neck, hand and thigh the same, and then mixed Elephant and Eggplant together to paint the dress and hat. Once dry I added shading with Pitt pens. 

I coloured the skull with Pitt pens and attached it to the body and hat. I stamped the bird from HPHW03, cut that out and glued it to her hand. 

I cut a piece of Watercolour paper down to size and painted it with a mix of Toffee and Buff, this gave me a nice neutral background. I used the circle from EEV02 and a mix of Snowflake and Haystack to create the moon, then I stamped and embossed the pumpkins from HPHW03 and the tree from EDY06. I used Black Glint WOW powder. 

Next I splattered the background using twinkling H20's, i used Bolivian Blue and Bamboo. Then I added a little gloss glaze onto the pumpkins, while this was still wet I sprinkled Light Brown and Gamboge Brusho powders onto the pumpkins. 

The bats are from HPHW04, these are stamped in black archival ink. 

To add a little shadow to the ground I mixed Slate with some Bamboo Twinkling H20. 

I painted some card with a mix of Elephant and Bolivian Blue H20, over this I stamped the skulls from HPHW03, these were cut out and glued along the bottom edge. 

Then I glued on the witch. 

Finally I added Graphite texture paste around the edges and added highlights here and there with a white posca pen. 

Darcy x

Published At Last!!!

I am so excited... sooooooooo excited.  I will be in  the issue of Craft Stamper that goes on sale this week ( some of you may already have it if you are a subscriber)

Not only am I inside, but I have designed the free cover stamp!!! how cool is that. 

Here is my sugar skull stamp on the front cover of the magazine... 

Inside I have some projects made with the stamp.... I have a couple of sneaks for you, but if you want to see them in full you will need to go get yourself a copy of the magazine. 

If you follow this LINK to the Craft Stamper site you will see one of the projects. 

So giddy hahahaha off to conquer the world now lol

Darcy x

Halloweeny Bag

I am feeling a little mojoless, so just taking a couple of weeks out to recharge. However I do keep playing with bits and pieces, not making anything special, just messing about. This is the result of one 'messing about' session. 

I started with brown wrapping/parcel paper. You could use a ready made paper bag, but I decided to make one. I formed a large rectangle into a tube and glued in place. 

Then I scored the sides, and glued up the bottom. 

Folded over the flaps, and Voila! I have a flat bottomed bag. 

I trimmed the top of the bag with decorative scissors, just to add a little interest. 

So now I have my paper bag, how to keep it closed? a simple peg of course. 

Obviously it needed a bit of colour. Uaing a kitchen sponge, and the foam side... I dabbed on some Snowflake Fresco paint. 

I sponged Pea Coat and Eggplant at the bottom, and Autumn Fire and Pumpkin Soup at the top. 

Then I added the brick stamp from EDY10. to form a wall. I used versamark clear ink and Bmuse embossing powder in Amethyst. 

Then I added the tree stamp, from EDY06.. using black ink and embosssing with wow clear embossing powder. 

I painted some deli paper with Taupe Fresco paint, and stamped on the mechanical cat in black archival. I added a few dots of orange Fibralo pen to the screws on his body. He was then cut out and glued on the top of the wall. 

Finally I added some bats from HPH04

I love how the embossing powder picks up the texture in the wall. 

I painted some more of the brown parcel paper with Pumpkin Soup and Autumn fire. over this I stamped the text from HPH04. I ainted another piece black on both sides. Once dry I embossed the bats on one side. 

Once glued together, the plain black side provides a border to the orange. (the batty side becomes the back of the tag) I added sparkly black yarns. 

I painted the peg to match and stamped on the bats. 

Here it is all together, the tag hanging down the back. 

and the front. all ready to be filled with sweeties. 

Darcy x

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. 

Candy Bags

I made some really cute candy bags...

one for Halloween  and one for Christmas..

the back..

the side..

These make ideal gifts for kids to take to school for their teachers and friends...or even just stocking fillers. All you need is watercolour paper and some Aquamarkers see them here..

See how I made theme over on my Candy Bag post on the Letraset blog.