Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Tuesday, 25 October 2022

Spooky 40th Birthday

 


Every now and again I get asked to make a card for someone and sometimes you have strange requests to include. I was asked to make a 40th birthday card for someone who is crazy about Halloween.

I wanted to make it a bit more special so had an idea about making a shaker element using some witchy potion shaped dies I had received in a lucky bag from Crafter's Companion. I die cut the shapes and cut out a section so I could make a shaker card with an acetate window. This was filled with star sequins.

I stuck to halloween colours throughout and used some paper I had a million years ago from Papermania. The cardstock used is scraps in co-ordinating colours. I used a sparkly black glitter paper and drew a spider web with a white Posca paint pen. I then added some plastic spiders, some pumpkin stickers and a sentiment from my stash.


The inside was decorated to match. The centre panel was cut using a die from Julie Hickey. The ghost is a digital stamp Here For the Boos from Oddball Art Co. coloured with Promarkers and fussy cut. Finally a few more pumpkins complete the card.

I am not sure I will ever get asked to make such a card again but it is always lots of fun to make something that will be completely unique and really personalised for the recipient.

Size - A5

Digital Image - Here for the Boos (Oddball Art Co.)

Dies - The Potions (Sheena Douglass for Crafter’s Companion) Rectangle Layers Frames & Banners (Julie Hickey Designs)

Colouring Medium - Promarkers, Posca White Paint pen 

Designer Papers - Spring Burst (Papermania)

Embellishments - star sequins, spiders, Stickopotamus pumpkin stickers, silver peel off sticker numbers



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Sunday, 23 October 2022

Kawaii Halloween Colouring Page

 


To celebrate Halloween over at Kate Hadfield Designs you can download a FREE
Kawaii Halloween Colouring Page



This has been created using several of the stamps from Too Cute to Spook and is perfect for colourists of all ages. To download click on the link and it will take you to the blog. 


I coloured mine with a combination of Promarkers, Spectrum Noir Alcohol and glitter pens and Arteza pencils. Not pictured is the naughty green pencil that had rolled underneath my colouring mat. I had already put my supplies away when I found it.....

The colouring page is sized at A4 or letter size but I printed this out as an A5. The really great thing about Kate's illustrations is that you can print really large or small and the quality is just perfect. Many digital images I have used over the years do not size up very well and become grainy but the lines always remain crisp and clear with these images. It does make them a pleasure to work with.

At Kate Hadfield Designs there are so many fabulous sets it is really easy to get inspired to use them. There are digital stamps which you can colour, coloured versions you can scrapbook or make into digital layouts. Papers, patterned overlays and doodles galore. No matter what your skill level there are so many goodies to play with.


Kate is really generous with her freebies which are readily available. If you sign up to the newsletter you get access to an extra subscriber area the Doodle Den where there are loads more freebies. There is a gallery full of projects by the Creative Team and customers and so much inspiration for crafters and teachers. I would highly recommend you pop over there and join in the fun.


Colouring Page Details -


Size - A5

Image - Free Kawaii Halloween Colouring Page (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Colouring Medium - Promarkers, Spectrum Noir Alcohol & Glitter Markers, Arteza Expert Pencils


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Monday, 17 October 2022

Dracula Treat Bag

 


To celebrate Halloween  Kate Hadfield Designs has released two new sets Spooky Toppers & Too Cute To Spook. As always these are available as Pre-coloured Doodles and digital stamps which you can colour yourself. There are super value bundles where you can get both for a reduced price 


I have recently celebrated my birthday. Hubby says I am a nightmare as I never want anything but this year I completely surprised him by asking if I could have a colour laser printer.

Meet my new Brother (I always wanted a baby brother.....)


I needed to get a new chest of drawers from Ikea put widen my printer area as this was a lot bigger than my old black printer. It has given me the perfect place to put my Gemini die cutter too. 

This printer will enable me to print digital files in colour without having to get hubby to fire up the photo printer which seems to drink the inks up every time you turn it on. It produces amazing photos but too expensive really to print my projects.

I wanted to make a treat bag using the Dracula image from Spooky Toppers. I grew up watching Hammer House of Horror films and Dracula was my absolute favourite. I honestly had the most huge crush on Christopher Lee, he will always be Dracula to me.


Using my digital program Affinity Designer I created a template to suit the size of my bag topper. I sized Dracula so it would stand proud of the top and his hands sit alongside the edge of the label. 

The blank area then gave me a decent size to decorate. I used a sentiment from my digital collection which was a freebie from Diana All About Me. These are still available to download as well as many others on her blog. They print out very clearly even at a large size and I would highly recommend you pop over there and see what fab sentiments she has on offer.

I then went to the new set Too Cute to Spook. I love cute Kawaii images and have to say I absolutely adore these little characters. Definitely the cutest Halloween images I have ever seen.

I played about with placing the images around the text. I had to include the cute little bat, candy corn and a family of spiders. 


Once happy with the layout I printed onto a thicker paper from Asda that is specially for colour laser. I am delighted with how vibrant the colours are and really pleased that they looked the same as on my monitor. My little Brother did good and it going to be a huge boon to my crafting.

As the paper I used is a little thin for this kind of 3D project I stuck it to some scrap cardstock and cut around it. Then simply added it to the bag topper.

This set is perfect for those Halloween treat bags you can give out to the trick or treating kiddies or at your own Halloween party. I had a lot of fun creating with these and I am sure you would too.

At Kate Hadfield Designs there are so many fabulous sets it is really easy to get inspired to use them. There are digital stamps which you can colour, coloured versions you can scrapbook or make into digital layouts. Papers, patterned overlays and doodles galore. No matter what your skill level there are so many goodies to play with. 


Kate is really generous with her freebies which are readily available. If you sign up to the newsletter you get access to an extra subscriber area the Doodle Den where there are loads more freebies. There is a gallery full of projects by the Creative Team and customers and so much inspiration for crafters and teachers. I would highly recommend you pop over there and join in the fun.


Project Details -


Digital Images - Spooky Toppers Doodles & Too Cute To Spook Doodles (Kate Hadfield Designs)

Digital Sentiment - Happy Halloween Wordarts (Diana All ABout Me)


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Saturday, 1 October 2022

Boo Ghost Halloween Treat Bag

 


It is the start of a new month and we have a new image to play with for 
The Outlawz Progressive Freebie Challenge


Our New Blog Home is now up and running and all the challenges are being hosted from there. There is a challenge for each day of the week and we have ones that last for a month at a time. Lots of prizes on offer with individual ones for the specific challenges and sitewide ones for each calendar month.

Come on over and join in the fun at The Outlawz


This month at the Progressive Freebie Challenge we have been given this great digital set 
I'm Here For The Boos IMG 540 by Oddball Art Co


You get quite a few images with this so you can make a male or female with spider or without and a sentiment plus a separate banner. It is very versatile and will be useful for so many projects.

I have made a treat bag with some sweeties in it. Years ago I got a card making box from QVC and it had some gift bags in it which have never been used before. They are quite long so I cut it down a bit and added some folded over black card.

The ghost with banner was printed 8cm wide and 13cm tall. This has been coloured with Promarkers on the banner plus a grey shade around the ghost.

The card I use in my laser printer for alcohol marker colouring on is quite thin so I laid the image onto some much thicker card and then cut through the layers. This makes it substantial enough to support itself. It was simply stuck on with some strong double sided tape.

The Progressive Freebie challenge is a great opportunity to use images from different artists who you may not have used before. It helps to take you out of your comfort zone and introduce you to different styles and I would highly recommend you take part.

Head on over to The Outlawz Progressive Freebie Challenge where you can see all the details of how to request this image if you would like to play along.

Project Details -

Digital Image - I'm Here For The Boos IMG 540  (Oddball Art Co)

Colouring Medium - Promarkers



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Tuesday, 27 October 2020

Halloween Milk Cartons


I don't usually make halloween projects as it is not such a big event in the UK, especially if like me you do not have children. We have lived in our house for over 4 years and never once had trick or treaters come round.

However this year I have decided to do something. We are really close to friends and neighbours who do have young children and Covid restrictions have made it hard for them this year.

Where we live is classed as a High category area as we are so close to Birmingham. This means that Halloween parties are not allowed as you can't go inside other people's houses. As it is also half term they won't even see their school friends.  It's hard enough being an adult in these crazy times but to try and explain to small children why they can't see their friends has to be difficult for their parents.

I decided I would make them a treat box filled with sweeties as it is very unlikely the kids will be going out trick or treating this year. 


So I have a Sweet Treats Milk carton embossing board from Crafter’s Companion which I have never used. I bought the 2 board set many many years ago for only £5 so it was too good a deal not to get them and finally I have been putting them to good use this year.

There are 2 sizes on the board, both of which are quite tall. I wanted to make it like an old pint carton so played about with the sizing to make the larger size shorter. I made one as a prototype and then cut all the parts needed to make 9 the same.


I found this cool pumpkin image/sentiment in my digi collection which is from Bross Artful Designs. This has been coloured with Promarkers and a Sakura glitter pen as a highlight on the sweeties.

The paper on the front its a glittery one from Deana's penny Lane by My Mind's Eye. It has lots of papers in purple and green which are perfect for halloween projects. The little bat is from Digi Stamp Boutique (retired). I printed them out on thin card and ran them through my Xyron machine to make them into stickers. I then fussy cut around them and added some white gel pen to highlight the eyes and mouth.


I added a sentiment onto a side panel. The spider and web is a digi from Meljen's Designs (retired). I coloured the spider in with a Promarker. The paper on this one is from the Teen Matstck from DCWV. I didn't have enough of the same paper so used a smaller dotty Papermania one for the others (you can see this in the main image)


The back of the carton has a sentiment from Diana All About Me. It is a freebie wordart that is very old but still available from her blog HERE. I have matted this onto a purple spotty paper from the Spring Burst paper pack by Papermania. I then added a plastic spider which was glued onto the top flap.


The last side panel has a mat of the same orange spotty paper. I have added a name tag for each of the children which was cut using a Thick Cuts die Traditional Tags by Ellison Design/Sizzix. I have had this for years and it is the first time I have used it which was a bit of a surprise. I guess I don't use tags very much! I added some pretty ribbon from my stash to embellish the tag.

Finally the milk carton is held together with a clip. I thought about perhaps punching holes and using ribbon but the children range from 3 years upto 9 so I wanted to make it as easy as possible for them to get to the goodies inside.

They are all now filled with sweeties and ready to hand out to the little ones on Friday. I do hope they will enjoy their treat.

Project Details -

Template – Sweet Treats Milk Carton by Crafter’s Companion
Digital Images – Trick or Treat by Bross Artful Designs (Etsy store currently closed), Bat – Digi Stamp Boutique (Retired), Cutie Corner Spider – Meljen’s Designs (Retired), 
Digital Sentiment - Halloween Word Art Freebie – Diana All About Me
Dies – Tags Traditional Thick Cuts – Ellison Design/Sizzix
Papers – Deena’s Penny Lane by My Mind’s Eye, Teen Matstack by DCWV, Spring Burst by Papermania, 
Colouring Medium – Promarkers, Sakura Glitter gel pen, white gel pen
Embellishments – Ribbon, plastic spiders, clips to close boxes


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