Spooky Things Move in the Mist

 Halloween is one of my favourite seasonal celebrations with all the things to do and watch.

I may have started early this year, by watching the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, seasons 3 and 4, from Netflix.

There were few spooky and fun craft exchanges last year with Halloween theme. One of them was a three-piece exchange. I most enjoyed doing a tiny zine!

The "zine" of mine was maybe more like a miny magazine than a decorated booklet because I loved making a story! It was an exciting way to use stamps creatively.

The hole package was in a decorated mini grip package:

The zine I made from green copy paper. I used stamping inks and teared paper to create misty background.

The zine had three spreads. My story in a nutshell: The birds spread a message of a party in an old mansion, gathering guests along their way.

The last page, the back cover has the mansion. I wanted to keep the green glow in the building by stamping very ligthly.

There were some happy mail stuff hidden between the pages. I guess the photo of them is lost by now.

However, there were two more craft project in the package. I will make a separate post about them.

A Card from Violet and Black

I was excited to find a new challenge which had colour combination violet/black as the current challenge. Violet and its tones are my favourite colours!

This challenge blog is Paperminutes.

Here's my card - could not resist the Halloween mood when I came up with this happy little Vampiria flying up. :) It's been a while since I  drew a vampire character. My inspiration came from a fantasy book series that I was fond of being nine years old: The Little Vampire.

Details: I painted the patterned background paper with acrylic colour to make the pattern stand out better. The vampire picture I drew with black ink and coloured with violet watercolour.

Glad you came to peek out this card, x

If the Broom Fits...

Seen any black cats?

Well here's a bunch of them! Still cute kittens...
Maybe it's a bit early for the Halloween, so let's say this little witch is just training for her first flight. ;-)

Taking part to Wicked Wednesday's 97th ATC challenge "broomsticks and black cats".

Materials: Used some Graphic 45's Times Nouveau Collections paper for the background, and Distressed & inked the edges with frayed burlap colour (of Tim Holtz of course). The main image is from Heartwarming Vintage. Inked the edges after using a corner cutter and attached them together with the red brads. Finally wrote the phrase on top with waterproof black ink.

Thanks for looking!

Ghost at Midnight

Here's my entry for Fun with ATC challenge. This is the first time I take part to this challenge and I think it won't be the last! ;)

The theme was Gothic, meaning "something dark, something gothic or Halloween...".

Since in Finland the Spring is coming it's harder to tune into darker creative mood. I actually made few other pictures before I got an idea for this, just after midnight! ;) That helped to name this one.

Ghost at Midnight

I made my piece with black ink (mixed with water) and watercolour pencils.

Thanks for looking!

Spooky Halloween Greetings

Taking part to Sunday Postcard Art's last Halloween challenge "purple, green, orange and black".

(31/10/2012 Got a better pic today!)
That's a card that I'll definitely bring along with me this weekend!

Thanks for looking! x

Happy Halloween!

Taking part to Sunday Postcard Art's challenge "Retro Halloween". I think my early concept of Halloween, back in 80's, looked very much like this:

Classic ghost outfit looks still fun! ^_^ Although I have grown too big to use linens, lol!
Thank you for looking & enjoy the festivities!

Witching Hour

Hi all! As Halloween approaches I find seasonal challenges inspire me daily. If I just had enough time to take part to them all... ;-)

Collage Obsession challenged us with theme "witches". These twins definitely got few tricks in their mind - I wonder if they could stop the time for me?