Mixed Media Skull

Hi everyone, Steph here today with a not so creepy skull.  It's mixed media month and Halloween is just around the corner.  I had this paper mache skull and knew it would make a fun project.

 

I stamped several colors of Colorbox® Color Pop Premium Dye Ink by Susan K. Weckesser ink on an acrylic block.  Using a paint brush, I picked up the inks along with a little water and proceeded to paint the skull.

 

I continued painting until the skull was completely covered.

 

Once painted, it was time to decorate.  Think of all the different elements you can add to make this skull personal.

 

Using the In Circle Me stamp, I inked it with Mystery Ink and randomly stamped it about the skull.  I purposely allowed some of the images to stamp incomplete because I was not looking for perfection.

 

Because of the skull's shape, no acrylic block was used.  I just push the stamps onto the skull.

 

I added 2 flowers in one of the eye sockets and added additional stamps around the skull.

I used the seeds from the What's Up Gnomey stamp set with Ice ink across the top and the small cloud from the Tumbleweed Houses stamp set with Kiss Ink.  And finally, I added gems, after all who doesn't love gems in any form?

 

Happy Halloween and thanks for stopping by today.

 

Steph Ackerman

Susan K. Weckesser Design team

A Halloween Hello

Hello friends. Larissa here today with a fun Halloween Hello card. I love What's up Gnomie. He is one of my favorite stamps. I think I have used him for just about every holiday there is. Today I paper pieced his outfit using some Halloween theme pattern paper. I love this pack of paper from Doodlebug.

I stamped the image on a piece of white cardstock and colored his face and beard with Copic markers.

I then stamped the image again on a piece of pattern paper. I trimmed that piece out right next to the stamped line. I then glued that piece on the white piece of cardstock.

I gave the bottom of his outfit a little shading with my C3 Copic maker.

I cut a piece of black cardstock with a medium oval die to place behind Gnomie to made him pop off the pattern paper.

To finish off the card front I grabbed my Hello die and cut it out of a piece of purple cardstock and added a little clear glitter.

I adhered everything to the white cardbase using my ATG.

Hope you enjoyed my post today.
Have a wonderful day friends.

Wicked Little House

Hello friends. Larissa here and I am so excited to be serving a second year with Susan K Weckesser. This month our theme is Home Sweet Home challenging the creative team to use a house on their project.
With Halloween being a few weeks away I wanted to use a spooky house. So I stamped the house from The Happy Homestead  on a piece of watercolor paper. I used my Peerless watercolors to color it up.

I then found some Halloween theme pattern paper to use for the background paper. I also went through my die cut bucket where I keep a bunch of pre-cut dies and found a few ghosts and a tombstone. I also found a couple of pumpkins and a black cat. 

I adhered everything down on the pattern paper using liquid adhesive. I then adhered the card front to a orange cardbase.

I think this little house is going to be prefect for all seasons. Add a few gingerbread and gumdrops for an awesome Christmas house.

I hope you have a wonderful day friends. Make sure to check back with us because the new girls on the team are super awesome and they are going to have very cool projects to share with you.