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Welcome to the Trick-Or-Treat Blog Hop!

Crafter’s Workshop and Clearsnap have teamed up for the next three days to create hauntingly inspiring projects for this Halloween season. It’s all tricks, treats, and techniques so join us on a fright night jaunt to remember, hopping from blog to blog.

I will admit that when I found out this hop was Halloween themed, I was terrified. I grew up in Turkey where we don’t celebrate Halloween and I am terrified of anything even remotely scary. So Halloween is not my thing. (Though I’ll admit that the pumpkin carving is growing on me.) I’ve been doing a lot of art journaling lately, so the first thing I decided to do was an art journal page to express how I feel about this holiday.

To create this page, I used watercolor paper, covered my background with blue pan pastels, and then put the Branches Reversed template so I could crate a spooky tree.

I then used the awesome chalk inks to create my tree. Here’s what it looked like when I finished:

Then I used the Birdhouses template and Clouds template to create a crooked fence and add my clouds. Finally, I drew a little pumpkin on the edge of the fence and colored it. Then I used a dotted-rolling adhesive to add some Design Foils. And I had a shimmering pumpkin:

I took a side photo because when you look at it straight on, you can’t see the shimmer, though I still like the dotted look the foil+adhesive gives:

To finish off the page, I just used my inks and a few other templates to add some texture. The three templates I used are Wonky Circles, Punchinella, and Chevron) I tend to favor the chalk inks cause I like how super-quick they dry and the chalky finish. I then added my title and stitched around my page.

And there we are:

here’s a slanted view so you can see the shimmer:

isn’t it so shimmery?

After I was done, I wanted to whip up something quick and small just for fun so I covered a white cardstock with green ink and pastels.

put my Leaf Frame stencil on it.

and used different chalk inks to create leaves.

I then cut them all up

and glued them on to a tag:

I also put down two different orange inks on a cardstock and drew a pumpkin on it:

I cut my pumpkin out, nestled it inside the leaves, added a title and ta-da my tag was done!

There we go. Simple and super quick!

Those are my two projects with a huge thank you to both Clearsnap and Crafter’s Workshop!!

Here’s the other artsy spooksters to visit along the way:
Blog List:
Clearsnap
Crafter’s Workshop
Jaime Echt
Sabrina Alery
Julie Fei-Fan Balzer
Charlotte Jenkins
Mary Dawn Quirindongo
Karen Grunberg – you are here
Jennifer Priest
Jen Clark
Daniela Dobson

Leave your “Trick-or-treat” comment on each blog in the hop in hopes of winning candy, blog candy that is! For every 50 comments posted on this blog we’re giving away a set of inks and accessories to spook up any crafter’s projects!!! We’ll choose the winners from the blog comments posted on all the blogs in the Hop. The prize includes Smooch Spritz in Frosted Grape, Green Olive, and Carrot Cake, ColorBox Pigment InkPad in Spooktacular, Glitter in Grape Fizz, Design Adhesives in “Trick or Treat” and “Eeeeks!?”, plus our new Design Foils in Lime Burst. That’s a lot of spook to go around!

Receive extra entries in the Hop for following us on Twitter and Facebook and for tweeting or posting on Facebook about the Hop – just post here afterwards that you have followed us or posted about the Hop to increase your chances to win. Happy Hopping!!!

October 8, 2011 | Art, Scrapbooking

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