Day 6 - 31 Days of Halloween

Finally finished Day 6! Woohoo! Today I decided break out the raw wood boxes and chose to work with this little bird house! It was super cute and I couldn't pass up the buy when I did my Michael's shopping. Glad I got plenty of boxes to choose from while I was there, I've really been inspired to use the this week.

So, I started with raw wood and applied some white Gesso. I heated the Gesso with my heat gun until it bubbled up really good to create the awesome texture you see. I painted over that with green acrylic paint and then dry brushed some black over it. I used two stamps from Candy is Dandy (Smeared Ink) - the spider web and the little round circle pattern. I used some deep green embossing powder on them and heat embossed it. I hot glue'd my grass and skull into place and the finishing touch was to add some glitter paint over everything (i'm sensing a theme here, LOL). Hope you like it!!

And in case you've forgotten (even though I'm pretty sure you haven't) the blog roll is on my sidebar. Be sure to comment for your chance to win prizes!!
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Day 5 - 31 Days of Halloween!

Hello Hello! Welcome to DAY 5! You guys are doing a wonderful job so far and I'm so glad you've all joined us this year.

For my Day 5 post - I went a little more simple & soft and made a card using Calypso the rat from Smeared Ink. I screened a fence into the background using my distress inks and also stamped a spiders web into the corders....Then I mounted my Graphic 45 "Hallowe'en" cut-out. The final touch was adding the buttons to Calypso's eyes. Well....I had to make it weird somehow! LOL

Enjoy your hop today! And remember, the hop list is located on my sidebar!
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Day 4 - 31 Days of Halloween!

Howdy folks! Day 4 and my mojo didn't go back into hiding yet! Wooohooo! I hope you all are still having a blast and loving every minute of our creeptastic 31 day celebration of Halloween!! Don't forget about all the cool stuff you can win each and every day by leaving comments and playing along with our scavenger hunt.

OK, my offering for day 4 is another altered box. I had so much fun making the Poe box that I decided I'd have another go. This one is a little bit smaller, but similar in that it was raw wood before I started and I purchased it at Michael's. This time around I used black acrylic paint for my base....then stamped my spider webs and spider images (all from Inkadinkadoo) with VersaMark. I used red embossing powder for all of my stamped images. Once everything was dry i coated my box in glitter paint and painted my hinges with a silver paint pen since they were gold to begin with.

In pictures 2 and 3 you can see that my mamma spider, a.k.a. Black Widow, is under glass. She's very dangerous and keeps trophies from all her kills inside the box! Here you go, enjoy!

Now a hopping you shall go! Have a great time!!
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DeFRIGHTful!!

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Day 3 - 31 days of Halloween

Woohooo! We've made it to DAY3!!! How are you holding up? Aren't you just loving all the wonderful art?!?! Thank you to everyone that left me such thoughtful and nice comments yesterday when I was feeling not so creative....you gave my mojo the ego boost it needed to come out of hiding!!! At least for today anyway!

Now this project i made from a raw wood hinge box that I purchased at Michael's. I LOVE these things and have quite a few to work on. This one I painted with acrylic paints (purple, orange and metallic pearl) and used a bit of crackle for texturing. On the top of my box I used Poe and the wings from Quoth the Raven rubber set from Smeared Ink. I also used the fence stamp on the sides of the box for some added texture. On the inside I used the purple acrylic and a scarlet for an accent on the top inside of the box. I stamped NEVERMORE on that panel. Then, for my final touch I added some purple tissue paper and a mended heart jewel that I had in my stash. Hope you like it!!

And don't forget about all the awesome prizes you can WIN this month. For details you can visit Terra's first 31Days blog post here . Now off you go - get to hopping!!
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Day 2 - 31 Days of Halloween!

...and, I've lost my mojo. I stayed up until 3am last night trying to come up with something wonderful for you guys and it never happened. I woke up this morning and tried again...with no success. I'm posting a card and a tag - both of which i'm not satisfied with, but I have plenty of time to make up for it, right! Anyhoo, happy hopping!

Here's the list!

Terra

Tori
Sara
Christy
Celina
Donna
Susan
Kapree
Lisa
Black Dragon
Lady Brayton
Jane
Alex
Monique
Jennifer
Alison
Sugar
Heather
Dragonfly Jane
Kelli
Dianne
Steph
Ike
Fiona
Kristy
Freddie
Sharon

Day 1 - 31 Days of Halloween 2011!

Welcome to Day 1 of 31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN 2011! We are super excited to be bringing you our third annual Halloween/Day of The Dead celebration from Smeared and Smudged!

shhhh!

We recruited Wicked Bloggers to join in the 31 Days extravaganza of projects, so you'll have a plethora of Halloween goodness to feast your eyes on all month long! The challenge for the Wicked Bloggers is to participate all month by providing a different stamped project each and every day in October! That is NOT an easy task! So, please cheer them on throughout the month! I will have the blog roll on my side bar throughout the month so you can access it easily.

I'm looking forward to the challenge again, and I hope you are excited to participate as either a Horrifying Hopper or Sinister Lurker. If you need to see the rules and prize information you should stop at Terra's blog. She's got all the need to know info for you!

Now - on to my offering for Day 1. I kept it simple for my starting project since it's been an extremely busy week for me. They will only get better from here - THAT'S A PROMISE! ;)

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I used the mummy Haziz from Smeared Ink's 'Smell My Feet' digi stamp set along with some bats and my Happy Halloween sentiment from Inkadinkado. My background paper is just a basic orange card stock that I added some black smudges too and then I cut a really neat image out of a magazine to frame my main image. I hope you like it, now - get to hopping! And don't forget to leave comments for everyone so you qualify for the GRAND PRIZE!!!!

Terra
Tori  <---me
Sara
Christy
Celina
Donna
Susan
Kapree
Lisa
Black Dragon
Lady Brayton
Jane
Alex
Monique
Jennifer
Alison
Sugar
Heather
Dragonfly Jane
Kelli
Dianne
Steph
Ike
Fiona
Kristy
Freddie
Sharon
Mary Ann