Haunted house

Hello there! Can you believe October is already here?! Eeeek! Time's flying by with the speed of light. Do you celebrate Halloween? We sometimes get together with some friends for a chat and friendly dinner and usually we carve a pumpkin, but that's pretty much it. We don't dress up in costumes, we don't go to Halloween parties etc. Halloween just isn't very big here. I normally don't do any Halloween crafts either - simply because I have no use of them. So the new (Halloween) challenge at The Sketchy Challenges got me scratching my head. I wasn't sure what to do. At the end I decided to make a Halloween decoration for the table. my hubby likes spooky things and was excited that once for a change we would also have a Halloween decoration on the table. ;) I got inspiration and idea for my project on Pamellia's blog (here), though you have to know that my project is FAR simpler and less detailed than hers - in my opinion hers is a masterpiece.

I knew I wanted a "crooked" house, but I am terrible at making "special" templates. I just can't get the numbers right. *sigh* So I asked my dad to make one; he knows how to do these stuff. ;) I asked him to make something simple, not too big, but has to be crooked. So, once he made me a model from the cardstock, I went crazy with paints, stencils etc. and made this...

I only used one die - for the fence, everything else (including windows, door etc. was hand drawn and cut the old fashioned way - with scissors. The whole project took me quite a long time to make, because I only had short periods of free time in my hands, but I did it (with a little bit of help of my hubby). Originally I wanted to include a couple of pumpkins as well, but I just couldn't find any that would be the right size in the stores here. If I find any before Halloween I can always add them.

Here are some more photos of the house - those were taken at daylight, only to show you the details, textures etc.

I used stencils and homemade textore paste for the bricks on the house and hor the "tiles" on the floor. Floor was first painted with acrylic paint, then sprayed with Shimmers and at the end inked with black ink pad. House was painted with acrylic paint and later inked with VersaColor black ink pad. I made the tiles for the roof with gesso, shimmers spray and crackled accents. At the end I also inked them with black ink pad. Door was embossed and inked with black ink pad. For the porch columns I used black straws.

The roof of the house can be opened so I can put in the lights.

And that's pretty much it. If you have any question feel free to ask. I can't wait to see your Halloween projects!

Have a wonderful day! xx

I'd like to enter my project to the following challenges:
Deep ocean: Colours of Autumn
Noor Design: Fall/Autumn
Creative inspirations: Anything goes
Double D challenges: Fright night
Simon says Monday challenge: A walk on the dark side
Through the craftroom door: Anything goes
Creatalicious: Anything goes
Just keep on creating: October anything goes
Crop stop: Linky party #32 (brands from the store: Sizzix/Tim Holtz, Ranger, Tsukineko)

Spooky fun

Heya! Welcome to October! ;) Are you getting ready for Halloween? We don't really celebrate Halloween in my country, but we might still carve a pumpkin or two. Other than that we won't do anything special. 

At the TGF blog we have a perfect challenge for all of you who like this holiday - Spooky fun! There are some awesome stamps at the TGF store that are perfect for Halloween. I decided to use Peek a boo stamps and matching dies.

I decided to keep the card simple. I used some green paper that I had in my stash for a while. Over it I used a creamy white paper and I used mesh stencil and watercolours to create the pattern on it. Then I just cut some more strips of paper and randomly glue them on my card. Image is coloured with pencils and I added some sequins to decorate the card.

I hope you will come play with us this month.

Have a great day! xx

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:

Cute card Thursday: CAS
Crafty gals corner: Anything goes
Kraftin' Kimmie stamps: Anything goes
Art by Miran: Anything goes
Lemon shortbread: Anything goes
Digi Choosday: Anything goes

The Greeting Farm Halloween release

Hello there! In the last couple of days we were doing previews of the new TGF Halloween stamps and today these stamps are available in the store. Awesome, right? This still gives you more than enough time to work on your Halloween projects. I made another small treat bag and again I used one of the cute images from the Scaredy cats stamp set. 

I used some solid colour cardstock and a piece of design Image was coloured with Promarkers and pencils and then I used Scaredy cats dies to cut it out. I used the same dies for the bats. 

Stars are stickers from my stash and ribbon is from Crafty ribbons.

So much from me for now. See you soon! :)

I'd like to enter my bag to the following challenges:
Little miss Muffet: Anything goes
One crazy stamper: Fall/Halloween
Cute card Thursday: Words/numbers
The sketchy challenges: Anything goes

Peek a boo

Hello everybody! Today is the second day of previews at The Greeting Farm blog. Westerday we were showcasing a Scaredy cats stamp set and today we are showing you the second Halloween set that is being released. This one is called Peek a boo and it brings you some more Halloween cuties. :)

I decided to make a small shaker treat bag. 

I didn't use any design paper, just some cardstock in different colours. The bat paper you see on my bad is just a piece of white cardstock on which I stamped this cute bat that comes with the set.

I coloured the images with Promarkers and pencils and then I used the Peek a boo dies to cut them out. For the shaker I used some sequins that I had in my stash for a while. Ribbon is from Crafty ribbons.

Well, this is it for today. See you again tomorrow. :) xx

I'd like to enter my treat bag to the following challenges:
One crazy stamper: Fall/Halloween
Art by MiRan: Anything goes
Scrapbook stam society: Anything goes
Fab'n'funky: Anything goes
The sketchy challenges: Anything goes
Lemon Shortbread: Anything goes
World wide open DT challenge blog: Anything goes

Scaredy cats

Hey hey! :D How are you doing? I'm enjoying the late summer days. It's still sunny most of the time, but it's not too hot anymore, which is great. When I went for a walk yesterday I noticed that the leaves on the trees have already started changing their colours. I guess fall is already knocking at the door. Do you like fall? It's not my favourite season (mainly because there is usuall lots of rain and days are getting shprter and shorter, which means it's dark soon), but I do enjoy watching the nature in all those different colours and I just love chestnut too. Yum! :)

As you know, in fall there's also the scaries holiday of them all - Halloween. ;) I'm not a big fan of Halloween and we don't really celebrate it here, but I still couldn't resist making some Halloween themed projects. Especially since Marie (owner of The Greeting Farm) came out with such amazing Halloween stamps. Seriously, who thought that ghosties etc. could be so cute?! Get ready for the Halloween cuteness in the following days. He he.

Today at the TGF blog we are showcasing Scaredy cats stamp set. I absolutely LOVE it!!! Here's my card I made with stamps from this set.

This little kitty makes me smile each time I see it. Isn't it cute? And it looks like it's having so much fun lying with the broom. :) 

I mainly used solid colour cardstock, but I also used a couple of small pieces of design papers. I did some stamping around the kitty to create a background and I used the bat die cut for the small bats. I added some gems and some sequins in the background as well. Around the edges I did some stitching. 

So much from me for today. See you again tomorrow for another day of previews. :)

I'd like to enter my card to the following challenges:
Southern girls challenge: Anything goes
Tuesday throwdown: Make it sparkle
Craft your passion: Anything goes
Little Miss Muffet: Anything goes
Bizzy Becs: Anything goes