Bewitched

Hi everyone, this month’s Lavinia Creative Challenge is “Bewitched” … clearly in homage to Hallowe’en. I don’t really do Hallowe’en as I have no young children to send cards or treat boxes to, so I’ve never invested heavily in Hallowe’en supplies. I have actually extremely belatedly ordered a couple of this year’s Lavinia Hallowe’en stamps, primarily so that I can decorate the October page of my calendar, but they’re not here yet so I had to get my thinking cap on in order to sneak a last minute project in before the challenge closes! The upside is that there are also lots of other Hallowe’en/spooky themed challenges around right now to enter!

I decided to go for Mooch the cat being bewitched by the moon, and the scale of the scene I had in mind best fitted the dimensions of a tag - something else I don’t create very often! So I also had opportunity to bring into play a grungy tag die set that I bought a while ago when there was a promotional offer, but I hadn’t used yet.  Here’s the result.

I cut my tag from white stamping card, and the tag border from black linen card stock. I blended Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide on the bottom 1/3 of the tag, and Wilted Violet and Villainous Potion on the top part with a circle moon mask in place. I then  created the landscape with Black Soot DOX and my Mini Hill Masks, and stamped Mooch near the bottom. I added some softly blended Spiced Marmalade DOX inside the moon circle then stamped the moon over it using 2nd generation Morning Mist VFC. I stamped the castle at the edge of the tag, added some branches, mushrooms and a flight of bats. I coloured the castle windows with watered down Posca sparkle pen, and highlighted the scene with orange Sakura Stardust pen and white Posca. I blended Black Soot DOX all around the edges to add depth, and finally added some orbs using sparkle pens coloured through my White Orbs stencil and dotted with Posca pen. When dry I matted onto the tag border, punched a hole and edged with a teeny die from the same set, and added black glitter twine.

Here’s an angled pic to show the shimmery orbs.

Stamps: Lavinia Mooch, Far World Castle, Moon, Bats, Tree Branch, Slender Mushrooms Mini;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Spiced Marmalade, Wilted Violet, Villainous Potion, Black Soot); Versafine Clair (Nocturne, Morning Mist); Sakura Stardust pens (Orange, purple, clear); Posca sparkle pen (orange); Posca pen (white);

Tools: AALL & Create die #30 Taggletastic; Lavinia White Orbs stencil; Lavinia Mini Hill Masks and Circle masks.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Cardz 4 Galz #236 - Pick 3 of Purple, Orange, Black or Green

Country View Challenges (October) - Hallowe’en

Craft Rocket #119 - Autumn/Hallowe’en (2nd entry)

Crafting Happiness #197 - Moon

Crafty Gals’ Corner #260 - Anything Goes with option Make It Spooky 

Creatalicious #282 - Anything Goes with option Hallowe’en and/or use Black and Purple

Creative Crafting Uncles #58 - Hallowe’en

Daisy Chain #90 - Autumn/Hallowe’en (3rd entry)

Dream Factory #133 - Hotel Transylvania (Hallowe’en)

Fab ‘n’ Funky #603 - Autumn/Hallowe’en

Hallowe’en and Other Occasions #19 - Hallowe’en

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie #197 - Boo! Eek!

Inkspirational #327 - Seasonal (2nd entry)

Lavinia Creative Challenge (October) - Bewitched

Make My Monday #237 - Spooky/Hallowe’en

Papercraft #111 - Spooky Season

Simon Says (Monday) - Spooky/Add Some Purple

Simon Says - Celebrating 20 Years of Distress #SSS20YearsofDistress

Simply Create Too #205 - Hallowe’en/Hallowe’en Colours

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #255 - H is for Hallowe’en

Tag Tuesday - Spooky Vibes

Try It On Tuesday - Hallowe’en

Two Old Bats (October) - Anything Goes Hallowe’en

Unicorn #103 - Autumn/Hallowe’en (3rd entry)

I think that’s me all spooked out! Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,