Oops, Monday again, what happened to the weekend?

Morning readers,

Hope you all had a great weekend and made the most of it too. As you will see from the post title, ours zipped by, in a flash! We HOPE to have our fridge freezer repaired on Wednesday which is, sadly, too late for surrogate daughter #2 and her family as their freezer packed up today and we were unable to offer any space in ours either. Whilst we believe ours is fixable theirs is NOT! Happy freezer shopping!

I still managed a little time at the ToC (that's Table of Craftiness) and produced this ..... I don't NORMALLY make much to do with Halloween but I DO rather love this pumpkin image so ....... I deployed the same technique (and stencil) as I used for my graduation card but selected a way different colour - pink not being terribly Halloween-y!! ... IMHO!

My Artist Trading Coin

And a closer view of the black sparkle embossing and pearly splatters!

Materials used:

• Snippets of card in white and black
• Unbranded plain and faux stitched circle dies 
• Using a mini blender and foam pad I applied Distress Ink in wilted violet over the white circle then, with my stencil in position (Tim Holtz mini stencils set #35) I applied more wilted violet through it
• Silver pearl acrylic ink splattered over the circle
• Inkadinkado pumpkin image stamped using Versamark ink, sprinkled with black sparkle embossing powder then heat embossed
• Smeared Ink "Halloween grumpies" sentiment stamped using Memento tuxedo black ink

I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-

1. Aud Sentiments - challenge No. 212 - FALL + A SENTIMENT
2. Crafting With An Attitude - challenge No. 43 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Through The Purple Haze - challenge No. 148 - BRIGHT COLOURS - 2nd entry
4. SoSuzyStamps - September 15th challenge - HOLIDAY SEASON
5. Creative With Stamps - challenge No. 30 - PUMPKIN

And now on to a journal page .... a couple of my pals and I challenge one another to create a journal page  per week, using just a one word prompt and the word for this page is "OPEN" -

My journal page - this is a more true representation of colour - the one below's a bit blue!!!

And a closer view, to better show detail

Materials used:

• One page from my Crawford and Black journal (£1 in The Works)
• I brayered Fresco dolly mix ensuring pretty even coverage and then brayer (much more roughly and random) a combination of fresco orchid, Pebeo Iridescent blue violet and Hobbycraft white paint and set aside to dry
• With my Paper Artsy stencil (PS087) in place I sponged Fresco orchid paint through ... it didn't show as much as I'd hoped (once dry) so there was nothing for it but to doodle, using Posca paint pens in both black and white. I also printed my sentiment and coloured it using the same pens
• Studio 490 (She Spoke of Art - LCS072) sentiment, Paper Artsy "Satisfaction" sentiment and jig saw piece (from Gentleman plate #2) and Carabelle eye image ("Oeils macquille d'etoiles" - SM10126) stamped using Ranger Archival jet black ink

I'll be entering the above for the following challenges:-

1. Creative Artiste - challenge No. 42 - ANYTHING MIXED MEDIA GOES
2. More Mixed Media - September challenge - ANYTHING MIXED MEDIA GOES + option of BROWN
3. Welove2create - challenge No. 12 - ANYTHING MIXED MEDIA GOES - 3rd entry