LeighSBDesigns Halloween in May Blog Hop - Day #3

Once again Leigh is hosting a Halfway to Halloween Blog Hop - find more details here...

I have had one of Leigh's MerMay images on my desk for weeks but somehow I have not had chance to colour it yet - hopefully I will before the end of the hop!

But today is Pocket Letter Day - and I have three to share with you - the first one I'd like to share is one I made for Half 'o'ween in 2017.

 The skull stamp was a prize from Dream In Darkness.

I started by making my 9 backgrounds - black card matted with 

Ike's freebie Poe Raven Background and then layered with webby ribbon in black and purple. Although I had run out of this I have just found they sell it on one of the stalls on Derby market. I love this webby ribbon!

I then added die cuts to each ATC (The die cuts were all sent me in a RAK from Amanda Phillips)

and placed them in a pocket letter sleeve.

My second pocket letter is one that I made last October

 - but I was quite pleased with it...

It was for a pocket letter swap organised by the facebook Group Oddball Stamps by Lizzy Love

These are the 9 ATCs before I put them in the wallet:

Method:

1. I started with a sheet of paper from The Craft Box - The other Side. I cut a piece that would fit in my printer and printed the bats on it. The bat image was a freebie from the Oddballs Newsletter.

2. I then cut 9 rectangles from this, just smaller than the black cards I had made as my bases.

3. I then used Happy Horrors and Halloween Crowd from Oddball Stamps, printing the images and colouring them with Copics.

4. I then placed the images on the ATCs cutting into sections as required and lengthening the balloon string. Finally I added the sentiments and the words.

I then placed the ATCs in the wallet...

My 3rd and final pocket letter is one I just finished - these are the ATCs I made to start,

They use scraps of grey card matted with a Tim Holtz paper. I then added die cut pieces of background that I had made by adding distress inks to a tree embossing folder and running white card in it through the Big Shot.

  
I added die cut mushrooms owls and bats. These are two of the ATCs - they are all similar.

I then placed them in a folder:

I will link this to the May 27 Post.

Happy Hopping!

(I decided the hopping skeletons had to come back...)