Day 21 of 31 Days of Halloween / Day 1 of Cat Lovers Hop

Once again Leigh is hosting 31DOH!

🎃LeighSBDesigns 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop 2019 🎃

Oct 1 - 31, 2019

The Blog Hop  linky party opens Oct 1st at 5 past midnight PDT and ends at midnight on Oct 31st!  

For more details go to
🎃 LeighSBDesigns annual 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop🎃

I will be sharing today's Halloween make on Leigh's page...Day 1

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Today I am sharing another page from my Halloween scrapbook.

When Witches go riding and Black Cats are seen.

 The Moon Laughs and Whispers Tis’ Near HALLOWEEN !

However we still have 10 days to go - so currently the cats are still asleep!!

Recently I treated myself to this fabulous stamp from Noolibird.

On today's page I have used this stamp and the poem by Eleanor Farjeon.

Eleanor was born in London in 1881, educated privately, she wrote childrens stories and fantasy stories, and soon became popular with both children and adults.

Cats sleep, anywhere,
Any table, any chair
Top of piano, window-ledge,
In the middle, on the edge,
Open drawer, empty shoe,
Anybody's lap will do,
Fitted in a cardboard box,
In the cupboard, with your frocks-
Anywhere! They don't care!
Cats sleep anywhere.

As on each preceding page I have made a collage of tags:

The technique on this tag is Distress Stain: Stained texture

 (Tim Holtz Creative Chemistry LIVE 2017).

Method:

1. Apply opaque texture paste through a stencil with a palette knife.
2. Allow to air dry.
3. Spray dry textured surface with Distress Stain and blend colour with water if required.
4. Dry with heat tool.
5. Blot textured areas with damp paper towel to lift colour.

The technique on this second tag is Wrinkle Free Distress.

Method:

1. Smear several colours of Distress ink on craft sheet
2. Mist heavily to produce droplets of colour.
3. Press tag into the ink and dry with heat tool.
4. Repeat.
5. I added the cat stamp embossed in black embossing powder. 

The technique on the tag behind the words of the poem is Archival Resist.

Method:

1. Stamp images with bright colours of Archival ink onto gloss paper.
2. Dry with heat tool.
3. Apply dark colour Distress Ink all over stamped images covering the tag.
4. Wipe away excess Distress Ink with a soft cloth to reveal the images. 
5. Stamp additional images with black Archival ink and heat dry.

The technique on this final tag is Distress Markers - direct to stamp.

Method:

1. With different Distress Markers colour randomly onto the stamp.
2. Breathe onto the inked image and stamp onto tag.
3. Spritz with water to let colour wick out and dry with heat tool.
4. Repeat the procedure to layer images using same stamp or a different one.
5. Distress edges with suitable Distress Ink.
6. I added the cat stamp embossed in black embossing powder. 

This is also my first make for the Cat Lovers Hop

 I am joining in with the 2019 Cat Lovers Hop

Do pop over and find all the details on Janis' Her Peaceful Garden blog

Ike is sponsoring both Leigh's 31DOH and Janis' Cat Lovers Hop.
I will also link this page to Ike's SUYP Challenge 47
Ike has a lovely freebie on her page:

I will also link it to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity who now have a second challenge up for October - Pets

Anyway I will link my page up to this challenge and the Halloween one.

Happy Hopping!

Please pop by to see more of my 31DOH Halloween makes... and maybe answer some of my Spot Prizes - all your names will go in the hat and prize winners will be announced at the beginning of November.

For Spot Prize 7  please look back to Day 19

Happy Day 21 of 31DOH!