Day 9 of 31 Days of Halloween

     

Once again Leigh is hosting 31DOH!

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🎃LeighSBDesigns 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop 2019 🎃

Oct 1 - 31, 2020

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LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps

The Blog Hop  linky party opens Oct 1st at 9am PDT and ends at 5 to midnight on Oct 31st!  

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

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So let's celebrate Halloween!!

It is almost pumpkin time! So this morning I started by painting the cover to one of my journals. This was after seeing a tutorial by Artists Palette Durham Region on Facebook.

Of course we won't have the pumpkins from the UK allotment, like in this photo from 2 years ago, now that we have moved to Australia. We will have to buy!!

On day 7 I shared two pages from my Halloween Junk Journal - and I was wondering about binding them - or whether to put them in a back to back book... This is how I put together my last one, Nan, very simply with a ring!!

I decided to go for the back to back book - so this morning I started making one...

I used some packing cardboard for the covers, washi round the edges then papers from Webster's pages to cover it and make most of the pages.

I started decorating the cover with a few die cuts - but this will be further 

embellished...

The leaf paper is from Stampin Up and I will leave this empty for the time being in case I want to add more pages.

I started adding all the pages I had made already -

 I may also put some of my ATCs in.

I then started making a page for today. This consisted of several stages, drying between each layer.

Step 1

I added water then drips of Distress Ink (spiced marmalade and cracked pistachio) to a painted piece of card (this was part of a Coca-Cola box).

Step 2

I added Crackling Campfire Distress Oxide through a Tim Holtz stencil to the left hand part.

Step 3

The moon was punched from a paper on which I had used a small gel plate to stamp with Distress Ink spritzed with water. (Mustard Seed and Crackling Campfire). I used the same inks to form splatters and used Crackling Campfire around the edge.

Step 4

I stamped the witch (Visible Image) and the bats (Tim Holtz) with black Archival.

I then added a bit of colour to the witch with watercolour pens.

Step 5

 

Into the book...

I will add this page to Leigh's Linky!

I will also add it to Lost Coast Portal to Creativity 31 DOH

I am also very pleased to be participating in the Countdown to Halloween Blog Hop

Happy Hopping!