31 Days of Halloween - LeighSBDesigns Halloween Hop 2025 Day 20

    During October you will see many Halloween-y projects on my blog as I am joining in with

LeighSBDesigns 15th Annual 31 days of Halloween Blog Hop

and 2025 Crypt Keepers Countdown to Halloween

Find Leigh's main post here

This is my 12th year in succession of joining in with 31DOH!

As I am in Australia I am 18 hours earlier than Leigh at the moment!! 

I usually share a postcard  from Vintage Image Craft. 

Margaret Evans Price illustrated this delightful Halloween postcards circa 1915.

First I have my skeletons Mark 2 - a few more!!

I added the following image to my October calender this year - from somewhere in my stash!! I was wondering when I made it...

And I found it - October 1st 2016!!

I decided my first make would be the October addition to my Mixed Media Calendar​.

Each new page is a 5.5 inch square of chipboard.

 I have matted this one with two layers of DP -
 the first a brown pattern from my stash, the second one from Graphic 45's An Eerie Tale.

I then added a distressed embossed layer.

I prepared this using a Sizzix SU embossing folder, with distress inks applied

 (Gathered Twigs, Rusty Hinge and Mowed Lawn).

I then placed a piece of white card inside and ran it through the Big Shot.

I trimmed this and added it to the page.

The next step was to add a clipped sparkly spider, October, the image

 and some bat confetti.

I printed October on the computer including pumpkins from Imagine That Digistamps, (no longer trading)

torn to a small rectangle and distressed around the edges with Scattered Twigs.

The fussy cut image is from  A Day for Daisies.

and is called First flight coloured with Promarkers.

While I was looking through for this I discovered an ATC made by stamping with Brushos - you may remember yesterday's journal page had a background on Brusho...

Anyway there was no explanation of how I stamped with Brushos - so these first two I made by puffing the brusho onto the stamp, spritzing with water and then stamping:

I trimmed the images and put them on mats of orange. I added a pumpkin wax seal and Tim Holtz phrase to each one.

These stamps were from Francheville 'Halloween Stamp'.

In this second two I puffed the Brusho on to my glass mat, spritzed it and then dipped my stamps into this:

I finished these as above.

The hat and boots were from Stampin Up "Bewitching' and the pumpkin from Tim Holtz 'Snarky Cat Halloween'

I will add these to Leigh's linky

and also

Lost Coast Portal to Creativity also has a 31 Days of Halloween Challenge using rubber stamps so I will post these ATCs there.

And as always I like to add the skeletons hopping!

Happy Hopping!!