31 Days of Halloween - LeighSBDesigns Halloween Hop 2025 Day 29

  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. 

RED DEVILS! This very spooky Halloween postcard was illustrated in 1908 and published by Raphael Tuck & Sons', London. I just love the animated squash goblin, too.

Today I am sharing a journal page. I prepared the page on a loose print og the background image and then adhered it into my grey - paged journal.

I was inspired to do this when my attention was brought to this:

The background image is from Michelle Grant Shadows and Shimmers used first in total then a smaller version in part to the left. I sprayed this with Ancient gloss spray. I used a spider web stencil to add the webs, using an orange neon paint, an Art By Marlene orange marker and black Posca to emphasise. I also added orange acrylic ink drips and orange water colour...

 On the right is an image from Michelle Grant Exploring.

My next step was to add white splatter.

I wanted to add spiders lurking in the shadows. I auditioned these flock ones but they would be too thick to close my journal!

I decided to use Tim Holtz spider dies that are definitely lurking - I hope you can see them.

Next I added the sentiment from Michelle Grant Shadows

My last step was to add my raven.  I used the same raven that I had stamped for this Halloween card. 

The raven is stamped on the glossy orange card that was the packaging for the spiders above. It actually looks red in the photos but it is orange. It is placed on a second stamped image also from this set of stamps which I think came from Smeared ink years ago (no longer trading)

The background is from Conjurer of Dreams Cracked Orange Background

I will add this card to the

Lost Coast Portal to Creativity 31 Days of Halloween Challenge using rubber stamps.

This is my finished page:

I will add this to Leigh's linky!

And I always like to add the skeletons hopping!

Happy Hopping!!