Witchful Thinking Halloween Decor by Barbara

Howl-o everyone, and welcome to my bewitching blog-o-ween post!  I love Halloween, and so I made this fun and funky wall hanging to celebrate the occasion.

I found this MDF sign in my local dollar store.  I did not care what was on it because I am going to alter and transform it to my own taste.  And I cannot think of a better way to do this than with Gina's Designs Lasercuts chipboard shapes.

Prepare the base by first sanding off the glittered areas, then base coat twice, if necessary, with black gesso.  Adhere strip of spiderweb paper to bottom section of base, as shown.

Spread graphite paste through shatter stencil on left and right side of base, as shown.  The graphite in the paste dries sparkly, which is a really cool effect for my spider webbing.

Mask boots with a piece of removable tape and paint socks with orange paint mixed with some white gesso.  This was not shiny enough for me, so I went over it with Orange Peel Silks.

Spread black modeling paste through bat stencil over socks only.

Spread clear crackle glaze over boots and allow to dry naturally.  To bring out the cracks, rub white antiquing cream over boots and wipe away excess with damp paper towel.

Add Rich Cobalt dauber to base and spritz with water to allow the color to run and blend over the background.  Set aside.

Paint chipboard pieces with white gesso to seal it.  Any pieces that may stick past the base will need to be gessoed on the back side as well.  I also cut two pieces from a scrap of corrugated cardboard to resemble shoe buckles (shown lower right below).

Paint chipboard pieces as follows:

Barbed Wire Deco Frame - Paynes Grey, dry brush with Metallic Silver

Witchful Thinking - Quinacridone Violet, Paynes Grey, Carbon Black, Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna,  Titanium White

Witch - Carbon Black Paynes Grey, Green Gold, Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna, Translucent White

Raven - Paynes Grey, Translucent White

Buckles - Diarylide Yellow, Metallic Gold, Burnt Umber Antiquing Cream

Begin adhering the pieces to the base.  Adhere the barbed wire deco frame first, then adhere the title in the center of the frame.  I glued slivers of chipboard behind the letters to raise them before adhering it.

Pop dots were used to raise the witch up for some added dimension.

The raven was adhered to the toe of the right boot.

And a close up of those batty socks and crackled boots!

Ginas Designs Supplies Used:

Barbed Wire Deco Frame Rectangle

Title Witchful Thinking

Witches

String Alongs - Gothic (Raven)

Other Supplies used:

Dollar store Halloween sign

Spiderweb paper

sandpaper

Corrugated cardboard scrap

Stencils

Graphite paste

Black and white gesso

Acrylic paints

Black Modeling Paste

Clear Crackle Glaze

ColourArte Orange Peel Silks Acrylic Glaze

ColourArte Rich Cobalt Radiant Rains dauber

Thanks so much for stopping by, and be sure to check out all the great holiday shapes at Gina's online store.  And for inspiration from the team every single day, be sure to come back to the blog regularly.

Have a wonderful and creative week, and a very Happy Halloween.

Barbara

Halloween Shadow Box

It's finally here! Halloween!!! I love working on Halloween projects and I had the best time creating this one. I used an old wooden shelf my daughter used to use to display her perfume on. I broke out a ton of chipboard for this one!

Once it was finished and I sat it down on the table, Jake laid right in front of it and spent some time checking it out. I think he likes it! The process video link is below! Click on over and see how I made this!

Halloween Shadow Box

Gina's Designs:

Be Witched Shape Set

Spiderweb Shape Set

String Alongs Gothic

Cobblestone

Coffin Box

Witches

Hinges Shape Set

Tree 3

Other products:

black gesso

ink sprays

chain

eye screws

flowers

seed beads

Glossy Accent

Fabritac 

Twinkling H2O's

A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes Art Journal Page by Kim

Good morning friends! Today I would like to share with you my art journal page.   I am a beginner at art journaling but I am really enjoying learning all about it. Gina has some great pieces for art journaling and I took my inspiration from the beautiful scribble frame - fairy piece.

I used a mixture of gelatos, sprays, distress inks and stencils for the background. I faded the colours from darkest at the top to lightest at the bottom.  I decided to keep the chipboard pieces in black to give the illusion of a silhouette at night.

I stamped out some images of mushrooms and leaves and used various paints and watercolours to achive the look I got with them. 

I added some silver glitter paint from 13 Arts to the web and the wings of the fairy for some contrast and to give them a glistening effect.  The leaves on the scribble frame I dabbed with some green paint for the same type of effect.

 
I added some words to create my sentiment and I am really happy with the outcome.
Thanks for stopping by today!

Gina's Designs Items Used

Birds Shape Set

String Alongs - Gothic

Scribble Frame Fairy

Other Items Used

Shimmerz Inklingz

13 Arts Paint

Gelatos

Amerciana Black Paint

Chocolate Boroque Stamps

 

3-D Haunted House by Donna

It's almost that spooky time of year! For me, Halloween is all about the kids! I used Gina's 2 Story House to make something the kids would enjoy, a haunted house!

I covered all the edges of the chipboard pieces to build the house with black gesso and then covered each piece with papers.

I used black and purple crackle paint on two of the spiderweb shapes and used embossing powder on the orange one. Also, black, brown and copper crackle paint on the tree, and black and copper (added some Inka gold) on the string along crow.

This house was so much fun to put together!

Gina's Designs

2 Story House
Spider Web shape set

String Along Gothic

Tree 3

Wrought Iron set

Other Products

Arsenic and Lace paper - Echo Park
Flowers -  I Am Roses

Mardi Gras Layout by Kathi and some ATC's by Melissa

Today we have two projects to share.  First up is Kathi with an inventive way to use the chipboard masks that you have seen decorated this month by all of the Design Team members in celebration of Mardi Gras.

Hi everyone, Kathi here, thanks for joining me today,  I have created  a 12 X 12 layout using one of the new masquerade masks  from Gina's store..  The masks come in several shapes and are ready to decorate.

I added two of the smaller masks as photo mats. I added the paper to the mask and the ran it through the big shot with an embossing folder.  I sanded the raised area's and used Lindy's Stamp Gang spray on the lace. I added feathers beads & flowers to the left top of the mask, and I shaped the mask raising the nose area. I added a very thin paper flower laser cuts (from Korea) A gift from my mother-in-law 30 years ago. 

I hope you liked my project today, thanks for stopping by and don't forget to visit Gina's Store.

Supplies used: Gina's Designs:

Masks Shape Set

Other supplies used:
Graphic 45 paper
Feathers
WOC flowers
beaded trim from Suhafuha
Martha Stewart Punches
Tim Holtz embossing folder


Next up is Melissa with some gorgeous and unusual ATC's.

Hi everyone, Melissa here.  One reason I find the chipboard such a pleasure to work with is their versatility. I can change their original theme to fit which ever one I want.

Gina's Designs chipboard used:

String Alongs-Gothic

String Alongs-Alice

Birds Shape Set

Dressforms 2 Miniature Shape Set

Thanks for looking!