I Spy With My Little Eye...........Something Spooky (Challenge No. 31)

Hello everyone and welcome to a new I spy with my little eye challenge taking place right here on my blog. Pauline and I are back with our new challenge and we hope you'll join in the fun! It's always so nice to visit your entries and seeing what you shared with the theme in mind. Be sure to scroll down to see who our Top Picks were from the last challenge.

This time it was Pauline's turn to select a theme and it is.........

I Spy With My Little Eye.........

Something Spooky

Spooky cards, treat bags for the neighbourhood trick-or-treaters, scrapbook pages or any other spooky crafts, but please nothing too creepy 😊 We still want to be able to sleep at night after visiting your blogs 😊😊 (We're ok with creepy spiders LOL)

And here is what we came up with this time to inspire you.

My Card (Ellie)

all details are right below the card.

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This is about as spooky as it gets for me, this witch looks rather ugly and scary so I decided to paint her skin green like the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz. I have never used this stamp before, it's from Northwoods Rubberstamps (not sure if they are still in business) but I was lucky to find it at a thrift store and thougth it was perfect for Halloween cards.

I heat embossed the image so I could work around it without the worry of smearing ink. I used Derwent Inktense pencils for coloring and Distress ink (Black Soot) to create the scene around it. My new "Hill House" stamp from Lavinia along with Lavinia's Large Path and Tree of Courage completed the scene. The sentiment I used was actually part of a Halloween designer paper page by Carta Bella I've had in my stash for some time. I thought it was the most perfect wording to coordinate with the image. The "batty" background paper is also by Carta Bella. 

This finished piece is larger than my usual cards measuring 8x6 inches so I might just put it in a frame and use as home decor during the spooky season.

I plan to share my card with these challenges:

• Alphabet Challenge - M for Mythical Characters
• Craft Rocket Challenges - Halloween
• Crafty Calendar - Halloween
• Di's Digis Designs - Spooky or Cute
• DL.ART Thankful Thursday - Not Too Spooky Halloween
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Add Some Text
• Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers - S for Spooky
• Sweet Stampin - Inspired by Song or Film (The Wizard of Oz)
• The Crafting Challenge - Halloween
• Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge - Halloween
• Unicorn Challenge - Halloween

Pauline's Card

Such a magical and fun spooky scene framed so nicely! Please visit Pauline's blog to find out how she made this card.

Top Picks from Challenge No. 30

(and a return of the Guest Designer Invites)

Thank you all again for joining us in the last challenge of something CAS. As always selecting favorites is never easy and this time it was even harder than ususal so instead of a top 2 we have a top 3 (there was a tie!!)

No. 9 Carol (Pauline's Pick)

No. 12 Cindy Beach (Pauline's Pick)

No, 22 Chris (Ellie's Pick)

Congratulations to all three of you on your well deserved recognition!! Below is your top pick logo, you may place it on your own blogs if you like to :)

As mentioned above, we are bringing back the guest designer invites for our Top Picks if wanted and we would love to have you joining us.

 

If any of you are interested in joining us for the next challenge (starting November 19th) please message me (Ellie) at ellibellescorner at gmail dot com so I can tell you all about our upcoming theme. We completely understand that you may have other obligations so it is of course totally optional. 

To play along in the new challenge please use the linky tool below.

A few things to remember:

(Complete list of guidelines and copyright info can be found here.)

• You may share up to 5 different projects.
• You may combine with as many other challenges as you like to.
• A short mention of products used whenever possible is expected, especially the focal point.
• New: While you are free to link up your creations using pre-colored digital art (AI generated, digital pre-colored toppers/images, digital papers etc.), they will be excluded from top picks. 
• Please include a link back to this blog.
• Back-linking to a recent project is allowed.
• Linkup closes on Sunday, November 16th at 11:59pm CST

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