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I love this time of year!  I know for a lot of people Halloween means decorating their home inside and out, but for me it is a great time to make spooky art.  DIY Design Studio has several fun Halloween collages for your art projects. Both of my cards started out with plain card stock and a piece of punchinella.  Green ink with green paper and white ink with black paper...just to give the blank space a little texture. I used a strip of washi tape for a background element but a strip of scrapbook paper or a piece of ribbon would also be great.  I just wanted something fun behind the main collage image. I added a few highlights to the Halloween damsel with a white gel pen.  There is shading on the pumpkin eyes and noses.  And tracing around the skull and crossbones on her cloak and the grid on her dress really make them stand out.   A few Dew Drops make a nice dimensional highlight.   For the card ...

IT'S FRIGHTENING! Hi everyone Danie here, today I pulled out my journal to play once more.  I love getting messy and it's the process more than the end result that I love.  So with Halloween in mind once more I started thinking dark and covered my journal pages with a layer of black paint. I had some clean up sheets from the last time I used some stencils on my desk so decided to put these to good use and while my black paint was still wet, tore these stenciled sheets into strips and stuck them down.  My glue and my paint mixed together and glazed these pieces as I smoothed out any air bubbles from the sticking down process. Next I took some white paint and a stencil and added some more detail, before brayering over the wet white paint to added further interest and pattern to the background. I choose to randomly brayer purple and orange paint across the page for my next layer. And to finish the background some more stenciling with Green...

So did I! Skellies are all the rage when you add gorgeous wings to them.   We have wonderful  Wing collages you can print.   Order her e. Get your dollar store skeletons and have a blast!    Add magnets to the back or add jute to hang them.  Give little gifts, hang them in trees, SPOOKY! Thanks for having a giggle with me!

As promised, I have the flip side of my altered pocket page for Halloween.  For this side, I used all black and white collage images from The digital collages at DIYDesignStudio. In my first post for this project , I told you how I try to blend in the white edges of the paper with ink on color collages.   The rule is not as hard and fast with black and white images. Sometimes you need a fine line of paper around the image to make it stand out.  If you layer all black and grey images without the little "halo" you might not see everything.   As with the color collages, paper matters.  I used white paper for everything on this project.   I like black and white images for Halloween because they somehow just feel spookier!  Create yours with pocket pages - available here

With our theme of October Treats this month I couldn't resist some fun and messy play in my journal. I cropped and enlarged two Halloween Children from the Collage Sheet on my computer and also thought I would use the harlequin patterns from the ATC Coin Background , I also grabbed out some paint and my Gel Plate. I added some paint to the Gel Plate and pressed this onto each page of my double spread in my large Dylusions Journal.  I then took out my Harlequin Stencil and with some black ink added some detail to the pages. Next I cut out bits from the ATC Coin Background and added this around the edges of my pages, before taking more paint and my brayer and covering over my background design. I then worked out the positioning of my three main focal images and added some black paint across the page in the area I planned to add my images. I then proceeded to add in more detail and definition - including the words Trick or Treat.  I adde...

If you haven't yet searched for Halloween goodies at Altered Pages then please let me recommend them to you!  There are collage images of every type so whatever type of project you're making, you won't be disappointed.  Which Halloween collage did I use for this project?  All of them.  Well, it seems that way.  Let me explain. When you're making an altered pocket page project you need a lot of collages to work with.  So I printed off each of the Halloween collages that I've collected over the years and cut them apart while my husband and I watched baseball.  That way, I could work on a project, still have our time together, and because I wasn't coloring or assembling, I could put it down and pick it up with ease. When you are printing your images at home, you control the size and color.  I printed a couple different sizes for each page and I also used a couple of different color papers.  It's important to keep in mind that t...

Words that give you CHILLS Order yours here You can make this, click here The name POE strikes fear into hearts, make some spooky POEs Hope you enjoyed our Spooky month. one more day to go and Stephanie will make it AWESOMELY SCARY!

At Christmas everything is either Naughty or Nice but at Halloween things can be Spooky and Cute together which is exactly what all these vintage Collage Images from Altered Pages have in common today.  Along with Pumpkin's, Cats and Witches Hats. I decided to use up some old post cards I had been hoarding as some Artist Trading Coin Bases.  I covered them with a thin coat of Gesso before painting the backs black and adding some purple and orange paint to the front. Some of the wonderful collage sheets I cut the delightful images from were Halloween Children and Happy Halloween along with a few others.  If cute isn't your thing you will also find some more scary looking images in store also.  One the paint of my backgrounds was dry I added some black stamping and then proceeded to add my images.  I added some wording to a couple also that was on one of the collage sheets.   I then took a white paint pen and dashed and...