All things spooky

Yes here we are, it's the first of October with Halloween just around the corner. It is time for a new challenge over at Country View and the theme this month is "All things Spooky" chosen by the lovely Corrie. I really hope that lots of you can join us. You can enter anything crafty with no limitations to other challenges or the number times you can enter. You can win a £20 voucher too so it's win win in my books! You can find out all the details here

I spotted this crow in the park...he looked very spooky to me ;0)

Until my granddaughter Daisy was born I really did nothing for Halloween as celebrating it was unheard of in my own childrens' days. However I now find it great fun and I enter into the spirit by making up a little parcel of goodies for all my babies, big and small. Daisy still does not like sweets or chocolate (yes seriously) so I buy her a token present but my big babies and their partners get a little parcel of Halloween sweet goodies.

I will share what I buy in my 2nd DT post which comes up on 11 October. For these little token gifts I always make Halloween tags so my inspiration pieces will be 2 of the tags I have made.  Today's tag started off like this.

I chose 4 autumnal coloured distress inks and added some water.

I dragged my card through the inks, drying between layers.

Next I used my new TH stencil and added gold embossing paste through it,














I loved the result.

Next I wanted to "Spook" the background up a little so I added some blood....no only joking it was red ink but when it got into my finger nail it really did look like blood!

 I created a crackled sentiment

and made a little "gem" from one of my Nicecrane Halloween images.
The it was time to put everything together...and this is what I came up with...

BOO!!

 a couple of spooky close ups with the dripping blood  ink ;0)

I would like to enter my spooky tag into the following challenges;

Simon Says Stamp Monday powder powder I used embossing powder on my sentiment.
Simon Says Wednesday anything goes
Deep Ocean anything goes
Artistic Inspirations anything goes
That's Crafty 1/3 all of a sparkle
Rubber Dance 1/3 October mood board My base distress inks were orange, brown and yellow
I would also like to link up with my great friend Brenda's Halloween giveaway here.

Thanks for visiting and for the kind comments you take the time to leave. I would also like to warmly welcome my newest followers.  Thanks for joining me on my creative journey here at Jane's Journal.

Back soon, I'm going to be in the festive spirit...watch this space ;-)

Bye for now,

Jane x