Creating another Halloween scene for Country View's October Challenge

 Good morning I am back with my 2nd project to hopefully inspire you to join our October, "Halloween, make a scene" challenge over at Country View Challenges.  You can find all the details of the challenge and more examples made by my talented teamies here.

It certainly turned chilly at the weekend and felt very autumnal. It rained for hours.  It was good weather for ducks though and my sweet dinos. Ringo came out of the water to say hello and eat some food from my hand...

She is just the sweetest!

For my 2nd make I decided to use my new Tim Holtz curio box XL Bigz die to make something for decorating my porch for Halloween. 

This is what I got up to; I used crackling campfire, mustard seed and barn door distress oxide sprays on  watercolour card and then die cut the front of the box,

I stamped and white embossed spiders' webs using my Tim Holtz skulls and cobwebs background stamp set. 

I die cut his new spider and web thinlets set in glitter card and stuck it in place.

For the inside of my box I stamped and white embossed on black cardstock and also added some more die cut webs. 

I stamped and coloured a Tim pumpkin, of course, and propped it upright on the base. I also stamped and cut out a skull. These are stamps from the Halloween 4 set. 

I added a few finishing details.

 Here is my finished box.

with some close ups..boo!

and one final shot.

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our October, "Halloween, make a scene" challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

You can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with other challenges. There is also a £20 crafting voucher up for grabs to the lucky randomly selected winner to spend over on the Country View Crafts on line store. Remember that UK postage and packing from CVC is free on all orders over £7.50! Once again all the details for the October challenge can be found  here.

This spooky box will be making an appearance in my porch when I decorate it at the end of the month. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Back soon

Bye for now

Jane x

The return of the theme and photo prompt challenge at STAMPlorations

Hello stamp friends. After the summer break the challenges over at STAMPlorations  are all back and the STAMPgirls are raring to share some new projects. I am a proud to continue to be a member of the theme and photo prompt challenge. I now have affiliate links in my STAMP posts which simply means that if you click on any of the links here and buy something from the STAMP store I will receive a small commission at no cost whatsoever to you 😊

Here is our challenge theme banner for October 

You can enter up to a maximum of 3 entries. There are awesome prizes up for grabs;  A $20 prize code for the winner, who this month will be chosen by me,  as well as $7 prize codes awarded to 3 randomly selected entries. Please remember to add our challenge logo to your post if you would like to be in with a chance of winning. Full details can be found here

I worked with the following awesome products and have added live links to them in my post. Remember if you also use my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at the check out you can get an additional 20% off on top of any existing discounts! Shery ships internationally at very low cost too. For my background stencil I used the lovely Barley stencil

with the awesome cup and flower from Thank you coffee stamp set 

with one of the sentiments from Coffee for all seasons

This is what I got up to;

I stamped and coloured the lovely cup from Thank you coffee  and cut it out, adding some gold glitter to the flower centres.

I used one of my shaving foam reinker backgrounds I made during the summer with my granddaughter. 

Using glitter frosting paste and the Barley stencil I added  this to the background.

This is it wet

and below the lovely shimmer when it is dry.

I stamped one of the sentiments from Coffee for all seasons 

added some white pen details,

distressed the edges and then matted up my card onto a 7x5" card blank.

Here it is;

I hope I may have inspired you to join our new October challenge. Remember all the details can be found here .

Thanks for stopping by today. I will be back with my 2nd DT project for  STAMPlorations on 15th of this month..and a little heads up... we will soon also be celebrating our 7th birthday with an exciting blog hop all that week and lots of prizes! Stay tuned.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Halloween is in the air over at Country View challenges

Good morning, happy October. The time when all things ghostly and ghoulish and pumpkins come out to play.  Of course it is also time for a new challenge over at Country View. This month the theme is of course...Halloween and we would like you to "make a scene!" You can find all the details of the challenge and more examples made by my talented teamies here.

I spotted these beauties growing at Wisley RHS gardens on our recent visit.

I only got into Halloween through my grandkids and I now embrace it big time. I made tags and card and decorate my porch. For my first design team make today I decided to have a play with a new and old Tim Holtz die and his Halloween ephemera 

This is what I got up to;

 Using collage medium I stuck down my elements, including one with a pumpkin of course.

I then used a variety of distress crayons to add some shadows and colour.

I die cut Tim's new web and spider and cut the web up.

I stamped some very subtle text using distress archival. 

I then added my die cut web and spiders and a few Halloween remnant rubs.

Here is my card

with a few close ups

and one last shot.

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our October, "Halloween make a scene" challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

You can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with other challenges. There is also a £20 crafting voucher up for grabs to the lucky randomly selected winner to spend over on the Country View Crafts on line store. Remember that UK postage and packing from CVC is free on all orders over £7.50! Once again all the details for the October challenge can be found here.

I will be back on October 5th to share something very different, a little piece of Halloween decor. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Back soon

Bye for now

Jane x