FunwithATCs - "night"

Wow - time runs fast! It's already time for a new challenge over at FunwithATCs!

This fortnight the theme is

"night".

So get out your dark papers, night creatures, moons, stars and creepy crawlies stamps...or whatever you can imagine to happen at night ;)

I went for a more romantic approach - as I love full moon when being outside (and hopefully outside of Vienna, as you can see much more stars then). It's always amazing how much light it reflects - you really can see perfectly and walk without any additional light between the shades of the trees. 

The world seems so very different then. Like frozen in time. Love that.

Stamps used are from Crafty Individuals and 100 proof press. I did some masking and heat embossing to make the trees stand out a bit more and add some texture.

I hope you like it. And I also hope that you like the theme and play with us again! So hop over to the challenge blog to see what my teamies have prepared for your inspiration!

Hugs and happy crafting,

Claudia x

Halloween is the theme...

...this fortnight over at Try It On Tuesday!

It is that time of the year when witches abound, ravens talk and pumpkins show their true faces ;)

We want you to create something for Halloween. As always our challenge is an "anything goes" medium, as long as you stay within the challenge theme. If you need some inspiration, hop over to the challenge blog and see what the TIOT DT have prepared for you.

This month our Sponsor is "Smeared Ink", who will give away a $ 10 voucher for their store. They asked us if some of our DT would use some of their digi images for the projects - so I used the "wicked witch" on my tag.

I love how grumpy she looks ;)
On this tag I combined distress inks, crayons, stamping, stencilling and heat embossing to create a dark halloween-ish mood with some orange popping out as the focal colour. Hope you like it and have a lot of fun creating for halloween!

See you (and your entries) soon over at TIOT!

die amelie x

Stampotique Designers Challenge # 121 - "Halloween"

Well, if this isn't the perfect occasion to bring out once more my beloved "friend" stampotique stamp.... ;)

I know, I know - you saw him a bit too often maybe on this blog lately, but it is one of the only two stampotique stamps I own at the moment... and I admit I could use both of them all the time as they are so utterly brilliant! ;)
So I guess you will just have to bear with me. In Austria we would say "Close your eyes and go through it!" *lol

I also had to do the crumpled tree again, which you might have already seen over here.

It's as easy as that: glue some crumpled tissue or sandwich paper to your card and then cut out the branch tree shape after it has dried. Blend the creases with Distress ink - done :)

The background is made with Distress paints - love the new colours I recently added to my stash ;)

The hanging bat shapes were cut freehand and glued to the tree. The fence and the tiny flying bat are from the Halloween Tim Holtz Sizzlits strip die. The spider was cut with a memory box die and coloured with felt tip pens.

This tag is of course meant to be entered to Stampotiques Designers Challenge # 121.

Happy halloween crafting!

die amelie x

Altered Alcohol Ink Tray

As I bought some additional alcohol inks recently (as there was sudden (and really very urgent ;) need for them due to Creative Chemistry 102) they didn't fit with their old storage anymore - so I decided to alter a small wooden tray I had got from a sale some months ago.

I used Tim Holtz paper, DecoArt acrylic paints, some leather and alcohol ink (for altering the nails heads).

Hope you like it. ;)
Happy inking!

die amelie x

Our Creative Corner - Mid Month Reminder

Servus, dear followers and readers old and anew!

Time to remind you of the fab challenge we have over at Our Creative Corner this month:

It's Halloween - Let's Tag It On!

Julia is hosting this month's challenge and as she is a real expert on textures she wants all of us (and you ;) to incorporate surface texture with our tags. 

I played around with a lot of my favourites: Tim Holtz Sizzix dies, Kraft Glasseine (love the colour and the surface of it), Kraft Core and embossing folders. 

The background texture was made using the "grunge stripes" embossing folder I recently bought at a sale for less than three Euro! Love the stripes it creates.

I even blended the stripes with DI "walnut stain" to make them a bit more visible.

For the tree's "bark texture" I glued crumpled sandwich paper to the heavy card and die cut the branch tree afterwards.

The crinkles were blended with DI "gathered twigs" afterwards. 

Then followed a lot of die cutting, layering and trying various combinations. 

After I was content with what I had I glued the elements to the background. Done!

I hope my bark tree texture gets you going on creating your own textured Halloween tag for Our Creative Corner's october challenge!

Take a look at the fab inspirational projects my team mates have prepared for you! Don't forget to check both teams' projects - they are really worth looking at! 

Hope to see you joining us soon!

Maybe you also want to have a look at my two recent projects with detailed tutorials,  where texture is the main focus too.

Scroll down for witch Myrtle's shelf - the perfect project for Halloween and a steampunk storage made of an altered wooden box - both come with a lot of yummy crackle and texture. ;) 


Maybe you also find some inspiration there for your textured Halloween tags for our challenge... ;)

Hugs and happy crafting,

Claudia xx