Two Weekly Challenge Winner

Two Weekly Challenge Winner

Hallo everyone!  

At last, I'm here to announce

this week's winner

Sorry to have kept you in suspense for so long!

This time the theme was Pumpkin with

the added challenge of including a bat.

Just eleven entries this time to hand over to

Mr R Generator. 

 He's had a ponder and chosen

No 3

Congratulations MirreP

Please contact me at

mickiecraftbarn@gmail.com

so that I can send you your prize

Thank you to all who entered.

As always, I enjoyed visiting your blogs

Better luck next time

Mickie xx

Two Weekly Challenge

Two Weekly Challenge

Happy Sunday to you all!

Anyone doing anything exciting?

Woke to a beautiful red sky this morning

so I guess the weather will provide much

excitement today in that it means I shall

stay indoors and craft the day away

Whoopee!!........

Time for the new two weekly challenge

and in the UK we are going to be

celebrating Bonfire Night 

There is even an old folk rhyme:

"Remember, remember, the 5th of November

Gunpowder, treason and plot....."

This refers to Guy Fawkes and his pals'

failed plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament

Back in the day this was probably the only reason

for letting off fireworks.  Nowadays we don't care

we let off fireworks on every occasion possible!!

Enough meandering down historical paths - time

for the challenge, which is

Fireworks

sparkling explosions of colour in the night sky......

................sort of thing.....

As ever, you have two weeks to enter as many times

as you like via the link.  If you can't use the link then

send your pictures to be and I will upload them for you

The link closes at midnight on 6th November and the

winner will be chosen by the Random Generator on the

following Tuesday

Good luck everyone

Mickie xx

An InLinkz Link-up

Pumpkin Scarecrow & Halloween

Halloween

Hallo everyone!

Hope you've got your pumpkins already

and don't forget the candles

Another spooky project today from

Hazel Harler

who has been busy creating something

specially for us so over to you Hazel:

"I decided to do a journal page for my Halloween piece

 I stencilled the wall with modeling paste onto a 6" x 8" piece of mixed media card 

and then gave it a coat of gesso.

I painted the wall with watered down acrylic paint and spritzed it with water, 

drying the wall between each colour,

 there is also a little brimstone wings Color Bloom on there.

I fastened some chain to the wall with brads and put some jump rings on the end, 

I painted some quinacridone gold paint to make it look like the metal has rusted.

 I stamped the Carabelle Studio images onto white card, 

coloured them with pencils and cut them out. 

The glass dome was stamped onto acetate and cut out, 

I've no idea who made the skeleton stamps, they are from my stash

The knife was drawn by hand.

 I glued all the stamped images to the page and 

used an Impression Obsession stamp with distress ink for the table, 

The mad doctor was stamped with a Stampers Anonymous stamp and coloured with pencil. 

I cut him out so that he could hold the knife.

 I added some gauze, die cut spiders, a Tando pumpkin, some graffiti 

on the walls and acrylic paint blood.

A close up of the skeleton chained to the wall.

A close up of the specimen glass.

 

A close up of the sitting skeleton"

Items used

Modelling Paste & Gesso

Tim Holtz stencils

Decoart paint - lamp black, paynes grey, burnt umber, quinacridone gold.

Color Bloom - brimstone wings on the wall and spider.

Carabelle Studio stamps.

Acetate.

Impression Obsession stamp 

Distress ink.

Archival ink - black.

Stampers Anonymous - time traveller stamp.

Tando pumpkin.

6" x 8" mixed media card.

Chain, brads and jump rings.

Coloured pencils.

Super project Hazel and how nice to

see it as a journalling piece

Thank you very much

Now this has got to be a must do page 

in my journal (that I haven't touched in

a while).. I am so going to enjoy this one.....

See you tomorrow

Mickie xx