Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Eerie Is The Raven

I am so excited! I won a $50 gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp for the random drawing at last weeks "Striped Card Challenge". WOW!!! I spent that real quick and will show you what I got when it comes! That totally made my day! Thank you Simon Says Stamp, and the blog reader who told me!!!  And...thank you, thank you to everyone who has commented and followed my blog! Words cannot express what that means to me.

This weeks challenge for Grungy Monday is the "Perfect Distress Technique" that you can see Tim video demonstrate. You create a background or image by stamping with distress ink, applying Perfect Pearls, and spritzing with water to deepen the color underneath. You get a vintage metallic finish. It's very beautiful looking and actually gives your project a faux texture, very cool. I decided to go for a Halloween theme just one more time this year, since I've been in the mood for it and orange, purple, and green have exploded all over my scrap space. I have done this technique so many times on various projects so I thought I'd give it a go. The Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge this week is to make something using "One Color". I thought this was indeed a challenge because you want things to pop off the page and scream, "Look at me!!!", and I wasn't sure that would happen. So I created this Halloween "Eerie Is The Raven" decoration. I used four accordion folds to make the window really stand our and not blend in with the wall since they were both bricked. I tried to photograph this but my picture is quite blurry...sorry.  As luck would have it, I was surfing the various blogs I subscribe to, I found two more challenges at Gingersnap Creations that happened to apply to my already finished card. One was a color challenge to make something "Black and Gray". The other is a Theme Challenge to make something with "Ravens"...an Edgar Allen Poe type theme. I couldn't believe it.  I don't know if GC allows one project in two challenges but I guess I'll find out soon. I am so loving all these challenges, and am thrilled to be able to take on some of them. If you haven't tried it, I hope you do soon. It really gets you inspired and driven to create something every day.


Supplies:
Paper Used-  Core-dinations Black Magic Color Core Cardstock; Graphic 45 Times Nouveau Collection Die Cut Frame; Making Memories Spook Alley; Cosmo Cricket Haunted:Gothic
Vagabond Materials Used- TH Alterations Die in Raven & Scaredy Cat and Small Easel; TH Alterations Texture Fade in Bricks
Stamps Used- Stampers Anonymous TH Collection in Mini Halloween 2 (bat) and Joyful Songs (cracked glass)
Coloration Used- TH for Ranger Distress Ink in Black Soot; Ranger Perfect Pearls in Heirloom Gold; Mini Mister with water
Embellishments Used- Teresa Collins T Drops in Black; American Crafts Thickers in Black Tiara; wired spider web given to me from Paula; brad

15 comments:

  1. Fabulous piece, love the background and the Raven is fabulous as is the web. Thanks so much for joining in the Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge. Tracy x

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  2. What a great Poe/Raven/Black and Gray piece, Anita--gotta love that texture!!

    Thank you for joining in the fun challenges at Gingersnap Creations--I don't know how they feel about combining the GC challenges, either!!

    :)

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  3. Congrats on your Simon Says Stamp win last week!!! That is wonderful! Your entry for this week is really great! I love all of the blackish tones you worked with on this piece. The cut outs, the raven, all the textures and letters....really a nice design. Thanks for joining us as Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge. <3 Candy

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  4. Beautiful card! It has alot of different structures, I love that!

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  5. Well done. Your luck is in. Enjoy.Thanks for joining us at Gingers for both challenges.

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  6. Congrats on winning the SSS&S I am not in to Halloween at all really but this is a wonderful piece I love texture and this is really the star of the show wonderful Dxx

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  7. Wow Anita! I love this, it's so inspiring! Congrats on your SSSS win! Love your creativity, TFS!!

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  8. Absolutely super. Love the raven and now I need the TH die that I didn't think I wanted.

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  9. Thanks so much for all the wonderful comments ladies...and Mary, I so know that feeling on not thinking you need something until you see what someone else does with it. That happens to me often...LOL!!!

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  10. This is absolutely fabulous! So creative and spooky and fun. Thanks for playing along doubly delightfully at Gingersnap Creations. ;)

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  11. really nice piece.so much detail. Thanks for sharing

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  12. Fantastic card, love the dimensional look. Congrats on your win.

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  13. Striking artwork - love that texture :-)

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  14. Anita, this is brilliant! You did such a great job with the Perfect Distress technique, and designed a beautiful and clever work of art. Every little detail is perfect, and I'm so glad you joined GM24!

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  15. Congrats on the SSS win - loved the card. The detail and texture on this new piece is amazing!!

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