Wicked Witch Card

     This week has just flown by….and this month as well. Hard to believe that tomorrow is the last day of September. We have had typical fall weather here as well. I miss the heat already! But I have put on a brave face and accepted that fall is here, and I’ve made a start on my Halloween cards. Here’s the first one I made.

                             
    The background was made by sponging on a wide variety of Distress Inks and maybe some distress Oxide inks. I had forgotten to place a mask where I wanted the moon to be..grrrr. But I wondered what would happen if I just sponged Distress Oxide Yellow ink right over the background. I placed the negative circle piece where I wanted it and sponged away -wow! I really like it. I may do this more often. The colour behind the yellow oxide made natural shadows.

Next, I stamped those cracked lines along the top and a bit down the side. Not sure what they are supposed to be but they make a great spooky background. Then all the images were die cut twice at least and glued together: sometimes three times to get more dimension. The die set did not come with logs or fire, so I had to improvise there, which turned out okay; well sort of okay.

The pot and witch are black (with white ink gently sponged along the edges) and the mouse is dark brown - looks black here but it is brown. I wanted some steam coming out of the cauldron, so I used a dry paint brush dipped in white acrylic paint; swished it on scrap paper to get a lot of it off; and then did some dry brushing above the pot. It’s faint but it’s there in real life.  I wanted some bubbles coming out of the pot too, but I don’t have a bubble stamp. I tried punching some green paper, but it was blah looking. And then I remembered I still had a lot of those glass flat beads from years ago and they worked just fine. Then the branch, the spider, and the bat were glued on. Once I liked it, it was glued to a black card base.

    Whew, long post tonight. Lots of different techniques used on this card but I like it. The next few cards are really different and I really like them, so creepy there are!  Hope you come back to see them.

    That’s all for a rather cold Thursday, September 29, 2022.

 

Cheers

Violet

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