Inkspirational Challenge #352 - Seasonal

 Today I'm sharing my DT card for the newest Inkspirational Challenge debuting today.

I chose Halloween as my Season.  

(also could be Fall since Oct 31 is in that season!)

You can see the glittery black gate better in the photo below.

I stamped a piece of grey card with a grid stamp and used it to ground The Count standing at the gate of the graveyard.

I'm on a mission to use more of the neglected supplies in my craft room -  I've only used this iron gate die once before - and this is the first time using The Count die despite my purchase of it several years ago!   The gravestone die and sentiment are from an older PTI set - that I have used but not for a few years!  Even the star paper is from a retired Halloween Print pad from PTI.

We'd love to see what you create for the theme: Seasonal!  

You'll find inspiration from the rest of the DT and Mr. Linky for this challenge over at Inkspirational.

I'm also sending my card to:

NBUS

1st time using The Count

Two Old Bats

ends 10/31

Craft Rocket

Halloween  ends 10/31

Die Cut Divas

Anything Goes  ends 10/31

Stamps: Haunted Head Stones - Papertrey Ink (retired), Distressed Grid Cover Stamp - Cornish Heritage Farms (retired).
Paper: Pure Poppy, Weathervane, White, True Black, Summer Sunrise, Dark Indigo - PTI, Glitter Black - Coredinations, Halloween Print - PTI (retired)
Ink: Old Paper - Ranger Distress (on moon), Nocturne - Versafine Clair.
Accessories: The Count Colorize Die, Gatekeeper Die - Sizzix, Haunted Head Stones Dies - PTI (retired), foam dots,

The Eyes of Halloween

 It's the Halloween season and although I've mailed out most of my cards already, it seems I keep making more!

I adhered a strip of watercolor paper to a panel of black card.  I added the Eerie Eyes to the strip and Halloween Label Tape above and below the strip of eyes.  I cut the SPOOKY from the label tape and adhered it in the bottom right corner.  

I'm linking my card to:

Inspired By

I was inspired by the 'eyes' on a log on the food tray in the photo

Two Old Bats

anything Halloween

Paper: True Black, white card base - PTI, watercolor paper - Canson Cold Press
Accessories: Eerie Eyes - Doodlebug Designs, Label Tape: Halloween - Tim Holtz/Idea-ology.

Ghostly Cat

Another Halloween card made for the spooky day!  

I made the background by dropping Alcohol Inks in Sunset Orange, Wild Plum and some Alcohol Blending Solution onto a white card Yupo panel.  I blew the ink around using an Alcohol Ink Blower (but you could also use a straw).   The colors mixed and blended - but I hope you can see the orange and purple!  

I used the alcohol lift technique for the images  - after the alcohol inks on my panel of Yupo were dry - I inked up my stamp with Alcohol Lift Ink and stamped it onto the AI background and pressed gently and held it there a minute. I lifted the stamp off and quickly stamped it onto a piece of white card to get an off-stamping from the ink that was left on the stamp.

Here's the off-stamping of the cat and sentiment on a white cardstock panel.

Back to the Alcohol inked panel -   I laid a soft cloth over my stamped AI Yupo panel and pressed over the image area. I removed the cloth and then rubbed over the whole panel with a clean section of the soft cloth and the image appears!

I adhered Eerie eyes to the cats face.  I layered the Yupo panel to a slightly larger orange panel and then to a black panel.

I'm linking my card to the following challenges:

Color Hues

I used Sunset Orange and Wild Plum Alcohol Inks.

Two Old Bats

anything Halloween

Stamps:  Boo Black Cat - Papertrey Ink

Paper:  White Yupo Card - Ranger, True Black, Orange Zest, white card base - Papertrey Ink

Ink:  Alcohol Lift Ink - Ranger

Accessories:  Alcohol Inks Sunset Orange and Wild Plum, Alcohol Blending Solution, Alcohol Ink Blower - Ranger, Eerie Eyes - Doodlebug Designs, clean soft cloth (or paper towel).

Spooky Ms. Skull

 Today I'm sharing a Halloween card I made using stencils and a die cut.

The stencils are all from Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous - Halloween, Harlequin and Bat Ground.   I used blender brushes to apply the Distress Inks through the stencils onto a white card panel - Carved Pumpkin through the Harlequin background and Black Soot through the Bat Ground and the sentiment.  

I held the bat stencil at an angle so they look like they are flying up from left to right and I only inked through part of it as I didn't want it to fill the panel.

I die cut the woman skull from black card and layered her over the panel with foam dots.  I layered the inked panel over a larger black panel.

I'm linking my card to the following:

Inkspirational

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge

Stencil Fun

Paper:  White, True Black - Papertrey Ink

Ink:  Ranger Distress Carved Pumpkin and Black Soot.

Accessories:  Halloween, Harlequin and Bat Ground Stencils - Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous, blender brushes foam dots, skull die - no brand.