Halloween decorations

Hi everyone :-D 

I am half way done with spookifying my home and wanted to share with you what I am working on.

It is not a custom to celebrate Halloween here in Croatia, but people do celebrate it. Spooky movie as Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow, The Addams Family, sweets, bloody deserts, spooky decorations, make up maybe, a lot of candles, pajamas, pillows and blankets... That is how I am going to spend this Halloween. :-D

Yesterday I started to make wall decorations. I am using free templates I found on web (links provided below in supplies list) and self-adhesive foil. This foil is great and I strongly recommend it for wall decorating. Very easy to use, inexpensive and great quality. After removing from the walls, there are no marks or stains left. If you don´t have self-adhesive foil, you can use other materials (follow provided links below for more instructions). These are really easy and fast to make. 

Here is a list of supplies I´m using for my wall decorations: 

• Mice template from Martha Stewart Living 
• Bat template from Martha Stewart Living
• Crow template from Milliande - Printables
• printer 
• card stock
• d-c-fix self-adhesive black matte foil 
• pencil 
• scissors 
• compass 

Important notice:
These are not my decorating ideas, neither templates. Full credits go to authors and pages I listed above.
If you are using templates from the provided links, please link back to original post, not on my post. Thank you. 

Here is a sneak peek of my unfinished decorated walls. I´ll share more photos next week.

Stay around. I´ll be posting soon. :-D 

Crafty Milka

Beautiful forenoon

Hello everyone :-D 

After two cloudy and rainy days, finally beautiful, sunny forenoon here in Cavtat and I think it will stay that way all day. I am enjoying my coffee and creative mess I made on my craft desk, finishing a card I´ll share with you later, making a scheme for my new project, spookifying my home... Oh and there will be baking later and who knows what not. :-D

This week I received a lot of gifts for participating in challenges and would like to thank all, challenge organizers, DT members and challenges sponsors for them.

This Monday, my Merry Christmas Card won at Meljen´s Designs. I received two lovely Meljen´s Designs digital images of my choice.

Yesterday I received package with lovely die-cuts, rubber stamps and a lovely card from Carmen for participating in the last challenge at Sketch N´ Dies. 

Just saw that my Trick or Tweet won at Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge. The prize are 2 digital images from The Stamping Boutique. Awesome! 

Thanks for stopping by. Stay around... new post soon. :-D 

Crafty Milka

Trick or Tweet Card

Good evening everyone :-D

Today I made another Halloween themed card and called it Trick or Tweet Card, according to a sentiment I used.

The Cat´s Pajamas Collage Inspiration by Nancy was an inspiration for this card, as well as  I {heart} sketches sketch083 with a twist for a card layout.

Image is From the Heart Stamps 'Bewitchin´ Birdbrains', as well as the sentiment.

I printed four From the Heart Stamps 'Bewitchin´ Birdbrains' images on white card stock paper. 

First I made background on one image. I colored moon using stencil, aquarell colored pencils and water and grass with aquarell colored pencils and water. I masked moon and colored background with Black Soot distress ink. 

Then I colored elements on three images with my colored pencils, white pencil, aquarell colored pencils and black fine liners, fussy cut elements, colored edges with permanent marker and pieced all elements together. I added some transparent glossy varnish to create glossy accents.

For this card I used three different Halloween digital papers by Marie Stones that she shared for free on Free Digital Scrapbooking. I fussy cut two spiders from scraps of printed digital paper, outlined them and decorated card with them.

I made little cat embellishment using cat stencil from Kinder Surprise. I outlined the shape of cat on black card stock paper, cut it out, glued down a pair of googly eyes and covered all cat with transparent varnish.

In left upper corner I draw cobweb with black permanent marker, traced lines with glue and sprinkled over black glitter.

Card dimensions are 15,2 cm x 15,2 cm (6" x 6"). 

List of supplies: 

• From the Heart Stamps 'Bewitchin´ Birdbrains'
• Halloween Crackle Green  digital paper from 'Halloween Crackle Paper Pack' collection by Marie Stones 
• Worn Purple Dots digital paper from 'Halloween Spooks Paper' collection by Marie Stones 
• Worn Spiders digital paper from 'Halloween Spooks Paper' collection by Marie Stones 
• black card stock paper 
• white card stock paper 
• Staedtler Noris Club colored pencils (yellow, orange, green, black, brown) 
• Koh-i-noor Mondeluz aquarell colored pencils (yellow, orange, greens, blue, violet, browns, black) 
• white pencil 
• pencil
• black fine liner 0.5 
• black permanent marker 
• Tim Holtz´s distress ink, Black Soot 
• fine glitter (black) 
• googly eyes 
• universal glue
• white water based glue 
• transparent varnish with extra gloss
• printer 
• scoring board
• trimmer
• scissors
• crafting needle 
• Tim Holtz blending tool
• brush
• ruler  
• water
• paper towels
• stencil from Kinder Surprise (Kinder Egg) 

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Note: bold text is direct link to current challenge and blog badge is direct link to blog or challenges home page. 

1) From the Heart Stamps i {heart} card sketches - Use any previous Sketch

I used sketch 083. 

2) Cute Card Thursday, Challenge 344 - Trick or Treat

3) Meljen's Designs Design Team and Challenge Blog, Challenge #233 – Trick or Treat 

4) Crafty Sentiments Designs, Use a Sentiment Challenge

5) We Do Doobadoo UK Challenge, Challenge 17... Halloween

6) Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge, R#199 - Halloween

7) Artistic Inspirations Challenge Blog, Challenge #114 - Halloween/Anything Goes

8) Hanna and Friends, Challenge #208 - Halloween

9) Kitty Bee Designs, Aloha Friday Challenge #35 - Halloween 

10) The Cat´s Pajamas, TCPTUES277 - Inspiration Challenge

Thank you for stopping by and your kind feedback. Night night :-D 

Crafty Milka 

Update December 28th, 2014 

This is the second of my three favorite cards I entered into Clear it Out Challenge Blog, Our Favorites Challenge (upload your favorite card from 2014). 

Update January 1st, 2015

My favorite 2014 Creations

Update March 13th, 2015

I am linking my project to STAMPlorations Flash Stencil Linky Party.