TOB Feb Mid Month Challenge

 

Hello crafty friends,
Welcome to this month's challenge reminder post.  Have you started working on a card/project?  If yes, GREAT!  If no, WHAT are you waiting for?  We want to see your Halloween creations.   Remember  the Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge, runs from the 2nd to the 28th of the month and the theme is always Halloween... ANYTHING related to Halloween!

  Staying with bats as my theme this month, I wanted to combine them with flowers, so I searched my stash for large flowers and basic bats (no cute critters this time).  I ended up using a set of three bat dies from A Muse Studio to die cut three masks.  

I arranged the bat masked onto my card panel and stamped my flowers over them.  I also used a fine liner to trace around the bat mask, because I wanted the bat shape to stand out more, but since I was going to coloring them black later I didn't really need to do this. 

I used Distress Oxide inks as "watercolors" to color my images.  Note... I wasn't using watercolor paper, so I didn't use a lot of water when painting.  Once the flowers and bats were colored, I inked blended the purple background.  This ended up changing the color of my green leaves and some areas of my red flowers... I liked both of these changes.  My bats weren't black enough, so I went over them with a black alcohol marker.  The "Happy Halloween" text, I added during editing in Photoshop Elements. 

Here's this month's mood board for additional inspiration... Hope to see your card/project soon. 

Challenge ends on the 28th, winner will be announced on the 1st on the month before the start on the new challenge.  For a full list of all the rules please visit Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge home page.  unit next time... take care.