So far, so good..........

Morning eveyone,
How are you all doing?  
Here's my card for this weeks Less Is More Blog Challenge.  Yes, I know I'm usually posting this on a Friday afternoon with only hours to go before the deadline, but things are going ok in the the old craft room (touch wood).  I'm actually getting somewhere I think.   I've been so busy that I've missed the last two LIM challenges so I was determined to do this one.

It's Week 89 and its ...........  ONE LAYER WEEK  with the theme

WINGS

The girls have started us off with a list of things that qualify ....... insects, birds, aeroplanes. You could also add butterflies, fairies, angels.
Seeing as we're well into October, and not long to go until the 31st, I've gone for BATS! (and there's an owl on there too, he also has wings).

I'm afraid I'm getting in the mood for Halloween - MwahHahahahaha .........  I love it!  Even though the kids are all grown up I still have to carve a scary face into a pumpkin (not very well I might add).   It also means that the first pumpkin pie of the year will be going in the oven soon - yummeee!!
We've always celebrated Halloween.   When the kids were young the house was always decorated inside and out, with pumpkins and spooky stuff.  Now I just do pumpkin lights and lots of candles.  I still buy a mountain of sweets too, for all the Trick or Treaters.  But, enough of that for now, here's my card .....

I've used one of my latest purchases, one of  Chocolate Baroque's brand new sets of Clear stamps Witches Brew  

As  much as I love Halloween, I don't send Halloween cards, but I had to have these stamps.

The scene I've used on my card is just one stamp from the set, apart from the bats.  They're from a Penny Black "T for Transparent" set called 'Spooky'. 

I stamped the scene first in Black Archival ink, then used masks to ink the circle behind.  The moon was also masked while I did the sky, using Scattered Straw, Stormy Sky and Dusty Concord Distress Inks.
I then removed both the circle mask and the one covering the moon, and replaced them with one that covered the whole scene, except the moon (I think that makes sense).  This part was then coloured using Scattered Straw DI.

The bats were added once all the inking had been done, along with the word 'Spooky' which is from the same Penny Black clear set.  To finish it off I added a touch of sparkle to the moon.

There looks to be a lot on there, but it was so simple to do. And,  there's still plenty of white space, a must if you want to be a LIMette.

There's quite a bit of Halloween about in the land of Blog.  I'll be back tomorrow with my latest Twinches, they're Spooky themed too.

Enjoy your day. 
Thanks for popping by.

Linda

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