Tag: Make it Crafty

Batty Princess

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We have a fantastic new challenge for you this week at Make it Colourful and it’s certainly and challenging challenge! We want to see Coloring Mist on your project!! But the good news is you can use any medium you want as long as your coloring. 😀 So get out your markers, paints, pencils, and anything else you can find, and come join us this week!


For my project I created mist on the Spooky Graveyard from Make it Crafty and I found Batty Princess from Kraftin’ Kimmy from my stash to pare up with it. I thought she would be perfect walking out of that graveyard so princess like!


The mist was a little difficult to start on but I followed a few tips from Delphine and jumped right in. First I Googled “morning mist” then used T0 and T1 to lightly color in where I wanted the mist to be. Then I started building up the around those areas getting darker and darker with the Toner grays. Finally, I started added color and bringing out the elements.


The sky was colored with light circles going from T0 secquentally down to T6 with a little B91 and B93 mixed in with it. I colored Batty Princess with blacks as well keeping with the theme but enjoyed giving her green eyes and red hair. The red hair mixture is from Annika and I think it’s my new favorite combination – D59, E19, E08, and YR14.


Most of the color comes from the paper and I had to cut, tape, rearrange and glue to get it to fit but I’m happy with how it turned out. The border paper was 6×6 and I had to get it to fit around the 5×8 paper…. so no peeking under the graveyard image!! LOL Finally I added a small tag and some silver flowers to finish it off. I loved how it turned out and hope it gives you some ideas.

Mini Frankenstein

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I can’t believe it’s only Wednesday! I’ve been off by one all day today but this time it works to my advantage and I get my Wednesday back again! LOL Today I have another mini journal page and this one is featuring Mini Frankenstein from Make it Crafty – he’s the third and last MonztaBoys in the group.


I used another one of my bookmarks for the background castle and a house number metal embellishment from Tim Holtz. I figured with the dragon there, that this little Frankenstein is being kicked out of his home at 82 Castle Street. LOL No wonder he’s sulking a little. Then I finished up the page with a few Dew Drops around the bottom. Enjoy!

Mini Headless Horseman

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Good morning! Today I have another Halloween mini journal page to show and this one is featuring the Mini Headless Horseman from Make it Crafty. This little guy was a little difficult to choose how I wanted him to be colored but I finally figured out one possible way and even tried to give a little embroidery details in his vest.


Behind him are face cards that were cut from a Halloween Alice & Wonderland decorative paper, which I think is from Tim Holtz. Then I cut some shapes out of felt (Nestabilities and MFT Die-namics) and added a few orange brads at the bottom to finish it off. Happy haunting! 😀

Mini Medusa

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Here’s another one of the Halloween mini pages I mad with the Make it Crafty images… this one is Mini Medusa and I ended up coloring her twice! This is actually my first attempt and you can see my second attempt HERE. On this version I gave her tan snake hair (sans nose) and a green and yellow body.


On this page, I used some more of that meshy ribbon and added a yellow ribbon bow I found in the dollar section. Finally I added some faux stitching and two bat charms at the top – the page doesn’t lay flat, but I’ve given up on that long ago! LOL

School Girl Tia

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Remember these gals? Of course… this scene was featured all by itself last Saturday and I was finally able to get them onto a journal page! ;D For this project, I used School Girl Tia and Bookish Tia from Some Odd Girl then set in front of the Sunflower Garden by Make it Crafty.


Last week I had put an orange decorative paper behind the images with a satin black ribbon which halted all creativity I had! Lucky for me the challenge was a coloring challenge and I didn’t necessarily need the rest – so I pulled everything off and started from scratch.


This time I used a black and green background paper which worked much better. That meshy stuff is Punchinella Ribbon that I found online. I also added some faux stitching around both gray papers and two large lacing Xs next to the cat. Finished!

I’d like to enter this into the following challenges:

She’s Gone Digital – Art journal linking party
Some Odd Girl Challenge – stitching

Betty & Christian Addams

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It’s Saturday and we’ve got another challenge for you over at Make it Colourful – this week we’re challenging you to color with Blacks & Oranges! So what was the challenge again? I seriously had to look it up several time *while* making my journal page – I just couldn’t remember! So alas, I have a lot of blacks and some oranges in my coloring. LOL


On my page I used the pumpkin scarecrow portion of Haunted Halloween House from Make it Crafty (plus some Mini Dragonflies chippies), Betty Addams and Christian Addams from Simply Betty Stamps, and two tombstones in Epitaphs from Inkadinkado.


I decorated the rest of the page with a graveyard theme and used muted colors for a drab and dreary feel. Isn’t it romantic!? The felt was cut with dies from My Favorite Things and the roses are part of a ribbon that was cut into section.


The orange is YR18, YR14, YR12 and YR21 and I used all four shades of black on the project. The clothes were done in Neutral and Toner shades, the hair in Cool and the tombstones in the Warm shades. I had colored the pumpkin scarecrow so long ago that I don’t remember the colors – however, the blacks/grays and oranges are in there too!