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Day 2 of 31 Days of Halloween!

Greetings! It's Day 2 of the Smeared & Smudged 31 Days of Halloween! How did you enjoy yesterday? I loved it. If you have no idea what I am writing about, please visit Terra's Blog for all the deets. I wish I had time to comment on everyone's blog every single day. I will try to visit and leave love with as many as I can per day. But on to today's project. As you may know, I recently became the newest member of the Dilly Beans Design Team. And it has been such a fun team to be on! I LOVE Megan's amazing images. And SO many of them are just perfect for the 31 Days of Halloween. You will be seeing quite a few things from this company this month...and they are one of our sponsors! Here's my project.


This is Teeghan ans her little spider friend. Normally, I shy away from spiders...ok...more like run away screaming...but this little guy is so cute!


I LOVED coloring this image. I started off with my watercolor markers and Copics, for Teeghan and her friend. Then I used actual watercolors for the background. This little image has awoken quite a monster inside me...I must have painted about 10 images in the past week now! Wait until you see them! After I did the watercoloring, I used Orange Stickles (which is on top of an orange Copic), so she is uber glittery. And fabulous.



For the card itself, more watercoloring...but scribbly! I added a small piece of corrugated cardboard that I inked, and my sentiment is (from Inkadinkado) was stamped on to a transparency and stapled. I wanted the sentiment to overlap the corrugated cardboard, but I knew it would never stamp right on it. Hence the transparency.

I hope you have enjoyed my project for today. I have to say, this is one of those that turned out better than I expected, and I love it. Now it's off to the rest of the Wicked Bloggers for you! Everyone (all 37 of us) ae listed in my sidebar. Thanks for stopping by. Have a creep-tastic day!

Comments

bonniebluedenim said…
ooooo....awesome images and great coloring!!!
DonnaMundinger said…
Loving the sparkly hair and the watercoloring is fabulous! xxD
Steph said…
That background is flippin amazing, before i read your post I wondered whose line it was from. I love that image and she is totally rockin' the sparkley orange hair. Fab card!
So quirky and yummy! I love it! Happy Haunting!
Pam S. said…
He is so cute and yet so sad. Love the colors though, spider and all.
Monique's art said…
love the sparkles and the colours, looks awesopme
ldfdesign said…
love the coloring! i thought you used glitter for the hair. the stickles and copic combo worked great! great job! (and i love your hair)
LisaVeronica said…
this is fab! love her skin color :)
Shelley said…
awesome work! I love the sparkles on her head it looks fab! xx
KristyLee said…
Yes, that little spider is so cute! I just got this stamp, cant wait to use it. I love how you can actually see the glitter hair! I colored my girls hair w/ glitter for my ATC today, and you can see it? Oh well. I just love your card it turned out gorgeous!
Peace,
Kristy
daffy said…
love the background and the image is perfect her hair is so cool
great card
ike said…
Beautiful colours and I luv that image :-) xxxx
She is gorgeous! I love her sparkly red hair and stripey socks!
silvia said…
Cute card!! LOVE your Dilly Bean image!!!
I love her she is darling. I love your colors. wonderful art.
hugs,
susan s.
I love this image! You did an amazing job on the background! Love your coloring! Hugs!
KC said…
ohhhh sparkly!! :) I love your background! super rad!
Regina said…
EEEEWWWWWW..it's a spider...a very cute spider!! Love how this piece just POPS out at you.

I have a confession. I am fascinated with spider webs. Don't want to actually deal with the spider but I love how the webs glimmer in the sunshine with the ones that seem to appear daily in our garden.

Happy Hauntings ^_^
Regi
ScrappingBeauty said…
cool and creepy image..love the sparkle and the cardboard- texture is def a plus!
~Lady B~ said…
Frickin' Awesome, Alison! Your talent vibes so well with Megan's images! I'm loving the sparkling orange and the corrugated cardboard is beyond fabulous! Your scribbles add the perfect accent :)
Unknown said…
Your card is fantastic
Hugs xxx
Suzi McKenzie said…
That's wicked, love the orange sparkly hair, love Dilly Bean images :)
hugs
Suzi
xxx
Sharon Sahl said…
These images are not quite cute but super cool. And I have to say your scribbles are the most amazing part of the presentation. Love them!
Julia said…
This is wonderful, love all the glitter and that image is beautifully colored.
Hugs,
Julia
Dieverdog said…
Oh I just love this! I know what you mean about getting to everyone's blog every day. I missed yours yesterday so I'm trying to hit the ones I didn't get to yesterday. I'm so glad I didn't miss this one! I have never tried Copics but this looks really neat. And the watercolors are great, too! What a cute card and I love the background also - super all the way around!
Unknown said…
She is soo cute!!!! I love the back paper its supper awesome!! Totally gonna have to check out her digis now >.<
So cool, I love the image and your colouring is fab
Lindsay xx
The coloring is awesome. Love the colored image with the nuetral background and the sparkly hat - oh Yes!
Laura Coral said…
This is so cute!!! Great work

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