Saturday, October 9, 2010

A Vintage Halloween


Did you hear something?
This is a 4 x 6 postcard tag made for a Red Lead Sister Swap and a few on-line challenges. Click on the titles of each for direct links to the sites where you can enter too!  Also, all sites have direct link badges posted in my sidebar. 

The Shabby Tea Room:  vintage Halloween

Pages In Time: DTer Lacee's October mini style challenge in her You've Got Style Baby group:  pick a style and make your art piece no bigger than 8 x 8"

Simon Says Stamp and Show:  Your Numbers

Creative Spirit Challenge:  October  (Cindy's challenges are wide open regarding the theme and entries can even be previous posts.)

Materials:
from Red Lead Paperworks:  4x6 postcard tag,  digital image of girl, sentiment from their Story Stamps A Halloween Tonic Story stamp set

patterned paper from Memory Box Blackbird stack pack
BINGO card cut from cardboard insert of Jenni Bowlin Halloween BINGO cards set

from my stash:
ribbon:  Offray: black
Colorbox liquid chalk black ink
Archival Ink: jet black

21 comments:

Cindy Adkins said...

Oh Helene,
This is positively gorgeous!!! And I am a 2 am scrapper too!!! Thank you so much for linking this up to the Creative Spirit Challenge--so happy to have you join us!!!
XO
Cindy

Lynn Stevens said...

How adorable Helene, Too cute to spook!

1CardCreator said...

Wow these are both beautiful! I love the leaves and the ribbon is gorgeous! So well put together! ~Diane

Clare Lloyd said...

spooktacular! sorry couldn't resist. good luck in the challenges.x

Nicole said...

Great job! Love the ribbon and the bingo card! Thanks for playing along with us at TSTR! :)

Jean Franks Beck said...

Love this tag - totally spooky, love the sentiment!

Michele said...

i love it Helene. and that ribbon rocks! xo

Terry said...

Oh this is just too cute! I love that little girl! Beautiful tag!

Clare said...

Fab tag, love that big bow! thanks for joining us at the Shabby Tea Room! : )

Unknown said...

Oh I do like yummy. and the book mark in previous post also very yummy

love Dawn xx

Linda @ Itsy Bits And Pieces said...

Such a cute tag! Hopped over from Creative Spirit party!

Nancy said...

LOVE this! I so hope to join in one of RedLead's swaps soon - love their stuff!

Thank you for joining us at the Simon Says Stamp & Show Challenge blog!

Emily D. said...

This is gorgeous....

Maria@BubblegumandDuctTape said...

very pretty. That's a cute image of the little girl, she looks a little scared. That is a perfect bow, I wish mine looked like that.

Lynne Moncrieff said...

Hi Helene. You might get 2 comments as there was a blip. This looks so authentic. Great use of Vintage Hallowe'en colours. Lynne M

Anonymous said...

Great tag, and that cute little girl certainly looks like she may have heard something, lol. xx

Karen McAlpine said...

Love that sentiment with the baby! So cute!

Unknown said...

Always nice to see you and a cool Halloween project (vintage is yum!) and love the gothic Ann-Marie I saw some ATCs some where like this and they were wonderful but can't remember where?

Love Dawn xx

Mazz's Scrap O'Clock said...

your blog never ceases to AMAZE me Helene :) your work is amazing and just so ADORABLE, your creativity and talent is astounding...thank you so much for being so encouraging. btw I've given you a 'Cherry on top" blog award...please collect it from my blog: http://mazzarati.blogspot.com/ see you on PIT (weather here has been atrocious so even if its still awful I will photograph the bookmarks tomorrow to get them in the mail)
Have a great week xx Mz:)

The Nostalgic Scrapper said...

Awesome!!! what i like most is the lil girl...looks so haunting... and the lil black flower! nice touch!

Anonymous said...

Stunning piece!

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