Tuesday, October 1, 2013

31 Days of Halloween - Day 1

Happy October 1st!!  You know what that means right?!?!?  It's time for the Smeared & Smudged Annual 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop! This is year 5 and I'm so excited to participate once again. You can find all the rules and info on this super fun hop over on Terra's blog.   If you just happened upon my blog you'll want to head over there to check it out and start the hop from the beginning.  If you get lost along the way I have the complete list of Wicked Bloggers over on my side bar.  Not only will you be able to feast your eyes upon Halloween goodness all month long, you can win stuff too, how awesome is that?!?! Like I said before you can find all the deets on Terra's blog.

Now to my first project.  My mom and I found these mini journals at the craft store a while back and we thought these would be great since sometimes we are intimidated by a giant journal page.  So I decided to break it in on the Halloween Hop :)



Oh my gosh this size is perfect for a little bit of artsy fun!  It's approximately 3ish" x 4ish".  I started by gesso-ing the pages. Once dry I added some color with my water color crayons. These are so fun to play with when you want to create backgrounds. I used yellow and vermillion to get the orange color I wanted, after all what's Halloween without a little bit of orange.  You just blend your scribbles with a wet paint brush and voila - a background!




Then I stamped in black directly on the pages (once dry) using a few of my older CTMH stamps.  I added some dots with a metallic sharpie and added my journaling.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I promise I wont be so "wordy" the rest of the month, I know there are lots of stops for you all to make.

Next stop on the hop is Trisha....

20 comments:

  1. Looks like a great start page for the book! =)
    Hugs, Elenor

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  2. Your little journal is great!!! Wonderful way to jump on in and get some pages inky!!!

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  3. What a perfect little size! Fab start. Can't wait to see more. (I need one of these for sure.) xxD

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  4. hahaa, have you seen my blog...talk about wordy! Love that you give deets and yes those big pages are a lot of space to fill. Love the little book. You should get your mom to do this with you =), s.

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  5. What a great start to you Halloween journal.... LOVE the colors and the images! Looking forward to more of your book!!!

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  6. Beautiful!!!! Hope to see more of your journal pages.

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  7. Great journal page Steph! Love the old world lettering!

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  8. Wonderful start to the SI hop, I look forward to seeing your mini journal book develop over the next 31 days :0) See ya tomorrow!

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  9. This is a great idea - the big journals are a bit scary for starting out! Cant wait to see what else you do with it! mo x

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  10. I love the idea of a smaller journal. I have never journaled, but seeing the journal pages along this hop makes me want to start. I love the background.

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  11. I really love this..the background is beautiful! I need to try my hand with a smaller journal!

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  12. Hi Steph, love your small journal! You did a wonderful job with the watercolor crayons! I love those too for bgs.

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  13. I do love that size. It's great that you and your mom share this interest.

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  14. oh wow what fun...now I must go find me a journal this size! I can't wait to see more! what great inspiration!

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  15. Wonderful blending with the watercolor crayons, they sound like fun. Can't wait to see the rest!

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  16. That's a wonderful idea! Thanks for reminding me on my own one. I love working with gesso, too. Great job, brilliant coloring
    hugs, serafeena

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