Welcome to week 3 of our October/Halloween challenge at RRR. Our Bonus Round is called No Bones About It. For October/Halloween think fall colors, black cats, anything spooky, haunted and even Goth. For our No Bones About It Bonus Round, we want to see
Bones. These may be real bones or faux bones and the only stipulation on faux bones is that they can not be printed pictures or made of paper. There are are so many wonderful possibilities for both these themes. We hope you will have lots of fun and look forward to being inspired by your creative genius.
Please Remember
That anything you submit to our challenge must have at least one recycled item and in order to be eligible to be showcased on our side bar, you need to tell us what you recycled by mentioning it in your post.
Also Remember: To make it easier for the team to leave comments on your blogs we ask that you please turn off comment verification and add a translation feature on your blog if your post is not in English. For a Mini Tutorial on how to turn off Comment Verification look towards the bottom of our Challenge Rules.
Before we show you the fabulous examples by the Design Team we would like to thank everyone who played in our last challenge.
Now for some wonderful Spook-tacular Halloween examples from the CS Designs Team
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Bonnie Irvine
altered a canvas to look like a wedding invitation envelope.for the
Bride of Frankenstein.. digital stamp design. The main part is covered with glittery paper and the flap is made from a recycled table runner with pieces of a recycled zipper attached to the slanted sides. Bridie included her wedding invitation as she'd like you to save that date. Bits of her bouquet, a recycled charm from a necklace, and some gauze from her wrappings embellish the envelope and allow us a glimpse of "another day in paradise".
Bonnie Irvine
Another new CS Designs image,
Raven, is the star of this double page journal spread. The background was created using anything and everything found on Bonnie's desk: inks, stencils, stickers, repurposed drywall tape,a recycled button, rub-ons, paint, pieces of old flipflops used as stamps, punched cardstock bits from another project. Raven and her buddies share the secret to happiness in this wonderful
sentiment she included.
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featured the
Bride of Frankenstein digital stamp design on this altered papier mache heart. Drywall tape, and paper gears were covered with metal tape and then antiqued with black acrylic paint. Flames drawn on a piece of acetate cover the sentiment (or is that a warning) which is attached to the heart with screw brads. Screws and gears from an old timer, as well as a heart charm, embellish the Bride's blackened heart. Steer clear, my friends...this woman means business.
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Raven and the
Enjoying Who You Are Sentiment as the stars of this altered canvas. A repurposed napkin along with black ink and white embossing were used to create this spookalicious background for Raven and her bony little friend. Mr. Bones seems very smitten with Raven. Perhaps it's the bone and bow in her hair that attracts him and all those little spiders in the black felt web behind the canvas. Care to join the party?
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had a little help from
Shrunken Head 3 digital stamp design to send her BFF an important message. All secrets are safe with her as you can clearly see on this fun tag decorating a gift bag. Lori used a recycled paper bag as the base and then coloured up this shrunken beauty to get her message across. Ribbons, buttons, twine, and pretty paper all embellish this fabulous tag.
created a spooktacular art doll using the
Funky Art Doll Template and
Shrunken Head 2. This Head Hunter is ready for business in his raffia grass skirt, colourful feather armbands, and jump ring bracelets. He's already had at least one head-hunting success, judging by the skull on a cuticle stick. Looks like he's ready to hunt again with his kebab skewer. Who's next on his agenda?
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Chris / CS Designs
I have been quite busy lately creating some new designs for Halloween and didn't have a chance to make a project for this challenge yet, but hopefully I will be able to add something soon.
In the meantime I thought I would share something a little different with you. I have dusted the cobwebs off of some of my animated mouse drawn pixel art from my very first CS Designs site back in 1997 and have added it here for your viewing pleasure. You will find several of my other Halloween animations scattered throughout this post. Hope you like them.
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This month we also have the pleasure of a very
Special Guest Artist
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Lyn Brough otherwise known as BlackDragon is joining the team for an entire month and sharing some of her very unique and inspiring projects with you.
Lyn combined the
Bride of Frankenstein,digital stamp design and the
Nuts & Bolts Background when creating this chilling shadowbox depicting the birth of Frankie's bride. All kinds of coils, wires, and other frightening paraphernalia from the experiment embellish this amazing piece of art, reminding us that all is not as it should be in the doctor's lab. Be afraid...be very afraid.
For some more cool and spooky creations from BlackDragon, visit her website
Lyn's Blog / BlackDragon
Some Sad News: Elenor's life has gotten very busy lately and she
feels she needs a break from the team. Although we are all happy for all
the new and wonderful things happening in her life ,we are all going to
miss her. Hopefully when time allows, she will come and visit us
again.
Thank you Elenor...
for
all the great projects you created with my designs, the friendship and
for sharing your creativity and imagination on both our our Art With No
Boundaries and Recycle, Re-Purpose & Reinvent. You will be greatly
missed by everyone. :) Chris
The Designers are using the following designs by CS Designs this week
We always love hearing what you think of our challenges and the examples we show you so please leave us a comment. Please don't forget to mention our Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Invent challenge, and include a working link back to our blog.
To see the Design Teams Examples from last 2 week
click on the links directly below
October / Halloween No Bones About It Week 1
October / Halloween No Bones About It Week 2
