Black magic
As we're well into October already, it's time for a short post to introduce a new task over at our Fadengrafik challenge: we're looking for your "Halloween" projects this month, so feel free to show us any of your stitched projects that include some kind of spookiness.
Not knowing what to create, I went for a universally usable border embroidery, thinking I'd spook it up with a Halloween themed image.
I stitched the ornament with silver shimmering yarn and decorated it with tiny white pearls.
Once that was done, I placed the embroidered paper on black cardboard and glued it onto a silver-ish background. It originally comes from a set of Christmas papers, but since there are no winter/Christmas motifs on it, I figured the shimmering splashes might as well represent fog in the night skies or pieces of a spiderweb.
For the central motif, I was once again saved by the Graphics Fairy with this beautiful, not too scary vintage Halloween print. You just have to love the adorable dancing mice and the cat fiddler! The image itself sticks to the stitched paper with 3D pads to create some sort of layering.
Still, I'm not all too happy with the result as such. I'm not sure what is bothering me exactly, I guess it might be just that it's not your typical orange/purple Halloween stuff, or maybe that I'm not really into Halloween altogether?
A little contribution to the October collection of Create in Austria - artwork created by Austrians and/or in Austria.
A little contribution to the collection of hand-stitching at made with Blümchen.
challenges:
- krafty chicks: ATG
- 613 avenue create: ATG
- a bit more time to craft: ATG
- brown sugar: ATG
- cardz4guyz: spooky
- crafting with an attitude: ATG
- crafty calendar: Halloween
- crafty catz: ATG
- crafty sentiments: Halloween
- craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper
- creative inspirations: Halloween
- creative moments: ATG with optional twist "spooky"
- cute card thursday: ATG
- kreativtanten: ATG
- love to craft: ATG
- morgans artworld: ATG
- through the craftroom door: ATG
- wortartwednesday: ATG
- worldwide open design team challenge: ATG
Your stitched border with pearl accents is absolutely gorgeous. What a lovely frame for your cute Halloween image.
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~ Nancy DT
Thank you for sharing your lovely project with us at 613 Avenue Create, hope to see you again soon
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Alex x
lovely needlework on your pretty card, thanks for sharing at Crafty Catz challenge
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Lovely creation! Thank you for sharing with us over at World Wide Open Design Team Challenge and best of luck with your entry.
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Lovely creation! Thank you for sharing with us over at Morgan's Artworld Open Challenge. We hope to see you again.
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Wow! Love that incredible Vintage style image! The frame around your image is amazing! Such lovely details! Thanks for sharing your creation with us at Cute Card Thursday Challenges! HUGS, *Vicki* (DT)
ReplyDeleteThis is such a cute pretty kitty image !Thank you for sharing with us at 613 Avenue Create, good luck ! Kraftyjean DT
ReplyDeleteVery pretty! Thank you for sharing with us over here at World Wide Open Design Team Challenge and best of luck with your entry.
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Lovely card! Love the embroidery. Thank you for sharing with us over here at Morgan's Artworld Open Challenge and best of luck with your entry. Love to see you join in each month. Thank you.
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Such a gorgeous card. The stitching is so beautiful and finishes it off perfectly. Thank you for playing along at Creative Inspirations, good luck.
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Gina xx
Love this card. The embellishment around the image is just beautiful. Thanks for taking the time to enter our challenge at Creative Inspirations and good luck, Jayne DT
ReplyDeleteYou must have a lot of patience to create such a fabulous project! So glad you have shared this with us at 613 Avenue Create. Please come back again! The best of luck with your entry. Jackie, DT member at 613 xx
ReplyDeleteJust gorgeous work here, loving the needle work and the design is just super fantastic. Great work.
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Oh, my goodness! This is an absolutely stunning project. I agree with my teammate, Jackie, you must have a lot of patience to do this. The reward is the beauty and uniqueness of your project. The composition is perfect as is your concept and the execution of it.
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Back again, and again, stunning creation here.
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~ Annette DT
Super cute!!! Thank you for joining us at Cardz 4 Guyz, good luck!!! Amy DT
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ReplyDeletedie Karte ist so mega klasse geworden, ich bin immer noch ganz begeistert davon.
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wonderful card, i love fadengrafik!!!!thanks for playing with us at Kreativtanten, hugs Patty
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and cute image. The stitching is amazing!
ReplyDeleteThanks for playing along with us at our present challenge at Kreativ-Tanten and good luck! Hope you will join us next month again.
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This is an absolutely beautiful card. Thanks for joining the challenge at Love to Craft Challenge Blog.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous Halloween card, I love the image. Thanks for joining in our 'Halloween/Autumn Colours' challenge over at Crafty Calendar.
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Bev x
Beautiful card - your stitching is so pretty.
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Helen x
Wow, such a great card! Thank you for joining us at Creative Moments Challenges!
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Happy Halloween :D
ReplyDeleteCute card.
Thanks for joining us at the Kreativtanten Challenge.
Greetings Andrea
This is very beautiful. I've just created my own website to sell some pop-up cards. They're absolutely beautiful. If you are interested in pop-up cards. It is exactly what you are looking for: halloween pop up cards, pop-up cards
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