Sin City Stamps Blog Hop!!!

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog!! Today is the start of the wonderful Sin City Stamps Bloghop!!

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The theme of our hop is Autumn/Halloween and one lucky person will have the chance to win a free Halloween stamp plate!! If you want to be in with a chance to win, all you need to do is: Become a follower of Sin City Stamps blog, like their Face book page and hop along the blogs of the design team (there is a link at the bottom of this post, just to make it easy for you), enjoy their inspiring projects, follow them, if you don't already do so, and of course leave a comment. That's it, easy peasy.
For my project I decided to alter a little board book, using the wonderful Halloween Takes Flight set and the Art  Journaling with Terry Sproul set.

As there are quite a number of blogs to visit, I will keep the descriptions brief and let the pictures do the talking.
The little book started life looking like this:

I liked the fact it had the hole at the top, perfect for a ribbon. I covered it all with a few layers of Gesso, then added texture to the cover with some texture paste and embossing folders and then coloured all of the pages with various colours of acrylic paints. The stamps were all stamped on tissue paper and then adhered to the pages with gel medium.

 Here you can see a close up of the textures. I used some of the new Tim Holtz tag stencils.

Below you can see a couple of the inside pages, before I added any stamps.

I kept the inner parts light to be able to integrate the tissue paper stamped images better into the page. I will show you an example of before and after so you see what I mean:

 Here I have just added the tissue to the background. You can still see the edges of the tissue quite clearly.

Here I have integrated it into the page by painting around and over it and adding some subtle stamping to the sides. Adding some shadow to the moon gives it much more of a 3 D effect.
All the other pages were done in exactly the same way, just using some of the different stamps on this wonderful Halloween plate:

With these two pages I added some detail to the stamped witches with a white pen, I also added a few words with the help of Tim Holtz chit chat stickers.

On these pages I also used a few bits of tissue tape to add some interest.

And this is the final page, after a night of magic, day is just about dawning....
I added the ribbon and a few danglies to the cover and that was it.

Remember, you can win the very stamp plate I have used here. So make sure you visit all the others for some fabulous inspiration!  Below you find the order of the hop and I very much hope you will pay my teamies a visit too, follow them and leave them comments to be in with the prize.


Thank you so much for visiting and have a creative day!!