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The Crafters Workshop makes it happen!

Play with textures? The Crafters Workshop stencils are one of the best ways to do so! Our Halloween Children collage allows these kids to walk in the spooky woods! Will they get treats or be tricked?  As a kid were there spooky woods near your house?  There was near mine, in the daylight we would play and have a great time, but at night, well, that was a different story.   To walk home alone from a friends house could be a frightening time.  Noises and shapes in the shadows made it a quick trip for sure!   I coated my substrate with Gesso Aspen Trees stencil by Victoria Case  makes for a splendid background.  In the finished piece I did a background of Orange Slice heavy body acrylic with the overlay of Kale Smoothie. (green+orange=brown). The torn corrugated was randomly coated with TCW Kale Smoothie acrylic and another random application of Quinactridone interference.  (see the glow from the quinactridone) ...

Altered Pages, Dixie Belle and Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween!  Well, not quite, but it's never too soon to start planning, right? Halloween is probably my favorite holiday and  I guess I have a bit of the Halloween bug already. So I thought let's go with it and give a cute little candle holder  a fabulously vintage Halloween makeover    with some Dixie Belle Chalk Paint  and Altered Pages  of course!     This is what I started with, a cute little tea light candle holder  that actually has been made over a couple times.   This most recent makeover included paint with  Dixie Belle Paint in Pure Ocean  then using  black acrylic paint I added some swirls.   This was fine, but it's been that way for a while and well, it was just time for a fresh look.  So, I gave it a light sanding with my sanding sponge.   Then,  wiped it clean with a mildly damp paper towel.    Next, came a layer of b...