Hi there!

After  very hot weekend, I was finally able to craft in the late afternoon – sneaking in here just in time with my entry this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I stamped and embossed the cute kitty ghost from the Ghostly Greetings (30-594) set and added a touch of shimmer using my Twinkling H2O paints – so difficult to capture in a photo! I then used masking paper to mask him and a small circle before creating a Halloween sky with my distress oxide. I really wanted to create a luminescence around the moon and kitty image so I used a VERY  light hand. This took a while to get right – I felt my first attempt (below) was a bit heavy!

I couldn’t believe that I don’t seem to have a Halloween strip sentiment in any of my Penny Black sets!! But that’s not a problem, because I have a few of the versatile  ‘builder’ stamp sets and I was able to create this sentiment from the Happy Builder mini stamp set (30-973).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

My first attempt at this card – using a sentiment from the Sugared mini set (30-723):