Black and White with a little red ...

Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your week is going well. I only just got this project finished lol! It’s taken me a while to get it right, now I know that mixed media isn’t about getting it right all the time but I need these girlies to look like Vampire Witches and that’s what has taken me some time. Anyways here is this month’s journal pages …

A double page spread of Vampire Witches

Vampire Witch #1

Vampire Witch #2

Created for me and especially for these Challenges

A Inky Mess Challenge #15 Anything Goes

 Creative Embellishments Challenge

Love to Create Challenge #1 Mixed Media Anything Goes

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge Scare Me

I started creating this journal page much earlier this month and I roughly drew the girls in pencil onto white Sheena stamping card. They’ve been rubbed out multiple times on my card because they were too cute. I wanted a real goth like or vampire feel rather than cute girls in make up looking like zombies because it’s All Hallows Eve. Once I had drawn them correctly I watercoloured them but they didn’t look right. Then I started to add layers of acrylic paint in grey, black, a deep red for lips, silver for the eyes and white for light and highlights. Once I had finally finished them and put them into my mixed media journal they were lacking so I stamped the flowers with and coloured them with H2O watercolours. I fussy cut them out and added a floral crown to vampire witch #2. Something was still missing from vampire witch #1 and as I had finally located these chipboard bats I painted one of them black with white and silver accents.

It was only at the last minute that I finally found the chipboard bats, I’ve been looking for them for most of the month and it turns out they were in a box on my desk, grr, I need to sort through some more of my stash again. Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment. I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon ttfn Karen x

Tools

Stamp &/ Stencil:

Paperbabe Stamp Set

Miscellaneous Tools:

MISTI; heat tool; paintbrushes; water pot; paint palette

Supplies

Card Paper:

Sheena Douglass white stamping card

A5 Pink Pig mixed media journal

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Derwent watercolour sketching pencils

Pebeo acrylic paints

Luminarte H2O watercolour paints

Watercolour pencils

Embellishments:

Tando Creative Chipboard: bat

Adhesives/Mediums:

Pebeo white gesso

Collall all purpose glue