Hey Jack!

I can't believe I haven't done a blog post since May!!!

I have been hiding out at our cottage away from all things Covid.
Our daughters come up every weekend, so I get to see them, or I don't think I could stay out here this long without seeing them and my grandsons ❤️

I have been creating while I am here though...that is just part of who I am.
Also part of who I am is making pretty things out of discards.
My latest one is this Jack-o-lantern made from our old propane tank that was destined for the dump.
Isn't he so cute!???!

First thing I did (well, first thing my husband Wayne did) was lightly sand the tank and then spray paint it with this Rust-o-leum spray paint,

Then I added some splatters.

I used some yellow ochre, white and black.

I was so so happy with how the splatters looked!!

I then drew on a face and painted it black and then used the yellow ochre around the edges of the features to look like the inside part of the pumpkin.

I have seen others do with where they actually cut the features out....but because there was propane in this, you have to be very careful...so instead, I just painted on his features.

I love how this turned out so much so that Wayne and I went to the dump to pick up another on this same size so Jack can have a friend.

Thinking of grabbing a few more and making some ghosts....oh Wayne!!!!

Thank you all so much if you are still checking out my blog and I plan on blogging more since we are heading home for the season in a while where I have much better wifi.

Hope you all have a very creative day 

Tracy❤️❤️❤️

Pumpkin Bears for Friday Night Scrapbooking

I finally put this image on a card :)
I figured with Halloween fast approaching I should make a card with it :)
It is a simple card…or at least it felt simple to make as I had already coloured the image.
Isn't this such a cute image?
I coloured it up with Sharon's coloured pencils as I coloured this when we were on our crafty shopping trip, in which I didn't bring my coloured pencils with me.
I had my Copics, but Sharon wanted to learn how to colour with pencils :)
I love to be an enabler ;)

The pumpkin embellishments I made with punches and card stock.
I used an oval and a circle punch.
Punched 3 of each shape, then inked the edges of all the punched pieces.
I then placed two under the centre one…easy peasy :)
I then cut some green pattern paper free hand.
Added a piece of wire I twirled around a needle and then added a highlight with a white paint pen.

Lastly I added some clear Wink of Stella glitter pen.
I was so excited to have found a clear Wink of Stella glitter pen when we were on our trip.
But was very disappointed when I tried it on a scrap piece of card stock and it came out gold…but the more I worked it, it then came out clear.
Just a tip: don't use it on your finished project until you have tested it out.

Here is the inside of the card.
I like this pumpkin background paper. I really like the sparkle on the pumpkin stems :)

I hope you all had a very Creative Friday :)

Tracy :)