Sunday, October 20, 2019

Cat, Bats, and a Full Moon

     Back to Halloween silhouettes.  I played a bit with my ProMarkers to create the background on this one.  I used a scrap piece of watercolor paper which lets alcohol inks spread naturally.  After applying the colors with ProMarkers, I wet a cotton ball with rubbing alcohol (damp, not sopping) and rubbed the entire background.  After that dried, I went back over just the moon with a yellow ProMarker to define it a bit more.

     The silhouette cat and bats, plus the sentiment went on after the background was completely dry.  I ironed the paper to make sure it was completely flat and that took the texture out of it and made it very smooth.  I colored the eyes, then added a sheer ribbon and bow, and finally adhered the image piece to a card base and trimmed the top and bottom to fit.


     Challenges:
Cute N Crafty
Cutie Pie
Digi Choosday
Lemon Shortbread
Outlawz Greetings
Papercraft
Paperminutes
Passion for ProMarkers
SUYP Cats
TTCRD

     Have a wonderful rest of your weekend and wake up creative on Monday.  :-D  Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

13 comments:

Anne Buckingham said...

Cute card. Are they silhouettes, or simply black. No matter. Card is adorable for Halloween.

Elaine Stark said...

A lovely card. Thanks for joining Passion for Promarkers. Elaine

NanaConnie said...

Anne, they are individual silhouette stamps. The cat isn't necessarily Halloween but with the bats added, I thought it made a great Halloween 'black cat.' :-D

Dawn Sirdefield said...

Fabulous card NanaConnie. Love the gorgeous eyes on the cat. Thank you for your comment on my Blue Pumpkin card. I had no idea about the teal coloured pumpkins and their significance to Type 1 Diabetes, very interesting. Thank you for the information and for your lovely comment. xxx

Donna said...

Very cut, Nana Connie. I need to step up with a few Halloween cards yet. Love your background!

meg said...

Loved reading about how you created the background thanks for the info love the cat and bats stamps a great Halloween card

jimlynn said...

More cats to love - and I do love this card!!! Great background too.
Lynn

*Vicki* said...

Your scene turned out amazing Connie! Love the darling silhouette images for sure! :)

Heidi said...

Eine schöne Halloweenkarte! Danke, dass du sie bei Paperminutes zeigst.

Liebe Grüße -
Heidi.

ike said...

That is very cool - the silhouettes look fabulous again your great background :-)
Thank you for purring along to play at SUYP Cats Challenges.
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Doris P. said...

Very Magic! Thanks for joining us at Papercraft Challenge.

mandysea said...

Cant go wrong with black cats and bats for halloween! lovely card!!

Monica C. said...

Great technique with the rubbing alcohol!
Hugs Monica