Halloween Party: Day Three

Hello crafting friends. Today is our Whimsical Wednesday Challenge and day three of Halloween of my Halloween celebration. Today the Whimsical Wizards have created a Halloween themed LO, and have included some kind of technique and a tutorial. Your challenge is to create a Halloween themed LO and pick one of the wizards techniques to include on your page. You must include who's technique you used in your post, and a link to their. Here is my LO for this week:

This was suppose to be a two page 12X12 LO but I ran out of ink, so made a one pager. I have a really hard time creating a LO when I don't have the pictures in front of me. My sweet friend Cindy designed those pumpkins specially for me. I told her exactly what I wanted and the next day I had them. So super cute right. Thank you Cindy:) She calls them Silly Friends Pumpkin Patch. She created them so you can have them grouped together or individually like I have on this LO. Those stamps are from Trade Fish Designs, and are called Rest In Peace. They were the perfect finishing touch to the page. I used Shabby Crinkle Ribbon, from the Prairie Bird Boutique, to tie bows on the picture mats. Now for my tutorial. I get a lot of question about coloring so I thought I would do a quick and super simple coloring technique using colored pencils (any coloring pencils will do) and ordorless mineral spirits (you can use baby oil if you don't have mineral spirits). First you start by outlining your image.

I don't outline my entire image at once I do a little portion like above. Then I take my mineral spirits and put some on my blending stumps, the ones I use are called Blending Tortillons. You can find them at your local craft store:

Then you will take your blending stump and work from the outside of the image (where you outlined) towards the inside of the image from where you have outlined. This pulls the color causing it to get lighter and lighter.   If you are pleased with the outcome you can continue outlining the rest of your image and repeat the above step. Here is a close up of the pumpkin:

You can see the darker and lighter areas. I tend to go over areas more than once, and will add more color in areas where I want the image to be darker. This technique is a very easy way to get shading on your images, specially if you are just starting to color. I hope you will give it a try. If you have any questions just leave me a comment. Here is a close up of the pumpkin cuties:

Once I was done coloring them I added some chalk to the cheeks and crackle accents to the leaves.

This week's sponsor is Patsy from the Prairie Bird Boutique. One random winner will get to chose one of her Shabby Crinkle Ribbon Bundles. Be sure to hop on over to Whimsical Wednesday to see what the talented team has for you this week. 

For today my blog candy for the Halloween Party is this cricut cartridge:

All you need to do is:leave me a comment and become a follower of my blog if you are not already. You will have until this Sunday night at midnight to leave a comment under all the post from this week. All winners will be announced on Wednesday, October 12. For those of you who stop by everyday and leave a comment under each post for the week you will be entered into a random drawing and receive a Scrap' n Tote:

This Friday night at 7pm EST is our Halloween Whimsical Wednesday blog hop. The Whimsical designers have crafted up some wicked fun inspiration for you. We have a nice lineup of sponsors, and I am sure there will be some blog candy along the way.

Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed my little project, and tutorial.