A Bit Spooky...

.....really only a little bit spooky, you know me and Halloween! I hadn't intended making a page today - or doing a blog post...so what happened?

Well, for long enough I have been meaning to make more room for my new stamps. I knew I had a lot that I don't use much any more but I also have some that I know I won't ever use again for a variety of reasons. The extra hour today (clocks went back in the UK) meant that I was able to make an early start and I went along my shelves of stamp storage boxes and removed a few stamps, found a few I had forgotten about and combined some boxes that were now half empty!

It was at this point I became distracted - hubby came to see what I was doing, found an owl stamp that was on the 'to go' pile and grabbed it.

Now, my hubby has been saving magazine pics of wild animals, birds of prey and anything else that he liked the look of for a while now. I had also give him some from my old bird books and recently he has been sticking them into a book, except that he then decided that some backgrounds would be nice. Over the last couple of weeks we have made gelli prints and also made some stamped and stencilled msterboards. We have also watched some craft shows on Hochanda, mainly Jean of Crafty Individuals, Abs of Aall and Create and Leonie on Wednesdays and having got these hand made products he proceeded to cut/rip them up and collage them and has made some pretty good journal pages. He has also got the stamping bug (as we know, more contagious that Covid19)and has ordered some wildlife  stamps of his own!

Sorry, I am rambling a bit - I'll cut it short - I decided to trust him with some of my Crafty Individual owl stamps...which is where I came across Mr Wolf.

I have also just received some Aall and Create stamps by Tracy Evans and spotted the lines that I thought would be handy!

The page had been spattered with black paint - can't remember why, but all I need to do was stamp the wolf, colour the moon with silver paint and then add the pine branch and some words using Tracy's new letter stamps (small stamps by Tracy Easson in between)

The silver moon looks as though it is reflected at the bottom of the page which is really some of Abs' washi tape - I extended the branch and the lines at the bottom with a Pitt pen.

I did have one or two blog challenges in mind when I made this page!

I am entering at 

'Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge and the 'Not a Card' theme. 

Country View Challenges - Halloween (Make a Scene)

Moving Along With The Times 123 - Animal(s) and/or Bird(s)

This also being linked to my Hold The Line theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for looking, Chris