My Cards and Tags: Halloween Tags using Tim Holtz's Halloween Hangouts

Time is flying and I can't believe that Halloween is right around the corner!  That means that this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge theme is Spooky/Halloween.  I went with a couple of tags that utilize some of my favorite dies.

Interestingly enough, I was inspired by some Christmas patterned paper when I was making these tags.  I decided to go with that and glued some scraps of it to my two tags cut out of Strathmore Mixed Media paper.

I added acrylic paint in white, pink, blue, teal and green.

To spook-i-fy it, I added gray paint and lots of black smudges and lines made with Prima Oil pastel crayons.  Then I stamped on some images from Dina Wakley using Ranger Jet Black archival ink.

What to add next?  I cut some circular shapes out of black paper using Seth Apter dies.  I filled in the circles with some scrap collage pieces I had.

I glued these onto my tags and embellished each.  For the bigger tag, I added bats (folded in and out for a dimensional effect) made from Tim Holtz's Halloween Hangouts die.

I looped a piece of black embroidery thread through the tag hole at the top.

On the smaller tag, I added an "October 31" sentiment.

I really love the "smudge-a-bility" factor of the Prima Oil Pastels!

Here are the supplies I used that you can find at Simon Says Stamp:

Seth Apter Spellbinders Splatter Proof dies	Seth Apter Coffee Break die	Tim-Holtz-Sizzix-HALLOWEEN-HANGOUTS-Thinlits-Die-Set-663088	Sizzix Big Shot	My Favorite Things Candy Land 6x6 Paper Pack
Dina Wakley Splatter Girl Stamp Set	Dina Wakley Text and Scribbles Cling Stamps	Inky Antics Andrea Ockey Parr Happy Haunting	Tim Holtz Sizzix Tag Collection	Strathmore Mixed Media Paper
Prima Flowers ARTIST QUALITY OIL PASTEL CRAYONS	Ranger Archival Jet Black Ink Pad	Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE Media Heavy Body Acrylic Paints	Dina Wakley Olive Acrylic paint	Dina Wakley OCEAN heavy body acrylic paints
Prima Impasto paint, Crimson	Ranger Dylusions Paint FRESH LIME	Ranger Dylusions Paint LEMON ZEST	Jane Davenport Acrylic Paint

I'm excited to see all of your spooky Halloween creations!  Upload your projects to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog for your chance to win a $50 voucher to Simon Says Stamp!