The Witching Hour...

...is almost here.

(This is a photo heavy post so go grab a cuppa and settle yourself comfortably)

To start off with, I just wanted to show that I treat all my staff alike...

 ...one spooky Halloween lollipop hat - a la Stratford **cackle**

For those of you who have been crafting a while - who remembers Doodlebug Designs Inc ?

When I first started scrapbooking, it was one of the few ranges that did co-ordinated 'stuff' at a reasonable price. It was a great starter range but I soon moved on to the likes of Junkitz, BoBunny and Basic Grey. Now you know what I'm going to say next **giggle** - whilst tidying & re-organising...LOL...

Yep, I came across a whole load of Doodlebug Halloween papers and stickers along with a load of ribbons and fibres that I had obviously bought for a purpose - but equally obviously, never got around to using. All change!

Grabbing some C6 buff envelopes, some book rings and some Black soot Distress ink along with some wonderful images from Nicecrane - some pre-coloured, some I've coloured with Inktense pencils, Spectrum Noir pens or Copics - I came up with this...

 ...lots of lovely ribbons and stuff decorating the book rings...

 ...on a little Halloween mini-album. Fun & funky.
A closer look at the front of the book...

 ...and you can see that I added some tabs to some of the pages (not the best of photos).
The right-hand page here has one of the pre-coloured images from the Halloween Kids collection...

 ...that you can find here.
This little Miss is coloured using the pencils for everything except for the skin...

...for that I resorted to my tried & trusted Copics. This image is part of the collection that you can find here.
Another image from the Halloween Kids...

...I just love the artwork on these images.
I left these pages to speak for themselves...

 ...at least until a suitable photo adorns them.
Another Nicecrane image...

 ...and you can also see some of the tabs on the pages more clearly in this photo.
The perfect image to go with all those pumpkins...

 ...don't you think?
The next couple of photos contain images that I have coloured myself...

 ...this one was a 'freebie' that Ignacio kindly offered on his blog and I've coloured it using a mix of Spectrum Noir & Copic pens. The next one was also a 'freebie'...

...and she was coloured using just the Spectrum Noirs.

There are some fabulous images available over at the Nicecrane Design site - and don't worry, if Halloween isn't your 'thing' there are plenty of other subjects to choose from. You can also hop over to the blog to see all the fab items that other DT members have created.

If you are celebrating Halloween - have a Spook-tack-u-lar time.........................................................