Saturday, October 15, 2011

Scraps of Darkness Reveal *October Kit*

So first and foremost, what you have all been waiting for "The Halloween Blog Hop"!!!!  Let's get down to the Trick or Treating, with nothing but treats!!!  Are you ready???? 


Right now you should be coming from visiting Renea's Blog.  If not and you would like to play along, please begin over at the Scraps of Darkness Blog.  Here is the order:

SOD Blog - http://scrapsofdarkness.blogspot.com/
Mandy - http://forscrappingoutloud.blogspot.com
Charlotte - http://suepup.blogspot.com/
Nancy - http://justaboutthedetails.com/
Karen - http://lostcoastscrapper.blogspot.com/
Renea - http://www.myglittercoatedlife.blogspot.com/
Cheryl - http://www.cherylspassion.blogspot.com/
Celina - http://scrapvamp.blogspot.com/
Jennifer - http://scrap-escape.blogspot.com/
Lisa - http://lisas-livingincolor.blogspot.com/

Scraps of Darkness will be giving away 2 main October kits and each DT member will be giving away some prizes at their blogs, so make sure you follow along.  Everyone has a chance to win, possibly walking away with more than one prize. 

I will be giving away (2) $10 gift certificates to the SOD shoppe!!!!  One to celebrate the blog hop and another to celebrate reaching 100 followers (well I hope I do lol)!!!   I will randomly draw up 2 names and announce the winners on October 17.  So you have the 15th and 16th to enter.  And make sure you check back on all the blogs on the 17th to see if you won.  My prizes are open internationally!!!!

The rules are easy:
1.  Be a Follower of each Blog
2.  Leave a Comment on each Blog in this hop

After playing along here on my blog, please head over to do some Trick or Treating over at Celina's Blog.  Have fun and Happy Haunting!!!!



Now on to the reveal!!!

 Here is the extraordinary All Hallows Eve kit.  It is packed with Moxxie Midnight Dreary, Fancy Pants Oct 31 and Authentique Glowing papers.  Those creepy trees are Scrapmatts.  And there are tons of transparencies to play with from Pink Paislee Phantom and Kaisercraft 13th Hour collections.  Don't forget our huge selection of add-ons.  Come see for yourself!!  www.scrapsofdarkness.com 

Here is the nothing short of spectacular sketch Suepup made for us to use with this totally awesome All Hallows' Eve kit.
 When I saw this kit I was immediately in love.  You all know how much I love Halloween and the Gothic style, so this kit screamed to me!!!  I hardly slept or cleaned my house for days because I had such a love affair with this amazing box of jewels.
This is my take on the sketch called "Frightful".  That awesome Kaisercraft 13th Hour die cut paper caught my eye right away and made for an interesting circular shape from the sketch.  I love lots of the Moxxie Midnight Dreary papers and punch outs, all scary of course.  Everything you see here was from the kit and add-ons.  I had to make a page showing off my kids in costume with some of our crazy H-ween decorations. Oct 2010.
 The bird is a Kasiercraft acetate shape (main kit).  I used the brown vine ribbon (Romance add-on) to wrap around the Moxxie punch out gate (Romance add-on).
I treated the Scrapmatt chipboard tree (main kit) with some black gesso and Shimmerz Enamelz Molten Metal (Color add-on).  The flowers are a mix of Petaloo and Prima (Flora & Fauna add-on).  The skull card is Pink Paislee (Romance add-on) that I distressed dramatically.

 This page was made to share for the Halloween Horror Movie Contest over at SOD.  We are to scrap our favorite scary movie.  And I chose, "Amityville Horror" with Ryan Reynolds.  This movie is excellent!!  Very scary, great acting and the story is based on true events....love it!!!

I used a Moxxie Midnight Dreary paper for the creepy bg and went with its design to come up with my scenic creepy page. I framed it with some Authentique Glowing papers and punched cardstock.

These clouds are DA from my stash.  I painted them with white gesso, then inked over them with Ingvild Bolme's new Prima Black Coal Ink (main kit).  The Scrapmatt tree (main kit) was treated with some Lindy's mist and inked over as well.  I used the La Blanche stamp (Color add-on) in the corner.  More Kasiercraft acetates (main kit) used here for layering.
This Scrapmatt screen door (Romance add-on) is so cool.  I used some Glimmer Glaze to paint it then touched it up with some TH Rusty Hinge ink.  The DA gate came from the SOD shoppe, I painted it with black gesso and went over it with the Rusty Hinge ink.  The tombstones came from another Moxxie paper, that I glued with 3-D dots.  The webs are from a used dryer sheet.
I made this page for Lisa's Scrap that Title Challenge over at SOD to share.  The title is "Soulless".  I thought long and hard about this one.  And figured nothing could be more soulless than an abandoned cemetery.

I just bought some cheese cloth and felt like the texture would give an eerie feeling to this page.  I used more Moxxie Midnight Dreary papers with an Authentique Glowing paper.
This is Mandy's gorgeous pin (Romance add-on) for this month.  With some Petaloo (Flora & Fauna add-on) and Pink Paislee flowers (Romance add-on).
I got this Scrapmatt chippie from the SOD shoppe. 
Here is my 4th page.  This was made for me to share with you, the new Pandora's Box tutorial feature from SOD on how to make a layout (located at the bottom of this post is the video).  I thought I would share something original and creepy looking, adding  some lacing I love to put to some of my pages.  I titled this"All Hallows Eve" to represent the kit.  I used some Fancy Pants Oct 31, Pink Paislee  Phantom and Authentique Glowing papers to create this wicked bg.  This is my dh and I on H-ween in 2009.
 
Those bottles were cut out from a Moxxie Midnight Dreary paper.
This beautiful bat vine is Prima (Floura & Fauna add-on).  I added some small Petaloo flowers (main kit) on it.  Those black flowers are Petaloo (Floura & Fauna add-on) as well.  the leaves are Prima (Flora & Fauna add-on).

Here is the Scraps of Darkness, Pandora's Box tutorial on how to make my "All Hallows Eve" page.  Please feel free to go to the top of my blog to push pause on the playlist so it doesn't interfere with the music from the video.  Enjoy!!!!

39 comments:

  1. Cheryl I am totally blown away with your work this month! Fantastic!!!!! Awesome video! You rocked this kit my friend! xo

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  2. Awesome pages Cheryl!!! You can tell this was "your" kit for sure...you blew me away! I am having internet issues so I wasn't able to check out the video yet, but when it stops being slow as molasses I will be back to check it out!

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  3. Frightful indeed! Love the lo and all the layers and details. Great job!

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  4. Magnificently creepy work little dark sister! I can tell this is your favorite time of the year, because you did an outstanding job!

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  5. Love the Halloween theme! Excellent Work!

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  6. Those are great layouts! I love how you used the dryer sheet to make webs, I never would have thought of that! I'm a follower now.

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  7. LOVE your clouds! I'm a new follower and look forward to seeing more from you.

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  8. WOW! I love everything you did with this kit!!! AMAZING!!!!!

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  9. Great horror movie layout! Trying out my first blog hop :) thanks for the chance to win!

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  10. WOW! I love the first lo with all the children dressed up for Halloween! I have a photo similar of my twin sons with all their friends on one of their last TRICK OR TREAT group touring the neighborhood and I totally forgot about it...thanks for reminding me to get it out and use it! This is my first blog hop...always participate in hosting them but never a HOPPER! lol Thx for the chance to win some amazing prizes!

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  11. Cher you did a fantastic job!! Love the layout with the clouds and all your pages are so amazing in detail!!

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  12. Inspiring work! Congrats on reaching the 100 Followers goal...you`ve gone over already!

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  13. I love your pages with as much detail to be discovered. A greeting from Spain. http://lluviatrasloscristales.blogspot.com/

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  14. looks like you had fun with the kit. Love how life like each layout seems

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  15. Love that Soul less layout!!! Just an amazing atmosphere created on that page! Stunning!

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  16. Wow!Such creative and inspiring work!! I'm very glad to be following you now!

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  17. Cheryl you have done such an OUTSTANDING job on all of your projects this month! and may I just say....BRAVO on your tutorial! that is AMAZING!!!!!! huge congrats! stellar and uber professional work!!!!!!

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  18. Amazing,gorgeous and beautiful LO's and details. Thanks for the inspiration..:)

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  19. Congratulations on passing the 100 mark! Gorgeous layouts - the photos are so creepy! Love all the layering.

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  20. Goegeous layouts - I love them all my fav is Amityville Horror fabulous job. TFS

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  21. Love the distressing! Such cool details.

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  22. Amazing pages Cher!! I just love the creepy and spooky feel to all of these pages!! Just fabulous work!!

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  23. So fantastically cool! Each page is beautiful in its own way (and creepy, too!) Your blog looks amazing, BTW!

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  24. Particularly like the borders and the photo of you is very nice.

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  25. WOW!!! I don't know what more to say. I love your lay outs. All the layers and the way you put them together is absolutely gorgeous. They are works of art.

    I've become a follower and will return to read some more. But for now, its time to hop to the next blog.

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  26. Love all your layouts. I THINK THET ARE AMAZING. Thanks for a chance to win

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  27. FUN blog hop. AWESOME pages, Cheryl! Love the tree, screen door, layering & distressing...you really got a spooky vibe going. Thanks for the chance to win :)
    shawn

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  28. Awesome layouts! And, congrats on reaching over 100 followers!

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  29. WOWZA Cheryl! Your pages are simply amazing and so cool! I love how you used so many different techniques and special touches on each of them! Your blog is so festive and halloweeny, too! I am in awe of your creativity!!!!! TFS!! The SOD blog hop has been so much fun so far!

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  30. Wow, these are spooktacular! Thanks for sharing and a chance to win.
    Hugz, Z

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  31. Ohhhh i cannot wait to go watch that video!! but first i need to finish up the blog hop!! LOL...thank you so much for sharing your creativity!! A dryer sheet as a spider web...who'd a thunk!! Love it!

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  32. spooky & fun layouts! i am loving all the use of cheesecloth I am seeing on the hop! Have to try that one! :D Becky

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  33. Cheryl!! Girlie...your layouts are spooktacular! I think the "Soulless" is my favorite ..but all are crazy cool ...loving the reminder to use the cheese cloth...great effect.. What a great job using the kit...time to keep hopping.

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  34. Girl you rocked this kit, I love all the layering and details of your incredible layouts, awesome work my friend!!!! I love your music and video!!!!!!

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  35. Wow,Wonderful layouts! Great details also,New follower. joydee1963 at yahoo dot com

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  36. Wow!! You women are some incredibly gifted and twisted artists. Great work!! Extraordinary blog hop.

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  37. Absolutely wonderful layouts Cheryl! All the distressing and technique works is soo cool! I'm a follower, KatMama

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  38. Love the discret colored backgrounds with popping colors in details and photos. And all those details in layers... wow!

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  39. awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

    great job.. creeeeeeeeeeepyyyyyyyyyyyy mannnnnnnnn

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