Poison Apple

 

Poison Apple is a book series that my DD just started to read.  It is about a young girl who finds out that she has Vampires for family members and that she too, may be a Vampire!  She loves these books and I love anything that gets her to read.

This is a picture of her from a few years ago.  She wanted me to paint her face like a Vampire, so I did.  We also used colored hair spray and gave her a pink stripe in her hair.  Even though it was February outside, it was October inside.  She was far to cute and I couldn't help myself from snapping pics.

I used two different paper lines for this page. I used My Mind's Eye Haunted Collection (LOVE THIS), and I used Martha Stewart's Halloween Vampire collection.  These collections go so well together.  I really love that old, tea-dyed look to the paper. It also helped that the top line to the bottom page from MS says "Halloween Greetings...you're invited to a Vampire Ball".  Another thing I found was that Martha had this really great green paper in the stack with a polka-dotted back-side.  Green???  For Halloween???  Awesome!  That lovely diamond patterned paper is flocked and it is soooooooo pretty.  A scrapper that I admire, Tina (click here for her blog) is just a goddess when it comes to layers and layers of paper.  I keep trying to pull this off and stalk her work so that I can learn it.  I'm getting better, but I still have a long way to go.  I practiced that layering effect with this page.  I think I still have another 4 or 5 sheets of paper to add to this before I really get the effect she has on her pages, but I'm taking baby steps! LOL

I had some gorgeous purple Prima flowers in my stash and one purple spider mum that I made and had sitting in my stash as well.  I really love how all of these colors work so well together.  I had to add some bling and pulled out some prima flourishes.

I really enjoyed using some not-so-traditional colors on this page.  I hope this inspires you to do the same.   Happy Halloween and stay posted because I created an altered box that I will be revealing on 10/31.  Thanks so much for stopping by!!!