It's October, and autumn is just around the corner.

Hello bloggers, it's October already, and summer has come and gone. However, love the colours that autumn brings, so my Obtober calendar page is filled with those lush warm colours.
I used Distress Stains in Gathered Twigs, Tea Dye, Walnut Stain, Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters as well as Lemon Zest Dylusion spray on an aquarel background. After drying I cut out the leaves with a Cheery Lynn stencil. Love the way they cut and make the vains in the leaves. 

The background was made with Distress Inks applied with a blending tool on a gessoed background. I stamped T.H. leaves with an ochre embossing powder, the letters for the month and year were cut with a Sizzlit alphabet set called Bozo.

 I also stamped some skeleton leaves, had this stamp for ages and really don't know the make.

 I loves making the leaves, but I'll admit, I hated gluing them down LOL! What a heck of a job! Never doing that again haha!
Have a great month, hugs Frea
Challenges:
http://www.addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/challenge-116-anything-goes.html
http://www.baffies-kreativladen.blogspot.nl/2014/10/challenge-37-herbst-halloween.html
http://crafting-with-dragonflies.blogspot.nl/2014/10/challenge-36-anything-goes-cards-to-3d.html
http://ema-ginationstation.blogspot.nl/2014/10/AG-ch-2-dr-digi.html
http://rubysrainbow.blogspot.nl/2014/10/ch89-autumn-leaves.html
http://whimsyinspires.blogspot.nl/2014/10/whimsy-stamps-new-digital-release-and.html
http://kraftinkimmiestamps.blogspot.ca/2014/10/its-another-wonderful-wednesday.html
http://chocolatebaroquechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/challenge-three-week-four.html
http://alteredeclectics.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/another-month-another-challenge.html
http://craftingmusketeers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/welcome-to-challenge-18-autumn-colours.html

Finally it is November, oops, November's gone already....

Story of my life, I have November ready and it turns out November has come and gone....bummer! But, December is only 5 days gone, so on the upside, I have 26 days to finish December and will still be on time (sort of LOL)!!
Anyhow, since I have always been a quilter, I decided to use the Amish quilt as a basis for my calendar. I started out by painting the entire spread black. Then I cut my triangles to make the pinwheel from bright coloured papers.

The feather pattern at the bottom of my 'quilt' was made with an actual quilting stencil that I used on one of my quilts. All the 'stitching' was done with a white Sharpie pen.

I stamped the month with a grungy stamp alphabet and white Stazon ink and accentuated again with the white Sharpie.

And just like in real quilting, all the points have to be sharp and matching.

Hope you like my 'quilt' spread! Have a great weekend. Hugs Frea
Challenges:
http://4kraftygirlzchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.baffies-kreativladen.blogspot.de/2013/11/challenge-26-november-dt-call.html
http://thethreemuseschallenge.blogspot.nl/2013/12/the-three-muses-challenge-art-journal.html
http://thestampingchef.com/Challenges/2013/12/04/welcome-to-our-new-tsc-anything-goes-challenge/
http://flourishes.org/2013/12/timeless-tuesday-249-stitch-it-up/
http://www.lovesrubberstampschallenges.com/2013/12/challenge-81-anything-goes.html
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.nl/2013/12/anything-goes.html
http://www.anonymousstamps.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/november-challenge.html
http://www.sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/all-crafts-challenge-decemberjanuary.html
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.nl/2013/12/through-craftroom-door-challenge-dec-3.html
http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.nl/2013/12/challenge-71-anything-but-card.html
http://tokbobok.blogspot.nl/2013/12/tbc-7-anything-goes.html
http://scribbleandscrapcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/challenge-6-always-anything-goes.html

Catching up, here's October...

And of course October had to be Halloween, it does make sense doesn't it? I sprayed my pages with Dylusions on the edges and in the middle I used Lindsy Stamp Gang purple sprays which gives a lovely shimmer.

I printed the pumpkins on orange paper and cut them all out, a hell of a job! Then I printed the tombstones and stamped the days on in black embossing powder. The bat was also embossed in black and painted in with Creative Inspirations paints and H2O, lovely shimmery paints.

The Simply Betty Image was also painted in with H2O with exception of the face which was painted in Distress Ink.

Isn't that the cutest little bat?! From a Penny Black stamp set, and so are the pumpkins at the bottom and the spider in his web. I love the way the shimmer on his wings shows in the picture, usually it's really hard to catch that in a picture.

Dying to know what you think of my spread. Have a great weekend, hugs Frea
Challenges:
http://scrapping4funchallenges.blogspot.ca/2013/11/challenge-6.html
http://stampinfortheweekend.blogspot.nl/2013/11/autumn-fall-colours.html
http://graphitmarkers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/wk-21-lucky-7anything-goes.html
http://jwscrapshack.blogspot.ca/2013/11/ffc-26-anything-goes.html
http://kittybeedesigns.blogspot.nl/2013/11/aloha-friday-challenge-12.html
http://4kraftygirlzchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/challenge-71-anything-goes.html
http://whimsyinspires.blogspot.nl/2013/11/challenge-65-anything-goes-rubber-team.html
http://scrappers-delights-challenge-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/challenge-11-anything-goes.html
http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.nl/2013/11/challenge-193-its-our-birthday-whoop.html