Paper Players 315 Scarecrow Halloween

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Claire is our Paper Players hostess today with one of my favorite themes:

Halloween stamps follow a close second to Christmas stamps in my stamp library!  I keep telling myself that I don't need any more, but this little fellow just jumped in my cart when I was stamp-shopping in Scotland!  It's actually American-made by a company called Deep Red, but in my mind, he's a Scottish scarecrow, LOL!

The image was perfect for the Freshly Made Sketches sketch for this week:

I must have had the black background from our challenge picture in my mind, because I kept turning to the black woodgrain paper from an older MME pad called Frightful for my background; I thought it worked with the pen-and-ink style artwork on my image.  I stamped my not-so-scary little guy in Stazon ink and then colored him with an aquapainter and various colors of ink:

Since my background was stark white, I inked up my Linen background stamp with Smoky Slate ink, stamped off on some scrap paper and stamped right over top the whole image.  I also added a little shading around his body with a blender pen and a light touch of Smoky Slate ink.  My sentiment is from My Creative Time's Mixed Holiday Sentiments, stamped in Cajun Craze.  I cut the main panel into a banner shape, added mats of Cajun Craze and Old Olive, and finished it off simply with some Candy Dots!  He's spooky but cute!

I hope you'll play along with our Halloween challenge this week!  Will you do scary or silly?  So many choices!  Check out what the designers did here:

• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne - taking a break this week
• Laurie
• Nance 
• Sandy
• Linda
• Hannelie - taking a break this week, too              
• Colleen

Cassidy went to a wedding as her daddy's date yesterday, but it seems as if there might have been someone closer to her age to pal around with!

And another pretty view of Tobermory:

Thanks for popping in today!