The
Dream Team are dipping their fingers into all things spooky, creepy, and scary, as we play along with the
Smeared and Smudged 31 Days of Halloween. The team will be taking turns to fill the quota of 31 days on the
Dream It Up! blog,
and posting on their own blogs as well. Be sure to leave them lots of
love as this is truly a challenge for many of them! Here is my post for today:
I'm finishing up this month long Halloween celebration by going out in a box...a Cosmo Cricket Blackboard Photo Box, that is. No photos in this one, just some fun Halloween cards from this past month. Each have been designed to fit this box so that a fun portion of the design shows through the window.
I paste-embossed in
Matte Black the
Dreamweaver Stone Wall over the box and lid, breaking it up a bit as I went, and smearing extra paste around the edges. When dry, I brushed on some
Metallic F/X powders and white ink to highlight the stones. I also paste-embossed the
Romantic Rose so that it trailed up the sides of the stone wall. When dry, I ink-stenciled color from the
Tsukineko Splendor pad.
A stamped and cut out set of headstones from the
Stampendous Tomb Elements was adhered with 3D foam tape.
The
Smeared and Smudged site is offering prizes each day of the month by a long list of sponsors...
Dreamweaver being one of them, but we are also offering one stencil to one lucky commenter on the
Dream It Up! blog each day of the month! So, leave your comment below before heading over the
Smeared and Smudged blog to view all of the other creepiness!
Welcome to the sketch 39 challenge for Woodware. I chose to turn it on it's side as I was determined to incorporate this cute Hoppy Frog image designed by Francoisé Read for Woodware. I think the circles in the design add to the "hoppy" effect, so I used Woodware circle punches with patterned paper and added them randomly
in the background. My band across the center was also patterned paper
(by the way, this card is a great way to use up scrap paper), and added
a border of buttons across the center, continuing the circle theme. The
frog was stamped on striped paper twice, and cut out. A whole frog was
adhered to the card, and a head portion adhered with the Action Wobble spring
between the layers. Of course, I had to add "googley" eyes, and one of
the cute sentiments from this stamp set.
My first step was to place several drops of Beacon Fast Finish Decoupage into the box, enough to cover the bottom. I sprinkled Stampendous Purple Micro Glitter over the wet surface, and set it aside to dry about five minutes. (There's a reason they call this stuff FAST Finish!) While that was drying, I stamped the Cling Tomb Elements image with Tuxedo Black Memento on white tissue paper. I turned the piece over and colored the skeleton on the back with a Pentel White Paint Marker. This kept the skeleton standing out, and the tissue disappearing into the background. I added a few more drops of Fast Finish over the glitter layer, placed the tissue piece on top, and added a few more drops, pressing slightly to smooth the tissue piece. This, too, was set aside to dry for a few minutes. Meanwhile, I found a long bead chain in the same color as the metal on the box, an old rusty safety pin (which I brushed a sealer over), and a couple of charms ( a frog and a snake) that I had stashed away. Both were antiqued a bit by daubing some Black StazOn ink over the surface, and heating with a heat tool. I brushed a bit of glue over each and covered this in green Micro Glitter. Finally, I added a couple more drops of Fast Finish just at the bottom of the box, and sprinkled with Stampendous Trick or Treat Color Fragments for more texture and dimension. A couple of tiny glowing green crystals were added for eyes, and I hand-painted a spider web in the corner of the glass door with Copic white and a fine brush.
