The Dead of Night

 Hi everyone,

When I ordered all the new Etcetera release from Stampers Anonymous I wasn’t sure what piece to start with first. Well what I did was start with the base for my project which is one of the 5.25” x 7.25” pieces from the rectangle set. To create my frame I went with the outside frame piece around the mosaic tiles set - the long rectangular piece.

Here’s what I finished with 

I covered the base panel with a piece from the Layers Idea-ology backdrops. I left it the way it was inking only the edges with black ink. The piece is a nice dark blue floral with bits of light blue which I thought was nice to set the mood for the rest of my piece.

I painted the long rectangle frame with purple paint and used my sanding disk to scuff up the edges.

My orange background is also an Idea-ology Layers background which I sprayed with Distress Burning Ember mica spray. It give a nice shimmer to the piece.

I also added a stencil to my orange background and chose a light colour of ink to blend over top. I wanted just a subtle effect.

For the bat etcetera frame pieces I painted them with black paint and then sprayed them with Distress Iron Gate mica spray. I added them with tack nails.

I added Idea-ology Design tape to the top and bottom edge and also on the bats on edge side.

Die cut the fence with silver metallic card stock and all other pieces were cut with regular card stock.

I added 2 word chip sentiment pieces with a little tape under each one, a star and flower both inked with black alcohol ink, a bone, mummy cloth and a mask to the skull and gravestone.

Well that’s it for my Halloween make today and thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Tim Holtz / Stampers Anonymous Etcetera ETC019, ETC020

Tim Holtz / Stampers Anonymous Etcetera Bat Web trims ETC024

Tim Holtz / Stampers Anonymous Shatter stencil THS014

Tim Holtz / Sizzix Halloween Night 666384

Tim Holtz / Sizzix Graveyard Colorize 666383

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Halloween baseboards TH94252 (sentiments)

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Halloween design tape, star, flower, mummy cloth (died gray), tack nails

Idea-ology Backdrops #5

Distress Mica spray - Burning Ember, Iron Gate

Distress paint - Villainous Potion, Black Soot

Alcohol ink - Black 

The Jack-O’-Lantern

 Hi everyone,

This is the second Halloween project I made for this year.

I started with covering a small Idea-ology box with a piece of card stock embossed with the Skulls embossing folder. The sides and edges of the box were covered with Tim Holtz design tape. I also covered a cork coaster that I had with the Design tape.

The skull was added to an Idea-ology thimble that I had painted orange, yellow and black. I wrapped the bottom of the thimble with black tinsel.

I added confection pieces to my Jack-O’ Lantern that were dyed with alcohol inks and some were rolled in Distress Rock Candy glitter.

I added ephemera pieces.

The skull teeth were coloured with Distress crayon.

I added a die cut cob web behind the skull.

I added a die cut ghost to the back 

Dyed green mummy cloth was added under my pumpkin and also under the box.

I added a metal sentiment embellishment which I had applied a little orange Distress crayon to.

I scattered black Mica flakes here and there and added some other embellishments which were dyed with Black alcohol ink.

Supplies:

Tim Holtz Skulls embossing folder

Sizzix Frightful Things 664209

Idea-ology Rectangle box - 2nd to largest size 3.25” x 4.75”

Idea-ology Halloween

Idea-ology Halloween Design tape 

Idea-ology Curiosities sticker book

Distress Clear Rock Candy glitter

Distress Crypt paste

Mica flakes dyed with Jet Black alcohol ink

Collector of curiosities

 Hi everyone,

Today I have a Halloween make for you. I have to admit this took me many, many hours to make but I must say I am quite pleased with the final result. I fussed a lot with the tiny lights but conquered them. Yeah!!!

Here it is:

I started with a wooden hexagon box that I found at my local craft store. There were 3 different sizes this one being the largest which measures approximately 6” x 7”. Photos of the boxes are at the bottom of my post.

I painted the interior black and also the sides. The front facing edges were painted with orange paint. I added washi tape to the sides of the box. Washi tape was also used in multiple areas on this make.

After the black paint was dry I cut the Skulls embossed piece (which I had made previously) to fit the back of the box. As it didn’t fit across the width of the box I added some black tinsel to each side to cover the empty spots.

I made 2 tiny books from Idea-ology and inked and distressed the edges. Added rub ons to the covers. 

I added mummy cloth which was dyed black but actually came out a greyish colour which I left. I added orange tiny lights behind the glittered pumpkins ( I added rock candy glitter to them) and a bit of greenery on the tops.

I also scattered some mica flakes here and there which were dyed with black alcohol ink. 

I added an Etcetera bat wing piece to which I attached a metal spider. I added a metal plate to the candle stick which was painted with Peeled Paint. The candle was attached with some Distress crypt paste.

The bubbles were coloured with alcohol ink.

I added green tiny lights in the cauldron.

I used a Stamper’s Anonymous Etcetera Bat/Web trim and added some Crypt paste to it.

I added crypt paste to the urn and a bit of artificial grass.

The confections were coloured with alcohol ink

The middle shelf was made with chipboard which I covered with washi tape.

Crypt paste was added to several areas of the finished piece.

Bits and pieces of ephemera were added here and there to the background.

I used an Idea-ology bone cut in half and glued the 2 pieces to the mummy cloth.

The chipboard sentiment was added to the front of my piece. I also added 3 resin flowers that were dyed with alcohol ink.

Below is what I used to create my piece. It came in a set of 3 and I used the larger piece. These are the 2 smaller pieces.

Well that’s it for my labour intensive piece but I am so pleased with it. 

Thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻

Supplies:

Tim Holtz Skulls embossing folder 

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Halloween pieces

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Design tape 

Tim Holtz Idea-ology tiny lights - green & orange

Stamper’s Anonymous Etcetera Bat/Web trims & stacking ledges

Distress Crypt paste

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Halloween trimmings

Alcohol inks

Distress paints

Distress Rock Candy glitter

Haunted Halloween houses

 Hi everyone,

I have been super busy lately creating these fun Halloween houses (using all Lawn Fawn products) for friends and family. I made six in all. Phew!!!! That’s a lot for me. I had so much fun that my upcoming projects for Christmas will be some Christmas houses and Gingerbread houses. 

Some of the windows and doors have vellum panels and there are a lot of fun glow in the dark accents using Nuvo green glow in the dark drops.

Hope you like them and enjoy them as much as I do.  Supplies are all listed at the bottom of this post.

Thanks so much for stopping by 🙏🏻 and Happy Halloween 🎃🎃🎃 Stay safe!

Supplies:

Lawn Fawn Reveal Wheel die set

Lawn Fawn Build-a-House die set

Lawn Fawn Build-a-House add-on dies

Lawn Fawn Build-a-House Halloween add-on die set

Lawn Fawn Build-a-House Christmas add-on die set

Lawn Fawn Tiny Halloween stamps and dies

Lawn Fawn Happy Halloween line border die

Lawn Fawn Spooky Village stamps and dies

Lawn Fawn Booyah stamp set

Lawn Fawn grass die

Nuvo Glow drops - Neon - Apple Sour

Nuvo Aqua Shimmer

Distress and Distress Oxide inks

Glitter card stock

Patterned papers

Vellum