Totally Spooky!

Hi there, I'm back again...this time with a spooky tag I made for Our creative Corner. Our host for this month is Julia and her challenge to us is to make a tag with a Halloween theme and texture. I really enjoyed the theme for this challenge.  I just love vintage Halloween items.

I took the texture part really seriously. Here are a few pictures of the piece as I made it.

I grabbed one of the jumbo manila tags I sell in the boutique and stamped the script stamp from Apothecary in Jet Black archival ink and clear embossed it.  I like doing black embossing that way because I don't have to deal with stray flecks of black EP where I don't want them.  Next I put Black Soot, Brushed Pewter and Seedless Grapes distress paints on my craft sheet, spritzed on a bit of water and dragged the tag through until it was covered.  I'm not sure where the greeny-gold came from by apparently from the blending of those colors.  

The black embossed script sort of got lost with all the paint on it so I added more script in silver embossing.

Wanting still more texture, I added diamonds with a Wendy Vecchi stencil and her silver embossing paste.  I had a problem with the paste oozing out around the stencil opening and I don't know why.  I thought I was holding the stencil very tight against the tag but it still messed up.  At that point I was pretty annoyed because I was really pleased with how the tag was developing so for.  So I decided just to smear it more and took a credit card and dragged it downward and smeared it all.  (I actually ended up liking that look better than the diamonds)

The skull was stamped with Jet Black archival and coated with Clear Rock Candy crackle paint and I broke out my new Tim Holtz Distress Glitter in Seedless Preserves and Black Soot.  Unfortunately, the black glittered spider doesn't show up very well in this photo.  The backing for the skull is the new foil cardstock from Ranger, run through the spider web texture fade and painted with black acrylic paint dabber which was then rubbed off for a tarnished effect.

I dyed some white eyelash yarn with Seedless Grapes distress stain (thanks to Tracie for the inspiration to use the yarn).  I am really pleased with this piece and will also be entering it into Tim Holtz's October tag challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Be sure to head over to Our Creative Corner to see the wonderful samples there!

These items used to make this tag are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	50 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Apothecary	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Embossing Powder - Clear
Ranger Embossing Powder - Silver	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - Silver	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Stencil - Diamonds are a Girl′s Best Friend	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Seedless Preserve	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Black Soot
PRE-ORDER Tim Holtz Ranger Metallic Distress Paint - Brushed Pewter	Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations Ornate Frame Bigz Die	Tim Holtz Mini Bat and Skull Sizzix Alterations Movers and Shapers Dies	Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Seedless Preserves	Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Black Soot
Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents	Ranger Surfaces Silver Foil Cardstock: 8.5" x 11", Pack of 3	Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber - Pitch Black	Tim Holtz Sixxiz Texture Fades - Halloween Words and Cobwebs	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Odds & Ends
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Plaquettes