Arsenic and Old Lace

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Hello friends and followers!  I'm back, running a little late on my design team post for Frilly and Funkie on account of the Artistic Outpost blog hop on Wednesday.  I don't like to do two postings in one day so I held this one up a day.  If you stopped by Frilly and Funkie on Wednesday, you have already seen this as well as the other seriously COOL pieces that the Frilly girls put out for your inspiration.  Our host for the two-week challenge is Nancy Dynes and she has asked us to offer up some thrills and chills with a vintage-style Halloween make.  Here is my vintage gothic style Halloween tag.  

I started with a jumbo manila tag and stamped it with jet black archival using the script stamp from Tim Holtz's Apothecary set and then sponged the whole tag with Dusty Concord DI.  Then I took Dusty Concord distress stain and drizzled it down the tag.  The color was much more intense applying the stain.  After drying with my heat tool, I used the Gothic stencil and Wendy Vecchi's black embossing paste (LOVE the black!!), applying it in a non-uniform fashion.  The Distress Doily die cut was cut from a piece of waste tag that I messed up a couple of projects back.  It was painted with two coats of Black Soot distress paint and then I tried to stencil the gothic stencil on it with Wendy's silver embossing paste but it sort of oozed out to much.  I just went over it again with black distress paint which is why it has sort of a silvery sheen to it. 

The flower was made with two layers of die cuts from the Jumbo Tattered Florals die and the rest of the layers were cut with the Tattered Flowers decorative strip die.  I stamped the white CS with the Apothecary script stamp in Jet Black Archival, then sponged them with Vintage Photo and edged them with Black Soot DI.  I didn't have any Brushed Pewter distress stain so I mixed a bit of Pewter Perfect Pearls and water in a Mini Mister and lightly misted the flower layers before assembling.  While they were wet, I scrunched them and dried them like that.  Once dry, I gently unfurled them and glued the layers together.  The leaves were cut from white CS with the Tattered Flowers die, colored with black distress paint, dried, coated with Glossy Accents and had Black Soot distress glitter applied.  

The poison label is also from Apothecary as is the label blank stamped at the bottom.  The gumdrop is from my shop, exactly like Tim Holtz's new product, just a teeny bit smaller.  I colored it with a Copic marker but they can also be colored with any of the Adorandak alcohol inks.  (In fact, if you receive a little Halloween thank you gift with an order from The Funkie Junkie Boutique, you might get a black one that we hand dyed for you with Pitch Black alcohol ink.)

The seam binding was dyed with Peeled Paint distress ink and I mopped the eyelash yarn through my Perfect Pearls mist on my craft sheet to make it silver.  

Here's my creepy sentiment.  I used a portion of a stamp from the Tim Holtz Simple Sayings set and a  Chit Chat sticker from the Seasonal pack.  I love this tag!  Hope you to do.

Thanks so much for stopping by and for your kind comments!

The products below were used to make the above tag.  They are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique where Tim Holtz/Ranger and most other name-brand products are always 20% below MSRP.

50 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	PRE-ORDER Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Jumbo Tattered Florals Bigz XL	Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Tattered Flowers Die	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencils - Gothic
Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - Black	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Apothecary	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Dusty Concord	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Dusty Concord	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool - With 4 Blending Foams
Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool Replacement Foam	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Pad #3	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Reinker	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Black Soot
Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz On the Edge Die Distressed Doily Die	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Peeled Paint	Rayon Seam Binding	Gumdrops - 10 Piece White Acrylic Embellishments	Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Black Soot
Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Chit Chat Stickers - Seasonal	Ranger Perfect Pearls Pigment Powder - Pewter	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Mister	Ranger Inkssentials Mister Bottle