A Little Halloween Fun

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It's rare these days for me to get two posts up in one week but I couldn't let the Halloween challenge over at Frilly and Funkie go by without trying to do something for Halloween.  It's one of my favorite crafting seasons and there are a scant few days left to get crafty with it.  Shelly Hickox is hosting the challenge this time around and she was us to create Something Wicked.  That can be a Halloween themed piece or not.

I chose a Halloween theme because there are so many wonderful craft products with Halloween themes, many of which are stocked at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.  I started with a piece of corrugated cardboard and used a Black Soot Distress Paint dabber to blacken the high points and the edges of the cardboard.  That became my base for this product.  I backed it up with chipboard as the corrugated cardboard I sell in the shop is quite flexible.  Using the new Impression Obsession Spider Web Background die, a black spider web was cut.  The web was mounted on a pice of black CS that was streaked with Carved Pumpkin distress paint.

Next three layers of chipboard were cut with the Postage Stamp Movers and Shapers die.  I used a Sized Rectangle die in the center to cut a window in the postage stamp.  I glued all three layers together and painted it black with Black Soot Distress Paint.  When the paint was dry, I heat embossed it with Wendy Vecchi's Fern Green embossing powered.  Before heating it, I rubbed a bit of the powder off here and there so it would look worn.  Gray card stock and the One the Edge Graveyard die produced the strip of headstones.  I used this year's Halloween Remnant Rubs - Curiosities - to create a little interest on the headstones.

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The tree was cut with the old favorite standby die - Branch Tree - from black CS, mounted on another die cut tree, this time in brown craft foam to pop it up.  I lightly rubbed Inka Gold Old Silver over the tree with my finger to give it just a tad of color and make it glow.  The spider and skeleton charms are from my shop and started as silver tone but were altered with Pitch Black alcohol ink. I wanted the skeleton to be more white than silver so I rubbed on a dab of white gesso with my finger.

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The sentiment plate was cut with an old Spellbinders die from a scrap of the black/Carved Pumpkin card stock that i had mounted the spider web die cut onto.  The text Halloween is a rub on from the Curiosities pack.  The skulls are beads that I sell in the shop.  I inserted half of a toothpick into the bottom and then slid it into the gap from the corrugated.

So glad I got a little Halloween crafting in under the wire this year!  Thanks so much for stopping by. Wishing you a ghoulish Halloween!








These products were used to make the above project and are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique, where Tim Holtz, Wendy Vecchi and most other name brand products are always 20% off MSRP.

Corrugated Cardboard (6 sheets)	Corrugated Cardboard - Mixed White and Kraft - 6 Sheets	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Black Soot	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Paint - Carved Pumpkin	Impression Obsession - Spider Web Background Die
Tim Holtz Postage Stamp Frame Sizzix Alterations Movers and Shapers Die	Tim Holtz Sized Rectangles Sizzix Alterations Movers and Shapers Dies	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Embossing Powder - Fern Green	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink Pad	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink Reinker
Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Branch Tree BIGz Die	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Remnant Rubs Curiosities	Viva Decor Inka Gold Old Silver	Charm Pendant - Set of 5 Silvertone Skeletons	Dina Wakley Media Mediums - White Gesso
Charm Pendant - Set of 5 Silverstone Spiders	Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Pitch Black	Rayon Seam Binding	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Black Soot	Ranger Tim Holtz Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Stain - Carved Pumpkin
Synthetic White Howlite Loose Skull Beads - Set of 12