Hi friends, thank you so much for stopping. I have always wanted to create a creepy Halloween make using the awesome Idea-ology and Sizzix products. A huge shout out to all of Tim Holtz Ideaology makers who totally inspired me to give this a try. Hoping it inspires you to give it a try as well.
For this make I used a small ectcetera tag. Using Collage medium I covered the tag with a beautiful backdrop. Went over the panel with black soot distress ink and using the bricked stencil I covered the tag with crypt grit paste….just love the look and so awesome that SSS still has some in stock may need to stock up on some more 🙂
While the tag dried I started working on the accessories . I used distress watercolor cardstock and covered it with black soot, hickory smoke oxide and pumice stone spray and die cut the fence and tomb stones from the vaulted halloween series. I needed a base for the tag and decided on the larger vignette box which I covered with a piece of a backdrop on top and painted the sides with black soot paint . After the paint had dried I went over in sections with crackle paste and on the top I covered it with crypt grit paste and grave texture paste. Using the ranger tool I created a rough texture with it.
After the base and the etcetera tag were completely dry I glued both pieces together. I never thought I would be buy clamps and drills for the craft room but they definitley came in handy.
For Mr Bones I used Distress woodgrain cardstock. Before die cutting I spread some crackle paste over small sections. I colored the cards stock with gathered twigs, pumice stone and hickory smoke. For the tombstones I had a background panel that I had colored with frayed burlap and hickory smoke oxide spray and pumice stone. I did cut the pieces out with black card stock as well to use for the inside border and R.I.P
I had so much fun decorating the inside of the crypt. With Mr Bones I ended up die cutting the base of it 3 more times to make it a little more thick so that I could glue it in place. I used 2 of the pumpkins from skulls and pumkins, grunged them up using walnut stain crayon. Beside that I put the smallest toad stool which was also grunged with the same crayon. For the bones I put a bit of translucent grit paste. I did end up putting down real dirt and small sticks on the base from my garden. I covered part of the skull with crackle paste and smudged it with walnut stain…lol yes it is definitley my go to color to make something look dirty. The flowers I sprayed with both black soot and pumice stone distress spray. The bats were left overs from a previous make . They were cut from cracked leather cardstock. The skull adornment was covered with grit paste and after it dried I went over it with hickory smoke crayon. I did add some spider webs on parts of the brick work.
I had so much fun putting this make together. It took some time but definitley worth it. I hope you like my step by step. You can find links to the supplies I’ve used below: click on the picture and it will take you directly to the product. If purchased through the link provided I will receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. I truly appreciate all your amazing support. Looking forward to sharing many more projects and techniques including my favorite .. mixed media.
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Kulbir
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