Day 20 31 Days of Halloween~Any Body Will Do

Welcome to Day 20 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

Any BODY home, CT Anne askes ever so patiently...

I "had" to do a tag on a dress form theme.  Since I'm posting about it here, you can assume it won't be pretty pretty. I also have a metre-high stash of kiwiana scrapbooking papers. (And I'm NOT a scrapbooker LOL)  One of the patterns is of grey boiling mudpools – perfect colouring for this idea - cut to shape and glued over the manilla tag! I can stamp a dressform or body outline onto that.

And thanks to this Blog's team I've been exposed to pictures being manipulated digitally to appear ghost-like, and thought something could be done “manually”. See how the Grim Reaper looks on paper, and how ethereal it looks on organza in comparison:

Texture paste was applied inside the stamped body shape, then stamped with a texture stamp, and when dried, given a wash of moonshadow “paint” - brown with shimmering mica in different lights to give a graveyard phosphorence. It will show up through the organza in a more ghostly fashion too.

Last time I saw a dress form, the skirt was covered in petals – very girly-pretty. But not for my Grim Reaper – s/he gets bones: The bones were stamped with versamark onto more mudpool-patterned         paper, and heat embossed with Obsidian-green. One bone was cut in half and tucked into the texture paste before it dried. The larger bones were cut in half too, then folded down the middle lengthways, and attached with a glow in the dark thread to the organza over the dress form. The smaller bones are attached with thinner metallic thread.

So what do you think:  A Dresss Form fit for a ghoulish evening?

http://www.vlvstamps.com/ for all the stamps.

https://www.lindystampgang.com/  for yummy two-tone washes and embossing powders

And now I must apologise for missing out a photo from the grave... or at least from the tombstones   Day 15  This is what the tombstones looked in their entirety:

Day 19 31 Days of Halloween~Shrunken Heads

Welcome to Day 19 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

CT Granne is spirited today!

It's time to get into the mood for Halloween in the dark deep jungle at faaabulous

I got a happy mail from my fellow CT Anne and this stamp was one 

of the treasures that the mail man brought to me 

from the kiwi land

Shrunken Head stamp from Butter Side Down Stamps

Lot's of die cuts, some crazy hat's from Altered Artifacts

and a hint of coloring ...

Getting close to odd and oddities??

Day 18 of the 31 Days of Halloween - Skeleton Frame

Welcome back for day 18 and the  wonderful world of 31 Days of Halloween!  This event is hosted by Smeared Ink and you can check their blog for all the rules and details.  The blog roll of other Wicked Bloggers is over on the side to make it easy for you to hop over and visit them and comment on the great things you will see!

Today is CT Nan's turn again and she is here with her Skeleton Frame.

 He is so proud of the "Skull Life" he has a plaque on his pic!  Looks like it must be a pretty rough life as he seems to be missing a large part of his body or bones.  That blood splat behind his skull tend to tell of how he lived and left.  He is joined by his spider friends and some guardian skelly hands. His frame, the picture frame, not HIS frame...is stamped with the "Skulls Border" from Lost Coast Designs.

Hoping this finds you in a bit better shape than this poor guy!  He does have one request...that you enter our challenge!  How selfless he is :)

Day 17 31 Days of Halloween~EyeFly Postcard

Welcome to Day 17 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

Today is my turn, CT kim.

"EyeFly" Postcard sized canvas, mixed media.

The background is layered with various acrylic paints, DecoArt Media Misters and some stamping using the Chicken Wire stamp by Unity and some splats by Visible Image. I love the eye creature by Viva Las Vegas Stamps! Such an odd stamp to have a great play with, it is heat embossed in black to help it POP!

Happy Hoppin'!

~CT kim

Day 16 31 Days of Halloween~Skull Moon ATC

Welcome to Day 16 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

Today is my turn, CT kim.

My ATC for today, Lost Coast Designs Crow, wicked ATC Skull Lace stamp by Smeared Ink and some Visible Image clear embossed on the background.

Happy Hauntings!

~CT kim

Day 15 31 Days of Halloween~Tombstones

Welcome to Day 15 of the 31 Days of Halloween! This is an annual Smeared Ink event and we are so thrilled to be playing along as Wicked Bloggers. The Wicked Blogger challenge is to post a new creation each day during October that contains a stamped image, digi or rubber! Check out all the rules and prize details at Smeared Ink.

There is a fabulous blog roll to follow and Hop to it! Find it on the side bar :)

I am thinking there are some wicked things from CT Anne today.....

ATCs,  shaped as tombstones, cut from mat board.  The left one was painted black, then both were coated with sand texture paste, and when dry, washed with interference paints and Lindy Stamp Gang moonshadows.

I drizzled a thick frame around the round face with Liquid Pearls, colour onyx pearl.  While it was still wet, lightly teased and pressed into it, some "spiderweb", then added a portion of Ancient text border stamp below.
Lost Coast Designs stamp catalogue to the rescue for both ATCs: a Mini Ancient was stamped on a Graphics 45 "Rare Oddities" paper - placed so she had feet!  She's domino-sized too.  One of the "3 small doll faces" was also stamped on the same paper for the lighter ATC.  The teeth are from a set sized to be placed over a kid's own teeth.  A supermarket chain is having a Disney dominoes promotion right now.  My daughter wants very specific dominoes, I want all her daughters' leftovers as my DH does the grocery shopping at a different chain!

The legs fitting between the teeth dictated the final placing of the domino.  A strip of fluffy yarn below the teeth, and flowersoft(!!!) round the sides of the domino hide and texturize the whiteness. 

All the stamps came from http://www.lost-coast-designs.com/

I hope if I'm not cremated and ashes dispersed in the wind, that my grave will be this colourful!!!

Day 14 of the 31 Days of Halloween

Are you having as much fun as we are participating in the 31 Days of Halloween event hosted by Smeared Ink?  Go by their blog and check out the rules and prize info and make sure to go to the blogs listed on the side bar and see what lovelies they have prepared for you today and everyday this month!

CT Nan has been up to no good again and is back with a Grunge Book.

 This little book is 2 inches by 2 inches!  I saw a YouTube video by Rach0113 making one of these and was intrigued.  The skull on the front and back is the "Skull with Wings" from my Altered Tin Book from day one used again without his wings and he is from Lost Coast Designs.

 This book consists of three 4 x 4 inch squares soaked in a mash up of Distress Inks and then folded very simply but being able to then be folded down to a pop up sized 2 x 2!  The ribbon that holds it together is put between the back cover and the last page.

 Here it is unfolded.  The grunge name comes from I am guessing the distressed inking and the front covers are crumpled up and then the wrinkles inked and then ironed to put on the book covers.

 I used the "Skull with Wings" from Lost Coast Designs and the "Dancing Skeletons" along with various stamping with the "Mini Skulls" , "Crow and Skull Borders" and a music stamp from Michael's bargain bin.

When folded back up it magically is 2 x 2 again!

Good news!  We drew a name from the comments yesterday, but the catch is if we drew your name you must have commented the following day as well....you know us, had to make it complicated!  We have a winner!  Congrats, Carol, please email us at dreamindarknessblog@gmail.com to claim your prize. Which is .....

This awesome angel is  from Smeared Ink from the rubber sheet  called "Letterbox Backgrounds" that had all ATC sized stamps. So thanks for commenting everyday not just two in a row required to win, Carol!

Keep those entries coming in..Evil Froggy must be appeased!