Toe Tags (and body bags)

I went for the toe tag for Macabre Mondays challenge over at Haunted Design House.
The images are from Make It Crafty, layered up and printed. Coloured with promarkers. with just a dash of DIs.

The cobwebby ribbon attached then backed onto black CS.

The skull and crossbones are from a halloween necklace threaded onto black waxed cotton cord.


The back was painted in white and painted over with glow in the dark paint. Unfortunately, pics showing the glow don't come out very well. You'll just have to take my word. A little skully charm and a piece of coiled copper wire, again on that waxed thread to complete.


I am entering this into the challenge over at Haunted Design House - challenge #79, Toe Tags and Body Bags

It's Nearly Halloween

As if you couldn't guess. Everyone, it seems is gearing up for All Hallow's Eve. Seems like I'll be having my own little party. Me, myself and I, and any others that turn up. Hubby's away for a few days. This corner of Scotland doesn't "do Halloween". Even the pumpkins here are smaller than a witch's cats head!! I still indulge myself though and make a few things. One of which is this little coffin.......
I started off by stamping a Lost Coast "skull with wreath" stamp a few times on some purple paper. My intention was that the wreath from one image would be shared with the one above. It grew and the next layer shares jaws..... as you can see - "a bit" of masking was going on here.
This went on to cover the top of a prepainted coffin (purple acrylic paint).
Round the bottom, I used a digi from Smeared Ink "It's about Time" which I had printed on the same purple paper.












Inside there is a computer generated motto in the lid and a zombieboy digi from Make It Crafty.
The boy was stuck in using a paper spring and surrounded by little scrunched up red tissue paper that I had inked to make it look old and dirty.


A couple of rounds of black ribbon to finish it all of

I am entering this into the Tuesday Taggers challenge this week for their Purple Challenge who are being sponsered this week by the Craft Barn and into the Haunted Design House challenge #62 - Smeared and Smudged - the amount of inking going on here inside and out :). Also going to enter it into the Sweet Stamping challenge for Anything but a card.

I Do What I Want

Isn't that what "mad scientists" do? Well those of the Dr. Frankenstein mould do. When I saw the latest batch of images from Tellen's Place that Marcus had produced.... yep Simply Sinister it had to be. Isn't it great when you get to see before others.
The challenge over on Haunted Design House this week was the inspiration for this. Barb this week says simply sinister... that's what I hope I have achieved here.




Dr Frankenstein - or that is who he reminds me of - I don't know his real name yet- with one of his creations.... both about to create another?? The images were coloured with my pencils for a change - I wanted a softer look. The embellishment kept to a minimum, just some torn fabric and some copper coils (fallen of his electrical equipment). Just 2 BP, both from Crafty Chaos, though ~I have mixed the sets (halloween howlers and gothic bruise). Some ink distressing went on here as you can see as well. The sentiment "I do what I want" is from the Grumpies set from Smeared Ink, stamped down the side.

I am entering this into the Haunted Design House challenge #60 - Simply Sinister
also One Stitch At A Time Challenge - use a digi stamp
Make it Crafty - Distressing