I decorated another mousetrap for the Out of a Hat Creations challenge. This time I painted the background red and also used an odd piece from one of my gelli plate backgrounds. I coloured Spykee with distress markers and shortened her legs so she'd fit on. I took a black Posca pen and doodled a frame around the outside.
Over at Out of a Hat Creations, they are running another mousetrap challenge with a free theme. I covered the board with tissue wrap, and stamped my favourite image onto a piece of white card and then mounted it onto a piece of kraft card. The mini tag is from the same stamp and coloured with frayed burlap distress ink. I added a couple of brads and a piece of ribbon.
Halloween is this weeks theme at Out of a Hat Creations, so I decided to have a go at decorating another mouse trap. After sanding and giving it a coat of gesso I painted it with sunset orange acrylic dabber. I stamped the skull and the web in black stazon from the new mini blueprint T!m Holtz plate. I went over them with black enamel accents. Once dry added a couple of charms and crystals for the eyes.
Over at Out of a Hat Creations they have gone all oriental. I decided to decorate another mousetrap. After giving the base a coat of gesso I painted it with a bright red Steward Gill paint. I stamped the background writing in black Stazon from a stamp on the Paperartsy Asian plate 3 set. The images are from a mini book called ATC Oriental Paper Pad by Leisure Arts. Oriental charms were added to finish.
Over at Out of the Hat Creations a couple of weeks ago they had a challenge to decorate of all things, a mousetrap!! Now I struggled to find one so wasn't able to join in. Florence from the DT kindly offered to send me one to try, so I accepted her kind invitation. After a couple of further emails a huge box of mousetraps arrived at my house, so I had to have a play.
Now a new challenge site was launched on Sunday - ABAC - and a new challenge will be set every 2 weeks. ABAC stands for anything but a card, and this week they are going with an easy one, 'Anything goes', except obviously anything but a card!!! So I'm entering my mousetrap.
Now my mate Nicky (aka Altered Inker) was part of my inspiration for the above and she is taking a workshop called Trap Happy on Saturday at Snazzy's for this very same thing, if you want to find out more, check here. The other part of the inspiration was T!m's September tag.
