Having had a playtime creating some potential halloween backgrounds (see post) I've taken the red one to use but before I created the collage I splattered some Barn Door Distress Spritz over it to give it some highlights.
This is my second inspiration project for October's Country View Challenges theme on FaceBook.
The Wicked Undertaker
It is Victorian England and one of the creepiest crime waves in the East of London is surging. Anatomists and surgeons are needing an ever-increasing amount of bodies to advance their research in the study of human anatomy, and, as a result, they turn a blind eye to the dead body trade that is booming. Individuals and gangs are turning to body snatching (digging up graves to extract bodies) and selling them to make a neat profit— these are the scary body snatchers known as the London Burkers (burking meaning ‘killing someone for their marketable cadaver’). A gang led by John Bishop and Thomas Williams, who began their crimes by robbing fresh graves, quickly graduate to murder for an even fresher corpse to sell to the unscrupulous anatomists who are working with such criminals very regularly. Frightening!
Here is one of the unethical undertakers, Bertie Burns who engages in some of the underhand activities. At times bodies are very hard to come by, and sometimes, because desperate times call for desperate measures, the trade in human bodies also includes body parts, and often those who need bodies settle for body parts instead and Mr Burns makes a pretty penny.
Materials
Dies Sizzix - Specimen,
Stampers Anonymous - Apothecary CMS138,
Distress Inks - Seedless Preserves, Ripe Persimmon, Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed, Vintage Photo, Ground Espresso, Scorched Timber
Distress Spritz - Barn Door, Fossilized Amber
Idea-ology Corked Vials, Snippets Curator, Film Strip Ribbon, Muse Token - Halloween, Found Framed Portraits - Halloween, Remnant Rubs - Curiosities, Mummy Cloth, corked glass vials
