I know it’s been awhile since I posted anything on here!  Been a busy six months!  Hopefully, I will have much more free time this summer to play!  First project, my mermaid collage.  A friend of mine owns a windows treatment and blind store and they get these sample books with the different types of blinds and shades that are available. When the blinds are discontinued or the books are updates, she no longer has use for the old books and she gives them to me to see if I can recycle into something crafty. So I used it as a background for my mermaid beach collage.

Supplies: Mermaid Stamps – Third Coast RS; Shells, Pearls, Jolee’s Stickers.

I created this card for today’s sketch challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers.  Not sure what you get a dragon for Christmas, but whatever it is, it probably needs to be fireproof, huh?

After coloring my little guy with Copics, I cut him out to pop him up for a more 3D effect.  I then colored his tail one more time and popped that up again.  The snowflakes are made of foam and the paper is from the Paper Studio.    Stamp:  Third Coast RS

Supplies:  Stamps:  Third Coast, Foam Snowflakes, Blue Jewels, Blue Brads, Foam Tape.  Paper:  The Paper Studio.  Colored with Copics

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My card today if for the Haunted Design House Macabre Monday Challenge “Gods and Monsters”  This is Medusa from Third Coast Rubber Stamps newest stamp release.  Isn’t she cool??  After coloring my image, I cut out the snakes to pop up around her head for the 3d effect, trying to make it look like they were crawling over each other.  It’s hard to capture in the picture, but I think it came out pretty cool.  For the background “snake skin” look, I used my Cuttlebug.

Supplies:  Stamps – Medusa Third Coast Rubber Stamps; Ribbon, Cuddlebug, Green Brads.  Colored with Copics.

Haunted Design House Macabre Monday challenge this week was ”Appalling Apothecary”.  Now I can’t take credit for this awesome idea, as it came from an awesome and talented lady and fellow Third Coast Rubber Stamps Design Team member Roni @ Ink Stain Blog.  Her Witchy Ways Mini Coffin of Frights totally blew me away when I saw it and I couldn’t wait to make my own. 

The first order of business was finding the coffin.  I ordered this one online, but they also see them at Michaels.  In order to be able to paint it freely, without making to big of a mess, I took the hinges off with a small screw driver.  You should be careful here, as I have learned, getting those hinges to screw back into place correctly is not as easy as you might think it should be : /

I painted the wooden coffin with a base coat of black acrylic paint, and after it dried added some crackle medium and red acrylic top coat for the crackle effect.  I then added my shelving by cutting out pieces of cardboard I laying around and painting them black.  I applied the shelving with glue.

Then came hardest (and most fun) part of this project.  Trying to come up with all the little goodies that would go inside my Voodoo Witchy’s “cabinet”  The owl, skull and spider web were all “Dress it Up” embellishments that I glued inside the cabinet.  The spider and frog (down at the bottom on the ‘box’) were silver charms I painted and then glued down.  The ouija board a picture i printed from the internet that I glued onto a piece of grunge board.  The crystal ball was a charm, however they can be easily made with just a clear bead and bead cap for the base.  To make the books, I used sheets of foam that I cut, painted and glued together.  The candle was made with a bead cap for the base and the tube from a q-tip cut to size and then dipped in candle wax.  As the was was drying, I placed the piece of wire in the top to create the wick.  You can also make candles using oven bake clay.  The box my frog is sitting on was created using clay.  I sculpted the box and then placed a bead in the middle for the “clasp.”  The poison bottle is simply a round, flat wooden bead that I painted and added the skull and cross bones to.  Behind the book of herbs that you may not be able to see well are rolled “scrolls” I simple created with paper then burned the ends a bit.

My witch is a rubber stamp from Third Coast and can be found here.  I colored her and then cut her out and popped her up on background paper from Creative Imaginations.  I also added some glitter bat form stickers to the background.  The crosses at her feet were Jolee 3-D stickers that I knew would make perfect gravestones.

I glued a gothic cross pendant to the top of the coffin.  I bought this cross at Walmart, although they have since discontinued them, you can find them online here.

I hope you like my voodoo coffin witch!  I had a ton of fun making her!

I entered this card for the Haunted Design House Macabre Monday Challenge “Carnival of Curiosities.”  This stamp is from Third Coast Rubber Stamps Brand New Halloween Release Sale going on now!  If you haven’t seen them yet, you definately need to head over there and check them out!  This creepy guy is called the Ghoul Behind the Curtain and can be found right here.  After coloring him in, I colored his hand a second time and cut it out to give it a 3D effect in front of the curtain.  I added a ring to his finger by cutting 3 small strips of wire and gluing them down and then added a red jewel on top.  I thought I would  make it look like he was hypnotizing the crowd by adding a bead and string in his fingers.  He is definately the creepiest curiosity in my stash of stamp goodies!

Supplies:  Stamps – Ghoul and Sentiment, Third Coast RS; Jewels, Thread.  Colored with Copics.

I created this card for Haunted Design House Macabre Monday Challenge – which was to create a dark themed project using mermaids as the focus.  Fun idea, but I didn’t have any mermaids that looked to menacing so I decided to try and create a scene and hack something together.  Now I’m not real good at stamping out elaborate scenes.  Doing scenes like this means thinking ahead, and anyone who knows me well, knows I rarely think ahead, but I thought Iwould give it another try.  I picture my one mermaid saying to the other, “Hey, that’s mine, you thief!”  There is gonna be a catfish fight, I know it!

Supplies:  Third Coast Rubber Stamps – Maisie & Frilltail Mermaid; Crab Seascape; Ship Wreck; Pescado Muerto; Pile of Skulls: Paper – Unknown; Brads, Foam Pop Ups.  Colored with Copics.

Wanted to do something vampire-ish and this is what I came up with.  I discovered these awesome skull and crossbones cameos over at Alpha Stamps and I was just dying to use it on something!  The Lovecraft sentiment was some digital art I purchased over at Etsy from steamduststudios.  I didn’t have any decent black lace and really couldn’t find any, so I took some white lace I had and spritzed it with black Smooch Spritz from Clean Snap. 

Another altered bottle I created today. I think I might be starting toget the hang of this. Can’t seem to keep the glue and paint off my fingers though, but I guess that is half the fun : p  The image is by HarrisonFisher. I added some other images of his below for you to enjoy ; )

 

 

Created this card for the Split Coast Sketch Challenge.  Trying to get my Halloween cards done early.  Every year, I’m working on them right up until the last minute.  Hoping I can avoid that this year!  All stamps used here are from third coast.  I stamped out a scene first using The Count and then masking him, I added the gravestone behind him.   I used a circle I cut out from scrap paper to mask out the moon, then I added the bat.  I colored two more images of The Count to pop up to give a more 3D effect.  I thought adding the lace ribbon at the bottom with the black pearls would be a nice touch of elegance…cause vampires of elegant, right?  : p

Supplies: Stamps, Third Coast RS – The Count – Cemetery – Bat; Paper, Oriental Trading; Black Pearls, Black Ribbon, Brads.  Colored with Copics.