Halloween Apothecary Tag Tutorial

Hi everyone! Halloween crafting is such fun, since you can go a little extra crazy with the projects, and since my son loves these spooky projects. They all seem to end up in his room. I have a little tutorial to share with you today, for a tag using new idea-ology products by Tim Holtz.

I had fun combining rub-ons and stamps to create the background. The new Curiosities Remnant Rubs are very cool since they have areas which are white, as you can see, for instance on the skeleton above. This tag is easy and quick to make. Let's start. 

Start by applying rub-ons to a manila tag. The frame is stamped with Jet Black ink. 

Ink the background with an Ink Blending tool. As you can see, the rubons resist the ink, and the result is even more obvious in the case of the rubons with white centers.

Use the Distress Sprayer to splatter water droplets on your tag. If you press the lever down half way, the sprayer produces water drops, instead of a fine mist. I love this feature of the sprayer, so cool. If you press it all the way, you get a fine mist. My Distress Sprayer sometimes gets legs and walks out of my studio, I then discover that Anton has been using it to mist all kinds of things in his room and elsewhere. 

Dab silver paint on a Wicked Alpha Parts word, for a cool textured effect. Leave to dry. 

I dyed the crinkle ribbon with Dusty Concord and Black Soot, there is also a glittery black ricrac ribbon from the Halloween Trimmings set. I used to love ricrac, I don't know why I haven't used it much lately. The circle embellishment is from the Oddities Adornments set. 

A few ephemera labels were sanded and inked and glued to the tag. I like the resist effect from the rubons.

These Crypt Cameos are such spooky Halloween embellishments, and it fit perfectly inside the stamped frame. 

I thought this man looked a bit like a scary apothecary. The image comes from the Regions Beyond paper stash. I sanded, inked, distressed and stamped on the image. 

Aren't these Regions Beyond brads cool? I like a brad, since it is both decorative and functional at the same time. If you look closely on this photo, you can see a little orange seed that ended up on the tag when I photographed it. I hadn't even noticed it until now.

The silver paint gives a great effect to the Wicked Alpha word. I used some spiders and bats from this same set on my Zombie Flip Frame tutorial. 

Thank you so much for looking!

Happy Halloween crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Tim Holtz MINI HALLOWEEN 3	Tim Holtz Sizzix Die TAG & BOOKPLATES	Tim Holtz ODDITIES Adornments	Tim Holtz CRYPT CAMEOS	Tim Holtz CURIOSITIES Remnant Rubs
Tim Holtz REGIONS BEYOND	Tim Holtz Idea-ology REGIONS BEYOND	Tim Holtz OCCASIONS Small Talk	Tim Holtz WICKED Alpha Parts	Tim Holtz Idea-ology HALLOWEEN Trimmings TH92328
Tim Holtz Idea-ology MINI FASTENERS	Tim Holtz Ephemera Pack FRIGHTFUL	Tim Holtz LABEL LETTERS	Tim Holtz LOOP PINS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology CRINKLE RIBBON
Ranger 8.5 X 11 MANILA CARDSTOCK	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD PUMICE STONE	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK BLACK SOOT	Tim Holtz Distress Ink HICKORY SMOKE	Tim Holtz Distress Ink DUSTY CONCORD
Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK	Ranger Paint Dabber SILVER METALLIC	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White	Tim Holtz Tonic PAPER DISTRESSER	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET
Tim Holtz SANDING GRIP	Tim Holtz Tonic Craft SCISSORS	Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger

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