Old Spooky House Tutorial

Hello stampers! Today I have a spooky house tag to share with you, but with a few alterations the house would not be spooky at all, but could be turned into, for example, a cozy Christmas house.

We did a fun outing on Sunday to an art village, with a second hand shop, a glass blower and more. I love to visit markets, but they have all been cancelled since March and this outing was as close to a craft market as you can get at the moment. 

We have a Spooky theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge this week. Don't miss the spooky project by our October guest designer Alison Bomber and visit her blog Words and Pictures, which is full of inspiration.

I created a tag with a scene focusing on the wooden house, into which a lost wanderer might disappear. The haunted house was really fun to create with the wooden planks, windows and all the details. 

I started by stamping the Simon Says Stamp Wood Planks background stamp on cream paper with Ground Espresso Archival Ink.

Use a pair of scissors to cut the stamped impression into wooden planks, altering the width and trying not to make them too perfect. Ink with two shades of brown ink. I dragged the edges of the planks across the Ground Espresso ink, to get a really dark edge.

Glue them to a piece of Tim Holtz Blackout Kraft paper, cutting them here and there to make it look more like planks. Leave irregular spaces where the dark paper shows through. I glued them down with Matte Medium. Let dry.

Die cut with Tim's Haunted die. I used the Precision Base Plate and you might need to let the sandwich go through your Big Shot twice, since the paper is pretty thick. 

Die cut the house from Blackout paper too. Cut the cat from the black house and glue it on top of the cat in the wooden house. Use the second die in the Haunted set to die cut all the details from blackout cardstock and glue to the wooden house.

Ink a heavystock tag with Faded Jeans, Pumice Stone and Hickory Smoke. Mist the sky area with Speckled Egg Distress Oxide Spray. This gives a mottled and misty look to the sky.

Stamp the sky with the SSS Crackle Background stamp and the ground with Tim's Specks stamp.

Cut a piece of acetate or Modeling Film for the back of the house. Color with alcohol ink. I only added color where the windows would be (place the die cut underneath as a guide).

Adhere to the back of the house with double-sided tape.

Glue small pieces of mummy cloth to the windows and as smoke at the chimney. Add foam dots.

Die cut a spider web and two spiders from SSS Glimmery Coal cardstock.

Glue the black house and sanded boards to the tag. Glue the web to the top of the tag. Then add the wooden house on top of the black house, offsetting it just a little.

The glimmery cardstock contrasts nicely with the matte oxide background.

Starting with Distress Ink and finishing with a lighter Distress Oxide Spray gives this cool mottled look, perfect for a misty nighttime sky.

The Haunted die has such fantastic details, like these roof tile pieces.

The tinted windows adds a nice touch to the house, such as here where the cat sits.

The light is shining in only one of the windows and of course it is the tower window. Who might be there? I added extra mummy cloth behind that window so that the yellow color would show better.

I used Clippings Stickers for my sentiments, adding a question mark with a pen.

The door is ajar.

The second spider hangs down the left-hand side of the house. The shutters are such a great detail.

I hope you will join us this week in our Spooky challenge. You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until next Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Don't forget to follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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