Flowers on wood planks

Hello friends! It is the last day of October and I have an autumn flower project to share.

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I stamped and watercolored a whole lot of flowers in mainly autumn shades and let them flow down a tag. The tag was covered with Halloween Baseboard wood planks to create a sturdy and interesting background.

Start by sanding the Halloween Baseboards wood planks.

Ink them with Scorched Timber.

Glue them to a tag die cut from black kraft-stock. You need to cut some of the wood planks and sand the edges where you cut them.

White emboss Simon Says Stamp Old Letter on the tag, but don't cover it completely.

Stamp Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Blooms on watercolor paper. I stamped more than I needed. These flower stamps are so pretty.

Watercolor the flowers and cut them out when dry. There are coordinating Beautiful Bloom dies, which would speed this process up a lot. 

Add details and highlights with a black pen and a white gel pen.

Shape the flowers with a Shaping Kit and Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Perfect Craft Pad.

Dye May Arts Faux Wrinkled Silk Ribbon with coordinating colors. I used Distress Ink.

Don't worry if you get specks of white embossing powder here and there, it just adds texture.

Some of the flowers were glued directly to the background, while others were adhered with Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Perfect Foam Tape.

I added Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Gems to most of the flower centers.

The main sentiment was stamped with Pawsitively Saturated Violet ink. The sentiment stamps comes from Simon Says Stamp Create stamp set.They were die cut with the coordinating Create dies.

Leaves of of the white of the paper showing for highlights when watercoloring. I dropped blue paint into the purple paint when it was still wet. 

Shaping the flowers gives them life and dimension.

You could also turn this project into a card instead, or use just a few flowers.

Thank you for stopping by here today! Happy Halloween!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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The Apothecary Tutorial

Hello crafters! I have one more Halloween project to share, the front door of a spooky apothecary practice. 

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I really like Tim Holtz Baseboard pieces and they are fun to layer. Here I layered an arch and a door, with the addition of a sign post and a sentiment strip. Lots of fun little details which can belong to a spooky apothecary: bottles, jars, glass balls, sweets and of course skulls of some of his victims.

Here you can see the individual pieces. The shelf was made by gluing to wood planks from the Baseboard set together. Sand all the edges.

Glue a Halloween Transparency to the arch. I used one of the spider web transparencies.

Glue the door on top and glue the shelf under the door. Splatter black paint on the background. The skulls and bones were also distressed with black paint.

Using the Sizzix Vault Wicked set, the bottles were die cut from leftover papers, Simon Says Stamp Color-Blend cardstock (which is glossy), Black Glitter Cardstock and gold metallic cardstock.

Glue sentiments from the Halloween Sticker Book to the sign post. I really enjoying picking clipping sentiments, creating a story.

Two bottles were placed on the title and adhered with Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Perfect Foam Tape. 

I glued a transparent bat to the door too. Fold up the wings.

Glue mummy cloth to the shelf, as a table cloth. Add Bubbles, skulls, Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Gems, bones and bottles to the shelf. I used two layers of foam tape for the bottles.

I added clippings number stickers to some of the bottles and wrote numbers on the rest.

Here you can see the shelf from above with all the little details. 

Shelves are easy to build and give space for many different types of dimensional items.

Stack three skulls on top of each other, with a bone under one of them. I also added idea-ology candy corn.

The project has quite a lot of dimension.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! See you soon again!

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! Have a good weekend!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Skull Mixed Media Tag

 Hello crafters! I hope you are well and had a good weekend. 

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This week Stencil it is our theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I hope you will make something for the challenge. Also, remember to look at the gorgeous project by our October guest designer Alison Bomber. 

I made a skull tag with easy mixed media techniques and a bunch of products by Tim Holtz. The skull comes from the Halloween Collage Paper set and fit well on the tag, making the skull look large since it covers the tag.

Start with a tag that has been coated with gesso. Apply the collage paper with Ranger's matte medium. Then add a couple of coats of clear gesso on top, letting it dry in between. The gesso will give tooth for the Distress Watercolor Pencils to adhere to.

Add a little Uncharted Mariner paint to Texture Paste and apply through Tim's Batground folder.

When the paste is dry, paint the background with Distress Watercolor Crayons. Use water to blend.

When dry, add a little Ranger Dark Matter Stickles Glitter Gel. 

Stamp in a few places with Simon Says Stamp Crackle Background.

I used Tim's Vault Wicked set to die cut bats from Simon Says Stamp Black Glitter Cardstock.

Die cut the moon from Vault Wicked from heavystock paper and coat with Ranger's Glow Grit Paste. The moon glows in the dark, which is pretty cool. I inked the edges slightly so that it wouldn't look quite as bright on the background. For an example of how the Glow Grit Paste looks in the dark check out my Beware Pumpkins and Witches' Brew tutorials.

Pick a bunch of sentiments from the idea-ology Halloween Sticker Book.

I also added Simon Says Stamp Gunmetal Pawsitively Dazzling Gems. 

There is a bit of dyed mummy cloth under the sentiment from Halloween Baseboards and also tied to the top of the tag. The sentiment was cut into two and the edges were sanded. I also added a Halloween Quote Flair. 

Join us this week in our Stencil It challenge! You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

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Thank you so much for visiting my blog today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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