Bad Chemistry!

I saw test tubes in the mood board, I was felling like I should get ready for Halloween and I came across the test tube set at Michael's one Sunday. The above photo was taken in a "tent" made of a blanket and jackets while using a black light to show some glow. I need to take a photo of it's "natural" glow, but I'll have to wait until tonight. But I really wanted to get this in the Creative Embellishments Challenge!! 

The September, Creative Embellishments, Mood Board

Video: I have the parts, I just need to get it edited.

Close Ups:

Products:

• Creative Embellishments
• Distressed Harlequin Pieces
• 13 @rts
• Ayeeda Mist
• Pearl Turquoise Light
• Ayeeda Paint
• Red Bronze
• Ayeeda Powder
• Rusty Bronze
• Prima
• Finnabair
• Heavy Gesso
• Black
• Ranger
• Tim Holtz
• Distress Paint
• Hickory Smoke
• Ground Espresso
• Recollection
• Ephemera Insects
• Ashland
• Decorative Filler
• Halloween
• Test Tube Set
• Art & Glow
• Casting & Coating Epoxy Resin
• Foam-It! 5
• Rigid Polyurethane Foam
• Glow In The Dark Pigment Powder (NOT an affiliate link, just a link to the ones I used)
• Kelly
• Gold
• Teal
• Violet
• Lemon
• Red
• Orange
• HXDZFX Glow in The Dark Pigment Powder (NOT an affiliate link, just a link to the ones I used)
• Pink
• Blue
• Unknown/Unbranded
• the "webbing"

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Over at Creative Embellishments' October Challenge a wonderful image was post at the beginning of the month to be used as inspiration for a project. The directions say to "Simply be inspired by 1 element from the picture below and the twist is to make your project black and white. I will let a very teeny tiny bit of color slip on by" I don't know if being inspired by the WHOLE photo counts as "1 element" or if it would be the skull ... mainly ... or if it qualifies at all, but I HAD to use that image somehow!!

Anyhow, I saved the image to my computer, did a bit of editing to it, then used the stippling feature on my Silhouette Curio. For eight hours. It took eight hours to stipple the image out, and it wasn't even the "whole" image! Good thing I had other things to occupy myself with!

I'll also be entering this into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday "Anything Goes" Challenge!


Product List:

• ReneaBouquets
• Black Shard Glitter Glass
• Ranger
• "Emboss It" Pen
• Water Pen - Nib
• Embossing Powder
• Enchanted Gold
• Antiquities Frosted Crystal
• Multi Medium Matte
• Perfect Pearls
• Forever Green
• Pewter
• Heirloom Gold
• Blue Patina
• Green Patina
• Tim Holtz
• Distress Oxides:
• Fired Brick
• Antique Linen
• Distress Ink
• Dusty Concord
• Distress Markers
• Black Soot
• Wilted Violet
• Lucky Clover
• Tumbled Glass
• Wild Honey
• Forest Moss
• Abandoned Coral
• Thinlits
• Cobweb
• Prima
• Metallique Wax
• Vintage Gold
• Bronze Age
• 3D Gloss Gel
• Sizzix
• Big Shot Plus
• a la mode clear embossing powder
• homemade alcohol inks
• 99¢ Store finds
• Green Mesh
• Orange Mesh
• Purple Lace
• Pumpkins
• Skulls
• Gold Lace
• String "web" (that became flowers - sorta)
• Purple Spider
• Received in a PocketLetter
• Bird/Birdcage
• Small black spiders
• Wood Skull Key
• the string "web" at the bottom
• unknown
• bluish-black glitter

Halloween Pocketletter!

Halloween PocketLetter!

Close-up of the top row

Close-up of the middle row

Close-up of the bottom row

Close-up of the Julie Nutting Doll

**The mask on the Julie Nutting Doll came from the Silhouette Store! I sized it, printed it on photo paper, then fussy cut it out since I wanted it to be extra precise!**

Product List:

• ReneaBouquets
• Shard Glitter Glass: Black & Silver
• Thickers Foam Phrase Stickers: "Dream"
• Fancy Pants Designs: "Oct 31" sticker sheet & glitter cuts
• Echo Park Paper Co: 
• "The Apothecary Emporium" Alpha Stickers
• "Arsenic & Lace" paper
• My Mind's Eye: "Frightful" paper
• Sizzix -
• Big Shot Plus
• Thinlit dies from Big Shot Plus stater
• Thinlit dies from Big Shot stater
• "Banners & Hearts"
• "Basic Shapes"
• Susan's Garden 
• "Sunflower" (just the leaves)
• Ranger
• Tim Holtz
• Distress Markers: Black Soot & Wilted Violet
• Distress Oxides: Black Soot & Wilted Violet
• Distress Embossing Ink
• Distress Stains: Carved Pumpkin & Wilted Violet
• Distress Stickles: Milled Lavender
• Thinlit "Cobweb"
• "Crazy Things" stamp set (witch's hat)
• Stickles: Orange Slice
• Super Fine Black Embossing Powder
• Black Archival Ink
• Water Pen: Nib
• Glossy Accents
• We R Memory Keepers
• "Bewitched" paper
• Crop A Dile
• Shimmerz
• Paints: Coal, Orange Sherbet, & Celery
• Vibez: Sunset Strip
• Little B Stickers: Black Cat
• KaiserCraft: Clear Stickers: "Antiques" 
• "Mulberry type" flowers
• Prima 
• "E-line" flowers
• Julie Nutting "Dita"
• WOW Embossing Powder "Cloud 9"
• Elmer's Glue Spots
• 99¢ finds: purple lace, spider, "twigs"
• Scraps: silver glitter paper, black glitter paper, black & grey floral paper, and black print transparency.

Halloween Tag!

The photo behind the claw marks is holographic! There is a close-up further down the post.

Over at scrapbook.com Donna (bonprof) hosted a September tag swap! There were two categories, Autumn and Halloween. You didn't have to do both, but I did, and this is my Halloween tag that was sent down to Kathy in Australia! (Here's where you can see the Autumn tag!)

And, thanks to perfect timing, I'll be entering this tag in the Simon Says Stamp, "A Walk On The Darkside," Monday Challenge, and the Simon Says Stamp, "Anything Goes," Wednesday Challenge!

I actually did a lot of mixed media work on the background when I started because I wasn't entirely sure what direction I'd be going. I knew I wanted to use a photo behind the claw marks, but I didn't know what kind of photo or how big ... then I just happened to turn around in the Halloween isle when I saw the package of holographic "photographs" hanging up! Now, you can only really see the Prima White Crackle Paste coated in ink along the edges!

The lace along the edge also didn't start out as an orangish-rust color, it was white, but with some help from Tim Holtz's Distress Spray Stains in Carved Pumpkin and Rusty Hinge, I made the lace match my theme!

After all that it was just placing and gluing the items in place! Although I did use some black craft foam to pop up the purple paper above the photo after using the Claw Thinlits to cut matching marks!

The full tag at the top of the post shows the color best. The colors here are a little distorted because of the lighting change needed for a close-up of the holographic images!

Products Used:

• The holographic photo, wired burlap ribbon, black & gold rose, "twigs," purple lace, and purple spider I found in the Halloween and/or Autumn decor sections of my local 99¢ store!
• The orange lace on the edge I received in a lot of 'vintage' lace off eBay.
• 'Mulberry' flowers (orange roses)
• Joelle's Halloween Fabric Flowers: the black burlap flowers.
• Tim Holtz: Thinlits - Claw Marks, Distress Spray Stains - Hickory Smoke, Carved Pumpkin, and Rusty Hinge, Distress Oxide - Black Soot
• Sizzix Big Shot Plus
• Heidi Swapp Color Shine: Bronze
• Prima Texture Paste: White Crackle
• Ranger Glossy Accents
• Echo Park Arsenic and Lace patterened paper
• The small, black spider was actually a cheap, orange, plastic ring used as party favors! I just added a lot of Glossy Accents and Martha Stewart Onyx glitter!

Halloween ATCs!

Halloween ATC set!

Over at scrapbook.com MarciB hosts a monthly ATC swap! One of the categories for September was Halloween, and this is what came out of my mind!

For the background I used Amazing Cast Resin on my Tim Holtz, "Cracked" Embossing folder. I painted the resin with ordinary, black arcylic paint then added the Prima waxes!

I actually found the lace and skulls at the 99¢ store when I went in looking for a package of those plastic spider rings that come out this time of year!

The 'mulberry type' roses I bought off eBay a while ago and used Heidi Swapp Color Shine: Tinsel on a set to turn them from light purple to, well, tinsel!

Product List:

• 99¢ Store lace, skulls, and spiders
• "Mulberry Type" roses from eBay
• Tim Holtz "Cracked" Embossing Folder
• Amazing Cast Resin
• Ranger Glossy Accents
• Prima Metallique Wax - Old Silver; Opal Magic Wax - Royal Robes
• Heidi Swapp Color Shine - Tinsel