...it was about your Christmas, there was smoke... and fire!

It’s challenge time over at PunkyouGirl with Creepmas as the theme and my card features an awesome image from BB Kakes via Stitchy Bear, Skulldiva.

To make up my card I’ve followed the current sketch over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2, which was awesome for being able to layer, which I love to do.  The twist was to add buttons or bows, which also fit well as it allowed me to echo the bows with skull centres from Skulldiva’s shoes in my embellies.  And don’t you just love the skullies I’ve used?  They are awesome as is the gorgeous Wendy, who made them especially for me.

With an image like this and a Creepmas theme I was feeling a bit steamy, Steampunky that is, which is the current theme over at Miriam’s Crafting.  So I raided my metal stash to see what I had and came up with Steampunk holly and berry to go with my skullies.  I’m no clay modeller like Wendy so I had to add in the Santa hat and holly and berry on my skullies using shrink film, problem is I’ve run out of the printable kind.  So I used clear and coloured it with Smooch, which ended up working really well on the Santa hat as it has a raised texture to it.

Over at A Creative Romance they are looking for you to use something old on your project.  The designer papers I’ve used are from the Kaisercraft Twig and Berry collection from way back in 2012 so I think they count.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes E25, E27, E30

Lips R24, R29, R46

Hair N4, N6, N8, 100

Outfit G12, G14, G16, G19, N4, N6, N8, R24, R29, R46, R59, R89, W6, W8, W10, 100

Skull Bag E08, E33, E35, E47, W5, YG95

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Shapeabilities ~ Grommet Tags

Embellishments

Jazzydoodle Designs ~ Clay Skulls

Prima Junkyard Findings ~ Clock Parts

Shrink Film Holly and Berry & Santa Hat (handmade by me)

Tim Holtz Idea-ology ~ Foliage

Inks & Paints etc

Rub’nBuff ~ Spanish Copper

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Barn Door & Forest Moss

Wink of Stella ~ Green, Metallic Gold & Metallic Red

Papers

Artools Metal Sheet ~ Copper

Core’dinations Tim Holtz Distress Cardstock ~ Fired Brick

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Forest

Kaisercraft Twig & Berry ~ Myrrh & Yuletide

Ribbons & Trims etc

Green Satin Ribbon from stash

Stamps

Stitchy Bear BB Kakes ~ Skulldiva

Challenges

A Creative Romance ~ Something old

Miriam’s Crafting #18 ~ Steampunk

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 #190 ~ Our added Twist this Week: Buttons and/or Bows

 

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…as it doth float up from the damnéd Earth

This is my first post as a DT for PunkyouGirl and I’ve done a CAS card inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, our current theme.

I was trying to make it look like the raven was ripping pages from the book but I got confused on which page I needed, I was going to do the order the other way round but realised my raven stamp faced the wrong way!  I was also going to have my image, Poe Portrait from Simply B Stamps, featured on the page still in the book being ripped but it was way too small printed so you couldn’t see it.  If that had worked I’d have had another image printed on the ripped out page that matched a Poe story.

So this hasn’t really turned out how I planned at all.  I did like the sketch at the Fusion challenge and I think it still worked well for the improvised version.  I also didn’t want this to be colourful or bright, it was meant to be dark and sombre so I’ve stuck to mostly black and white, my book pages are a bit yellowy but that’s because they are supposed to be old.  As this is mostly black and white I am entering it in the current challenge at Crafting When We Can.

Ingredients:

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Black Soot & Walnut Stain

Studio 490 Embossing Paste ~ Black

Papers

Core’dinations Cardstock ~ Black Cat & Great White

Kaisercraft Paper ~ Art of Life

Stamps

Echo Park ~ Spooky

Flourishes ~ So Distressed

Tiddly Inks ~ Open Book

Simply B Stamps Steampunk ~ Poe Portrait

Challenges

Crafting When We Can #81 ~ Black and White

Fusion ~ {Something Wicked This Way Comes...or Not...} sketch

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