Ooo, ooooo, Tish, when you speak French you drive me wild!

The tall dark and handsome lothario on my card today is one from the Simply B Stamps’ vault and the Teen Scene Halloween 2011 collection, Christian Addams.

I thought I’d contrast with the black background but still keep with the Halloween colours so I did his suit in purple but of course he had to be carrying a red rose.  Thing on his shoulder is a little more gruesome than I remember from the TV series, I don’t think they ever showed the severed top there but this is still a cute and quirky image and not to gory to be anything but G rated.

The layout follows the sketch at Sweet Sketch Wednesday and as the card features two designer papers as well as two types of beads I’m also linking it up at Papertake Weekly where their current challenge is to use two of something.  With all the fussy cutting by hand (we won’t talk about the repair job required on the rose) I’m also entering it in the current challenge at Scrap-Creations Challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E11, E13, E21, E50, E51, (cheeks R02)

Eyes E29, E37, 0

Mouth E11

Shoes & Tie N0, N1, N2,  O

Suit V09, V12, V15, V17

Rose R24, R29, R46, R59, G03, G05, G07

Embellishments

Metal Rose Beads from stash

Papers

DCWV Witches’ Brew

Kaisercraft Cardstock – Black

Stamps

Simply B Stamps Christian Addams

Challenges

Papertake Weekly Challenge – Two By Two

Scrap-Creations Challenge – Cut It Out!

Sweet Sketch Wednesday #227

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A Scrappy Little Scamp

Today I’m sharing another one of the new Steampunk The Robert’s Family Portraits from Simply B Stamps, this little cutey is Betty’s son Jude.  He was drawn by the super talented Abigail Larson and I think he is simply adorable.  I decided I would put him on an album ready for Halloween pics (not long to wait for the best holiday of the year!).

The album covers came with three rings so I used those, I made the binding with some thick cardboard off some packaging, some paper from the Chillingsworth Manor collection from Echo Park that had a matching pattern and shades of orange and green to match the cover and my Copic colours.  I reinforced the binding with Tyvek, which I painted black with Tim Holtz Distress Stain, I also used this to dye the leather strap of the closure.

I wanted to make the binding a bit more fancy and hide the rings so I tied some ribbons and made some charms to hang off the rings.

As this is not a card I’m entering it in some anything goes challenges at Hobby House Challenge Blog, Challenges 4 Everybody, and Paper Take Weekly as well as at Left of Centre with a LOC theme of Steampunk.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53, (cheeks E11)

Lips E53, E11

Eyes E23, E25, E27, 0

Hair E21, E23, E25, E27, E29

Shirt G21, G24, G28, YG63

Vest G94, G99, Y23, Y26, Y28, YG0000, YG01, YG03, YG63

Ghost C00, C1, C3, C5, 0, Spica Clear & Silver

Album

Teresa Collins Haunted Hallows covers

Teresa Collins Perfect Closures Halloween

Binding – Tyvek & Chillingsworth Manor paper

Chalks & Inks etc

Diamond Glaze

Pebbles chalk

Tim Holtz Distress Stains Black Soot

Embellishments

Handmade charms featuring:

Glass pumpkin bead

Jack’o’Lantern metal charm

Jack Skellington bead

Lampwork glass mushroom bead (for a bit of shroominess)

Skull & cross bones metal charm (from swap)

Small & large black faceted glass bead

Tim Holtz jump rings

Stamps
Simply B Stamps Jude Portrait

Ribbon

Green Tara Cobweb

Jack Skellington satin ribbon (from swap)

Orange & black spider & web patterned ribbon (from swap)

Challenges

Hobby House Challenge – #1 Anything Goes

Challenges 4 Everybody – Anything Goes

Paper Take Weekly – Anything Goes

Left of Centre – LOC theme (Steampunk)

Update – wow, awesome people at LOC gave me first place for this little project!  Prize was my choice of digis from A & T Digital Designs, look out for a bunch of roses on an upcoming project.

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