Thursday 28 October 2010

It's Nearly Halloween

As if you couldn't guess. Everyone, it seems is gearing up for All Hallow's Eve. Seems like I'll be having my own little party. Me, myself and I, and any others that turn up. Hubby's away for a few days. This corner of Scotland doesn't "do Halloween". Even the pumpkins here are smaller than a witch's cats head!! I still indulge myself though and make a few things. One of which is this little coffin.......
I started off by stamping a Lost Coast "skull with wreath" stamp a few times on some purple paper. My intention was that the wreath from one image would be shared with the one above. It grew and the next layer shares jaws..... as you can see - "a bit" of masking was going on here.
This went on to cover the top of a prepainted coffin (purple acrylic paint).
Round the bottom, I used a digi from Smeared Ink "It's about Time" which I had printed on the same purple paper.












Inside there is a computer generated motto in the lid and a zombieboy digi from Make It Crafty.
The boy was stuck in using a paper spring and surrounded by little scrunched up red tissue paper that I had inked to make it look old and dirty.


A couple of rounds of black ribbon to finish it all of

I am entering this into the Tuesday Taggers challenge this week for their Purple Challenge who are being sponsered this week by the Craft Barn and into the Haunted Design House challenge #62 - Smeared and Smudged - the amount of inking going on here inside and out :). Also going to enter it into the Sweet Stamping challenge for Anything but a card.

14 comments:

  1. Hi Helen. This is fabulous, love the colour you have used, amazing.
    Love Sandra xx

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  2. LOL great fun make so much detail must have been a labour of love. Thank you for sharing with us at Tuesday Taggers xx Zoe

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  3. EEK!!! This is awesome! I would love it you could email it to me! It would be awesome for that "thing" I'm doing, kwim?
    If I haven't said it before, thank you so very much for visiting so loyally on my blog! I have added you to my "favs" and I follow your blog too! I want to stay in touch when this is over!! You are awesome!!

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  4. OMG this is an awesome and creative project. Love your choice of colors! Thanks so much for joining us at For Fun this week. "Hugs" Carol

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  5. What an Awesome Halloween creation! Thanks for joining us at TT this week!

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  6. This is fabulous! I can honestly say that I have never referred to a coffin as being fabulous before! Thank you for participating in our challenge this week at Sweet Stampin. Warmest wishes, Lesley

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  7. Fab work Helen, I love all the images you've used! Thanks so much for playing along with our Smeared and Smudged challenge at HDH this week and good luck!

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  8. What a wonderful creation.... never thought of making a coffin.... love the image you used... Good luck!
    Pauline (For Fun DT)

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  9. Oh wow, what a project! looks like fun!

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  10. Wow! Awesome coffin! Absolutely love it! Wonderful job! Thanks so much for playing along with us at For Fun Challenges! Hope you’ll be joining us for the next challenge!

    ~Hugs~Kym

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  11. This is so COOL! I love how you did this and the senti is so true! Thanks for sharing with us at For Fun this week!

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  12. Oooh so spooky! Love it! Thanks os much for sharing your creation with us at For Fun Challenges!

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  13. i want to buy the coffin for my 16 do someboby now were i can buy e mail me at nessa1996@ymail.com

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  14. i want the coffin for my 16 does someone now were i can buy it

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