Day 31 of 31 Days of Hallowe'en

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Good morning folks. How are we all? Are you all ready for tonight?  THE day when zombies, ghosts, skeletons as well as a motley crew of other creepies will wander the streets and no one will bat an eye lid. Tales of Horror will be broadcast on the TVs, almost throughout the world, to help bring those in their homes into the celebrations.
Well I made it - all the way to the finish line. Over 31 different projects made, photographed and blogged (a couple of days had more than one piece). A mammoth task and there were a few times I nearly gave up. You Horrifying Hoppers kept me going and for this I thank you.
My last project is a tag. I realised yesterday that I had not made a single reference to the Master of the Classic Gothic Horror. That fantastic author that so many of us love and who brings joy to our lives through the power of the written word. I speak, of course, of Edgar Allan Poe. I felt his poem "The Raven" had to be the one for my last day piece, just because.

The Raven stamped image is from Lost Coast. Stamped with versamark onto pale grey card and black PanPastel applied with a sponge before tearing out.

The word "Nevermore" was compiled by stamping, onto the same grey card, three sizes of feathers (Sheena Douglas) at various angles. The (memory box) die cut tree was stamped with a crackle stamp (more Sheena Douglas). Black feathers (with a greenish tinge) from stash.

All these elements were laid over a tag that had first been painted with black gesso and some scrunched up tissue applied and left to dry.

Well that's it from me folks. Phewwwwwwww. I'm glad to report that my craft room looks almost back to normal after a massive tidy up yesterday.
What will tomorrow bring?

I'd like to enter this tag into the challenge at
Premium Craft Brands - Shades of Grey

day 21 of the Smeared & Smudged 31 Days of Hallowe'en

The rules and details of all the fabulous sponsors that have generously donated prizes along the way can be found on Terra's Blog and of course on the Smeared and Smudged forum.
The blog list is still there in my right hand side bar - should you get lost.
Thank you all that have kept up with me so far. Your kind comments really make this epic task worth it all.
To those of you that are also blogging your projects as well as commenting - hats off to you. I don't know when you'd be sleeping, haha.

Yesterday I mentioned that I was slacking in making some fat book pages for my own amusement. For something other than a digital reminder of this fabulous blog hop organised again for the 4th year running by the Smeared and Smudged Forum.
 This 4"x4" fat book page is dedicated to the Master of Horror Tales. None other than E.A.Poe himself.

The raven is by Lost Coast Designs. The books/skull image is Cherry Pie. The "Nevermore" and "Quoth The Raven" text stamps are Smeared Ink. As is Mr Poe himself. Can you see him?

The ghostly apparition of the man himself.
Images stamped with memento ink with just one bit of masking. EAPoe image stamped with embossing ink and a slightly opaque powder. Black soot and barn door DI followed.
The pleated ribbon and feathers from stash.

Valerie is the very talented lady you will, no doubt have visited before me, and now is the turn of the beautiful blog of Sharon.

I am entering this page into the challenge over at
Quoth the Raven Challenges - Anything Poes
Fat Pages and Cards with Attitude - Halloween/Anything Goes

Skullz, and more Skullz

It's Friday and it's my day to play. Today was a chance to push down the girly side that I have had to let loose lately and let the dark reign.
The main skull is one I had left over from last October and Halloween that I hadn't got round to doing anything with. I sealed with PVA and painted black then with an irridescent paint.
To this I stuck on tiny red gems in swirly patterns, painting red luminous dots between the gems and in other areas. Stuck some digi sugar skull pics with mod podge round the base and added a skull, stamped onto tissue paper, image (Lost Coast) to the top. Finished off with a skull ring, again from last Halloween. The eye sockets were painted in the same red luminous paint.

The ring itself flips open to reveal some red lip gloss (at the moment).












Now I needed something to put it in. I altered a box that was sitting waiting for a make over and, as luck would have it, just the right size.
I started by covering with cheap paper to cover the writing already on it. The material I wanted to use is very sheer.
Some more skully images to go round the sides. These are all from Delicious Doodles.

The skeletal candle holder is on the two sides










Loves faded memory on the front



Rose corner on the top

All images were coloured with pencils to give that lovely old and faded look and both the rose corner and loves faded memory images were ink distressed with aged linen and tattered rose DI. I couldn't find a piece of lace I liked in my stash so plumped for the black organza ribbon with a little rose and added a few little creamy pearls to the rose image.
A long post I'm afraid but there was quite a bit to it.

I am entering this into a couple of challenges
Delicious Doodles - 3-D project
Haunted Design House #80- Alas Poor Yorick
Digi Doodles Shop's Best #51 - Anything Goes
Meljens Designs - Use dots
Crafty Cardmakers - Use Fabric - the box is covered with it