Fresh Blood, HDH challenge

I've got some exciting news, I am a DT Minion at Haunted Design House, how cool it that?? (well actually it's very cold in the Dungeon, cold and dark...and scary). Today the challenges start again and the first theme is "Fresh Blood" I made a shadow box, containing a bottle of fresh blood ofcourse, a lot of pics, hope you like

DecoArt products used:

Acrylic Gesso,Americana Glazing medium, weathered wood crackle medium

Americana Acrylics: tomato red, antique teal, traditional burnt umber

Elegant finishes: medieval gold, emperors gold, reinansanse brown

Metallic Lustres : iced esspresso and champaigne ice

I started out with this

 a wooden book box

 with bows on the outside LOL and a plastic toy mask (lucky to have a son with a love for scary toys, now too old to play with them , now I get to play with it)  And a lock that came from a tea box.

and turned it into this

 Lots of layers of paint and metallic lustres to get the mask to look like this, added some bling in the eyes, just for fun

 made the sides of the book look like it really has pages, using gesso and paints

 the back of the book, tried to give it an aged look using Weathered wood crackle mediium and different layers of Americana Acrylic paint

 the spine of the book is coverd with paper, the leatherlook was allready there, I just aged it using ink and metallic Lustres

 the inside cover, stamped and aged using distress inks, that blood could be real though, you never know.......

the inside, the box is painted gold, using Elegaant finish metallic paint in different colors gold.
the skullies and hands are clear stamps, I used archival jet balck ink to stamp them on the painted wood. The bell jar is a Tim holtz die, the bottle was a small vinager bottle. the blood is left over blood from my daughters Halloween party :-) (handy to have kids with supplies). Added some roses (tim holtz die) and a vampire teeth charm

here some more pics

Hope you like my first project, now get over to the Haunted Design House blog for more inspiration by the other talented minions. I can't wait to see your entries in the Fresh Blood challenge


I will enter the following challenges

http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.nl/2014/01/new-challenge-charming.html

http://fantasystampers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/our-first-challenge-ever.html the transilvano is my fav stamp

http://leftofcenterchallenges.blogspot.nl/2014/01/challenge-22-new-beginnings-with.html  my new beginning is a new dt :-)

http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/challenge-anything-goes-2/