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/

skully tag for bloghop

Hi all, for the Smeared Ink blog hop I made a tag, 

It's based on the January 2014 Tim Holtz tag , if you want to see how I made this tag, on the Tuts and Comments blog is a tutorial. The making of in pics step by step, enjoy

supply list

DecoArt products used:

acrylic Gesso

Americana Glazing Medium

Americana Acrylics colours: 

Grey Sky, Traditional Burnt Umber, Colonial Green, Lamp black, Antique White

Americana  Mixed Media stencil : timeless treasures

Metallic Lustre : Iced Espresso

Other products:

Cuttle bug embossing folder , Textile Texture

Tim Holtz Alterations Bigz Die Tick Tock and Ornate Crosses, Tim Holtz distress tool

Black polyester ribbon, safety pin, heat tool, pliers, skull charm

black cardstock, kraft cardstock, card board (from cereal box for instance)

Ranger Achrival ink jet black

Aluminum foil tape, old tooth brush, black paint marker

Rick St. Dennis rubber stamp set "Morte" by Smeared Ink

some closer looks

I will enter this tag in the following challenges

 

http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2014-january/

http://dragon-dragonsdream.blogspot.nl/2014/01/tio-157-letter-t-and-stencils.html

http://smearedandsmudged.ning.com/group/thechallenger/forum/topics/smudgy-antics-challenge-january-anything-goes-smeared-ink

Blog Roll

 

Tori
Laura
Sue The Nanny
Kapree
Shoni
Fiona
Shell
Molly The Fishmonger
Lisa
Alison
Kristy
Monique

Pierrots canvas

I have been working on this canvas, I really like how it turned out, here some pics

I really love this Pierrots image,not a fan of clowns normally , but these are so much fun to colour. There are a lot more Pierrot image in Rick St. Dennis Zibbet shop.

The canvas is made in a simular way as the canvas in the Tuts and Comment tutorial here. Only different colours paint and Metallic Lustres used.

DecoArt products used:

Gesso

Dazzling metallics paint color shimmering silver

Americana Weathered Wood crackle medium

Americana acrylic paint colour lamp black, lavender, bahama blue

Metallic Lustres : Iced Espresso and champagne ice

Texture Crackle  neutral

some closer looks at the crackle

Dare to be different

The Rick St.dennis freebie challenge image this month is the super cute Baby Bacchus.

He was attached to the newsletter,  to sign up for the newsletter see here.  If you missed it, you can find this little guy in Rick's Zibbet shop.

The freebie challenge starts today on the Sparkle and Glitter blog, you will also find a lot of insiration from my fellow teamies there

We all coloured the digi and made a project out of him.

Baby Bacchus is a little Satyr,so he is partly goat, and it would be obvious to make his furry legs brown, or another goat colour. But cause of his name Bacchus, who is the god of wine, I thought to make him look sparkly and colourful , I think that part worked out fine :-)

I really like how he turned out with his rainbow coloured legs and hair, next was the AJ page I wanted to make.

The plan was to add some kind of wine quote, but after colouring it just had to be "Dare to be different"

The background is a Gelli print, the flowers are a Deco Art Americana mixed media stencil Oopsy Daisy.

The  paint used is Americana acrylics (colours: Baby blue, Lilac, Carousel Pink, Tangerine)

The letters (except the "different" cause that' a marker) are foam stamps (Making Memories)  and Americana acrylics Lamp Black.

Below a closer look at the Rick St.dennis image

 

I will enter the following challenges

 

http://craftyhandsdevon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/anything-goes5th-challenge.html

http://polkadoodle.blogspot.nl/2014/01/week-1-challenge-anything-goes.html

http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.nl/2014/01/happy-2nd-birthday-to-us-challenge-52.html

Insanity

Hi all, I have 2 things to show you, first an Art Journal pages for the Craft Barn Dictionary Challenge letter I

(my entry for letter X is here)

My I word is Insanity, I guess there is a thin line between insanity and the art I make, O, well there are worse things in life, altough sometimes caught between Art and Insanity, most of the times I am ok LOL

the back ground is a gelli plate print using Deco Arts Americana acrylics, colours used: Red Alert, Mustard Seed, Jack O lantern Orange, and a bit sour apple
The digital image is called "Art will set us Free" it is drawn by Rick St.dennis. The globe is a Tim Holz die used as a stencil and there is some bubble wrap

 and the dictionary word here

next card is for Smeared Ink O the Horror Challenge

Most of the rubber stamps used are Rick St.dennis images the birds and the skullman are from de Stempelwinkel.

hope you like, I had fun making these

Merry Creepmas

Just a quick post wishing you all a merry Creepmas , I have made a tag using the Rick St. Dennis Creepmas Tree Lights digi, I guess you know how he feels......

also have some coloured images to show you this one is called Pierrots, you can find it here

 and this one is called Sorceress, she can be found here

both of them are so much fun to colour, I really enjoyed it, I will be making a canvas out of them soon

Prince of Christmas

Hi all, Monique here, I've got an AJ page to show you.

I have made some project for the Tuts and Comments blog, and needed parts of the Prince of Christmas for them, so the poor guy has been be headed (twice) and scanned and printed onto a sheet. The original coloured image was still lying around and since it was there I thought I might as well use it.

so here it is

The Rick St. Dennis image used is Prince of Christmas

The background is a Gelli plate print, I used Decoart Americana Acrylic paint to make it (colours used : spa blue, wisteria, bahama blue, red alert, snow white)

The snow flakes is a foam stamp.

 

The senti is from "the Polar Express"

 I also made an altered Lantern, there is a step by step how to on Tuts and Comments (day 11 of creepmas blog hop)

The Rick St. Dennis image used is Prince of Christmas

 

 

DecoArt products used

Glamour dust glitter paint:

sizzeling red

Emerald

Dazzling Mettalics :

Shimmering silver

Americana acrylic paint

Neutral grey

Grey sky

Festive green

 

 

I will enter the AJ page in the following challenges

 

http://www.thecraftbarn.co.uk/blog/alpha-challenge-last-two-letters/  X for Xmas

 

http://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.nl/ challenge 96 christmas