Ravens and Stripes, Oh My!

Mr. Dapper Bones and Pet Raven are going a Haunting at Gingersnap Creations GC123 "Ravens" and Simon Says Stamp and Show some "Stripes" and Anything Goes "To The Letter." Yes this took more than 10 minutes!  All stamps are from Artistic Outpost's "Haunted Halloween" collection. 

So here is what the little voices were telling me what to do!  What the voices don't speak to you??  Well come times I have the Molly voice screaming at me to get her lunch and she really does scream!  Back seven years ago when we first rescued her, one day I heard this horrific scream and ran to see what was wrong!  I never knew a dog could actual scream!  OK, back to the business of ghoulish details!  Using my Stampin Up "tasteful trim" Sizzix die, I cut the rick rack from 3M Safe Release tape.  This works very well and is safe!  I added masked stripes across the tag and pressed down to secure.  I then used several shades of Distress Inks, covered with clear embossing powder, removed the mask pieces and then heat embossed.  The masked areas were covered with Black soot, wiped off the excess and then did the Batik technique.  Bones and Raven were inked with Black Archival, heat set and then I colored open areas with Distress Inks.  The little tag topper and sentiment were stamped in Black Craft, clear emboss powder and then heat set.  I added Distress Inks to these.  A little trim and tiny skull for finishing!   I could have just stamped Bones and Raven on the tag, but I really wanted a little dimension, even on a mostly flat tag!  The tag was backed with black and then distressed! 

Just a reminder for any of you who use Artistic Outpost stamps, each month they have a referral program and there is a prize!  We love prizes!! 

Well I can't believe that tomorrow is Friday!  Hope you all are having a great week and even a better weekend!  Thank you so much for stopping by!

Grungy Monday and Anything Goes!

Our "Grungy Monday" fearless leader, Linda, gave us one heck of a challenge!  Tim in 10!  Not Tim is a 10, but to actually do a project from start to finish in 10 minutes!  Now we did get to pull out supplies and think, which can be a challenge for us "fly by the seat" kind of crafters!  Now I will admit, that I had more things out and just ran out of time, so here it is!  I am also playing for the first time with the lovely people over at Anything Goes with a challenge of "To the Letter."



The 10 Minute Supplies

 We quickly die cut the bird and fence, took these and the tag to the craft sheet!  Inked the tag, ran this through the embossing folder and then inked the tree!  Next we quickly added Rock Candy Crackle to all three and did cheat and used the heat gun, remembering that we are looking for 10 minutes!  Ran black and orange ink over the cracks and quickly wiped this off!  Glued down the fence and crow and added some of Tim's fabulous stickers, using the word "Boo."  Added and eye and backed the tag with another black tag and then distressed.  Oh I did kind of glob on my ink and crackle as time was of the essence!  Thank you Linda, but could you give us Tim in 20 next time?  He!He!

Here is a lovely surprise that I received from Lululizinlalaland for her "Back from France" giveaway!  She even included a lovely tag!  Thank you so much, Liz!