This Thursday It's All About...The Spooky Season! And the design team got to have some fun playing with a fabulous set of Halloween stamps from Artistic Outpost for this challenge!
The Canvas:
Stamps in the piece at top include the adorable vintage witch with her black cat and broomstick, the iron fence, the trees, and the "Halloween" text. I used the back side of a 5" X 4" stretched artist canvas by Fredrix, removed the center portion, and wrapped the frame around with black ledger paper, which was antiqued a bit with walnut distress ink. Next, I affixed my own background, painted in acrylics, with the tree stamped twice, side by side, in black VersaFine. Then I glued the larger pumpkin and leaves onto this backdrop, and stapled it to the back (formerly the front) side of the canvas frame. I stamped the iron fence onto acetate with black Staz-On, cut it to size, and also cut around the top points of the fence, then stapled it at the inside-front of the shadow-box area to create dimension. The little witch was stamped with black VersaFine and colored with Prang Professional and Prismacolor pencils, blended with Sansodor on tortillons, then she was glued to the front of the box, along with the small pumpkin cut-out. The "Halloween" was stamped onto beige cardstock with walnut distress ink, then outlined and dotted with orange and black micron pens, and further distressed with touches of walnut ink before it was glued to the top of the box. Last, I used black carpet tacks to attach ribbon to the sides of the box for hanging.
The Tea-Mailer:
The pumpkin on the front of my tea-mailer was stamped with spiced marmalade distress ink onto beige cardstock, then mounted onto patterned paper before it was glued to the black, folded card. The swirls and dots were hand-drawn with orange and black micron pens, and the "pumpkin spice" is a strip from a pumpkin flavored Hershey's kiss.
The inside of the tea-mailer was made by gluing a strip of ribbon across the center for the tie, then adding squares of beige cardstock right and left. "Hello Punkin" , and all of the pumpkins themselves, were stamped with spiced marmalade distress ink, then mounted onto more black and beige cardstock. The large pumpkin on the right is affixed to a beige cardstock which was folded into a pocket with the opening at the right side. I slipped an individually wrapped bag of spiced Chai tea into the sleeve, folded the card, and tied the bow. A perfect little gift for someone at Halloween!
Come play along with us at This Thursday, and have a great day, Everyone!
Looks great Barbara, fun stamps
Posted by: Barbara | October 09, 2008 at 04:13 AM
really a wonderful canvas!
Posted by: ilonka | October 09, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Love, love, love that shadowbox/canvas! I never thought of reversing the thing... how fun! Love all the details and thanks for sharing how you produced such a great little masterpiece!! The tea mailer is also cute... you are so good at those!!
Thanks for the compliemet re: doms. I like experimenting with them!! Have you seen my Panda yet??? (MMM)
Posted by: Rosie | October 09, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Awesome work hun I love the canvas it is brilliant hun well done xxxx
Posted by: carolann | October 09, 2008 at 02:37 PM