Spooky Halloween Door

I wasn't going to join this swap as I've done a mini door swap before and found it quite difficult especially after receiving some amazing doors made from fimo, clay and wood! I'm more of a papercrafter but I was assured that it was fine to use paper. My swappee the lovely Jas, likes gore and Rocky Horror among other things. I came up with the idea of placing a door over the back of a small 7 x 5 stretched canvas and here is the result:

The gate opens....

Then the door opens to reveal...

arrrrrgggghhhhhhh..... :o)

I painted the whole canvas with dark blue and purple to create a dark sky feel. I cut the door and frame, cobwebs and gate out on my silhouette portrait. I attached wood-a-like paper to the front part of the door. I printed off the piccy inside, attached it all and smeared fake blood over everything.

and this is what the back of the canvas looks like:

I printed off a large orange moon and stamped, coloured and cut the Dylusions dead tree. The bat and witch were cut on my portrait machine and added at the end.

Frankenstein's Laboratory

Frankenstein's lab? Yep that was the subject for the lovely Gill that I was to create from a chunky - which is a 3 inch by 2 inch wide and deep block of wood! Fortunately an idea formed and I went on to create my very own monster of a chunky...

So what have I done to this poor block of wood? Well I painted it silver, then I cut two strips of craft metal and attached Tim Holtz pulley wheels to them then glued the metal strips to the wood... I made two leather straps and attached Tim Holtz buckles to one side of the chunky and one end of the straps to the other. 

I pulled a leg and arm from a poor pound shop doll (my dogs thoroughly enjoyed pulling apart the rest of her!) and tried not to gag as I squeezed fake blood on them. I'm not squeamish about blood it's just the fake stuff I don't like eugh! I glued the leg and arm on once the blood had dried then fastened the straps.

I stamped and coloured Dylusions bones, splatters, eyeballs and lab jars (I know Gill likes Dylusions) and glued them all over, I didn't clean up the glue marks as I hoped it added to the messiness of a monster creating laboratory. Finally I attached fake blood smeared tools with some craft wire hung messily off one of the straps - an axe, hammer, saw and pliers - just what Dr. Frankenstein would need! :oD

I hope Gill likes it, it stands still but you can also wheel it around. The wheels aren't as steady as I hoped but they are secure enough to wheel around a table or a hard floor.

MiniBook

The lovely Heidi on UKScrappers hosted an Inspirational Minibook swap and added an extra group for a cheeky quotes book too. I made one set of pages for the inspirational book and two sets of pages for the cheeky quotes book. Here are my pages:

For the inspirational book I chose to use my gorgeous new die from Tim Holtz of a crescent moon and stars. I cut 8 pages in white glitter card and made two pages from matt silver mirror card and added them all to black glitter card to suggest the starry night sky. I created the quote on Craft Artist 2 using a handwriting font and material from the Night Garden digikit.

My Cheeky Quote book pages were slightly different:

and my second quote:

 

I sprayed an A3 sheet of white card with a rainbow of Dylusions inks, then cut them up into 4 x 4 pages. Once they were cut I added stencils, stamps, my new favourite toy... texture paste which stays dimensional when you scrape it through a stencil/mask and remove the mask. I've used Dylusions quotes coloured in with promarkers - on the first set I've used another Dylusions stamp for the legs in heels and added various washi tapes and on the second set I paired the quote with an image from Joanna Sheen's very funny Viva La Diva craft CD. Finally I drew a black line around the edge using a black promarker.