Witches supplies coffin box

Good Morning everyone

Last year I bought a couple of  wood coffin shaped boxes, Ive turned this first one into a witches portal and hidden supplies cupboard

Details of how i added shelves further down post.  Once shelves added i covered it all with black gesso.  In the shallow lid side i added green and gold dora cadence paint which really shimmers in the light to give the effect of the witch coming through a portal.  I then added one of Tim Holtz paper dolls which fitted perfectly.

Using items in my stash collected over the years i built up a collection on the shelves of various little bottles and potions, a little caldron and pumpkin, skulls, bones and a little spell book

On the top shelf i had some printed digi images of bottles which i added right at the back to help make it seem deeper than it is and then added a real small bottle with some black beads in.  A bone and little skull bead and then a little book i made up last year which i use kraft card for the cover and a little twine

On the middle shelf - in the back i added a piece of die cut spider web and die cut spider - both of which id added a little dora paint to highlight. Tim Holtz chat sticker reads 'calls answered day and night'

  Tim holtz candle and little pumpkin - the pumpkin i had also added a little orange dora paint too. A plastic ant on top of the pumpkin. 

 A small bottle Id added red alcohol ink too an the poured in a little white paint - from this uncorked bottle springs a ghost - this is chipboard painted with white gesso and a little diamond stickles glitter glue added. 

At the front another small bottle which i coloured inside with blue alcohol ink and then filled up with some cheap glossy accents i bought years ago which had a horrid finish so has just been languishing in the back of the cupboard but using in like this it makes a great mystery potion! 

and the bottom shelf - a little plastic cauldron filled with neon yellow and green paints. A little chipboard cat which i painted with blue gesso putting it on thick to added texture and then highlighted with black dora paint.  I added a strip of card behind its eyes coloured with the same neon paint.  The cats favourite sleeping spot, curled up nice and warm by the cauldron.

All my family have black cats and here in the UK they are still mostly seen as a good thing. (a black cat crossing your path is considered good luck, especially if it runs across your path. In parts of England, a bride who receives a black cat as a wedding gift is said to have good luck in her marriage)  - just as well as my old cat collects waifs and strays so we have 6 black cats that visit daily as well as my own black cat😺

Tim Holtz chat sticker in the back reads 'wool of bat and tongue of dog' 

The Cadence 'dora' paint really glows behind the witch.  These paints used to be called 'starlight' by imagination crafts.

I highlighted all the edges with the gold paint.

This shows how i added shelves.  I took some stiff card from cat food boxes, cut to the depth & length needed and just scored some tabs each add to glue into place and then covered with black gesso. 

The outside.  I added texture paste through stencils on the top, a shattered one which i think is a bit spider web like and a grungy one that contains a few numbers and letters.  Covered all in black gesso, added a few patches of green & red acrylic and highlighted with silver, black and gold dora paint.  

I added a plastic bat and a little tim holtz sticker to the bottom which i covered in glossy accents.

Items Used:

Coffin box from 'The works'

Tim Holtz Ideology range - pumpkin, candle, bone

Tim Holtz paper dolls & chat stickers

Spider & Web die

skull, cauldron, bat, mini bottles all ebay finds

Chipboard cat & ghost - the works

Cadence dora paints

Thank you for stopping by once again.  Next week is half term so i will be crafting with my nieces and also have a cousin and her family coming down to Cornwall so will be lovely to catch up with them. I hope you have a good weekend and don't forget the clocks fall back an hour so then it will be dark and wintry.  Hugs Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/2024/10/halloween.html

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https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/2024/10/october-stencil-fun-challenge.html - used 2 stencils on the outside of the box

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https://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.com/2024/10/october-challenge-anything-but-card-and.html

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https://snarkystampers.blogspot.com/2024/10/soss-255-h-is-for-halloween.html

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https://creativeartistemixedmedia.blogspot.com/2024/10/welcome-to-creative-artiste-challenge.html

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https://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/2024/10/challenge-603-autumnhalloween.html

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https://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/10/challenge-260-anything-goes-woptional.html

 

Mystical cats

Good Morning everyone

I was given a fabulous magic cat stamp set by funky fossil for my birthday, so ive used them on a few halloweenish cards.

Approx size 7x5" card base made from white card using stitched nesting dies.  I die cut a smaller label shape from white card and  and inked with green and orange brusho powder and red pixie powder.  Once die i stamped the cat image in black and stamped it a 2nd time onto white, from the white version i cut out the cat head and skull and decoupaged over the base image with blue gell.  I just added a little touch of colour to the cats eyes, leaving the rest white so it stands out against the colourful background.

I stamped one of the sentiments and bottles from the set onto white, added a little colour, cut out and adhered to the card front. Glossy accents added to the cats eyes to finish.

The mica in the red pixie powder really comes to life when the light hits it

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Version 2 using another image in the set

Card size approx 5x5"   Made the same way as card 1, this time using mango pixie power.  I wanted the effect of the cats head sort out peeking out of a portal or such which is flooded with light so kept the orange and mango to the middle area.  I picked out the detail in the image using white and yellow posca pens

Gone with a blue background here and mango pixie powder

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and cat image 3

again made the same way.

These are very different images to anything i have in my stash and these funky fossil stamps are such good quality, always giving a perfect image first time. The floral and foliage detail in the cats on the last 2 is lovely and i think suitable for various occasions.  Not sure about the 1st image with the skull - a bit limiting I think, however the skull could be covered by a flower or something.  

Items Used:

Funky Fossil stamp set 'Feline Magic' by Olga Heldwein

Brusho powders

Cosmic shimmer pixie powders

Nesting dies

Thank you all for  stopping by once again. Emma

I love to enter the first card in the following:

https://inkspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/10/challenge-327-seasonal.html

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https://tgifchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/10/tgifc495-halloween-theme-challenge.html

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https://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/2024/10/205-halloweenhalloween-colors.html

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https://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2024/10/challenge-778-halloween-is-coming.html

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https://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/10/challenge-260-anything-goes-woptional.html

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https://cupcakeinspirations.blogspot.com/2024/10/cupcake-inspiration-challenge-604.html

 

The apothecary

Good Morning everyone

Im honoured today to be guest designer at MMTOTY

My last halloween make for now is this apothecary shelf mixed media project.

Approx overall size: 10x7"

I made up this MDF box frame and added texture paste through a brick stencil and also dabbed some here and there to give a rough wall effect.  Out of stiff cardboard box card i cut two strips and glued into place to act as shelves.  Once dry i coated it all in black gesso.  Splodged on some acrylic paint in red, orange and green and then dry brushed over the top with more black gesso and then silver and black cadence dora paint which really shimmers.

I then had fun raiding my stash to fill the shelves.

I knew i wanted a potion bottle that looked like it was glowing & luminous.  I used my daler-rowney acrylic neon paints and poured some of the yellow and green neon into the bottle, dabbing some onto the outside and then popping the cork back in so that it looks like it is really bubbling over.  To give the effect of it really being luminous i then dabbed more of the neon paint around the bottle so it looks like its lit up.  

I also knew i wanted some mini spell books so i played about to make my own, using kraft card and rubbing glycerine in until you get a leather like effect and its becomes malleable for the covers and cut up thin paper pages for the inside - these are just glued into place.  I used twine, touches of distress inks and paint to make them look used and well loved. 

From previous projects i had lots of mini bottles printed out from a very very old daisytrail 

digi-kit, they were printed, cut out and covered with glossy mod podge, so i have used lots of these in the back of my shelves along with real mini bottles to make the shelves look fuller with more depth.

Some of my mini glass bottles i added some alcohol ink and swirled around, others have little beads in them.  The little skulls are beads.

I added some little plastic bugs to the frame, along with the clock and keys.

I used some old wood beads as thought side on they looked a bit like scrolls on the shelf.  A printed eyeball covered with crackle accents in a little wooden bowl.  Can you spot the bat? he really is camouflaged - a little rubber bat, i gave him a coat of black gesso and adhered him up inside the frame.  

Tim Holtz bones, candle & candlestick.  A little broom and a bottle of green glittery potion - this i made up with cotton wool, green ink and gold glitter.   I added die cut spider webs to the back.  Tim Holtz chat stickers added to the scene.

I had really great fun building this up and raiding my stash.

Do hop over to MMTOTY where you can join in with anything halloween or Christmas - my brain is now in full on Christmas crafting mode -scary we are not into November, i know we say it every year but this year really is flying by😀

I hope you all have a great weekend. Crafty hugs Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://twooldbatshalloweenchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/11/november-anything-halloween.html

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The specimen jar

Good Morning everyone

Today card is for a good craft friend who is halloween & tim holtz mad, she loves using Tims paper dolls so i have teamed up 3 paper dolls with an acetate jar i had.  It is sat on the shelf in the witches den among her other lotions & potions 

   I took a piece of white card and drew around the jar acetate as it has a border around the actual printed line, i then used a craft knife to cut just inside the pencil line, i used very thin super hightack tape to adhered the bottle behind the aperture.  Before actually sticking the jar in, i used glittery texture paste through a shattered stencil and inked up with oxide inks, once dry attahed the jar.

I cut another piece of white card with the next size up die, in the middle where the bottle would be i inked with lemonade and twisted citron inks to give a glowing effect, the outside edge i inked with violet, potion and sapphire inks.  I worked out where i wanted my 3 paper dolls so that they would appear in the bottle and adhered them in position.  I added foam tape to the back of the front panel and stuck into place.  

From previous years i had these digital images of jars, skulls, eyes, bugs printed off and covered with glossy accents.  They are a very very old daisytrail digi-kit.  I arranged them around the main image.  I also had an offcut of spider web and 2 spiders, all cut from black card and dry brushed with silver paint - i also added crackle accents to the spiders.

Dreadfully wicked chipboard

and then 3 chit chat stickers which i mounted onto black card

'Watching and waiting'

'what horrors they had seen'

'Here in the darkened house of weeping'

..............one day the specimen jar will break and they will escape and get the witch😊

This is my last halloween card for this, ive had great fun letting the imagination run wild and distract from real life for a while.

Items Used:

PET/acetate/transparency jar 

Tim Holtz Stencil - shattered

Tim Holtz Paper dolls

Tim Holtz Halloween clipping stickers & Halloween baseboards

Stamperia texture paste 'arctic ice'

Distress Inks 'squeezed lemonade, twisted citron'

Oxide inks ' violet, villainous potion'

Spider & web die

Discontinued daisytrail digital kit for all the bottles, skull, eyeball etc...

Thank you all for stopping by once again. I can't believe its half term already, babysitting 3 nieces so lots of crafting to be done which is lovely, i provide the stash they provide the energy & imagination.  I hope you all have a great week.  Big hugs Emma

Id love to enter the following:

https://craftycalendarchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/10/october-challenge-autumn.html

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https://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/10/challenge-695-halloween-thanksgiving.html

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https://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2023/10/challenge-108-autumn-andor-halloween.html

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https://throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.com/2023/10/challenge-209.html

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https://cinspirations.blogspot.com/2023/10/october-challenge-autumn-or-halloween.html

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https://creativecraftinguncles.blogspot.com/2023/10/46-halloween.html

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https://papercraft-challenges.blogspot.com/2023/10/challenge-99-happy-halloween.html

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https://twooldbatshalloweenchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/10/october-anything-halloween.html

 

The pumpkin patch

Good Morning everyone

So this year ive been in a real halloween vibe, I think as i did alot of crafting with my nieces in the summer holidays and for a few sessions they were making halloween items with air dry clay which also got my mum & myself joining in.  Its just good to make something a bit different.  So anyway i made a batch of 10 pumpkin shaped halloween cards

After looking on etsy for a digital halloween stamp i came across these amazing images which were just the thing.....of course it might have been the cats that convinced me 😺

PrntHive - Etsy

So that i could fit 2 on an A4 sheet of card i die cut 2 sizes of ovals, so one set is slightly smaller.  Approx sizes are 7x5.5"  &  6.5x5"  I also used 2 different cardstocks, one is a bright orange pearl card and the other a more muted peach.  On the peach ones i used a soft sage green for the stalks and leaves. 

After die-cutting my ovals i embossed them with a swirl embossing folder, then Inked the edges with vintage photo distress ink and adhered them together with the middle oval on the top.  I then drew around this shape with pencil onto more orange cardstock, cut out, scored a flap on the top edge and glued to the back of my pumpkins, this made my cardblank.  

Die cut leaves from green, stamped the greeting and added a hand cut stalk to the top. The smaller pumpkins i gave 2 leaves and 3 for the bigger ones.

I then had fun arranging the images for my little scenes.

This is a rather majestic kitty with her witches outfit, candle stick, skull on books & pumpkin.  I added touches of stickles 'diamond' glitter glue so that each one has just a little sparkle

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I die cut the tombstone into an oval added to the middle of the pumpkin with the ghosts

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Sticker reads' An eccentric, but estimable gentleman'

This crow image is magnificent - such intelligent birds and the gentleman reminded me of a vampire, hence the coffin image i placed in the background

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Now this one is a bit creepier, the stickers i chose read

'the young girl became possessed'    'Horrible sight'  'The Jack O'Lantern'

I added some green star gems to this background

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Heres another creepy little girl - reminds me of one of my nieces with those eyes😁

Stickers read 'something wicked this way comes'

'her luminous eyes'

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'In the shadow of the trees' 

'in the darkness'

'the witches dance and then vanish'

I added some fab bats and green star gems

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'Elmira is a curious women'

'wonders of a witch'

'smouldering rubbish with an old broomstick'

I added some gold gems to this one

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Now a bit less dark and more autumnal.  I added some die cut leaves with this kitty, pumpkins and a clearly besotted sentiment stamp 'autumn leaves & pumpkins please'

One of my cats loves chasing leaves so this is quite apt

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Kitty in leaves version 2 - i had printed the images out in 2 sizes so this was the bigger version of this image which i cut around.  Added some more die cut leaves and a lovely pumpkin

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and last but not least.  Heres a lovely little wood goblin out collecting leaves and pumpkins

 

My dads pumpkins have done well this year in the garden so we are planning a pumpkin carving session with my nieces at half term - that will be a new one for me having never done one before

Thank you for stopping by once again.  Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://everybody-art-challenge.blogspot.com/2023/10/544.html- pumpkins

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https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2023/10/sos507-franken-card.html

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https://theoutlawzchallenges-monday.blogspot.com/2023/10/october-2nd-monday-greetings-with.html - Fall/halloween & add a pumpkin

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https://inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/10/inspiration-station-october-2023.html - inspired by the pumpkins

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https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2023/10/pumpkins.html

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https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2023/10/pumpkins.html

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