It’s time for another challenge over at Frilly and Funkie Challenge Blog! This challenge is hosted by Pamellia (My Little Craft Things), who has chosen the theme THINGS WITH WINGS, …Pamellia says, “I would like to see anything that has wings, use your imagination… just make sure your project is shabby chic or vintage in style.”
I love the current challenge over at Frilly and Funkie. It gave me the opportunity to take the new Tim Holtz Regions Beyond and Mini Halloween stamps for another spin! …crows have wings! 😉
I started with a background using a technique I saw this week on Bobbi Smith’s blog Vintage Muse Designs. On top of that I used the new Tim Holtz Twisted stencil from Stampers Anonymous with hickory smoke distress ink.
I created rooftops by stamping the haunted house from the Regions Beyond and Mini Halloween stamps sets which I fussy cut, blended with vintage photo distress ink and adhered along the bottom of my card. I added an incantation word band with picket fence distress crayon rubbed over the top and attached with a tiny attacher.
I glued the crows into place by the body, leaving the wing and tail slightly raised off the cardstock to give dimension. I don’t have a photo, but the background looked too plain so I added some renmant rubs from the new gothic set. I love the chaotic look it gives and one of the scribble rubs worked perfectly as smoke from the rooftop chimneys. Finally I used a splatter brush loaded with ground espresso distress ink to create splatter to the background. I mounted the card onto papers from the Materialize Paper Stash.
Thanks for stopping by, I will be back on Friday over at Frilly and Funkie with a Friday Focus. I hope you will find time to join in the challenge and pop over to Frilly and Funkie challenge blog to see the rest of the DT’s projects. All the products I used are available from The Funkie Junkie Boutique.
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Fabulous! I was thinking about those crows because I have the new Hallowwen set un-inked on my desk but couldn’t think of a way to make the birds pop and you did that brilliantly! Love it!
You creativity never fails! Love how you only used the mansion rooftops! So many fun things about this from the smokey swirly background to the random rubbings, and I must compliment your mad fussy cutting skill! (my own attempt at cutting the rooftop ornamentation ended in removing catwalk and poles and stamping that part directly onto the paper…) lovely job!
Fabulous piece, love he stencilled backdrop and the design. Very clever use of the stamps. Tracy x
Awesome card Zoe!
Needs to be framed and hung on the wall. Love this piece, just love it. You nailed it for halloween creepiness. 🙂 You can send it to me anytime!!!
Victoria, BC
This is so awesome!!! I love that the birds look like they’re flying from rooftop to rooftop! Super clever stamp usage and you’re really making me need that stencil 🙂 thanks for the shout out, Zoe xx
How did I miss this card? This is just plain fabulous! I LOVE how you used the repeated house tops – such a cool idea that I will now promptly copy, lol!