Scary Clown Alert!

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is "Carnival", which I was so looking forward to when I learned it was coming up!  I find clowns fascinating, particularly the creepy looking ones, which those of you who visit here regularly will already have gathered.  Naturally I took the opportunity to play around with that theme again for this week's project!

I dabbed some green and brown distress stains onto my craft mat, spritzed with water and then dragged my manilla tag through it to colour it.  Using Gathered Twigs distress ink I stamped images from the mixed media and spills and splatters stamp sets to "rough it up" a little.

I took my David stamp and placed it on my tag in the position where I was going to stamp it and ran my thumbnail along the right-hand edge, making a faint score line on the tag.  Using that line as a guide I painted a couple of coats of picket fence distress stain onto the tag to lighten the colour where the face was going to go.  The face was stamped with black memento ink and then coloured with ruby, cornflower and pumpkin Promarkers.  "Cirque" was also stamped with memento ink and coloured with ruby and yellow Promarker.

The final touch was the poem, which was printed from the computer and then inked and stamped with spills and splatters to distress it, before mounting it in place.  A layer of black card under the tag gave it a sense of definition around the edges.

Supplies I used included:

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