Tip-toe, tip-toe, boo!

The theme over on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is "Spooky", perfect for this time of year, with Halloween on the way!  Why not dig out your creepiest and spookiest crafty supplies and make something spine-chilling?  You could win a prize! :)

When I was a kid in Chicago (I think - we lived in New Jersey too so it could have been there) we learned a Halloween song in school that went...

Stirring and stirring and stirring our brew,
Tip-toe, tip-toe, BOO!

 ... hence the title of this post!  Do any others of you out there in blogland know that song?  No one I've ever asked has ever heard of it!

I had planned to make some Halloween-themed candy boxes for this challenge, only to have my Cuttlebug break on me half way through the project!  I was basing it around Tim's Pillow Box die so I had to have a project re-think.   (I've heard a whisper on the tinsel grapevine that Santa might be bringing me an Ebosser - hurrah!)

I started out by covering my tag with sections from Tim Holtz's Laboratorie paper stash. The black and white designs make them perfect for Halloween projects, but because they're not Halloween-specific, they can be used for so many general themes too.  Spots of colour were added with a range of distress inks and I stamped the spiders webs from the Trick or Treat stamp set in various places.

The skull was stamped, cut out, flicked with Fired Brick distress stain and fixed in place.  I cut the hat, band and buckle freehand with scissors.  The band was coloured with Dusty Concord distress ink and I used a cotton bud (q-tip) dipped in Picket Fence distress paint to add a highlight.  The buckle was coloured with a couple of layers of tarnished brass distress stain and fixed in place.

I stamped the Halloween ticket twice, once in Archival black, once in Fired Brick distress ink.  I used a baby wipe to remove ink from parts of the stamp each time to give the two-colour result.  The cat was stamped, cut out and fixed in place.  After the Poison label was stamped, I masked the skull and crossbones while I coloured the rest of the label with Fired Brick ink before fixing it in place.  Finally I used a warm grey Promarker to add shadows in some places.

Supplies I used included:

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Our ever-generous sponsor Simon Says Stamp is offering a $50 gift voucher as the prize again this week, just make something for the challenge and you could the winner! The winner will be chosen at random from those who enter the challenge, so why not give it a try? At the very least why not head over to the Challenge Blog to see how the other members of the design team have interpreted this weeks theme! :)

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