Gothic Haunted House Shrine-UPDATE + GIVEAWAY

Just a little more Halloween Fun with a Retro Cafe Art Gallery kit, some Fresco Paints, and a few accents from Graphic 45 and Inspiration Emporium.

  

 

 This stuff is so addicting!!!!

 

Some Spiders, Charms, Bats, and Stamps on the Fresco Paint background and it is just a HOOT!

 

 

The Ravens and Spiders are accented with Ice Stickles.

 

Check out those Skull and Crossbones charms!!!

 

You've got to love the chipboard Spider Webs covered with Purple Ice Stickles and a little bottle of Poison that sits in the cubby!!!

 

The bottle has Rust Alcohol Ink in it for color, and the Poison stamp is colored with Distress Markers and Distress Inks. Adding with Glue-n-Seal is really easy.

 

The Tombstone is the smaller window piece just painted up.

 

I used the clock from Happy Haunting papers and added Glossy Accents, a Spinner and a brad to a metal Vintage Mechanical Washer from Prima.

 

NEWSFLASH!!!!

 Kristin just told me she's having a Random Wednesday Giveaway over on Retro Cafe Art Gallery's FACEBOOK page.

 

So if you want the Kit to make one of these really cool Gothic Haunted Houses....check out the link and enter to win a great prize here.

 

And check out the other links for the rest of the products, too!

 Linda

 

Products from Retro Cafe Art Gallery

Gothic Halloween House Kit

Raven Background Cling Mount Stamp

Antique Brass Skulls with Roses Charms

Bat Cutouts-Black Mat Board

Spider Web Corner Cut-Outs

Brass Skull and Crossbones

Spider WitchWands

Antique Brass Fleur-de-lis Crowns

Graphic 45-Steampunk Spells Paper Collection

Prima-Metal Brads-Engraver

 

Inspiration Emporium Products

Prima Vintage Mechanical Washers 1- Finnabair

Tim Holtz Little Labels Collection

Tim Holtz-Idea-ology-Games Spinners

Black Diamond and Purple Ice Stickles

Distress Markers, Distress Inks, Jet Black and Coffee Archival Inks

Glossy Accents, Glue-n-Seal

 

Other Products

Fresco Paints from PaperArtsy-Snowflake, Guacamole, and Tinned Peas

Graphic 45-Happy Haunting-Pumpkin Time, Midnight Magic, and Trick-or-Treat

Glass bottles

White Posca Pen

 



A Little Witch Halloween Inspiration Fairy Shrine

Just a little reminder to get your Fairy Shines created and mailed into Kristin and Retro Cafe Art Gallery! 

 

Bill mailed mine yesterday for me! What a guy!

 

I had to make just one more for the Inspiration Fairy Shrine Swap...it was very spur-of-the moment with the new Chipboard Bats....Charms....Stamps.....and German Scrap Wings.

 

The background stamps are Halloween Stamps that are just too cool! Check them out!

 

  

 I always love making little Jack-O-Lanterns out of wooden beads and Liquid Pearls.

 

Stuff a little green leaf into the top and they're cuter than cute!

 

I used the Witch Hat from the Inspiration Fairy Kit-Halloween, but you could use a chipboard hat as well.

 

 

Kristin has the new  Steampunk Spells  papers from  Graphic 45  for the clock and bat that I jazzed up with some Glossy Accents.

 

Get them while they're hot.... this is my new FAVORITE G45 paper collection!!!!

 

And don't forget....the GothicTombstone Swap is now going on at Retro Cafe Art Gallery....Join the fun!

 

Linda

 

Retro Cafe Art Gallery Supplies

 

Inspiration Fairy shrine Kits-Style 4

Brass Skull and Crossbones

Extra-small Bat Wing Cutouts-Black Chipboard

Steampunk Spells 8x8 Paper Pad by Graphic 45

Skeleton Poem Halloween Cling Mount Stamp

Halloween Cling Mount Stamp-Raven Background (this stamp is soooo cool!)

Art Doll Head Paper Cuts

Witch Hat Cut-Outs

German Dresden Fancy Gold Angel Wings and Halos

 

Other Products

White Posca Pen

Glossy Accents

Liquid Pearls

Black and Coffee Archival Ink

Fresco Paint for wings and background colors

Steampunk Lady Collage

I LOVED making this collage.

 

I LOVE Finnabair's Mechanicals!

 

I LOVE Gears and Watchparts from Retro Cafe Art!

 

I LOVE PaperArtsy Fresco Paints and Grunge Paste!

 

And of course, I LOVE Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells Paper!

 

You get the picture.....This makes my heart sing!

 

It's everything I love to work with....and it came together.

 

I'll give you a little bit of a step-out.

 

 

I started with a 6x12 canvas panel, Grunge Paste and a Prima Stencil.

When it dried, I added many, many layers of Fresco Paints starting with browns and going on to Blood Orange and Claret.

 

I added some more stencils with paint and stamped images to fill in space.

 

I fussy cut the G45 12x12 papers and hand colored them with pens to make them brighter. I also had to make the Orangeness of the flowers more Burgundy.

 

Sand off the areas of Grunge Paste stenciling to get a white image...loved how that turned out!

  

Then I just started playing with elements

 

Just keep adding and then walk away...come back later and LOOK at it. Move something.

 

I TAKE FOREVER!

 

This is a detail picture of the UTEE on the Clock, the Propeller from RCA that is painted with metallic paints, and the Springy Thingy from the Mechanicals added with a Hitch Fastener.

 

More stamps with ink and some with paint.

 

White pen marks, too. See the Stone Paint stamped flowers and Ironwork images?

 

 

I spent a good portion of the afternoon taking and editing pictures.........only to see that I'd forgotten to glue down 2 elements that are floating in the picture where they really don't belong.

 

BUT, after talking to myself, (ha), I decided....WHO CARES???

 

 

She's a beauty, isn't she? I love the Gears, Flower and Feathers on her hat.

 

Her bodice piece is from Finnabair (it's cut in half) as is the jeweled piece around her watch necklace.

 

So you can see we all make really funny mistakes, and Life is Too Short to Sweat the Small Stuff!

 

YO!

 

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. They're glued down in the final piece up top.

 

Let me know if you think you can find the 2 Floating, unglued pieces. It should be fun!

 

As always, check out the links below, and do your part to help the economy!

 

Linda

 

Retro Cafe Art Gallery Products

Coffee Break Designs-Steampunk Gears II, Mini Steampunk Gears, Steampunk Propellers, Large Diamond Background II Stencil

Prima-Mini Mulberry Roses, Engraver-Brads, Sunrise Sunset Collection Mechanicals- Washers #1& #2, Mini and Roman Numerals, Numbers, Mini Numbers, and Clock Face Large

Graphic 45-Steampunk Spells 8x8 Pad (I used 12x12 smaller lady, this pad has 2 sizes of this lady)

 

Tim Holtz-Hitch Fasteners, Mini Gears

Other Ephemera-Small Watch Parts, Vintage Pocket Watch Key

 

 Products at Inspiration Emporium

 

Prima-Junkyard Findings-Nail Heads, Clock Parts, Bolts & Nuts, Jeans Buttons, Special Screw, Screw Heads.

 

Prima-Sunrise Sunset Collection- Mechanicals-Flowers Medium, Flower Shapes, Roses, Flowers Small, Mini Flowers, Brads

 

Prima-Lifetime-Paper Flowers 1.5, Ladybird-Paper Flowers, Engraver-Wood Buttons, Brads, Clear Stamps #2, Stencils-Circular Lattice, Hello Pastel- 4x6 Cling set,

 

PaperArtsy Products at Frantic Stamper

 

Fresco Paints, Grunge Paste, Mini Stamps-Gears, and Splatters.

 

And many more pieces of ephemera and products too numerous to list!!!!