Sunday, October 5, 2014

31 Days of Halloween | Day 5

10/05/2014 06:30:00 AM  , , , , , , ,  18 comments

During the month of October I am participating in a month-long blog hop with some amazing artists. Everyday you will find a new Halloween project on all of the blogs listed below. Each project must have stamping on it, be it digi or ink. There are prizes to win, be sure to check out all the rules HERE and information on the daily scavenger hunt is posted there! You must go HERE to find the item/s you are looking for the scavenger hunt.


Welcome to Day 5 of the 31 Days of Halloween hop with SmearedInk.com! On Sundays I like to do a mixed media piece with leftovers from previous projects....I keep a box lid with discarded pieces and bits just for this. 

I love the size of a fatbook page for this project--it's traditionally 4×4" square. Like ATCs these little pieces of art are to be traded! I adhere the bits and pieces to the square with gel medium/


I then apply a layer of Gesso to the entire surface and a light coating of orange acrylic. 


Next I drybrush on some brown paint. This is when things really start to speak to me. The highlighted textures are my favorite part of this technique.


Now that my base is complete, I stamp the skeleton image with embossing powder adhesive and heat emboss with Black Detail EP. Next I stencil the word SKELETON on the page with Dylusions mist and finally heat emboss a border around the page and highlight the chunkier pieces on the page with vintage black EP.

I hope you enjoyed my fatbook page project! Please join me again tomorrow!

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18 comments:

  1. DonnaMundingerOctober 5, 2014 at 12:27 PM

    WOW! LOVE this and thanks for the tut! Gonna try this soon! My whole craft room is full of scraps. LOL FABULOUS texture! xxD

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  2. LyneenOctober 5, 2014 at 12:38 PM

    OH MY GOSH... your fat book page is AWESOME... love all the technique you used!!!

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  3. maureenjscottOctober 5, 2014 at 12:54 PM

    Um.... I'm not sure if my comment worked there! I love your project and the step by step! Adding this to my notebook for future ref! Mo x

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  4. TangledBlueRoseOctober 5, 2014 at 1:03 PM

    Love this project, so fun to play on something a bit smaller! Gorgeous colors and textures, I have to remember all this goodness! Thanks so much for sharing your techniques!~kim

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  5. JuliaOctober 5, 2014 at 1:30 PM

    Great fat book page, love how you use everything.

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  6. Laura S ReadingOctober 5, 2014 at 1:50 PM

    Thank you for giving so much detail and instruction.
    I doubt my final project will be as nice as yours but I love trying.
    Great dimentionality.

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  7. Leigh S-B - The Sharpie Domino QueenOctober 5, 2014 at 1:56 PM

    That is one fangtastically creepy and deliciously texture fatbook page! That is a brilliant idea...my entire studio is one big saved scraps collection that I just can't throw away and to make myself use it at the end of the week like this will work for me I think! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  8. applejack cards by sueOctober 5, 2014 at 2:15 PM

    Oh I do like this! Thank you for the step by step... I am going to try this as soon as I can, your page project is amazing!

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  9. Dog-MaOctober 5, 2014 at 3:02 PM

    Love the texture and thank you for sharing your process.

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  10. xfilekcOctober 5, 2014 at 3:25 PM

    Great project, the amount of texture is awesome. Thanks for the "how-to" which have inspired me to try this.

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  11. UnknownOctober 5, 2014 at 3:42 PM

    I like the texture and the colour, very nice!

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  12. UnknownOctober 5, 2014 at 4:08 PM

    What a fantastic idea to use up scraps in this way! Love your little page, and I think I'm going to "steal" your idea with the week's scraps!

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  13. My Side of OzOctober 5, 2014 at 4:40 PM

    Love the techique...looks like fire at one point! Love saving the bits and using them! Lovely project and awesome embossing!

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  14. Susan RenshawOctober 5, 2014 at 4:41 PM

    This is brilliant! Thanks for the detailed explanation. Love the colour...

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  15. StephOctober 6, 2014 at 8:04 AM

    This is so cool! Thanks for the step by step pics. I know I have some old cards in my house somewhere, I'm want to give this a try :)

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  16. Barbara RankinOctober 6, 2014 at 10:57 AM

    Fabulous mixed media project, Leslie Rahye! I love that technique, too. It always seems to work well for me, and you blew it out of the water.

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  17. (AJ) ArtJypsy October 6, 2014 at 1:53 PM

    Wonderful mixed media piece.

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  18. Christine KiehlOctober 6, 2014 at 4:31 PM

    This is a great piece of Mixed media! Thank you for the How to also!

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