This week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge theme is Spooky/Halloween. I am a huge chicken when it comes to scary-spooky things (I was the teenager who hung out coloring picture pages in the "Pumpkin Patch" area with the 5-year-olds when my friends dragged me to haunted houses), so I always lean toward cute or funny spooky. This zombie quote from Impression Obsession cracked me up the first time I saw it, so I was excited to put it to use this Halloween season. And you know me-- if I can add background dots and a pointy hat (like on this cute little zombie guy from Whimsy Stamps), you know I'm gonna do it!
Bring on the dots! I smooshed some white acrylic paint through Tim Holtz's Dotted stencil and smeared some of the white paint together.
I colored in some of the circles with Distress Crayons (coloring with any type of crayons is wonderfully therapeutic in my humble opinion).
I blended the colors around with a bit of water and added some Distress Paint and Dina Wakley acrylic paint.
I had some problems at this point. I liked my tag, but I'd made the background at the bottom of the tag too busy, so I had to tone it down with white paint or else anything on top of it would look crazy-pants. I also wanted another little pop of color, so I added some pink paint around the tag's edges. Next I cut out my zombie using Whimsy Stamp's Monster Parade die set and I hand-cut a stripped hat. I also cut out a picket fence from Papertrey Ink's Haunted House die set. I used some wood grain paper for that from Honey Bee Stamps' Harvest Festival paper pack. I also like to outline the edges of my die-cut shapes with a black Sharpie to make them stand out.
Assembly time! I whipped out my UHU glue stick and got everyone in place and this tag was done!
Here are the supplies I used that you can find at Simon Says Stamp:
What will you put together for our Spooky/Halloween theme? Upload your creepy creations to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for your chance to win a $25 voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store.
