The weather in my neck of the woods is getting cooler with little hints of fall in the air! I love this time of year and decided to go a Halloween route with this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge theme, which is to include text. I made a potion bottle card, which has text on the bottle label and text in the background. This is an adorable die and stamp set by Whimsy Stamps called Potion Bottle Dies and Potion Labels Stamp Set.
I used watercolors, acrylic paint and Distress Watercolor Pencils to color the bottle and the cork. I also colored in the Zombie Elixir words with a black Sharpie to darken them up.
I used another die in the set to cut the "toxic" words and glued them to my tag. I assembled my potion bottle, painted in some more tints and details and added some white highlights with a Posca paint pen.
While that was drying, I made the background. I used AALL & Create's Numberama die set for those wonderful funky edges. I painted the background, then used Tim Holtz's Halftone stencil to remove some of the black paint (reverse stenciling) with a baby wipe. To add some more visual detail to the bottom (and because our theme is to add text), I stamped some Halloween phrases from Tim Holtz's Halloween Sketchbook stamp set in the background.
I glued my potion bottle to the front of the card and this project was done!
Here are the supplies I used that you can find at Simon Says Stamp:
- Whimsy Stamps: Potion Bottle Die Set
- Whimsy Stamps: Potion Labels Stamp Set
- AALL & Create: Numberama Die Set
- Tim Holtz: Halftone Stencil
- Tim Holtz: Halloween Sketchbook Stamp Set
- Watercolor Set
- Dina Wakley Acrylic Paint
- Distress Watercolor Pencils
- White Posca Paint Pen
- Strathmore Mixed Media Paper
- Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink
We're excited to see how you incorporate text into your projects! Upload your creations to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for your chance to win a $25 voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store.
