Friday, October 9, 2015

Skull Maggots - day 9

welcome to my day 9 Friends!

After seeing my Ingredient Cards laid together yesterday and sort of stewing over how I'll be presenting them as a whole, I thought it would be good to add in a few cards with a bit less dimension. Hopefully my layered heart can get over it! :) so where today's project might not be very technique and or labor intensive, I'm still excited to show you the fourth of my Ingredient Cards... SKULL MAGGOTS :




dun dun DUN!!!!!!!! I love how it turned out :) And I feel like it could be the front of some funky 80's SciFi novel or something! The base is, of course, Canson watercolor paper. It's been layered with a trimmed down piece of patterned paper from my Destination Unknown line for 7 Dots Studio.




The Destination Unknown paper was trimmed down and then stamped with the Waybill/Invoice Background from Viva Las VegaStamps!. It was stamped in Ranger archival black, but to tone it down I dabbed the stamp on the ink pad and then blotted it on some scrap paper so that I was stamping with a ghosted image on the card background. It gave the card a great worn look. Then it was machine sewn to the card. 




I stamped the Elegant Lady Face from Viva Las VegaStamps! on bristol board in Ranger's Archival ink and fussy cut her out. Then.. I chopped off the top of her head! lol. The Detailed Brain was stamped on that same vintage book text I've been using for the ingredient cards. I trimmed it out also, then tucked it behind my Vintage Lady so that her brains are now exposed.



I glued everything down and then finished the card with the Skull Maggots stamp from last year's Halloween release. The Bristol board is proving great for stamping and really seems to hold up to wet glue, too. Believe it or not.. no UmWowStudio on this card. Sad right? haha :) 

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14 comments:

  1. skull maggots - of course!!! A no-brainer, really.

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  2. Great details, loving the stitching and the brains with text.

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  3. EEEEEEK, skull magots, now my brain is feeling itchy!!!! Love it!

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  4. Fun design - even though no UmWow was used in the production of this design!
    thanks for sharing a gruesome/great idea.

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  5. Skull maggots? Hope this is only in your imagination! Great Halloween make!

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  6. First skull maggots..ewwww then wow and fab..only on this hop can maggots be fabulous lol xx

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  7. Great piece--loving the stitching detail!

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  8. Eeeeek maggots.....love the stitching!

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  9. EEEK! Makes me think of Hannibal. Love the stitching. Do you think you could reattach that skull? LOVE! xxD

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  10. eeekkk this is a creepy thought but love it and the stitching is awesome. Happy Day 9

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  11. When I read Skull Maggots I thought GRUESOME... but this is really tasteful... the sewing on the edges is a nice finish. Thanks for Sharing!

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  12. Blek skull maggots :p oh but I love how you cut open the head and put in the brain. So gruesome!

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  13. Oh my stars! This is designed well for a seemingly frightful thought, with a clean layering of patterns and paper for a worn vintage look.

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