'What's Your Poison?' at Frilly and Funkie

Hi everyone. Thank you for tuning in to see what I've been up to as the rain has poured. Apart from getting my head round setting up for a last minute craft fair entry this weekend (weather permitting!) there have been longer term plans formulating. Hmm, over-thinking things is an 'area for improvement' methinks!!

In the midst of it all has come this project for the current Frilly and Funkie challenge, 'What's Your Poison?' Trace has set us the task to create a Halloween themed piece using black and green but NO orange. An initial attempt at a witches tool kit ended up in the bin. The new box had to be built from scratch using plain green card altered with the Metallic technique and a very handy take out box template. It has an acetate front with the medicine bottles image from The Chemist stamp set added to the front, but try as I might the reflective quality meant taking decent photos failed at every attempt.

At least you can see the added die cut details - the altered grungepaper straps and gravestone decorations given a mix of media used to give an aged feel. The skull shot glass had crackle paint and copper alcohol ink added to it before I dripped Moss Vintaj Patina onto it. Boy, does it make a difference knowing how each of these will react/not react with each other! If you hold it up to the light it will actually glow from inside too. Then there's a couple of altered poison bottles and a spare wand (essential for any witches tool kit in my book).

I love altering little containers that would otherwise find their way into the recycling bin, with texture paste, vintage gold gilding wax, alcohol inks, crackle paint, Stickles and of course some stamping. Bit of a tip here; if, like me, you find your Distress Crackle just crumbles off no matter how little/much you add to prepped surfaces, try adding a single ply layer of plain paper napkin before the crackle layer as it seems to give a better key without affecting the translucent quality. Finally, no self respecting witch can be seen forgetting their most important spells, so a few prompt cards are always helpful.

If this has put you in the mood for whipping up a little of your own Halloween magic we'd love to see you playing along over at Frilly and Funkie, where you can win the chance of a Guest Designer spot for one of our challenges or a $25 shopping spree at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.

I'll be entering this into the following challenges;
Country View Crafts challenge - Something Spooky
Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - Spooky
Make My Monday - Halloween

In the meantime take care of yourselves, Jenny xxx

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