Meet Ecto, the Chocolate Monster!

Ecto is one of the new digital stamps by Carmen Medlin for SCACD. Ecto was resized in Photo Elements then printed out onto Neenah cardstock using my laser printer.

Couture Avenue, a rubber stamp, was stamped below Ecto using Tuxedo Black Memento ink. It was also stamped a second time, so that I could change the names of the stores to work with my theme a bit better.

Both Ecto and Couture Avenue were colored with Copic markers. Couture Avenue was coated with a layer of Matte Glue and Seal and Ecto was coated with a layer of Glossy Glue and Seal. Both versions of Glue and Seal act as a resist.

Memory Box's Clouds dies and a circle punch were used to cut Eclipse Tape. The clouds and the moon (circle) were adhered to the sky portion of the scene.

Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink was sponged over the scene to create a night sky. The Eclipse Tape masks were lifted and an almost-dry baby wipe was used to remove the ink from the stamped, colored images. Some time had passed since I had coated the images with Glue and Seal, so some Chipped Sapphire ended up where it didn't belong! Distress Paint came to the rescue! I mixed Picket Fence and Spiced Marmalade Distress paint and fixed the stores' paint job. Antique Linen Distress paint was used on the stores' roofs. Picket Fence Distress paint was used on Ecto. 

Wink of Stella glitter pen was added to the windows. Silver Gel pen was added to the street lamps and yellow Glaze pen was added to the light portion of the street lamps.  

C00, C0, and C1 Copic markers were used to add definition to the clouds.

Picket Fence Distress paint was used on the other set of store signs, which were then fussy cut, and adhered to a piece of scrap paper, which was run through my printer, so that they'd have new names.

The sentiment "Give me the chocolate and no one gets hurt" was reduced slightly using Photo Elements, then printed out onto Neenah cardstock. The sentiment was cut apart and each word was edged with Chipped Sapphire Distress ink. Spellbinders' Nestabilities Petite Oval dies were used to die cut patterned white vellum and the sentiment words were adhered to the matted die-cut. Some small circles were punched from the same vellum and used to connote that the sentiment was in a thought bubble.

The stamped scene panel was matted with white cardstock and some road-patterned Washi tape was added to the bottom of the panel.

Thanks for visiting today!

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• Crafty Calendar Challenges: Halloween 
• Left of Center: Halloween
• Simon Says Wednesday Challenges: Halloween
• Simon Says Monday Challenges: Spooky 
• Ranger Ink's Blog: Halloween Crafting Contest