creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky mixed media tag

It's Tuesday which means it's time to share a project created for Topflight Stamps. This week my teammates and I are showcasing Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy. If you're not familiar with these paints, I urge you to try them as they are fabulous. There is a wide variety of colors, that blend beautifully, and the chalk finish gives you a great surface for stamping! Since it's Halloween season and since I live in the town next to where Charles Addams lived, I had to have the Eclectica ENB19 Cling Rubber Stamp Set by Nicci Battilana since it features characters from the Addams Family and have used it to create this mixed media tag.

Topflight Stamps Products Used:

Eclectica ENB19 Cling Rubber Stamp Set by Nicci Battilana for PaperArtsy

Eclectica ENB02 Cling Rubber Stamp Set by Nicci Battilana for PaperArtsy

Eclectica Scrapcosy 24 Cling Rubber Stamp Set by Scrap Cosy or PaperArtsy

Baltic Blue, Pea Coat, China, Lavender, Amethyst, Blueberry, Southern Skies, Eggplant, Lawn, Gumboots, Chalk, Buff, and Stone  Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints by PaperArtsy

Acetate Circles Mask Set by Lavinia Stamps

Nocturne and Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Inks by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Other Products Used:
Solar White Classic Crest Cardstock by Neenah Papers

Bristol Paper by Strathmore

Vellum by Strathmore

Medium Etcetera Tag by Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous

Gesso

Cut 'n' Dry Foam Inkssentials by Ranger Ink

Spiky Paint Brush

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Jet Black StazOn Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko

Circles Nestabilities Die Set by Spellbinders

Copic Markers:

Skin: B000, E40, E21, E11, E00, R000

Lips: E04, RV42

Eyes: E71, E74, E77

Hair: BV23, BV25, BV29, N4, N5, N6

Scar: R02, R17

Bats: E70, E71, E74, E7y, RV42, RV91, RV92, Y35

Dress: Shoes, Hose: V15, V17, BV08, C2, C4, C6, C8

Black Multi-Liner Pen by Copic

Grass Green and Black Chalk Pencils by General's

Colored Pencils by Prismacolor

Pearlescent White Pan Pastels

Halloween Remmant Rubs by Tim Holtz Idea-ology by Advantus

Occasions Small Talk Stickers by Tim Holtz Idea-ology by Advantus

Black Star Mini Brads: Source Unknown

Sookwang Double Sided Tape

Low Tack Tape

Stamping Platform

Instructions:

1. Apply a coat of gesso to the tag. 
2. Make  a mask from low tack tape and use it to cover the bottom part of the tag*. 
3. Add drops of Baltic Blue, Pea Coat, China, Lavender, and Amethyst  Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints , all of which are opaque, to a piece of Cut 'n' Dry foam. 
4. Smoosh the paint onto a craft mat to blend the drops, then apply the paint the top part of the tag. 
5. When the paint is dry*, add drops of Blueberry, Eggplant, and Southern Skies Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints, which are translucent or semi-opaque,  to another piece of Cut 'n' Dry foam, 
6. Smoosh the paint onto the craft mat to blend the drops, then apply to add more variegated blues and purples to the night sky.
7. Create another mask from low tack tape to cover the night sky.*
8. Add drops of Lawn and Gumboots Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints to another piece of foam, smoosh it onto the craft mat, then apply the paint over the mask to create a lawn.
9. Use a spiky paint brush and Gumboots Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paint to add depth and detail to the lawn.
10. Add drops of Chalk, Buff, and Stone  Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints  to another piece of foam, smoosh the paint onto the craft mat, then apply it to a piece of Bristol paper. 
11. Secure the piece of painted paper to the base of a stamping platform.
12. Position the tombstone from  Eclectica ENB02 Cling Rubber Stamp Set by Nicci Battilana  facedown on the painted paper. 
13. Press the back of the platform's lid onto the stamp, lift, ink the stap with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink by Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko, and stamp onto the painted paper.
14. Flip the painted paper so that the plain side is showing. 
15. Ink the stamp and stamp the back of the painted paper twice. 
16. Fussy-cut the tombstone stamped onto the painted paper.
17. Fussy-cut the other two tombstones with rounded tops.
18. Edge all three tombstones with a black pen. 
19. Add details, such as cracks and shading to the tombstones.
20. Add "RIP" and the dearly departeds' names onto the tombstones using Remnant Rubs.
21. Use Sookwang tape to back a strip of vellum.
22. Use Jet Black Staz-On Ink to stamp the ghosts from the Eclectica ENB02 Cling Rubber Stamp Set by Nicci Battilana onto the vellum.
23. Fussy-cut the ghosts.
24. Use Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Ink to stamp the moon from the Eclectica Scrapcosy 24 Cling Rubber Stamp Set by ScrapCos onto white cardstock.
25. Cut the moon with a circle cutting die and edge with Morning Mist VersaFine Clair Ink.
26. Use Tuxedo Black Memento Ink to stamp Wednesday, Thing, the dress, arms, hands, and the bat from the Eclectica ENB19 Cling Rubber Stamp Set by Nicci Battilana onto white cardstock. 
27. Fussy-cut all the elements.
28. Color all elements with Copic markers, then edge them with a black pen. 
29. Use a stabby-tool to poke holes where indicated on the paper doll's parts. 
30. Use one of the masks from the Acetate Circles Mask Set as a guide to add a halo of white pearlescent Pan Pastel to the night sky. Spread it outwards with your fingers.
31. Adhere the moon over the pearlescent white halo.
32. Adhere the bats as shown.
33. Adhere vellum ghosts, the tombstones, and Thing were adhered to the tag. 
34. Assemble Wednesday using tiny star brads then adhere her body, leaving her arms free from adhesive so that they can be moved.
35. Use green and black chalk pencils to ground the elements on the lawn and to add detail as well. 
36. Adhere the sentiment sticker to complete the tag.

Notes:

• You usually don't have to use gesso with the Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints, but I didn't want to risk ruining the tag.
• Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints dry really quickly so there's no need to heat set. Unless you're neurotic. Like me.
• Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints' labels tell you whether the paint is opaque, semi-opaque, or translucent. The different opacities allow you to layer and build color.
• Overlap strips of low-tack tape onto a cutting mat. Use an exacto knife to cut a curved top, then adhere the strips of tape as a mask, wrapping the ends around the tag.

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