Saturday 26 January 2013

Famous Last Words!

Good day, gentle visitor, and welcome to my blog.  Today I am sharing my contribution for Haunted Design House's latest challenge, which is to created something creepy, gothic, or Hallowe'eny on the theme of "Famous Last Words".  After some deliberation, (I toyed with "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." for some time) I chose Oscar Wilde's alleged last words - "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do!"


I stamped the skeleton (from the Tim Holtz Mini Hallowe'en 2 set) and then masked it (masking seems to be may favourite technique lately, don't know what's got into me!).  The halequin background (turned sideways) came next - I used London Fog Memento ink on the stamp at the edge and Tuxedo Black for the rest so it would look as if it were receding into the distance.  Then I masked that bit and stamped the background pattern. 

Leaving ALL the masks in place, I coloured the background (Tim Holtz Spiced Marmalade and Rusty Hinge DI, with Frayed Burlap to add shading).  Then I took  the mask away and lightly shaded the skeleton with the ink left on my splodge mat, then added in more shading with a cut & dry nib.

The Famous Last Words were just printed out and distressed, and then cut with a Spellbinders die, as was the frame.   And, quite suddenly, it was complete.  I do hope you like it.  Thank you for calling, and do come again!

8 comments:

Redanne said...

Like it? I love it! Your masking is superb and the famous last words sentiment is perfect. Anne x

Creepy Glowbugg said...

Ha! I love that quote! It's perfect for our challenge at HDH! Thanks so much for stopping by the Dungeon and playing with us!

DonnaMundinger said...

ROTFL! Great quote. I guess we all know how that went. Thanks for the laugh and for sharing with HDH. xxD

Andrea C said...

Excellent quote and great piece. Thanks for playing along with Haunted Design House this week x

mark gould said...

lmao, great quote and I love the stamp you have used for the wall paper lol
thanks for joining us at haunted design house.

Evil Edna said...

that is really cool. Lovw thw quote.EE

Croms' Cubby Hole said...

That phrase is one of my favs. a great fun tag with some super techniqes. Thank you for sharing with us at Haunted Design House

ike said...

Excellent piece. Love the masking technique. Thank you for playing along at Haunted Design House :-) xxx