31 Days of Halloween - Day 12

Hello folks, and it’s day 12 of the Smeared and Smudged 31 days of Halloween Blog Hop.  All you have to do to take part is to hop through each of the Wicked Blogs that are participating and leave a comment on each project.  All Horrifying Hoppers will receive a Survival Button at the end of the month to proudly post on their blog.

If you’re following the blog hop in order, you’ve arrived here from Teresa’s blog.    If you’ve arrived from elsewhere and you’d like to work your way through all the participating blogs, the blog roll is in the sidebar – just start at the beginning or wherever suits you best.

I altered this bottle and the plastic skull on the stopper using techniques I learned from the Andy Skinner Evil Elixir Mixer workshop and  Timeworn Techniques workshop.   I'm a big fan of Andy's and if you're like this kind of antiqued, grungy look it's worthwhile investigating his online workshops - they are well worth the modest cost.  The bottle itself originally contained a soft drink.  I wasn't wild about the drink but I liked the shape of the bottle.  The skull is a stamp from De Stempelwinkel, stamped onto tissue paper painted on the back with acrylic paint to make it opaque.   I stuck it onto the bottle with clear floor polish (Pledge Multi Surface wax- that stuff is amazingly useful!) In fact, I covered the bottle with it as it gives a nice soft sheen and is not sticky when it's dry.  The label (Doctor Skully's Bone Tonic) I created on the computer and printed onto Safmat.  

I'm entering this into The Mirror Crack'd blog challenge for this month.

Hope you are enjoying the hop.  Don't forget that Scavenger Items will be hidden randomly on the Wicked Blogs, and are not guaranteed to be available every day. You will have to visit blogs to find them. If you find one, you will email and let us know exactly where it was and your name will go into that scavenger item's drawing. Each person who finds the "hidden" picture will get one entry. The drawing for each scavenger prize will be the day after it was posted and winners will be chosen by random number based on who emailed. you for visiting.  Now, if you’re working your way through the roll, it’s on to Renee.  Bye now!