It's October already???

Yep, it's October the first and you know what that means around here...Tim's TAG TIME!!!


And as usual, I had to go all MacGyver on this tag because I don't have any of the supplies Tim Holtz used.  Totally check out his tag here.

Here's my take:

 

I used Embossing Paste for the background, hit it with about a gallon of spray inks, then mopped it off.  The paper towel removed a lot of the ink from the paste so when I hit it with a bit of Distress Spritzer-ed Distress Marker, the speckles really showed up.

The stencil is actually a large tree.  When I first removed the stencil and saw the paste....um...it looked awful.  Kinda like broken glass shards or something.  But with the addition of the spray inks, I think you can see the branches if you really squint.  ;-)

I did make the mask for the leaf like Tim did with his spider, but it faded into the background too much.  So I just made a leaf from watercolor paper and a stamp, then pop-dotted it into the little recessed area.

The pumpkin, however, is wicked cool. Here's a closeup of it...

See all that texture?  I stamped the pumpkin on watercolor paper, colored it, then slapped Rock Candy Distress Crackle on it.

Then I may have been in a hurry and I may have overheated it to the point where the Crackle may have bubbled and blistered.

So.  Freakin.  Cool.

It's like those weird pumpkins you find with warts and bumps all over them.

I totally buy those for my jack-o-lantern each year.  No, really.  I do.

I added some ribbon stuff, that awesome skeleton skull and the fun letters.

So that's it for me!  Thanks so much for dropping on by!

Peace, spray ink, and bumpy pumpkins!

~Cynthia