Brainy Treat Box

I was so flattered when Michelle invited me to be a guest designer for ScrappyDew a couple of weeks ago. I decided I wanted to continue the Halloween theme I’ve carried on the last weeks, so here it is. Brainie the Zombie.

Using the Zombies - 2013 pattern on my base box I covered all four sides. This is a different technique from what I’ve been doing, and it looks great (as you all know by now, I love dimensional stuff)

I  really wanted to give this box an apocalyptic feeling and decided the comic inking technique would do  the job.

Using distress inks on a watercolor brush to shade (Pumice Stone, Shabby Shutters  and Tea Dye) and an American Crafts 0.01 point precision pen I outlined all the cuts and added shadows. For highlights, as always, I used my Pilot choose white gel pen.

Finally, I topped the box with my own design of a bony hand, drawn with a Pilot V5 pen on the explore and colored with distress inks as well.

There’s a lot of hand drawing here, but it also looks great without the inking. Scrappy Dew patterns rock! If you want to make this one go to the Scrappy Dew site and get this awesome pattern (comes with a zombie girl also).

~Omar~

Invasion of the Zombies

So excited that you could join me for the FINAL DOOZIE of the Halloween season.  My daughter-in-law teaches at our local community college.  I thought that her office door would be a perfect place for a large doozie!  She is teaching A/P this term and I thought that zombies would be just the right pattern.  Of course, Scrappy Dew http://www.scrappydew.com/store/halloween/halloween_theme.php had just the perfect file!  I used mostly Recollections paper/scraps and I have some really spooky paper from a DCWV Stack that I bought in 2012.  Now this is a BIG DOOZIE, it is 14” x 22”.  (this was so much easier on my old eyes) For the background, I split one sheet of the 12 x 12 paper so that I could frame the poster board that I used instead of card stock.  (i thought it should have some extra omph! since it’s stuck to a door)  I used printed scraps for the zombie clothing and I had to get some bling on it, so there is a beautiful sparkling full moon.  So here it is….

Halloween Door DOOZIE

The office door picture she sent me.

This project was so fun to put together.  I think she got a big kick out of mom making her a DOOZIE.  Gosh that’s it for Halloween 2013.

 So for now, Happy Halloween and bright blessings for Sanhaim, Jana