Smeared and Smudged November 2015 Member Blog Hop

SMEARED AND SMUDGED MEMBER BLOG HOP

Fiona
Titbelsoeur
Susan R. - You are here!
Lyneen
Susan S.

There aren't many of us this time so do hop through and see what there is to see -
all will be posted today by 9am PST!

This is my make:

So first my grunge-y background...
I don't suppose I would try this technique on my own - it's the sort of experiment my husband and chemistry teacher daughter like to play with.

Here is a link on Flickr to the video I made of preparing my board or see it on facebook here

 Hope you can see one of the links - the video is rather long but watching a little will give you the idea ...basically electricity is passed through a piece of plywood coated with sodium bicarbonate solution to produce burnt figures. The electricity is produced using a microwave transformer.

This is the result: burnt, grimy, dirty - grunge-y!

I also photographed it to print out (smaller) twice in a sort of greyscale...

 I printed two skulls straight onto the wood using a Smeared Ink rubber stamp designed by Rick St Dennis and Versafine.

Next, taking copies of the photograph I overprinted with Teri Sherman's Bah Humbug Tree.

I added colour with Promarkers, paperpieced the skulls with beige paper and distressed the skulls and edges with Scattered Twigs.

For the 'Bah Humbug' I used chipboard letters, applying black gesso on texture paste printed with a rubber texture stamp from Lost Coast Designs.

Finally I added a sparkly skeleton and two clip on sparkly spiders:

As you can see it is 'Creepmassy'!

 Hope you will join me in 12 Days of Creepmas in December!

Happy Crafting!