"Hold on Man! We don't go anywhere with 'scary', 'spooky', 'haunted', or 'forbiddin' in the title.

Probably the wrong quote for Smeared & Smudged 31 Days of Halloween, 'cause everywhere you turn, it's "Scary", "Spooky", "Haunted" and "Forbidden". But that doesn't stop the Wicked Bloggers. Be sure you check out the other links in the blog roll to the right.

Scooby Doo's quote was perfect for this journal page. I painted this page with the acrylic green, and "collage pauged" ( Traci Bautista's gluing medium)the ghostly image. I use whatever I happen to find on sale or have a coupon or I am inspired to try. No real product loyalty here. ( However the Claudine Hellmuth Mixed Medium is especially nice, but pricey for the size.) Mod Pauge works nice, too as well as the assorted brands of gel mediums.

The image came from a vintage text from the books below, we had these when I was at home as a mere child. My folks bought them when my brother was little, in the late 40s. I came along in the early 50s. I ran across a set of these and had to pick up a couple of volumnes.

 

I used some more of those Inkadinkado Mini stamps I picked up at Joann's and my local scrapbook store. Don't you love that little row of tombstones. Add some shading with a graphite pencil and some highlights with a white gel pen. You're set.

 

Here's a few detail photos. I think the 3 and the 1 may be from Stampin'Up collage alphabet / numbers.



Now, the prize pack from my rat friends. They need a name, we had several suggestions yesterday, which were pretty good. The rats are androgynous, so they really don't care if it's a boy's name or a girl's name.

The prize pack includes 3 Men's Clothing Alteration Tags, 3 vintage and naturally aged Bingo cards, 3 tags, 3 special labels, and 3 pairs of Pince-Nez, never before worn by any human. The rats and blood splatter will stay here. Isn't this exciting!

So think of some names, and you can enter more than once.


I found
yesterday's cloaked kitty at http://www.stamplandchicago.com/  #3318-18