I Brake for Dapper Skeletons!

Here's a Halloween card featuring the ever-so-dapper Skelly Tonn from the Randi Dandi Halloween Series 1 Collection of rubber stamps by Rick St. Dennis that are available exclusively at I Brake for Stamps.

Skelly Tonn was stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink (Imagine Crafts) and colored with Copic markers. The tip of his cigarette, eyes, and nose apertures of the skulls on his bowtie and fashionable cufflink received dabs of red, orange, and yellow glitter pens. The skulls, buttons, and his cigarette holder were coated with several layers of clear glaze pen to add dimension and shine. The Skelly Tonn image was then fussy-cut and edged with a black marker.

I selected a sheet of patterned paper, then placed the Skelly Tonn image upon it. I loosely traced Skelly Tonn's shape onto the patterned paper using a charcoal pencil, lifted the image, then used the charcoal pencil to color the traced image. When I was happy with the coverage, I also used the charcoal pencil to edge the image panel. The image was loosely adhered inside the charcoal-colored area.

Orange cardstock was cut and folded to form the card. The image panel was adhered to it. A scrap of the excess cardstock was die-cut with the words from a  Happy Halloween sentiment die set. Pale yellow-orange vellum was die-cut with the shadow dies from the Happy Halloween sentiment die set and the vapor die from a cauldron die set. The vapor die-cut was adhered behind the cigarette on the Skelly Tonn image, which was then more firmly adhered to the image panel. The orange Happy Halloween sentiments were adhered to their vellum shadow counterparts, which were then adhered to finish the card.

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Kathi

I Brake for Skelly Tonns!

Here's my card with Skelly Tonn, from the wonderful Randi Dandi Halloween Series One rubber stamps from the exclusive Rick St. Dennis Collection at I Brake for Stamps.

Skelly Tonn was stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink (Imagine Crafts) and colored with Copic markers. The image was fussy-cut, then edged with a black marker.  All the patterned paper was edged with Black Soot Distress ink (Ranger).

I was delighted to discover that patterned papers from the Eerie Collection (Basic Grey) matched the brightly colored image.

Green cardstock was die-cut with a Happy Halloween sentiment die set . Vellum was die-cut a bubble set.

After the card was assembled Red Spica glitter pen accents were added to the cigarette tip, and all three sets of eyes. Several layers of Clear Gelly Glaze pen were added to the Skelly Tonn's eyes, teeth, cigarette holder, plus the skulls on the bows and cuff to add dimension and shine to those items. 

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Kathi

I Brake For Skelly Tonn!

Hello and happy Saturday!

I have to apologize for missing last Saturday...which I believe is my first time since joining the team on March 3, 2012.  My computer charger cord broke and I had no way of uploading my photos or posting to my blog.  Wow!  Before you know it I'll be coming up on my 3rd anniversary!

Today I'm sharing a really fun Halloween image!  This one is called Skelly Tonn.  It's from the Rick St. Dennis line at I Brake For Stamps.

I used a variety of dies and punches to accent this amazing stamp.  The window was made with a Spellbinders Grand die.  The fence is from Martha Stewart, the spider web is Memory Box and the bats and sign post are from Quickutz.

I used Copic markers to color them.