More Skull Distraction

Hello all.  I hope you're all doing okay.  Here's another eerie tag which was thrown together in between packing stints.  Again, almost all the bits were already done - the backgrounds, the leaves.  All I did was stamp and cut out the skull and the skeleton and then a bit of arranging and gluing.

The backgrounds were some of the ones I made while I was in the Czech Republic recently, and which flew back with me on the plane because there was nothing in the travelling stash that worked well enough with them for me to want to go ahead and finish them.  You know how blue and brown always makes me happy, and I wanted to find the right topping.

I love the Oxide stamping - so cool how such a pale blue can hold its own against the earthy browns underneath.

And the delicate cobwebs add another bit of extra textural detail to the look.

The poison labels were lying around because I'd snatched a few minutes to stamp them on some ink-smooshed paper a few days earlier.

And there are always autumn leaves hanging around on my craft table at this time of year.

These, if I remember rightly, were done on kraft paper for a nice dark, earthy look.

This skull has always been a favourite stamp - it was in one of the very first Tim Holtz stamp sets I ever bought, and as I was saying about the "Yorick" die yesterday in Distracted Skulls, he's been used far more often than just for Halloween.

The tall skinny skeleton wasn't as easy to fussy-cut as the skull sadly, but every now and then the fiddly cutting is worth the effort, and I think this was probably one of those times.

I layered up a few of the stamped ephemera poison labels... 

... and added a couple of contrasting stickers from the Idea-ology Halloween sticker book.

And I added a couple of Halloween Typed Tokens to the mix...

... with the words highlighted with white acrylic, as is my wont.

And I think that'll just about do for now.  I've got one more set of spooky tags to share with you, so I'll be back tomorrow - this time at the witching hour, so really it's not officially until Friday that I'll see you again here... 

... but I may catch you elsewhere in Craftyblogland in the meantime (packing permitting).  In the meantime, stay safe, stay well, and stay creative in this scary world.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
Andre Maurois
Hmmm... I can't think of anybody like that, can you?!

I'd like to join in at Tag Tuesday where they are playing All Hallow's Eve as the theme

At More Mixed Media it's Anything Goes with Optional Orange - not taking up the option this time, sorry!

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