Skull Love!

November 1st and 2nd was Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, a Mexican celebration in which families gather to commemorate their loved ones who have passed on.
There are many traditions associated with the Day of the Dead Festival including the creation of sweets from pressed sugar in the shape of a skull, which is decorated with icing flowers. These sugar skulls and Catrinas, carved figurines with a skull head are used as grave decorations or offrendas and during the widely held feasts!
Here at Bombshell Stamps we have several beautiful sets of stamps that are inspired by the Day of the Dead festival see them all HERE!

I created a mini shrine in honour of my relatives- combining beauty with the macabre!

 

Close up of the left side:

Close up of the right side:

Supplies:

A Pirate's Life Bombshell Stamps

Western Gal Bombshell Stamps

Sugar Skulls Bombshell Stamps

Calaveras Fiesta  Bombshell Stamps

Vintage Cabinet Card Die by Tim Holtz

Mini Bat and Skull Tim Holtz Die

Nestabilities Floral Ovals

Moulding Paste

Acrylic Paint

Authentique Patterned Paper

Various Embellishments

Copic Ciao Pens

Hope you had a lovely Halloween and Dia de Los Muertos!

GlitteryKatie xxx

Bombshell August Hump Day Blog Hop!!!!

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Boho Rose's Burlesque Challenge:






Supplies
Bombshell 'Butterfly Queen'
7gypsies papers
Making Memories glitter stickers
Foam core board

Kas's HOT HOT HOT Challenge:



Supplies:
Bombshell 'Pirate's Life" and 'Live to Ride"
Copic Pens
Various Patterned papers

Kathi's August Sketch Challenge:



Supplies
Bombshell 'Live to Ride'
Basic Grey Paper


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Maggi
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kt x

Shrine Time!

I've loved looking at shrines that other people have created and wanted to 'have a go' but didn't really have a clue where to start! So to give me a kick start I decided to sign up for a small swap on a forum! Talk about throwing myself in at the deep end- I hadn't a clue!!

So I pootled off to one of my fave blogs by Effie to have a peruse of her shrines and get some ideas!

So where to start? Efemera had recommended using foam core board to create a box for the shrine so I went off to our local art shop and bought a HUGE A1 piece for about two quid! The foam core board is light and strong and is about 1/4" thick so it makes a great box!

I used double sided tape to attach the sections of foam core board together:

...adding shelves as I needed:

I then covered the whole shrine with torn pieces of Dictionary pages (DO be careful to check for rude words!!). I used a spray on glue to stick the paper on- as it was dry straight away, no waiting around for glue!

I then used Distress Inks to colour the shrine. I squidged a foam pad onto the ink pad then rubbed the colour onto different parts of the shrine.

When the ink was dry I stamped a swirly stamp onto the shrine and added gold embossing powder which I heated carefully with my heat gun.

Next it was time to create the 'story' for my shrine.

This is a window into my VERY strange brain- but I based my shrine on a dream I had...about moths and buses and West Drayton, don't ask *chortles*

So I found or made items that would tell my story and assembled them on the shelves. I wanted it to look like the jumbled, over stuffed shelves of a Victorian museum (like the Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford!) full of a weird, eclectic mix of items!

Here are some close-ups of the shelves and the bits and pieces!

So there's my first shrine! I was pleased with it and surprised how easy it was to make! Making it was much easier than the worrying about making it that I did before hand!

I found the process of filling the little shelves really fun and it certainly got the mojo flowing- in fact I have another shrine in the planning stage already! I think I'm gonna have a lot of fun with shrines!

*Waggles inky fingers*

GlitteryKatie

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