Jess here today with a wicked little vignette box.
Start by taking a wooden vignette box and layering it on top of your Mini Botanical Journaling Block. The blocks come in a set of three, so you can play with different sizes.
Treat the outside of the box using Distress Oxide inks in Forest Moss, Hickory Smoke, and Ground Espresso.
Add a crackle medium. I really glopped it on so it looks chunky. Mixed with the Forest Moss Oxide ink the box looks a bit moldy. Moldy is good at Halloween time!
Add paper to the back of the box and glue it in place. Glue the house to the background. Add fabric tape all around the edges of the shadowbox and set it aside.
Use the largest of the Mini Botanical Journaling Blocks and cover the entire piece with gesso.
Add your sentiment cut from the Tim Holtz Halloween script, Christmas Script, and Holiday Words.
Time to start adding Distress Crayon.
Add crayon and move it around using your fingers.
Cover the front using the same technique. Add more saturated colors on the flowers and leaves. A bit of Distress Paint in Tarnished Brass gets smudged all around the edge of the block.
Cut the bats and moon out of the Haunted House Oval. Emboss the bats using the mercury rising powder. Emboss the moon using Charred Gold.
Glue the shadowbox to the center of the journaling block. Add the bats to the front of the box. Glue in a Tim Holtz tombstone with rub ons added. Glue on the paperdoll. Don't forget to give her a bouquet of dead flowers wrapped in mummy cloth. Cut a small slit around her hand and she appears to actually be holding the bouquet.
Make a bunch of tiny tattered florals and glue them in a cascade on the top of the vignette box. A bit of leftover mummy cloth from the bouquet was put to good use up here. A tiny skull bead aged with mushroom alcohol ink adds an element of surprise.
Add a wooden finial that has been painted with Black Soot Distress Paint and a bit of Tarnished Brass. A bit of fabric tape that is around the edge of the box is wrapped around the finial. Mummy cloth and a few more flowers complete the base.
Here's the back of the Mini Botanical Journaling block all done up.
Happy Haunting!
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