Halloween ATC for All Things Tim Yahoo Group

For the All Things Tim yahoo group this month we are having the theme of Halloween. I just love this theme so I was really into this swap. 
I took some of the Tim Holtz Halloween decorative paper, cut it into ATC sizes and ran it through the Big Shot with the brick wall embossing folder. 

 When that was done I then took Gathered Twigs and Black Soot Distress Ink and Ran it over the embossing in order to enhance it and make it stand out some. 

 

After that I covered each one with Ranger Crackle Paint and it really made the details pop. I then sat those aside to dry completely.

Waiting for the backgrounds to dry I then took some cardstock and covered it again with the Tim Holtz decorative tape in the spider web design and then painted it, just like I did with the Rolodex cards. Only this time I stamped it with Tim Holtz ticket stamp "Happy Halloween" from the Odds and Ends stamp set. Then those were cut down to size.

I then stamped the frame from the Tim's new stamp set Mini Halloween and embossed it in black. I used an exacto knife to cut out the centers.

I used Tim's metal tape and stamped the skull from the same stamp set to make it look like a mirrored image and adhered that to the back of the mirrors.

I used Tim fragments and cut out some black number from Tim's strip alphabet die and adhered those to the back of the fragments to make the date 31.

Once all that was done and the backgrounds were dry I put everything together and added these straight pins with half black moons (don't remember where those came from)

Hope these are spooky enough for the Hallween swap :)

I am submitting this into this weeks Simon Says Stamp and Show

Challenge for this week. The theme is Tape It Up!!

FUN!!!

I am just loving how the background came out on these, it really looks like a brick wall and the paper gives it a really cool color. None of them came out exactly alike.