Quoth the Raven

Time for Tim's tag for September!

I spent today crafting with my good friend Lisa.  We both spent all day working our tag. We had lots of laughs and fun today, even if we didn't get too much finished. (Thanks Lisa!)

My tag started from the cool technique shared by Tim and morphed into a dark  Halloween tag.

 Once I started down the path of aluminum foil and black ink I never left it.

The background is created with layers of aluminum foil and I added the rivet and texture.  I then added my alcohol inks and sanded the layers off.

I die cut the Sizzix Clock from chipboard and coated it with Distress Paint - Crackle - Brushed Pewter.  After it dried I sponged Black ink over the surface.  I finished it off with a white gel pen edging and black gems.

I stamped the stampendous raven using black ink and embossed with black embossing powder.  I cut him out to add him to the center.

I die cut a center circle from aluminum foil and embossed with the embossing folder.  I smeared black ink over the surface to pick up the embossing.

The flowers are die cut using the Tattered Flower Die from Sizzix on more aluminum foil backed by cardstock.  After they were cut they were embossed and smeared with black StaZon ink and highlighted with silver stickles.

The branches are a Memory Box die and colored with Black ink and highlighted with the Stickles.  The background is stamped using the Stampendous Raven. I inked up the stamp with Versamark and masked the raven to stamp just the quote.  I heat embossed the quote with black embossing powder.

I also created a few other pieces that hopefully I will be able to use in future projects.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz