The Smell of Death

Hello 🙂 We’re about 2/3 of the way through the October ATG (old or new, full projects, or just coloring) challenge at the Aurora Wings Facebook group. We love to see your Aurora Wings creations and coloring, so please pop by and share!! For my inspiration this month, I wanted to do something a bit creepy/spooky, so chose one of Mitzi’s images that isn’t used a whole lot. Corpse Flower Sprite fit the bill perfectly!! I colored it up with my Copics, then fussy cut it out.

I die cut a tag, then blended Distress Inks that coordinated with the image. A few spritzed of water provided a bit more oomph. I looked through my *extensive* stash for some flies….but it was a no go 🙁 So….I drew some to hover around the image 🙂 I embossed the wings, to give them a more realistic look. For the “fumes” that this flower emits, I first embossed some squiggles with glow in the dark embossing powder, then added some definition with a black fine liner.

Initially, I hand lettered the sentiment. I really shouldn’t do that!! It was awful! So I carefully removed the Sprite, and redid the tag! I printed the sentiment on some clear adhesive paper, and attached it to the (new) tag. Much, MUCH better!!! Some purple and black crinkle ribbon from DL Art completed this project 🙂

I’d like to enter this in the following:

Creatalicious Challenge – #197 ATG with optional Halloween

Crafts Galore Encore – #80 ATG

Creative Craft Cottage – #134 Spooky and/or Cute

Simon Monday Challenge – Simon Says Spooky!

Arty Divas Challenge – #30 ATG

As You Like It Challenge – Favorite Non Card Project Tags, because they’re small, easy to make, and are great to have on hand to dress a gift up!

DL Art – October ATG Linky Challenge