This is halloween

I dont really do Halloween stuff often, but I got some new moulds the other day, so I couldn't resist making a tag.

I started off by adding cogs to a wooden tag, adding stone effect paste then spraying with distress oxides. I had black resin skull and frame, so used metallic wax on those, and added a background on the frame before adding the skull. These skulls are awesome btw. I then added some cogs and flowers to the frame, as well as a door handle and key. Finally I added a quote.

I've also made some jewellery this week. Sorry for the poor pic on the multi strand necklace but they are really hard to photograph!

The obvious thing would have been to make a pair of earrings with the cat moon charms but I wanted to do something different.

I've also been working on the stitch. Here's the update so far.

Not long till I get to do more than the background again!

Until next time

Ems

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