An Eerie Tale - Theatre Style

An Eerie Tale Graphic 45 - Alternative Advent Calendar 

Hellooooooo there, happy Friday to you.  Its been a right scorcher and really muggy here this week  with rain and thunder storms thrown in just to confuse us lol!!   My plan was to get cracking on two new albums but I got completely distracted and have been working on this alternative advent calendar, my latest design team project for Candy Box Crafts.  I'd been browsing some theatre sets on the net for a while trying to decide how to add dimension to the centre stage using the fairy tale characters from An Eerie Tale paper collection by Graphic 45 and this is what emerged.  It took an age to put
together,  but I was really pleased with the end result, and so was Roy when I sent over the pictures :-)   
There's just under two inches of depth to play with in the centre section and here's a few close up pics of how I altered it:

To make the columns I ran paper and a mask through my big shot, cut out the embossed image and mounted each one on black card for additional support.  Towers of different numbers of chipboard squares stuck to the back give them the depth  

the floor is raised slightly to give more dimension to the centre space and columns and the steps are a separate piece of paper  leading up to sleeping beauty and the wicked witch.  The sweet like knobs on the drawers are made from two tiny black buttons stuck together with a 1/4" circle of paper stuck to the top, coated in glossy accents and sprinkled with glitter before the glossy accents dried. 

 The calendar would make a great trinket/jewellery box as well as a really unusual Christmas keepsake. If you fancy making one yourself they are available to order over in our shop. 

Here's the supply list for my version:

12 x 12 Eerie Tale papers 

Enchantment 

An Eerie Tale 

Fanciful Fable 

Captivating Characters 

Gone Batty 

Magic Spell 

Abra Cadabra 

Whicked Whimsey 

An Eerie Tale pockets 

Black Card 

That Special Touch of …… Column Mask 

Chipboard 

Alterations Holly Beaded and Snowflake Garland Decorative Strip

Sizzix Border Die (black bobbles under curtains) 

Treasure Gold 

Art Glitter, Black, Purple, Orange & Green

Black Buttons (48) 

Paper Clay & Rose Mould 

Tacky Glue & Glossy Accents

New Weekend Retreat Dates 2015

Amazingly our November retreat is now fully booked so Andy & I have been looking at a number of hotels for our 2015 events.  We've chosen  the Holiday Inn, Kenilworth, right in the middle of the town and within walking distance of our fabulous park and Castle and the three new dates are listed over on the workshop and event page of the blog.  A few places have already been snapped up already so if you'd like to come along and join Andy and me for a fun filled weekend of crafting  click here for more info and booking details   We'd love to see you. 

This months blog candy

My Creative Spirit July Giveaway

Just a quick shout out to let you know there's still a few days left to leave your comment and be in with a chance to win one each of our new products.  If you haven't left a comment yet click here to go over to the post.  They've been so popular we've sold out of them all in the shop but new supplies are on their way :-) 

Well I think that all from me this eve, so enjoy your weekend, thanks for calling by and look forward to catching up again soon :-) C 

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