I am excited to once again be doing a guest spot in the dungeons at Haunted Design House with the Masters and Mistresses of the Dark Arts. The theme this month is ‘May I Have a Quick Word?’……so your project needs to have a word/words in it or was a quick make which took less than a day to create.
I chose the ‘word’ aspect of the theme for my project – a mounted demon skull:
The plaque is made from wood, painted with black gesso with some red Media Mister spray splats and some white Deco Art antiquing cream around the edges.
The demon skull started as a plain paper mache skull. I made the horns from Silk Clay which I glue gunned in place once they had dried. The whole thing was painted with white gesso and I added a tiny amount of beige acrylic with a dry brush to take away the starkness of the white. Once dry I coated it all with Rock Candy Distress Crackle and left it to do it’s thing. Once the cracks had appeared I took some black Distress Ink and used foam to apply, wiping away the excess leaving it in the cracks.
Out came the glue gun again to fix the skull to the plaque – all that was needed was my word….I painted a cardboard label with copper Dazzling Metallics paint and added Patina Green Antiquing Cream, wiping the excess away when dry. I used black Archival Ink to stamp the word ‘Demon’ and added some square metal brads to look like nails.
I hope you are inspired to join in the madness that is Macabre Mondays at Haunted Design House…………
I am entering the following challenges:
Dream In Darkness – ATG
Smudgy Antics – ATG
Altered Eclectics – ATG
I am loving this sooo much! Awesome use of the theme at HDH and brilliant work on the skull!! Love the metallic look on the label! This is really fabulous!! Thanks so much for playing with us in our first challenge at Dream in Darkness this month! Hugs~Nanette, CT member~
Truly amazing project, Teresa! Fabulous home decor. Thanks so much for being our GDT at HDH. xxD
Amazing skull Teresa! I love the crackles and wonderful texture. Thanks so much for joining our playground at Dream in Darkness! Come back soon!~CT kim
Love, love, love this! Great choice of word, clever to use a demon skull, and the crackles are just icing on the demon cupcake!
So deeply thrilled to have you as a guest in the dungeon with us.
Wow this is a fab project. I would love to make one of these for Halloween
Love how easy it is these days to turn cardboard into metal – we’ll be turning lead in to gold pretty soon, if it doesn’t crackle our own heads first (to let the horns grow out!)
This is just WOW. You have outdone yourself. A pleasure to have you on board. 😛 x
Always exited to come here. What a fabulous piece, love reading how you’ve created this – I’m just amazed – so awesome!!
Thank you so much for joining Dream In Darkness 1st challenge. hope to see you again … and again … and again… :=D
Another brilliant piece of work Teresa.
Hugs Anna xx
Interesting piece if art. Love it. Thank you for joining us at Altered Eclectics this month. Hope to see you back here again next month. Judy DT
Nicely executed ! Great job with the papier mache.
Cool project 🙂
Super fun. Anything with blood splatter is a.o.k. in my book! Come back next month for some more Smudgy Antics.
This’ll look great hung on the door at Halloween…. or in my case anytime of year!Thank you Teresa for joining us at Smudgy Antics this month…hope to see you again. BDx