Haunted Design House 'Nosferatu'

Welcome back and thanks for stopping by, Hi to anyone new and a big thanks to those of you who have stopped by before x.       This week over at Haunted Design House we are challenging you with the theme 'Nosferatu Ad Nauseam'  basically we want to see your vampire inspired makes.head over to see what the DT have been getting up too. This week we are being sponsored by Rick St Dennis he is a great digi designer with a wide range of characters to choose from, he has a lot of lovely designs ready for Halloween as well as loads of your more cutsie designs.He is offering up 3 designs of choice each for our top two. It would be great to see as many of you over there as poss giving in to your darker sides ;)                                                                                    I have made another fat page for my 'little book of dark arts'  As some of you know I have a real struggle when it comes to using digi stamps, my copic's mastery is not up there yet and I don't have any colouring pencils either so what I can do with a digi is unfortunately limited, add to that the theme of vampires and using one of Ricks fab images and I am out of my element lol.

In the end I decided to just have a play and see where it took me, I really like this demon character called Op Art Monster and wanted him to be in the foreground.To add the vampire element I thought I would have some fun and use the classic Nosferatu shadow from the movie.                                                        I started by drawing in a horizon line and sketching my shadow so it would look cast upon a wall and then just coloured it in with a black copic, the monster was printed onto the card stock you use for alcohol inks and was fussy cut out, i then blended yellow,orange and red alcohol inks onto my craft mat and swiped the monster through mixing the colours up, I love the vibrantness of the alcohol inks, I then dabbed some red in for the eyes.He was placed where I wanted him and  drew the shadow lines from him to the main nosferatu image.

To play around trying to get some sort of perspective I used some of the Tim Holtz text tissue tape, this was stuck down at an angle to give the effect of floor boards and hopefully some sort of 3d effect, The tissue tape has the word 'dream' fortuitously printed on it so I ringed around the word to hi light it. For the wall paper I used the butterfly tape and cust around my shadow. I used distress pads to colour the tapes, for the floor boards I started with the yellows and blended into the browns to try and make it look like the monster was in a light source, for the wall I started with the blue shades and went through to purple and then black all around the edges.I think I just about got the lighting effect I was after? ;) lolThe finishing touches were the sentiment tag which comes from Tim Holtz, I wanted to go with the dreams and fears theme

 with this and the sentiment fits brilliantly, the tag was distressed with ink pads, given a flick of water and stapled to the page, on the other side I used one of Tims tickets again used distress inks, this time using the bright persimon colour and browns to age it, I think it picks up with the monster. Finally I used one of Tims Keys, I brushed over the top with a gold guilding paste to bring out the word and details on the key.All in all this page was just a bit of fun letting me mess around with perspective, I think it almost looks like a pop up card.

I would like to enter this into a few challenges, 

Over at Anything But A Card they are having a Halloween or Halloween colours challenge. They are a fairly new challenge blog with a fantastic DT, head over for some awesome inspiration.

At Smudgy Antics they are having a Monster Mash theme. For my monster mash I have Nosferatu and the Op monster .