Sugar Skulls and Day of the Dead

Happy Tuesday! Yep, I am running a little behind. This should have been posted yesterday, but life intervened. I know you all know what I mean.

The design team at Poisoned Peas Please (PPP) has a new challenge for you. It started yesterday and will last until Nov. 3. http://poisonedpeas.blogspot.com/ This is our 8^th Challenge and we have a perfect theme. For this challenge, and it being October, our theme is…

Sugar Skulls/Day of the Dead.

We want to see anything you want to create, cards, altered art, art journaling, ATCs, etc., but it must be within the Sugar Skulls/Day of the Dead realm.

Our sponsor for our 8^th Challenge is none other than the very talented Megan with Dilly Beans. If you need an awesome Sugar Skull digi, Megan has them. Just click on Halloween, and you will be taken to everything with skulls.  Dilly Bean’s prize to a winner picked by Random.org is three (3) digis of the winner’s choice.

For my inspiration piece I created a Sugar Skull greeting card. The image that I used is Sugar Skull Framed, perfect for this time of year.

This beautiful design was colored with Copics and layered on SU cardstock in Always Artichoke and Cajun Craze. My flowers are from my stash and I stained them with Distress Stain in Scattered Straw and Spiced Marmalade. I added Crystal Stickles to the centers. The only die cut I used is Spellbinder’s Spider web. I then sprayed it with Goosebumps texture spray.

Copics used on Sugar Skull are:

Skull – c0, c2, c5, c7, c9, t6;

Image flowers – r20, r22, r29, r89, yg95;

Small leaf design – yg91, yg95, yg97;

Mouth – y21, y25, yr01, yr15, yr18, e19

Nose – r20, r22, r29, r89

Eyes and background – w0, w2, w4, w6, w8

Challenges that my Sugar Skull is entering are:

Art with No Boundaries – October & Halloween

Hooked on Crafts – Halloween

House of Gilli – Anything Goes

Make it Monday – Anything Goes  

I hope that you join us for our PPP’s 8^th challenge. After you have entered, please join us at The Crafter’s Café – Poisoned Peas Please, and show us your alternative side. Thanks for stopping by!

Aletha Jane