Ding Dong the witch is dead

Hello everyone! This is my first post for the new term of VLVS! Today is a journal page.

I've been really liking the Oreo cookie ads that Have been in magazines the past few months. I saw the one for the Halloween Oreo's and knew I had to do a journal page with it and VLVS!stamps.:)

As you can see the cookies are legs of a witch.I instantly thought if the Wizard of Oz when the house Fell on the Wicked With of the East. I have to say I should of done this page on the other side, as would of liked the legs closer to the edge of the page, and not next to the holes. But the page turned out great!

The background I used two orange craft paints. a light orange and a bright orange  I put some on the page and with my pallete knife I spread the paint all over the page. I then took a baby wipe to spread the paint out  more on the page. I took the Star punchenllia that I was RAK'ed, with black craft paint put some on the page with a sponge. I then took a brick stencil and some Golden light molding paste(it was one of those little jars from the mediums starter set) and with the CLEAN pallet knife put the molding paste on the stencil. 

After it dried I deiced to leave it white. I took the tree background  and stamped the top pf the branches in Black archival ink pad around the edges of the page. 

I glued the Cookie legs on a piece of lightweight chipboard (cereal box) to give it some sturdiness. I put some foam tape in it to give it some dimension to the page. First time ding that on a journal page. I then stamped the Wicked Witch With Broom on white cardstock with black Memento ink pad. colored her face with green color pencil. fussy cut her out and put her on the page like she is standing on the legs of "her sister"

For the page title I went through my stash of alpha stickers and pulled out these green and black ones. Stuck then on to White glossy cardstock. The cut that out and glued the word blocks on the page. Then they stuck out like a sore thumb with all the white. So I took the Black Soot Distress ink pad and a water brush and painted the white glossy cardstock. 

Items used

Clairefontaine journal

Orange craft paints

star punchenilla

black craft paint

brick stencil

Golden light molding paste

pallet knife

white cardstock

glossy white cardstock

alpha stickers

foam tape

color pencils

black soot distress ink pad

black memento ink pad

black archival ink pad

water brush

Elmer's white glue

Stamps used

Tree background

Wicked Witch with Broom

Grandville Gathering with Clairefontaine & Viva Las Vegastamps!

Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard aka J. J. Grandville, was a French caricaturist in the 1800s, who drew people with fantastical animal heads.  He was noted for his biting satire.  I love his work.  It has an Alice in Wonderland feel (Carroll also included much political satire in his Alice series, that is largely lost on us these days).

I was delighted when I saw that Viva Las Vegastamps! had included four Grandville images among their latest stamps!  Immediately, I knew I wanted to do a sort of Wind in the Willows picture, with a Gathering of Grandville figures.

Supplies:
Clairefontaine Carnet de Voyage Travel Album

Viva Las Vegastamps! 
Grandville Horseman 4 x 2 1/4-Item 18893 Plate 1432
Grandville Chicken 2 x 3 3/4-Item 18894 Plate 1432
Grandville Hawk 2 1/4 x 3 3/4-Item 18895 Plate 1432
Grandville Bug 1 3/4 x 4 1/2-Item 18896 Plate 1432
Cracked Background 3 3/4 x 4 1/4- Item 16208 Plate 1287
Leaf Background 1 1/2 x 1 1/2-Item 4366 Plate 539
Multi-Leaf Branch 1 x 1 3/4-Item 14088 Plate 916
Leaf Trio 2 3/4 x 2 1/4-Item 287 Plate 376

Lyra Rembrandt Colored Pencils-Pale Geranium Lake, Lemon Cadmium, Apple Green, Light Blue

Tim Holtz Distress Markers-Shabby Shutters, Scattered Straw, Forest Moss, Frayed Burlap, Weathered Wood, Wild Honey, Stormy Sky, Milled Lavender, Tumblied Glass, Bundled Sage, Brushed Corduroy, Dried Marigold, Barn Door, Pumice Stone, Black Soot

Stamp Pads: Ranger Archival Black, Versamark Watermark

Embossing Powders: Ranger Snow White, Recollections Gold Tinsel, Stampendous Aged Silver & Aged Copper.

Tools: Scissors, Foam Tape, Exacto Knife, Black Sharpie pen, Reference photos

Process

I tore out a page from the back off my Clairefontaine journal and stamped the Grandville images.  I colored them with the colored pencils, cut them out with the exacto knife and put them in an envelope for later.

I had a pretty specific look in mind, but needed some reference, so I used two photos from my brother's North Carolina farm as a rough guide.

I drew and colored in my picture with the distress markers, using a water brush to lighten the colors toward the back.  I left a white border on both sides and the top, but colored all the way to the edge on the bottom and right-hand corner side, to give the picture more of a 3D feel.

After tapping the Versamark Watermark pad along the right bottom corner, roughly in the shape of the rocks, I sprinkled copper embossing powder and heated it until it was flowing.  I let it cool and repeated using silver embossing powder this time.  I repeated 5 times alternating the colors, and varying the amount of heat, to get bubbles and even slight scorching in some areas.

I repeated the embossing process on the left bottom corner. After the heated powder was dry I used a black Sharpie to add shadows.

Next I tapped the Versamark ink onto my Cracked background stamp and stamped along the edges of the water and up over the embossed rocks.  I sprinkled Snow White Embossing powder, tapped off the excess and heated.  I repeated this with the multi-leaf branch in a couple of spots to get the effect of wider frothing.

Again I used a black Sharpie to add shadows.

For the leaves in the upper corners, I used the Leaf Trio and Leaf Background and the gold embossing powder, adding shadows with the Sharpie.

Then I pulled out my stamped images and stuck foam tape to the back and attached my Grandville characters.  I hope they're hardy fellows because they're awfully close to the water!

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