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WELCOME TO HALLOWVEMBER!<\/p>\n

Debi at Easel and Quill<\/a> is also playing along, so follow us both for Halloweenie goodness all month!<\/p>\n

The first project is something I’d been working on for a while, and with all the crap this month, finally sent off in the nick of time last week. It is a box for a friend’s Halloween letterboxing<\/a> event, and since it was yesterday, I can share the work without creating spoilers.<\/p>\n

This is an altered book box. I picked up the book at Ross or Tuesday Morning–I just remember I got a good price. It was covered with twee Paris-themed stuff. Incidentally, I freakin’ hate<\/em>\u00a0twee Paris-themed stuff.<\/p>\n

The surface treatment will be familiar to folks who followed along last year<\/a>, though this time I used tissue paper rather than bog roll. It’s a slightly different effect, but much faster. The pentagram and skulls I hammered together in my smithy. Just kidding. The pentagram is actually layers of washi tape, with a flat embellishment for rivets. The skulls are from a bag o’ skulls I got…erm…either at Dollar Tree or Spirit Halloween. It was a while ago, and I picked them up because you never know when you’re going to need a bag of skulls. They were treated with VerDay paint and patina<\/a>, which I bought a few months ago. I decided this was a good excuse to use them.<\/p>\n

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On the coffins, I used the whole VerDay set, even mixing some colors. So. Much. Fun. I adore the one with the hat, where I used iron paint. I can’t show you the inside of the boxes, but four of them contain hand-carved stamps of various magical artifacts (like the Kris of Kross, that allows you to jump to any location), and two contain…surprises. \u00a0I’m gonna guess at least one of the surprise boxes comes back dented from being tossed across the room. Heh.<\/p>\n

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Part of letterboxing is that each box has a logbook, where you can impress your signature stamp. The Spousal Unit helped me pretty up some paper, and I put it together with a French binding.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes, I can’t keep myself from the pretty paper at the art store. Not sorry–this made a beautiful cover, along with a shiny skull that’s hard to photograph.<\/p>\n

This whole project was a blast from start to finish. I got to play with new paints, and use a new bookbinding stitch. Good stuff.<\/p>\n

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BONUS!<\/p>\n

My friend Godda sent me this video to kick off Hallowvember. I’m sharing it despite the egregious misuse of “everyday.”<\/p>\n

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