Halloween Shadow Box

 I have never tried anything like this before ....... but I think I like it!

Made using a Poundland shadow box type bathroom picture, found on the sale shelf for just 50p, well, it would have been rude not to buy at least four, as I had used them before in the past after realising their potential.

I also used papers from a pack of 20cm x 20cm Halloween origami papers (from Amazon) and a pack of Jolees Boutique 3D embellishments, 99p from eBay.

The orange spots on black design was originally my first choice for the background, but the black on  the embellishments got sort of lost in it  .........

...... so I swapped it for the black on orange design and then, on a whim, added a strip of the orange on black, which made it look sort of quirky.  I discovered, when I opened the pack of embellishments, that the figures were jointed, which was a brilliant bonus and meant I could really pose them in the frame.  I edged the shoes and parts of the bodies, arms and legs with a white gel pen just to help show them up a little more.

Adding the large purple stars didn't work that well, the proportions were wrong (?), so I swopped them for much smaller green and silver ones.

While the scene was drying, I took the plunge in colouring the frame, inside and out with a black and orange Sharpie pen.  It looked alright until I started to put it all together and found that a corner of the frame had come undone and with all my fiddle farting some of the colour was removed, however, I liked the effect, so proceeded to scrub it all very gently with a scourer!

I then started to get carried away with the Halloween spirit adding three spiders to the frame ......

........ swiftly followed by a scattering of burnt orange and silver stars and a few clusters of white spots using Ranger white Glossy Enamel ........

....... before finally going the whole hog by deciding to cover and then suitably muddy up the back.

Job's a gud un ....... I am so chuffed with how it all turned out!