Saturday, October 1, 2011

Day 1 - 31 Days of Halloween

Hello, all! Today is the first day of the 31 Days of Halloween! To get all the information on the 31 Days, visit the blog post below this one or visit the Smeared and Smudged Blog.

My first project is from a set of three. I bought these nesting paper mache coffins at a craft store and decided to decorate them for the Day of the Dead.

This is the set of paper mache coffins I bought.

Day of the Dead Coffin (Large - inside). I papered the inside and outside of the larger coffin with paper from the Echo Park Apothecary Collection.

Day of the Dead Coffin (Large). The papers I used to cover the coffin are from the awesome Apothecary Collection from Echo Park. I used the Calaveras digital stamp set from Smeared Ink and colored it with Copics. The flowers are Petaloo Color Me Crazy flowers, misted with an assortment of Lindy's Stamp Gang mists: Hag Wart Orange, Yellow Rose of Texas, Tibetan Poppy Teal, and Witch's Potion Purple. The red mist is Scarlet Tattered Angels mist.  I also inked around the edges of the coffin with Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink.



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27 comments:

  1. OOOh GORGEOUS, Celina! I adore Dia de los Muertos! Fabulous transformation! xxD

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  2. WoW - that's great. :-) Can't wait to see what you do with the other 2. Lovely flowers.
    Hugz
    Ike xxx

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  3. Wow that is really great. I can't wait to see what you do with the other 2. Love the flowers. :-D
    Hugz
    Ike xxx

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  4. Love your coffin! Well not "your" coffin but the one you prepared for the 31 Days Hop. Beautiful-as much as a coffin can be beautiful.

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  5. Celina,
    Wow that coffin is so beautiful, you did an awesome job on it! Really just wonderful, I love it!
    Blessed Be,
    KristyLee

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  6. Totally AWESOME - love the flowers. Can't wait to see what you do with the other two. !! :-D
    Hugz
    Ike xxx

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  7. OH these are fabulous Celina...thank you so much for sharing with us!!!

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  8. awesome project, love the coffin and the skull is great

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  9. Beautiful Large Coffin Celina!!! I love the way it turned out with those yummy papers! Your coloring is awesome with the Copic's!!! Have a wicked day!

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  10. Celina, this is GORGEOUS!!! Absolutely lovely and Haunting at the same time!
    Hugs,
    Susan

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  11. Wow oh wow, I love this! Great choice of papers and colors, those flowers are fab!

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  12. Love your coffin it looks fantastic
    Luv Jane xxx

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  13. Your colors are so bright and colorful - looks just like I imagine it would at a Day of the Dead celebration south of the border.

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  14. Awesome coffin Celina! Love how you colored the Calavera image as well as the coffin, and the Echo Park paper is so cool.

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  15. Wow I love your 'Day of the Dead' decorated coffins, very original.

    frith
    J x

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  16. This is really awesome! I love the paper collection you used (I want it!), and your sugar skull is perfect. Great project!

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  17. Oh I love it!! That coffin is awesome!!

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  18. I love these! I have some day of the dead projects in the works.....these are wonderful and inspiring. I'm going to have to go to some of the local Hispanic stores for some goodies.AGain, these are GREAT

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  19. Your coffin is absolutely gorgeous! I love the paper and inks you've chosen and the sugar skull looks awesome! great work!

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  20. FAB coffin Celina! The papers and the sugar skull work so well together, great choice :)

    Fiona. x

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  21. i love the papers and the edge of orange and the way you colored the digi's! awesome job!

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  22. Fabulous! Love the flowers, so keeping with Day of the Dead. Can't wait to see how the other two look :)

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  23. Ooooooooh,ahhh...love the EPark paper and the inking!

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  24. love the way you decorated this coffin. awesome job

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  25. This is gorgeous! Love those papers and your fab flowers too :D

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