Self Confidences

  

  

  

  

This all began as an idea for a Halloween tag.  I was captivated by the idea of several paper skeletons hanging from paper clip hangers - whimsy (right?) - and so I made these for the tag.  While I was cutting some of my paper skeletons in half; creating little bone shirts and pants, I couldn't escape the idiom “skeletons in my/your closet”.  After that,  I couldn't seem to incorporate these ‘garments’ into any of the tag backgrounds I was creating – what was always missing was the illusion of a closet (and I was now obsessing).

So, how do you make a tag feel like a closet?  After much creative consideration and crafty consternation;

            -the short answer is, I couldn't

            -the long answer is, I built a closet 

Self Confidences

Time:  2 days (including deliberations)

Yield:  1 – Miniature Armoire

Wet Ingredients:

• Alcohol Ink –  (blending solution), Latte, Shell Pink; Archival Black;  Distress – Iced Spruce, Milled Lavender, Walnut Stain
• Distress Paint – Bundled Sage, Picket Fence
• Distress Stain – Picket Fence, Pumice Stone
• Other – Glossy Accents

Dry Ingredients:

• Cardstock –  Kraft Paper, Vanilla Paper
• Hardware – 1/8' Stainless Steel Tubing, Box Corners, Brads, Corked Domes, Curio Knobs, Foundations, Hanger Clips, Hinges, Locket Keys, Long Fasteners, Ring Fasteners, Wooden Figurines (nuns), Word Keys
• Other – Chip Board, Grungeboard, Grungepaper
• Paperie – Laboratorie; Mirrored; Remnant Rubs-Apothecary, Numbers, Words: Tissue Tape - Laboratorie
• Ribbon – Crinkle Ribbon, Embroidery Floss

Tools/Equipment:

• Dies –  Cameo Frame, Pediments, Tiny Tabs & Tags
• Rubber Stamps – A date with Ali, Haunted Mansion, Sketch
• Stencils – Bubbles, Stripes