Challenge 88 - Halloween

Good morning everyone. It's Bettina and I have a halloween coffin tutorial to show you today!! Hope you'll like it!

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I don't know if you've noticed all the gorgeous coffins for Halloween out there. There is plenty of ways to do this. My tutorial is completely inspired by the tutorial found here at Whiff of joy. 

You can choose whether you want the casket and lid in two pieces or make it in a one piece like I've done  Secondly you can choose whether you want to draw your own template or do as I have, size the finished template and print it on an A4 piece of paper. The template is such a perfect treat and why not use that if you can?
With compliments to Karina from Whiff of joy;

1.Here's my finished cut out piece for starters:

2. Secondly you want to distress the edges to get a halloween look and glue the sides together.

 3. Then I chose to cut out DP by drawing the shapes on to design paper like this:

4. My pieces are ready to go on to the box:

I've cut the shapes a tiny weeny bit smaller than the sides of the coffin.

5. Here's my coffin with the DP's attached to all the sides:

6. I've cut and embossed some pieces to go inside the lid and casket. This is optional, but I think it gives a neat look:

7. Time to decorate the inside of the box:

and then decorate the front:

Image from the sides:

Notice I've made some openings for the lid to close;)

and inside of the box:

and the finished front with the lid open:

Hope you enjoyed my tutorial and please check the rest of the inspiration from my superb teamies for this challenge!!Hope I get to see some more coffins in blogland;)

Guest Designer - Tracy

Our Design team

Annette
Tip : These little pouches were created digitally (image, purple digi papers, digi ribbon, pillow box template) so that I only have to print, colour, cut, fold and add a couple of pearls and a rustic bow.  It makes them easy to mass produce and fill with treats to give to the little witches and ghosts who visit on Halloween.

Here they are with a couple more that I've already made :

Bettina
Tip: When embellishing a halloween projects, cheesecloths give a nice and spooky feel to it;)

Deneen

Tip:  I don't have a lot of decorative corner dies so I look to my Spellbinders and other dies for possible corners...I used a corner piece from Spellbinders Fleur de Lis Squares for a decorative corner touch.

Elaine
Tip: Make easel cards more interesting by mounting images onto different shapes.

Lisa M using Bettina's Coffin Tutorial
Tip:  Show interaction between objects on your card by having them each holding like items.

Samantha
Tip: When punching hole in your card that NEED to line up first use your pokey tool to mark where the holes will go through all the layers this way you can then see where to punch.  

Lisa S 
Tip: Paper bags & recycled cardboard from Pop-Tart boxes created this
fun Halloween Mini Album. Don't throw anything away because you never
know when you'll use it in crafting. I'm sending you a special invitation
to visit my blog because I have a lot of photos & tips to share with you
so grab a cup of java or tea and and let's get started. :)

Halloween Mini Album

Pages and tags galore!

So that is it from me (Bettina) and TTT Teamies