In the Dead of Night

Tim Holtz and Sizzix released three Large Texture Fades in October, and two of them happen to be my favorite Texture Fades, so I am thrilled that we have them in three different sizes now for use in various projects.  

https://youtu.be/lAxjK_4JmVc

This tutorial focuses on how to use the Texture Fades to make an old brickwork cover for the Small Etcetera Tombstone using the Brickwork Large 3D Texture Fade. It is not focused on the part where I pulled some of my collection of Tim Holtz Halloween Dies to decorate it. Just a disclaimer that I don't show the final portion where I decorate this piece, but I do show it and talk about all the parts.

I used Spencer at the top of the tombstone because older tombstones, especially those in the Puritan graveyards of New England, have skulls to remind people of their mortality. 

For the Haunted House and the gates I colored some black cardstock with a little bit of Distress Oxide Pumice Stone to age the paper.

On the gates and fences I added some Distress Grit Paste Crypt and colored it with a bit of Distress Crayon and a waterbrush.

I added some grit paste to the urns also. All of the pieces are colored with Distress Stains and Inks in similar colors, Pumice Stone, Forest Moss, Peeled Paint, Black Soot, Scorched Timber, Frayed Burlap.

Before I attached the gates, I established where they would go, and then cut apart the little grave yard from Fright Night and attached the pieces on both sides of an imagined path, I added Grit Paste Crypt to try and make some mounds of soil. The larger tombstones in the front are and the fences are from the Vault Halloween 2021 dies. 

Here you can see the other urn and the other side with the tombstones behind the fence.

The bottom sentiment is from a set of Halloween Baseboards.

Thank you so much for watching and I hope this gives you a great idea for how to make a different type of brickwork. 

Have a creative day, 

Tami 

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