Skeleton Dance Tribute Ticket

Today is the 92nd anniversary of the release of the Skeleton Dance short so it is appropriate that I post this piece that was inspired by it. I made this Skeleton Dance Ticket as a sample for the Tim Holtz Sizzix Halloween 2021 release. I've been wanting to make a skeleton dance for a long time, but it just hasn't been the right time until Mr. Bones was released. 

If you haven't see the Skeleton Dance before, here is a link to this silly Disney short.

I made a walk through video of this piece explaining how I made it if you prefer that to reading the info under all the step out photos below.

Begin with a Medium Etetera Tag and mark the square end the same as the tag end .

  

Then cut along the lines. This takes several tries and you just have to keep cutting and stay patient.

 

I used my Tonic Scissors to hand cut a circle out of the left over bit of corner to fill in the hole from the tag. The layers we add later on will mostly cover this hole, but I needed something substantial to do the lion's share of the work.

Next I painted the sky and hillside in Black Soot and Hickory Smoke, with a few splatters of Hickory smoke on the sky.

 

To add some texture I roughly spread Grave Texture Paste over the grey part of the ticket.

 

Then I added the wispy clouds and covered the entire piece with a layer of Distress Collage Medium. 

Once that was dry I added some of the grey Distress Crayons around the edges of the ticket and in the sky to give it a kind of foggy look.

 

To add some texture to the tombstones I used my finger to pounce some Crypt Distress Grit Paste onto them and let them dry.

 I love those flecks of black and the grey/green color this Crypt Paste turns as it dries.

 

 Once I added the tombstones to the ticket, I put more Crypt paste so that it looked like there was dirt around each tombstone and the harsh cut edge was disguised.

  

 I also added a little Crypt Paste to the fences as well and then crumpled them to make them look old and bent.

 

I made the school house into a church by adding one of the little crosses from the tombstone vignette on the top of the spire.

I just love how that grit paste turns into such a cool color!

 

Mr. Bones is a colorize die but he is fairly simple as far as colorize goes. Be sure to check out the Sizzix blog to see how to assemble him.

Adding a bit of Distress Crayon behind the hill vignette add a little bit of depth.

I hope that information was helpful and that you picked up at least one tip you can use in your own makes no matter the topic! 

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Tami

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