Yo Ho and a Bottle of Rum - Tim Holtz Idea-ology

Today's make is the second in a trio of pirate domes that I made for the Tim Holtz Halloween 2026 release. The structure is again a Display Dome so it is small so you have to make the most of the space you have under the glass. Today's dome is inspired by the Poison Raven Tavern from a large pirate make I did in 2023. 

 

Of course I filmed as I made, so I do have a process video tutorial for this make. It is difficult to film while making and sometimes I forget to hit record or I accidentally work off camera, but I hope I captured enough to help inspire you in your own making process.

The glass on the domes is really limiting, but it looks amazing. And I really need help editing my ideas so everything fits and I love that domes force me to do that. The Bar ftom the Halloween Adornments is fabulous on the front of this dome. I did have to bend it a little and I did that with some metal bending pliers I got off Amazon.

Here is a side view.

And the back view.

Here you can see the drips I added to the candles.

And here is a skull and crossbones adornment I also bent and added to the front of the barrel. I did happen to break on ebone and just glued it back on in place and I think it looks fine. 

I ended up painting the bottles and the skull. The skull was painted with Old Paper, the green bottle with Forest Moss.

The tan bottle was Vintage Photo and the smalles bottle was colored with Scorched Timber. All of the little labels were part of the Halloween Ephemera Pack.

The coins I included were from the stash I made for the treasure dome. I didn't add that to today's video, but you can see it in this tutorial called The Rich Stuff.

 

Thank you so very much for watching!

Have a creative day, 

Tami

 

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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 

I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp, Ranger Ink and Scrapbook.com. The links below send you to one of those stores. If you wish to purchase something and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this channel, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!  

Classic Monster - Stampers Anonymous

This summer I was watching a favorite YouTuber of ours on a trip to England and he was sharing about his tour of Bath and somethingas about Mary Shelley and Frankenstein. I learned some wierd things about Shelley that day and it tuck with me through the making season I guess. 

So when I saw this Stampers Anonymous Classic #6 stamp set was part of the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Halloween Curation, I just had to make a Frankenstein monster out of it.  

 

Here is the video tutorial where I show how I made Frank out of the four borders on the Classic #6 set. 

 That pinked border is the one that inspired this make. I saw it and immediately thought ...Frankenstein's Monster hair! 

 The eyes took a bit more thinking, and as I often do, I stared at the set for awhile and then went to sleep on it. It's usually while I'm sleeping or showering that I get an idea to work with  that's when I realized the scallop border would be a great shape for the eyes.

Of course the scars or stitches stamp was obvious. but the nose, mouth and eyebrows again gave me some trouble.

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That's when I realized I could just freehand a few shapes out of that long rectangle border and it would be simple. Last year I sewed a primitive Frank Halloween poke using Tim's Eclectic Elements fabric and I had done that with felt, so I figured why not with paper?

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 I didn't want to make a card without a sentiment, so I pulled out my Halloween Tiny Text CMS409 for the "peculiar detached fragments" which I thought was perfect for this card!

That's all there is to this card. I hope you enjoyed the tutorial video. Thanks so much for taking time to check this out!

 Have a creative day,

Tami 

 

I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp, Ranger Ink  and Scrapbook.com. The links below send you to one of those stores. If you wish to purchase something and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this channel, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you! 

Beware! - Sketch Manor Coordinating Dies

Welcome to the Simon Says Stamp Halloween Blog Hop! You are in store for a bunch of amazing inspiration today. Thank you for spending a little time with me today and when you are done here, Sandi MacIver is your next stop. 

Just in case you get lost along the way, here is the list in order. Have fun and enjoy all of the spooky inspiration!

HOP ORDER:

Simon Says Stamp Blog 
Nina-Marie Trapani
Caly Person
Stacy Hutchinson
Nichol Spohr
Tami Bastiaans
Sandi MacIver
Zoe Hillman
Tina Smith
Jean Doeringsfeld
Barb Engler

My project for today is an Etcetera Mini Tombstone with the Sketch Manor Stamps from Tim Holtz and Stampers Anonymous, and Coordinating Dies from Simon Says Stamp. I wanted to try and light up the manor, so I made a video tutorial showing how I made this project. 

Here is the video link. I hope you enjoy it, but be sure to come back here to get to the next stop on the blog hop.  

I stamped the images on Mixed Media Heavystock and attached that to the top and main portion of the Mini Etcetera Tombstone. 

I love having part of the imagery in the top section as it makes it seem like the scene extends up tot the top of the tomb. 

If you look closely you can see the Crypt Grit Paste adds such a cool corroded stone texture as well as bits of moss if you add some Peeled Paint Distress Crayon. 

Simon Says Stamp has a fabulous Assembly Guide on their website to help with not only how to cut the parts out, but also how to assemble it. You can download it here. 

You have two options with the die layers for the Manor. You can do like I did, and attach them directly on top of the layer below. This still adds agreat dimension! Or you can put foam squares and strips between some or all of the layers to add even more dimension. Either way, you can't go wrong with this die set!

To light up the the windows, you simply need to cut the darkened panes out of the center window frames and the doors from the first layer, and back with vellum. Then add the rest of the layers as shown in the assembly guide or in my video tutorial. 

The Beware! sentiment is from another Stampers Anonymous set called Mr Bones CMS345

Thank you so much for sticking through to the very end of the tutorial! I hope you found something inspiring in this make. 

If you would like any of the products from this make, they are listed below. 

Have a creative day!

Tami

 

I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp. If you purchase something from one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this channel, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

 

Concealed in the Cobwebs

A Vignette Box with a mysterious paper doll. What is her story? Find out in this tutorial. I made this vignette for the Tim Holtz Halloween Idea-ology 2023 release. My aim was to make a few pieces that were something beginners and intermediate makers could attempt. I hope this video tutorial inspires those who are newer to Vignette making and that those who have made a few to get that Halloween Idea-ology out and to start making. There is still plenty of time to make for the Halloween season!

Here is a video tutorial. I will put the index breaks in it soon.

 

Have a creative day!

Tami

I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp. The links below send you to their store. If you wish to purchase something and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this channel, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!