Monday, September 19, 2011

Macabre Monday Apalling Apothecary


What's in YOUR medicine cabinet? Okay, Margie, you don't have to answer that. LOL but you ladies who take the challenge at Haunted Design House must...do you dare? My nifty little bottle of poison started as a bottle of premium scotch that hubby had to have. LOVE the shape of the bottle and just KNEW it would come in handy.WooHoo! I finally got to use my Tim Holtz Poison Label embossing folder which I tore around and inked with Distress.


The "cobwebs" are a ripped up dryer sheet. That seems to be one of my favorite recyclable items. A few plastic spiders and some interesting looking fibers and I was good to go.


And how about my cool skeleton fingers gripping that bottle? I used a mold meant for making chocolate covered pretzels and filled it with Paperclay (no baking required). After filling each finger, I carefully removed them and molded them around the bottle. Once dry, I painted them with Distress. The bottle is filled with some bile colored liquid and some dish soap so it bubbles. Couldn't really get a pic of that. And I've used some Distress Embossing Powder around the wood cork stopper which looks like some lovely corrosion. The top said Est. 1897 and I thought that was just too cool to cover up. I really enjoyed doing an "altered project" for a change and I hope you enjoy it too. I'm afraid there won't be a BBTB2 post this week. Sorry about that, but not only did I not have the cart, I had a fleeting (I hope) lack of mojo in that arena. Be sure to check out the rest of the Minions take on this challenge HERE (and again on Wednesday for Creepy Glo's submission) and in a few hours stop by BBTB2 and give my sisters there some love. I'm also entering this in the Allsorts Recycle/Alter something challenge, the Shopping Our Stash Vintage, Distressed or Shabby Chic Challenge, and the Quirky Crafts Anything but a Card Challenge.

29 comments:

  1. Certainly anything but a card! I love the skeleton hand...very spooky! Thanks for entering the quirky crafts challenge.

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  2. Very striking alteration. Great idea with the "cobwebs" and those "fingers" add just the right touch for fright night!

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  3. Freaking wow Donna you are amazing!! This is truly a little work of art. x

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  4. I believe the highlight of each day, many times a day because you do so many daily things, ...is coming here to see what you've created. This specific wonder reigns supreme for ingenuity, dedication, imagination, and determination. Absolutely amazing and fantastic.
    Sigh.
    Hugs
    Carole

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  5. That is truly amazing! the hand is fantastic. Thanks so much for joining in with Quirky Craft's Anything but a card challenge this week.

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  6. Whoa - that is creeptastic, Donna! I love those fingers! Bwaaahaaahaaa!!

    I've got a freebie digi up today that's a nasty ol' witch handing a poisoned apple to a cute kid trick-or-treating. Might be right up your alley. Not cute! LOL!!

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  7. Wowser! D, I can see why we missed talking to each. Boy have you been busy with a fantastic creation here. Love those creepy fingers, and all the little special added D details. This has got to be the masterpiece of the week my friend! Love it!

    Hugz, xx

    ~L~

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  8. Wow Donna this is amazing and takes altering/recycling to another level! Love the 'fingers' brilliant creativity, and the use of a tumble dryer sheet for the cobwebs - must remember that one lol!
    Thanks for entering my Alter/Recycle challenge over at Allsorts this week and good luck!
    Love Nicola xxx

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  9. Okay, I don't do altered and I don't do creepy, but I've gotta tell ya, I love this! Especially those pretzel fingers - so clever!

    Thanks for joining us at Shopping Our Stash!

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  10. I stand in amazement as always.. this is just totally AWESOME.. you are so darn creative.. hugs from ukiah

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  11. HOLY CRAP! That is fantastic! I can see why you missed BBTB2 this week - you exhausted your creative mojo on this simply amazing bottle!!! Missed you....

    xx Susan

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  12. This is so so fabulous Donna, I just love it! You are truly Queen of Everything!

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  13. WOW Donna! this is amazing! Love it!

    Fiona. x

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  14. This is such a cool scary bottle! =)
    Hugs, Elenor

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  15. Fabulous!! I'm so glad you got that 'hand' in the picture! Very spooooky idea, love it! Thank you for joining Quirky Crafts this time, don't forget to come back and vote for your favourites this Friday/Saturday
    ((Lyn))

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  16. Wow, you did an awesome job with all your details, really wonderful :)

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  17. I love the way you always think outside the box - or card as it were - LOL. What a FABULOUS idea - and soo gruesomely done too!
    xXx

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  18. Soo cool and creepy too. Love your bottle! Might have to try one of m own. Thanks for the tips and super cool idea.

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  19. Definitely the coolest thing on sidebars all over blogland! And this is probably one of the few items that's missing from my medicine cabinet. LOL! I've been soooooo stressed out, it's best you keep that bottle as far away from me as possible...I'd love to take a swig or two! The Tim Holtz label is to die for. Don't think I've seen this folder yet (although I probably own it!). OMG, Donna, the fingers look AMAZING as do the cobwebs and vintage cork! Wickedly done!

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  20. Those fingers are incredible!!!!! As is the entire project. Did I saw those fingers were INCREDIBLE!!! Love all the little touches like the cork, cobwebs....your hubby needs to drink more because you need to make more of these!!!

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  21. How amazing!!! Donna, I love your apothecary bottle (even the hands)!!! How clever and how funny!!! I really needed the laugh it gave me to brighten my day!!!

    Thanks for stopping by -- you know I'm always delighted when you can take some time to stop by! I know how difficult it is to get around the neighborhood all the time!

    Hugs, my friend!

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  22. YAY!!!! Perfect challenge for me organising my friends party. I just entered the altered alice too. LOVED it... ANYWAY enough about me... This bottle is PERFECT DONNA!!! I love it so much. You are so clever. That label looks amazing and the detail is just awesome. The fingers are creepy real. Now, don't let hubby get too scotched up that he takes a swig of that bubble bile concoction! x

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  23. Donna, this is just incredible! LOVE IT!!!!!

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  24. Your take on HDH challenge absolutely rrrrocks !!
    and what a clever idea for this hand ...made with that mold ?? aweeeesome !!

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  25. This IS appaling...appallingly AWESOME!! (forgive me for making up words I have a 5yr old who adds an"LY"to everything) Halloween is my favorite holiday and I get giddy whenever I see such spooky coolness such as this...made my day :) Thanks for the luv on my dresser...can't wait to complete the next "chapter"

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  26. Wow ths sure is altering in its extreme what a fantastic idea I love the skeletal fingers so cool!!!

    Thanks for joining in our alter/recycle challenge at Allsorts this week and goodluck...

    Emma xxx

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  27. That is too awesome. I can't believe you made the skeleton fingers, crafty girl. That embossing folder is so cool, I've never seen it before.

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  28. Tell where can I get some of that awesome creativity that just oozes from you? Love, love, love the skeleton fingers and I never would have thought about using a candy mold. Truly creative and an awesome project.

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Thanks for making my day!