Grim Gift Box .... At Death's Door

Aaaaaghh..... I am so late with this but I think I'm still on time with my box. The challenge this week ( actually last week as it is almost over, I really am cutting it close) at Haunted Design House was to make a Grim Gift Box. And it must have a flower also. Al week I had the greatest ideas but just lacked the time to make it. So yesterday, on saturday afternoon and this morning to early this afternoon I did my box. Well it at least gave me time to finish what was in the box I wanted to use. So here it is.

At Death's Door...

I thought this would make a nice gift for someone who has the flu or maybe just the sniffles.

And the skully on top becomes a stirring stick. With a little flower.

You’re sick and feel like knocking at death’s door
I’ve brewed you some soup to heal your core

If that doesn’t work I’ll bring you a medicine man
If he cannot help you, nobody can

When that is no aid
Not much else will help I’m afraid

But I know of some nice stones
To lay to rest your tired bones

Then you can dance for eternity long

To the tunes of your favorite song

The blue paper I used was a sheet of very course mulberry paper. I so love the texture on it.

I measured the sides and cut the paper into pieces. The edges where the box was shining through I inked and then poured embossing powder over it and put a heat gun to it. The embossing powder is a mixture of silver and a lot of black to give it a aged look. The image of the door I have had for ages and can't remember where I got it from. The witch stirring the soup I found on internet. The witch doctor is a rubber stamp from Side Show Stamps. I colored it with watercolor pencils.

The headstone with the grim reaper was another find on internet, I gave it a wash in watercolor pencils. The second headstone I found some time ago on the internet and with Paint Shop added a epitaph. The dancing skeleton is a rubber stamp from Cherry Pie Art Stamps. I printed the words on off white paper and aged it with distress ink and then rolled the top and bottom to gave it a scroll effect. The skeleton on the stirrer is from Pepin Press.

Now all I have to do is wait for a friend to sneeze or cough.