Altered Celtic Gypsy: Do Not Enter

Hello all. I'm here with a Blank Page Muse challenge. Emboss any way.

I started out with some brown cardstock and I used Tim Holtz 3D embossing woodgrain fades.

Next I used Tim Holtz planks die and cut blanks of wood out from the embossed cardstock.

I then added distress inks around the edges to make them more darker in color.

Here is a closer look at one of them.

I then started working on my background. I took another Tim Holtz embossing fades (brick wall) and some gray cardstock and some distress ink colors and made a background.

Next you start building a boarded up wall/window with your wood embossed planks. I used mini brads 'nails' to hold the planks in place.

On a white scrap piece of paper I stamped the corner spider web from Halloween on a shelf set. It was to bright on this card so I added some gray and black distress ink to it to make it darker. Then I added the spider from that same stamp set to the middle of the web.

Then on some more scrap white cardstock I stamped Silhouette style bare tree. I fussy cut out some parts of the tree because I wanted it to look like it was getting overgrown with the tree branches growing out from the behind the wood planks.