Wretched Wednesday - Garden of Good and Evil

This week's Macabre Monday challenge is

Garden of Good and Evil.

I wanted to make a dimensional project out of clay,

but wasn't sure which direction I should go with it.

I have been looking for a frog to zombify for months.

I was inspired by something I read on the Frog Queen's blog,

and thought how cool she would think I was if I made a 

zombie frog.

Problem was, I never could find an acceptable ceramic frog

specimen for this project. So, I decided to just make the damned

thing myself! 

Here is my silly clay version of a zombie frog. 

I'm not sure it translates well, but he is eating

a frog hand. That's his tongue wrapped around it.

I decided to make a garden background for my

amphibian of the living dead.

I used the awesome graveyard scene from 

Delicious Doodles, and colored it with the

BV range of Copics. I added some Tim Holtz trees,

and some MS border punches, and then mounted it onto

black card stock. 

I used vellum and glimmer mists to make the full moon.

I UTEE'd the die cut trees and used some iridescent

embossing powders to make them appear moonlit.

I used a butt load of foam dots to give this piece lots

of dimension.

I had to add a nice washing of brown paint

to give the frog some character and bring out his details.

Plus my son insisted on blood. I tried to keep

it on the lighter side, but it's so much fun to

add the blood - it's hard to know when to stop!

So, .....

what's lurking in your garden??