Thursday Art

 Hi everyone.

Hope everyone's week is going well. My hives have been out of control all week ever since getting my shingles and flu shot last week. I'm surprised I have any skin left I am so itchy-smile. It's going to be another beautiful day today though. The weather this week has been great, but they say that will change this weekend.

Today I am sharing several pieces of art for a few different challenges. 

Let me start off my post with-EEKS!- this playful Halloween tag. There's lots of orange and purple for the latest challenge  here which is Pinky's theme at Tag Tuesday. I think last week I messed up and said it was Sandie's challenge. Sorry Pinky. I do want to apologize for that mistake.

I inked and stamped the background. The 2 monsters are old stamps from my collection that are colored and fussy cut. The cat is a paper image and I enhanced its face. I doodled on the border, punched the moon and the quote on it out of a piece of printed paper, stamped the crow and added a few orange sequins to make it a sparkling night for these 2 monsters to go walking. 

And I also have another owl book page that I am linking up to More Mixed Media. Their challenge this month is Anything Goes with Optional Orange. I have lots of orange here.

To make this page I arranged lots of bits laying on my work table. I hate to throw out scraps if they still have any use.  Sometimes it is fun just to arrange items on a background and see what you get. This is how this page worked out.

I sprayed the chipboard with orange paint, and then once dry I added some scraps of woven paper and some trim scraps also from my work table. I stamped and fussy cut the owl. I also colored it, but purposefully kept it lighter for contrast. I used a scrap of paper with the end of season flower on it, and then I cut from my sacrificed bird book the description of the barn owl and also its range map. I'm not sure how accurate that map is any longer since this is from my college book, way back when. Smile.

The sparkle circle is the protective lid off a little jar of glitter glue. I thought it made a cool piece of material to use. I'd used up the glitter glue in the jar and thought the lid looked a bit like a dark moon.

And finally for today, I have a page out of a Halloween book I have recently started. I am sharing this page for Tracey's October is my Favorite Colour challenge at Art Journal Journey.

I used the backing from a package of TH Halloween items as my background. (I found a package in my stash that was open but still in the original packaging.) I liked the cobwebs on it. Then I cut out some transparent mushrooms off a sheet of acetate from an old classroom transparency. The crow is stamped. 

Finally I stamped the quote, which I had to lighten quite a bit to see in the photo. It says "Something Wicked Comes This Way", in case you aren't familiar with it or can't read the word wicked.

Hope you liked my art today. I hope you are enjoying your day also. And as always, thanks for visiting. It is much appreciated!