Happy Halloween

Hi everyone!

I love having fun making some playful Halloween art, and so today I have my last 2 creations for this year.

Halloween is time for trick or treat and candy, so that's the theme of my 2 pages for today. 

And for a bit of spooky faces, here's some pumpkins I came across the other day.

Have a great day, whether you are into Halloween or not!

More Witches

Hi everyone. We are having a dark and wet week, and once again there's a lot going on. But since exams begin at school today, the kids have half days, and that gives me some time to wrap up work I need to do at school. Hurrah. Maybe I can get home before dark.

So my post today is going to be mostly photos, not particulary good ones either. By the time I get home it is already getting dark, mainly because of the wet weather. (And never mind the shorter hours of daylight.)

So here's the back spread from my witches board book, just in time for Halloween tomorrow.

 It also doesn't help the book doesn't want to lay flat.

I collaged scraps of paper and used some spooky images I had in my stash. I also added a few other odds and ends from my stash..
I noticed the latest challenge at Moo Mania is circles, and I have a big orange one on the left hand page, so I am linking up my post to that challenge.

Hope you enjoyed the views, and thanks for visiting my blog.

A Little More Spooky

Hi everyone.

It's a rainy Sunday morning, and we are being lazy, watching Solo (The Star Wars Hans Solo film) on Netflix.  My daughter is home this weekend, and we are celebrating both her and my husband's birthdays. I need to go bake the hubby and daughter's birthday cake, but before I do, I thought I would share another Halloween view. It is hard to believe that at the end of this week it will be November. At least it is hard for me to believe that it is almost November.

This is a spread in my Halloween board book. The page on the right (with that awesome paper I found, I have to learn how to do that) is an insert between the boards. I used some metallic tape to put it in.

 The lighting in this view below, which should let you see things better, makes it look like there is a ghostly presence hovering over the image.

I rubbed a bit of white ink over the page edges to make it look a bit spider webby. Not sure that worked but there's no getting rid of it once it is there.

When I use  these old photos I always wonder if that person was alive, what would they think finding themselves in someone else's art spread? Especially being called spooky when perhaps they were nothing like that at all.  (But it is fun to use these vintage people in art, isn't it?)

I hope you can get the gist of my spread from these photos.

And I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Thanks for visiting.

Dreamy But Spooky

Hi everyone. 

It's been a little busy around here as late October is always a crazy time for me. I've got 2 big birthdays to celebrate this weekend (the hubby and the daughter-their birthdays next mid-week). End of the quarter exams are next mid-week at school also, and this week has been a crazy, need to dress up spirit week at school. Plus I have been inundated with college recommendation letters, all due by November 1. (Usually I have 2-4, this year I have 10.) Augh!!!!! So much on my to do list! Good thing I've had lot of art pre-made. But I have missed being in my happy de-stressing place as much as I would like.

I am ready for the weekend. and it is almost here

-smile!

Here's a spooky dream page for Eileen's challenge at Art Journal Journey

This view had been lightened up a bit so you can see details.

Here is one below with the true color. That didn't photograph all that well.

This is a page in my Halloween board book, which for those who asked, it is a blank book with cardboard pages and covers just like a young child's book.

And since I have made a lot of Halloween bits and pieces, I also have a tag that works for the Everything Goes Challenge at Tag Tuesday.

Hope you enjoy my Friday art.

Have a great start to the weekend.

More Fun Halloween

 Hi everyone.

Time for a little more Halloween fun today. Here's another spread from my Halloween board book with a tag in the middle of the spread.

My book has a witch theme, and today my witch is certainly a  lady of the night.

The owl is actually on the paper I used on 3/4 of the spread. (The paper from Martha Stewart and I bet I've had it for 10 years.) I just added her  hat.  And I colored her in also. I drew and colored the moon, and then added the moth sticker. The top of the page is decorated with some paper doilies cut in half, and the bottom of the page has some fabric leaf trim across it.
The right side of the spread is a bit of scrap paper and some of a striped napkin. I also a few other paper bits and a stamped quote.

And I added a few buttons to give the page a little bit of finish.

And don't forget the latest challenge at Try It On Tuesday is Witches, Wizards and Halloween fun.
Hope you enjoyed the art today.
Thanks for visiting my blog too.

Ghosties and Ghoulies...and Witches Too

Hi everyone.  Hope you are having a nice weekend. Time for a little playful spooky art as we get closer to Halloween. Here's another collaged spread from my Witches Halloween book. 

You can see I used torn bits of paper. Then I gave it a little white ink spray. Some of the images are stamped, some are die cuts, some are little plastic bits and I painted the caldron. . Then I added a small witch's broom I had.

You can see my painted caudron better here. The expression on the cat makes me laugh.

And I don't know if you are getting sick of my autumn photos, but here's a few I took on my walk yesterday. I usually walk the same direction because there is less traffic that way so the views probably look similar.

Do you like my new fingerless gloves? I found them on sale last weekend, and I had been looking for some. They worked out perfect on this chilly morning stroll.

 I love the seedy remains.

 We still have some color but we lost so much of foliage with all the winds. Now there's lots of bare branches in between the leaves.

 And there's a few blooms left in the garden.

 My hydrangeas may not be at their peak but my chrysanthemums are.

Thanks so much for visiting. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and start to your  newweek.

Halloween is Coming

Hi everyone. Happy Friday! I have a long weekend ahead of me. I think the holiday is now called Indigenous People Day, but used to be called Columbus Day. Maybe. No one I talk with seems to know what the official name is. And it's also my mother's 90th birthday tomorrow, so my daughter and I are off to throw her a little party, even if it is just the us as guests. 

A fun thing about October is being able to get a little spooky. This fall I have been having fun collaging in a couple of board books. You've seen some bits of my Autumn book  in previous posts, and today you get to see a bit of the Halloween one. 

My main theme is witches for the whole book, but that doesn't mean you can't add in a little other fun spookiness.

By doing all this collaging, I've really been able to clean off my work table too. Big smile. It really needed it.  And there's just something relaxing about collaging, especially after a busy day at work.

Enjoy the start of your weekend!