Day 16, 31 Days of Halloween - EEK!

About time to decorate the house for the upcoming party?

Here's one skull ready to be hanged...

Lace-Up Skull from Eye Connect stamped with

Flagstone Background from Lost Coast Designs.

He sure has a reason for his "EEK"; so many cracks...

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Who ME????

CT Nan here with a naughty little kitty but like me he is NOT taking the blame although the evidence tends to point towards him!  He also shares my rather naughty language so I apologize for his slightly off color sentiment but he insisted I quote him word for word!

This fat page is white cardstock with a fabric spray black paint that when it drys gives an almost ghostly gray so don't overlook those sales on these sprays when you find them!  They work just the same just take a little longer to dry.  The stamp is from Lost Coast Designs and the PINK feather in their mouths (that insisted on looking red!) were hand drawn.  A little spiders and web ribbon and stamped sentiment with a cheapie set from the dollar bin and he has declared his innocence to all!

Run do not walk to the next lovely on the list and leave some love and get those entries in to us for October!  We know you have been inspired by all the awesome makes so no excuses accepted this month!  Drop those entries off with the Frog or just leave in his inbox until we locate our missing teamies....he is sure to show up in time to pick a winner of that fantastic skellie stamp up for the winner of this month!

Entering: http://darkndaring.blogspot.no/2016/10/challenge-6-anything-goes.html  DarknDaring #6

Sweet Music, we shall dance you to the death

Even a sweet theme such as "Music" gets twisted in the Asylum of Anne's brain.
Another in the Deconstructed Art Journal page swap going on in Middle Earth this year.  Take an 8"x 8" paper, fold in half and decorate portrait angle.  For 6 people this time.  I cut up a songbook, so everyone has a different song to sing.  I did an extra one for Mr Ed Poe - "Evertrue Evermore" - the third one down!

 The front and back pages: A scrapbooking page full of toitoi "flowers" (a native pampas-type grass) didn't need much more to be done to it.   The Jester from the late Blockhead Stamps was also heat embossed.  I love his squeeze box.  Carabelle Studio have some rather different stamps.  I'm using a Seth Apter stamp to head up the front page - rather tongue in cheek - "everything imaginable is here"  and down the bottom, Rubber Dance instructs you to Go where the music takes you.

 Just before we turn the page, here's your "mood" music  The back page is rather sparse - Stampendous rendering of Danse Macabre, and a cloud giving credit to the stamps and stencils used in this piece. Seth Apter's Explore stencil was the first layer to make it onto the page, then Retro Comet and starburst now discontinued by Artist Cellar then one from the Sacred Heart series at Stencil Girl - since all the songs that were the starting place seemed to deal with love not being as satisfacory as one would wish, the barbed wire across the heart seemed appropriate. (And green is the alternate colour to pink for the heart chakra)

Then it was out with the stamps

Rubber Dance for the wee dancers

Blockhead for the squiggles and notes on the die-cut witch,

Rubber Stamp Ave for the musical bird that is the witch's alter ego.

I added diecut music notes as telephone poles, and birds on a line (presumably all singing their hearts out in 4-part harmonies)

I hope my teamies are proud of me - there's pink in the framing!!!

So if you hear what you think is wind through the trees, hearken closely, it could be Witchy breathing a new song into the skellies, bringing them back to life for one night only.

OR... it could be Evil Froggy demanding more weird stuff from you all!

Though if you carry on therough the 31 Days of Halloween blog hop, you could be rather stunned by what's already being put on offer.

Day 13 of 31 Days of Halloween~Warning May Be Habit Forming...

Welcome Back for Day 13 of 31 Days of Halloween!

We are almost half-way there for the month long celebration of all things Halloween! Thanks so much to each and every one of you for your visits and comments each, makes us smile! Huge congratss to all the Wicked Bloggers this year, so many amazingggggg projects! Well done!


Today I have an ATC to share with special instructions from the Undertaker!

The stamps all all Tim Holtz, Undertaker set. It is stamped onto a mailing envelope, love the kraft color!

The background is embossed with a Tim Holtz embossing folder and highlighted with DecoArt Metallic and DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics.

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Come back soon to offer up your spooky goods to the Frogster...HERE is the gateway to his lair!

Day 12, 31 Days of Halloween - Chill Out!

Welcome to a day 12, well

looks a lot like a night in fact... 

AJ page with a wicked cool Bloobel images...

Hmmm, chilling out with these guys would totally give me the chills,

EEEEK!

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Anyone in the Mood for a Little Poe?

CT Nan coming at ya with some flashbacks from the Master....Poe that is!  Would it be the 31 days of Halloween without any of the dear Master's inspirations??  Not for me!  So I have used a fabulous digital element from Foxeysquirrel called "The Curse Splats"  that embodies several of Poe's masterpieces and it conveys the horror he could so masterfully portray with normal mundane words but so artfully put together as to scare one witless!  And with that I give you my "Ode to Poe"...

We bow humbly before thee, our dear departed Poe!  You know the drill so hop on off to the next name on the list to the right? or left? or under that floor board with that tiny crack??  Oh my, what fun it is to put suggestions in our minds!  Before signing off I will once again ask you to note this lovely pink hue and yes, darling, that is CT Anne wailing in the background but don't worry.  She is being kept....ahem...heavily sedated to help her through this trying time.  So don't worry those pretty heads one bit!  WE wouldn't lie to you, now would we????? Muwahahahahaha!

Addicted to Death

Addictions grab people in terrible ways, so here's a more sombre take on getting "spooked" to death today.   The Paper Whimsy Steampunk Queen kit, with one of the faces from their collage sheets, and articulate-able arms features today.  The body and cage were "painted" with Lava Gel tinted with my favourite rust-paint colour.  Because the face stamp on the other side  is larger than this, I had the opportunity to give her some hair - texture paste painted brownish

 Whether it's P, or PMT  a woman can turn into a bone-breaking raging hulk!  And with red-coloured tar gel as blood dripping from her arms, was she driven so such lengths? Is that barbed wire below, what she used, or some more sinister needle? Or do we "blame" a man? Steampunk man of course.

Further down, it's not crabs getting at her, but a skull-backed spider inside her.  The skull was resin cast in a mold with a bit of light blue put in before the resin.  Then glued to a spider.  And if you've missed finding any in the halloween shop-stock, try Silver Crow Creations (also for cockroaches and other insects)

Here's the other side of her - not any nicer!  She'll never make old bones, nor see the backside of 20 - those pills will be the death of her.

The Gibson Girl face stamp ( Lost Coast Designs) is larger than the collage face on the other side, so it dictated how much hair I could add on the other side. Things To Alter have a great variation of a hooded skull, which backs on to their steampunk man on the other side.They also do the barbed wire hanging down over the spider.  Most of what you can see added on are from Silver Crow Creations - the dresden spider web, hooded skullbead, wee metal bones, pill capsules, tiny posed lady...

So please take good care of yourselves, don't let yourself be Tricked into a downward, destructive spiral.  Instead Treat Evil Froggy by expressing and sharing the dark side in your art here

And then move on... to the next link in  this 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop.

To backtrack to those Trick or Treat stuffies a few days ago, Val at Third Stone Stamps is still putting everything back in her new web site, so let her know you want the kids. 

And then move on... to the next link in  this 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop.