Day 20, 31 Days of Halloween - Get yourself together

Welcome to a day 20,

today I'm showing another page from my

PIG & BLACK art Journal book.

Lots of stamping, a bit of painting and whole

lot of fun with inks and stencil.

Looks like she IS all ready to party .... well not all ready,

but hopefully soon.

Taking part of 31 DOH? The road map is on the sidebar --->>

And the froggy is asking more links,

you can make it happy by linking HERE.

A Message to All

Well, CT Nan, and you all know my absolute love of Edgar Allan Poe and I gave him a true tribute earlier this month.  But now I like to think poor Poe had to have smiled at some points in his life and maybe had a very dry sense of humor?  So here is my thoughts of what he might have to say to us all as we celebrate Halloween with the 31 Days of Halloween!

The postcard was given to me by CT Anne in a happy mail from Silvercrow Creations, a most wonderful place to find things you won't find anywhere else!  The postcard is really grainy looking; it looks like it could have just been taken it off of his last fiancee's wall.  Stamped with some red Distress Ink and stamps of hanging spiders and webs with a "sweet" sentiment :)  And of course a pink party hat on to "top" it all off!

We are still checking the Frog's inbox for your entries each and everyday!  Don't make us have to tell on you!  You know that Frog's temper...EEEK!

Now hop (I crack me up, I really do! Hop..Frog...hehe) off to the next stop and get inspired then hop back here and drop off your inspired make!  Then happy folks everywhere...also leave some love at each stop...it makes us squeal with evil delight!

The paintbrush slipped...

And my skeleton became a Zombie Skellie.

I'm taking Michael deMeng's Skullduggery online class at the moment.  Like all his classes, it is interesting, teaches me all I know about using paint and mixing colours, as well as covering assemblage, clay, right glues for right places... and they're well-edited.  However my wee skeletons ended up fauxfolksy and zombified.  Let me quote:

"... Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). Not only is this a marvelous event where relatives celebrate the memories of the deceased, but it is also a chance for the living to mock the reaper. It’s a way for the living to say: “Neener, neener you haven’t got me yet”. One of the ways that Mexicans do this is with little skeletal toys known as “calacas”. Usually they are playful scenes where the skeletons are in the engaged in everyday activities, riding bicycles, walking dogs, dancing with devils (okay, so this one is perhaps not an everyday activity). The idea is to have a little fun with one's mortality. Well, that is what we’ll be doing in class. Using doll parts, action figures, and other found objects student will create little skeletons that will tickle your funny bone."

My "people" are enjoying a good harvest ("Neener neener, we won't starve to death THIS winter".  The All-seeing Eye of God is overseeing it all, of course.

I like the crisp stamping I got from Rubber Dance feather into clay, into which I settled the eye-bearing wings. (It's my photography that's a bit blurry)

The awesome wooden shrine/altar frames come from Silver Crow Creations, as do the fruit, wings (clear plastic which I coloured with alcohol inks.)  I made the skelicat (or is it a skuldoggery up to some skulduggery)  If I made more I'd be better at them haha.

Onwards, ever onwards through the 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop, the link on the sidebar will take you away from me alas, but to discover more inspiration for you to appease our evil little froggy.

Day 17 31 Days of Halloween!~ Ghoul Soup

A page from an old recipe book...

                                        Welcome back to Day 17 of 31 Days of Halloween!

Digital ATC crafted with the Falloween Designer Mash up at Mischief Circus!

Back tomorrow with more ghoulish offerings for the Frogster!

Link up HERE

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...

If you are doing "the HOP", you'll

see the road on the sidebar ----->>>>

Don't forget to link your alternative, dark, weird makes HERE,

we'll love to see them.

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.