Gothic Arch Challenge Orange and Black

This week's challenge at Gothic Arches is to use Orange and Black in honor of Halloween, so I did a Halloween theme which I havn't done much of this year. I just can't seem to get into it, but I did have fun with this arch.
The image of the little boys was digitally altered by Terri at Pringle Hill Studio and I think it is brilliant, just the right amount of color, and comes minus the witch hats. You can find it as a freebie on Terri's blog :)

In the spirit of Halloween I thought you might like this clip art I found on one of my CD's.



Have a great day, hope you have some time to relax and be creative :)
Lynn

Altered Tin ~ Halloween

I put together this altered tin in a Halloween theme, just for the fun of it because I have a few tins waiting to be used. Then I realized I used the same little guy on the front as I did from my tin last year, I guess I like him a lot :)
All images used on the front of the tin are from Digital Collage Sheets

Inside, the little girl is sitting pretty on the pumpkins all dressed up for trick or treat :)
This sweet little fairy is from Lisa's Altered Art

If you have never tried altering a tin and would like to, I have a beginner tutorial on my blog, just look in my right hand side border to find the link, and let me know what you think if you give it a try. I would love to see what you create.
The tutorial is for a Fairy tin but you can do any theme really, just have fun :)

I can't believe she did this......

Hi, this is Cooper again. I can't believe what mom did, just look at me......

Purple? Orange? What the heck? Is this normal?

Mom left me alone while she went to run some errands and I always sniff the bags to see if she brought me anything when she get's back. She usually does *snicker*... well, I did not expect this.

So she puts this thing on me and it just fits, takes me outside, and it's like 23c plus humidity, then she pesters me to sit still. I think she lost her marbles while she was out.

I told her, I just want to play with my ball, but she kept following me and snapping photos.

I finally said "Look mom, I will sit still but hurry up", and here I am talking and complaining...

Then if that wasn't enough, she asked me to be scary, like, be a scary dog.
Who me? LMBO......
Well I tried, and I must say I do look some vicious , crazy dog don't you think?

Well, relief, she gave up after that, said she was too hot. Well duhhhhhh, what about me? She really was just having fun, please don't go reporting her due to my complaints.

She showed this coat, as she calls it, to my dad when he got home and he said she was crazy *giggle* I had to laugh, I thought so too.
"Oh but I couldn't resist" she said," it was only $1 at Dollarama, how could I not, just for fun?", then she said, "At least I didn't buy the matching booties"...waaaahhhhhh heaven forbid.

Hey, I am thinking maybe if I gain some weight before Halloween it won't fit and then she can't send me out in it with all the kids on my street that I play with :)

Altered Postcard Halloween

This is an altered postcard using water color paper for the background, painted and stamped. I had fun doing the border with my pitt pens :)
The main image is called "The Witch" by E. Myerstein , created in 1884. I love his litho's, you may have seen "The Hornet" which is another of my favorites.
The very handsome "Moon Man" is a free digital image created by my friend Terri from
Pringle Hill Studio, you can find it in her Friday freebie post for last week.
You can find "The Witch" at The Graphic Fairy along with the bat, and the mouse or maybe it's a rat, yeah he does look more like a rat, is from The Vintage Moth, both links are in my side bar to the right.
I cut the calderon from a vintage image and painted the bubbles, did the same with the little mask in her hand, and the stars I already had from long ago.

When Myerstein painted this lovely lady, it was to show how people could dress to costume parties, probably a real fashion statement back then and quite fancy I would say :)
You can read more details about the costume and also save the image at the
Wikimedia Commons.

Altered Halloween Tin

I love creating these little altered tins, although I say that now because I have only made a few :)

This one I spray painted black for the Halloween theme, and I just happened to have some tiny Pudka or Putka Pods (not sure of the spelling) to use for little pumpkins.

I am so grateful for all I have learned from other bloggers in the mixed media and altered art community, and from what I have learned through a lot of Somerset magazines, that I wanted to give back, so if you are a beginner to it all like me, check our my very first tutorial on how I make one of these little tins over at the Play, Create, Share, Inspire blog. I have shown one of my Fairy tins as an example, but you can do so many things with these tins, just use your imagination :)

Friday Challenge #15

For the Fun Friday Challenge at ECS . Our prompt was to use a house shape and the color red. As you can see I went for dark on this little piece.

Playing with ATC's

Little vintage girls with butterfly wings and witches hats was the theme for what turned out to be a tiny book to add to my Fall decor this year. I usually get out my fabric pumpkins and put them on the hutch in the kitchen with a few little things like this. The hutch we have is black in the distressed look so the fall colors look great there.

I only intended on making one ATC to take my mind off the loss of our beloved pooch the day before, because I just couldn't stop from crying, so hubby said "why don't you go spend some time in your craft room", so I did, I took his advice and sat in there for a few hours and got lost in creating. If you would like to see a picture of our pooch and read about him, I have posted on my other blog at
The Rose Cottage.

For some reason I was in the mood for something Halloween, no idea why, maybe because I just finished something in soft pretty colors and needed a change.
I was looking around for something new to use, like I need anymore clipart, I have tons on cd's and in folders on my computer, but I just wanted to be able to print and go. So I looked around and found a site I have never been to before, which I find hard to believe, but anyway, I purchased both of Michelle's amazing Halloween ATC pages at her online shop Digital Collage Sheets.
Check out her work, it is amazing, and she has lot's of fun stuff :)
left> I think what I like about making these ATC size thingies is that they don't take too long, I think cutting out the clip art is the most time consuming, but I find cutting to be very relaxing so I don't really mind.

Now I can make more and just keep adding to this little book, or make a few sets and gift them to friends :)

I am loving this new direction my creative muse is taking me in, who knows what will be next.