31 Days of Halloween - Day 29

Stay with me....only this and one more of these to go. Even I am bored posting them, but still loving doing them. And having them nearly ready has given me time to help a little bit (very little bit) outside getting ready for the fall and help a lot in the kitchen.
This is another one of my witches, drawn using BJD pictures as models, steps traced and PS distorted from a treehouse calendar, spooky tree from Third coast, scenery right side from Beeswax (two stamps), haunted house from Stampendous, rocks left side from Stampscapes. Foreground maybe some small foliage stamps but mostly PS brushes.
This has been quite an experience for me - starting to get to know all of the Bloggers, learning so much from every one of you, and even learning a lot from the work I've been doing. There are still so many ideas percolating in my brain about Halloween! Great projects yesterday!! Don't you gals and guy ever slack off??

31 Days of Halloween - Day 8

Flowers, y'all!! I said I would do it!

Today's offering is a digital collage I've been working on for months, off and on, but it had been shuffled to the back burner. I started another project yesterday that I was loving but couldn't seem to finish. So I hauled this out, added the ghost stamp from Third Coast so it could qualify to be here and put a little story to it (and the flowers, of course).

Except for the girls and the ghost and the little snippet of lace, all of the layers of the collage were photos I have taken. The foggy morning background is our back field, house taken on a walking tour of Paducah, KY, flowers and spider web from a previous garden. I consider the spider web to be the most awesome layer as it took some real fiddling around to isolate it.

Lots of wonderful posts yesterday and hopefully everybody will get rested up over the weekend although for those of you with children and/or jobs, there may be more to do on weekends than other days. Being retired, the days are all pretty much the same - only the work changes. Today we're cutting wood and splitting it for the woodburner in my studio.

31 Days of Halloween - Day 6

Methinks Murdoch Mummy is in for a big surprise as Cat'chula likes his mummy newly risen and very dry.

Do your projects come to mind all fully formed or do you work from a germ of an idea? My normal way of working is the latter, but when I received the "Here Kitty Kitty" stamp from Third Coast, this project just popped into my head. It changed a bit as I put it to paper - I had planned on using silverware in it and thought I might indulge myself with a new kitty stamp but when I found this maniacal cat in my stash a whole new twist happened.

Fence top from Artful Impressions, mummy from I Love Rubber Stamps, eyes and webs from those little cheapie sets, part of the tree from ProvoCraft. I had to elongate and add an extra branch to the tree and draw some of the weeds. Oh, the blood sploches were from Martha Stewart and the alphabet is Zetti.

All of the projects from yesterday were marvelous. I had no idea when I started this that I would be pushed to try such new and different things. That's because I barely had time to take a look around the forum before I jumped in headfirst to the "Days". Okay, I admit it, I waded in whining like a baby!