Halloween happening

I had loved the look of a paper-mache pumpkin on the Cloth Paper Scissor facebook page and sent the picture to Gail. She as usual was "yes we can do that"

So up the lake I went for a fabulous snack and a marathon pumpkin session. Now the paper-mache pumpkins were created on the plastic mold then cut off and reassembled. The with paint brush in hand I was off and creating. For handles we formed our own with coated wire and paper bats.

The last one just did not seem like a pumpkin rather a small mischevious bird-eating purple cat came to be. She is looking oh so innocent in her sporting a crepe paper bow-tie collar but that feather in the mouth really tells the whole story!  

Wild women Wednesday art: multimedia, resin and wine ) October 16

We managed to get all of us together at Karen's for a multi-media night with resin. We had bezels, bottle caps, home-made paper containers by Gail to layers pieces into. Lots of bits and pieces of old keys, old books new papers, glitter and beads to add dimension. As usual some wine to liberate the artistic muse!

This was my first time using resin and I enjoyed it alot. We had two different types a fast drying and a slower drying. It took a bit of team work to pour the fast drying before it set up too hard to pour smoothly.

Wild women halloween multi-media art- paper, glue, sewing machine and heat gun

Nancy and I drove up the lake on a beautiful fall day to Gail's house overlooking the lake.
Before we got down to some fun playful multi-media art we had a lovely repast of cheese, caramel corn, crackers and great conversation.

We put out a huge amount of supplies on the table: papers, pens, markers, pencils, stamps, stamping pads, commercial stickers, scanned and printed pictures of children, old books, crepe paper, glitter, embossing powders and all types of glue. Not to forget the large bottle of mod podge in front of me!

We all got busy and the fun began.Note how bare the table was to start......

Now the creativity and ideas are starting to flow

My finished pieces, the box on left has four different themes the side showing is the vampire child, second side was skulls stamped on old book paper, third side an owl and small boy with crepe paper fringe sewed on a skull cut-out border, the fourth side is an embellished photo of two small children. The middle piece is french paper box with an embellished baby photo the face was replaced by a Gail made black cat beer cap with a tissue paper hat with cardboard banding and skull border on the bottom. Lastly the front piece is a metal pail with the handle wrapped in satin, upper border is book cutouts the bottom orange 2/3rds is mulberry paper with crowns cut form the same book, a large skull was printed on and embossed with clear embossing powder (hence the heat gun noted in the title).

A walk on the beach

I loved in middle school while living in Hawaii to walk the beach at Barber's Point looking for sea glass and sea shells. I could do it for hours I was never one to just lie on the beach baking myself.

Well now a days I live far from any beach and only get to see the ocean on vacation which I relish and look forward too during the bleak gray days of Upstate New York Winters. I still love to roam the beach in search of treasures-sea glass, shells still call to me their siren call of the ocean deep.

This necklace with Art-i-cake is just fabulous!

Scary Halloween

I love the bizarre nature of halloween- the eyes of newt aspects to witch's lore. I have been collecting from ebay and etsy eye grass beads and saving them for something extra special. The focal bead is 3-d and has 3 sides. I then used crystals in stringing and two smaller eye beads

note the 3 d effect

gray black and silver crystals

Halloween my most favorite time of the year

I love halloween I seriously love halloween.

I so enjoy dressing up and start wearing my holiday jewelry from October 1 on.This year I am really excited about Art I Cake offerings at Michael's. I bought them and within a couple of days had 3 new necklaces to add to my month of fun.

I love the coffin shape of the skeleton the wire reminds me of femure bones, Accented with ribbon and crystals.

 The pumpkin is absolutely adorable. He is accented with glass clear beads, natural stone teardrop and faceted beads and metal spacers.













The last Art I Cake Blood Donor wanted was vampire inspired with a multi-layer chain the bottom chain has a large crystal hanging from it.