Mojo's getting there

I committed to this project in hopes to regain some of my Mojo. I'm feeling creative again. The project is a 2 for 2 swap through Retro Cafe. I love their mini houses.

I spent a day papering and painting the houses and then just couldn't figure out where to go from there. So I put them up for a few days. I decided to start with creating in my box. Here is my blinking king cake baby playing in the pumpkin patch.

I have these vintage pipe cleaner snowman heads and bottle brush trees. With a little bit of mica flake glitter and diamonds dust a nice winter scene appeared.

This one is a little more out of my box. I'm really not into birds but as I was looking  through my stash I realized I have several different owls. His nest is made from these copper flat wire strands and some faux moss with a few feathers tucked in for some nest fluff. Adding the stick to the frame just pulled it all together.

This one is a little more out of my box.. little cutsie for what I usually do. I have this stash of worry dolls and thought they would be fun to use. With a blue dew drop roof inked with black stazon and then covered with some vintaj antique cooper patina. I hand stamped a no worries banner and the little brass legs made it all fall together.. I am excited at how these turned out. Even had a quick second where I thought about keeping them.. but ahhh thats part of the challenge. I'm sure they will find good homes and be enjoyed as much as I did creating them.

Haunted House Tour...

You don't know what your going to find waiting you at the 2011 AlteredWithOutLimits haunted house tour. This year I had some exceptional houses from the gals in my little yahoo group, AlteredWithOutLimits.

I found this cute little box that fit my pages perfectly. I covered it with Some Like it Haunt paper from the Midnight Dreary collection from gotmoxxie.

Enjoy the tour. Who knows what creatures are awaiting you.

The moon is full and all sorts of bewitching creatures are out to meet us at Cathy's garden gate.

Down a dark winding tree whispering trail you find Deb's english cottage and her ghosties of the night out playing.

As we head down towards the lake we run into Ellen's little cottages. Wonder what is being cooked up down there.

Continuing the haunted tour takes us to Jean's. Where we find a house full of toil and trouble.

Up on the hill is Judy's spirit filled mansion. Take care as you enter. Who knows what ghostly sights await you inside.

Down the lane to Lori's. We find a skellie dancing into the night. Who might that be watching out the windows.

Heading down to the Big Star state we find Mary Lynn's covenant waiting to cast a spell.

Ending our tour, takes us to Sandy's. A house filled with all kinds of winged delights.

Hope you enjoyed our little haunted tour.

Haunted house.... creepy, crawly, spooky.... Oh yeah!!!!!

Couple weeks ago I was playing with blogger and lost a couple of posts. Here is one that I had up.

I love halloween.. creepy, crawly, bird screeching halloween.

I participated in a swap over at AlphaStamps. We created 4 pages for a haunted house. One of my first projects for the halloween season.

My haunted house pages are complete and ready to mail for the Cherry Pie Rubber haunted house swap. This is my third year playing with Marina and the girls. I love halloween and am so excited to see what everyone has come up with. This year we changed our size format from skinny and tall to 4 inches wide and whatever up you feel with a roof being no more than 5 inches wide.

A little technique info.. The background is a photo of the barn window tweeked in photoshop. Painted blue with some iridescent blue. I used CP 's flying witch, dancing skeleton, black cat and standing skeleton. I used the hand off the standing skeleton to make a print on the window. Medical gauze and cheesecloth for the skeletons and web. Roof top is a sewing tape cut apart. All edges are inked and roughed up. On the back my info and a swarm of CP's flying bat.

AlteredWithOutLimits Haunted House Swap from 2009

I love Halloween... I work on Halloween all year round. This is a fun bobbin floss swap I hosted on my AlteredWithOutLimits yahoo group. They all turned out great. The size was a challenge for some of us... ; P