What a month!!!! But I guess late is better than never

October is usually my most active month. This year I came down with a flu/cold/whatever thing. It knocked me off my feet for more than a month. I'm still not awfully recovered.. Here is is what I did create.

I had a one for one apothecary bottle swap. I had this glass bell ornament from Melissa Frances, 1962 Embellishments line and thought how cool this would look. The cat/poison apple statue is a big box item that I had in my stash.






The bats are a La-La Land Crafts die that I absolutely love. I cut the bats from Lucky Squirrel black shrink plastic, prepunched a hole and attached the wire before shrinking.

My vampire blood vile is a old watch parts glass tube I had picked up at an estate sale colored with some alcohol ink.














Fairy fingers are bits and pieces from a plastic skeleton I have cut apart and used here and there. The base is covered with some scrap halloween paper and has some moss scattered around. I hope my swap partner enjoys this as much as I have making it.

Here are some tags I created for a swap in my yahoo group AlteredWithOutLimits. These were fun. Took a #8 tag and layers paint and inks to give the spooky effect. This haunted house is a die also from La-La Land Crafts. More shrink plastic bats. The pumpkins are also shrink plastic.

My last project was a haunted house page for another swap in my yahoo group.

I created my page with a spooky word background. Spritzed it with some orange and yellow and stamped a couple of images on. Several Tim Holtz items to be found here..the house, crow and cat and the gingerbread on the bottom. More shrink plastic was used. My little monster in the windows are fake fingernails. Not sure where I found them but thought they would be a fun addition.

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.

Another Create Day

This workshop was presented by Belinda Spiwak. We made ATC's with lots of dimension covered in resin. This was way out of my box. For some reason I have a had a fear of resin and I'll admit it, I'm not a big fan of making ATCs. Love to collect them though. It was a great class for my last day. Belinda was charming, set up a wonderful workspace, shared a treasure trove of goodies with us and made everyone feel relaxed. Everyone created some wonderful pieces. A must do with Belinda if you are interested in resin.

We used Tim Holtz dies from Sizzix and the Vagabond. This was a fun class. It was my first experience with Smooch and Little Windows Resin which I see myself using more of.

Another fabulous retreat day.

The last haunted house page arrived today for a swap on my yahoo group AlteredWithOutLimits. So I thought I would post the covers I have created. We have 10 players and they have come up with some interesting houses.

The house is cut out using the Sizzix little haunted house die. Each player had the option to use or cover up the window and door cutouts.

I will be posting houses in the next couple of days.

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