It's almost October, Halloween Month!

Hello Everyone:)

Well, everywhere I've been this weekend in the 

local shops, it's all about Halloween...

My house is now filled with tons of treats....

over a month to go, so you can figure out who

the treats are for, LOL!

But it's put me in the mood, so I've been

busy creating all sorts of Halloween oriented

projects, but dragged out a couple of 'oldies'

to post while I'm currently working on a 

couple of new ones:)

(Sorry, not the best picture)

This is a Halloween banner I made last year,

using tons of commercial graphics by K&Company.

Once in a while, their packs of cut outs are just

too tempting to play with. Not being into

scrapbooking, I have to come up with other uses

for these packs....

Here's a few:)

got a little carried away with the glitter....:)

Something about plain old black and white 

I love about Halloween...

although orange and purple too is fun.

bats, and fly's and ants...oh my:)

A bit of Retro Cafe Art creeped into this one:)

(Mini Coffin Shrine, great fun to put together

and play with some Resin:)

(Link in Favourites Listing:)

I love these plastic skeletons! 

I bought cards full of them and still need more!

LOL

...some people are scared of clowns....pumpkins

are pretty scary too!!! (grin)

eeeeek!

Love the cat on this one:)

One of those moving pictures that changes into

a skeleton, I think I managed to get him in 

'transition' LOL.

I can say honestly, after playing with this project,

I have a new appreciation for Scrapbooking...

it was a ton of work amazingly, but a lot of fun!

So here's another Halloween Project

that currently I have entered in

Retro Cafe Art Gallery's

Anything Goes Halloween Contest

(Link in my Favourites Listing).

The Contest is running until

October 14th, 2011

and Kristin is accepting entries, and it isn't necessary 

to use Coffee Break Design Products in this contest!

You are also allowed up to 3 entries!

So here's another of mine:)

Halloween 'Peek a Boo!'

(This was actually started last year for a local

contest, but I didn't get it finished in time,

so it's been put away unfinished until this past week:)

It looks pretty simple right?

Well let me tell you, this project is absolutely

one of the more involved I've ever done...

take a black lace bra, 

Hand sew, ( and I don't do this usually!),

liner completely inside the bra.

(Love this cotton fabric of cobwebs:)

Completely hand sew lace and bling ribbon...

Stuff the inside of the cups with a really expensive

dyed orange carded sheep's wool...

(yes, I am exhibiting attitude! I went through

two full bags of my special wool!!!)

And the pictures don't reflect the cool orange 

colour that shows through the lace! Darn it!

The Black Chipboard Cat had bottles of 'Stickles'

all over it, and it took 3 days for it to completely

dry...but loved it's 'bling' in the cleavage:)

A few glittered spider's here and there,

and some bling lettering, and walla!

An Art Room note....Storage Ideas:)

I have a plain white tall storage cupboard to

the right of my art desk, and the blank space

kept my imagination running wild with ideas...

so I took this vintage printers drawer and 

bolted it to the side of the cupboard to 

create shelves for some of my wood mounted

stamp collection.

(It's completely full now, and I'm needing at

least another 4 of these! LOL

And just above it, I made these cool shelves,

(actually did myself! Power saw and all!)

Using vintage rulers for the fronts, then

mounted some peel and stick cork for

mini bulletin boards:)

This I made a couple of years ago, and is an 

ongoing project, as you just have so much 

wall space...especially after hanging tons

of art projects, LOL~I love these shelves

and I'm quite proud of myself for making them

on my own! My husband was so taken that he

actually bought me my own power tools!

'Liberation!' (grin)

....so there you go! More projects in the works!

(As I can never do without at least a couple going

all at once:)

So more postings to follow soon!

Till then, have a great week,

and

Enjoy!