SUNDAY POSTCARD ART - WITCHES WELCOME!

I`m late this week...for everything actually LOL  I am thinking everyone has those weeks.

The theme this week at Sunday Postcard Art (where it is Halloween all month!) is Retro!  Struggled a bit with this one.  I was going for a 50s look, I used to call it  ``starlight`` as I had this impression of motel and restaurant signs with ``star names`` and images.   Pin ups seemed perfect.  These images are all from GeckoGalz.   I love orange and red for Halloween, so keeping it simple I used red and orange hued cardstock and Stickles.

ARTFUL TIMES CHALLENGE #15 FUR OR FEATHERS

Artful Times  is a new challenge blog - have you checked them out yet?  A new challenge every second week.  This time it is Fur or Feathers (or both).  I have chosen both.   Still immersed in Halloween, it's like this every year LOL  I will do Halloween until it's past and then have trouble letting go.

I picked up this little metal stand a couple of years ago at a favourite local gift store.  It's easy to change the postcard for the season.  The vintage card is part of a set I purchased from Vintage Image Craft.

I particularly liked the mauve black shadows on this image and played that up with a mauve printed background.  I covered the entire piece with "sugar beads" and then highlighted the black mat with purple Stickles.  Played up the same shades on my vintage style chenille figure.

BY THE LIGHT OF THE FULL MOON - SUNDAY POSTCARD ART

This week's theme (with hostess Kris Dickinson and it is Halloween all month, yippee!) at Sunday Postcard Art is "By the Light of the Full Moon".   I had something entirely different in mind but when I came across this Heartwarming Vintage image (part of a vintage postcard kit) in my Halloween stash - perfect!  I adore the cat with his head bandaged LOL  What a great storytelling prompt with the grands.

I used a piece of black/orange Core'Dinations sanded back for the base some Orange Peel Stickles around the frame and a variety of GlitterRitz colours for highlights.  The main image and full moon stamp image came from the vintage postcard kit.   I kept looking at it thinking I should do more but there is something about the worn and faded look that seems just right as is.

This is only my second time entering a challenge at Sunday Postcard Art  , what a great way to get started doing some mail art on a regular basis!  Do check out the incredible inspiration you will find there!

ARTFUL TIMES CHALLENGE #14 (HALLOWEEN POSTCARD)

Found this new challenge blog ARTFUL TIMES!  The challenges are offered every two weeks (isn't that a fortnight in the UK?).  Do check them out, it is fun to be in on the beginning and as they are just starting you can easily do the visits to other participants!

This challenge is to produce a 4x6 postcard using alphabet letters and/or script.  I started with a kraft postcard which I sprayed with Tattered Angels Glimmer Spray/Mimosa, then using a Dylusions alpha stencil sprayed over the top of that with Tattered Angels Glimmer Spray/Black Gold.  The images are from Deviant Scrap, "Toil and Trouble" micro kit.  The title is a Tim Holtz stamp which I embossed in white.

I will use wide clear packing tape over the fronts of my postcards to ensure they survive the post as I do intend to send them out.  It's a great technique to use on any mailart.

HAUNTED - SUNDAY POSTCARD ART

For the next 5 weeks Kris Dickinson of A Nostalgic Halloween is hosting at Sunday Postcard Art.  This weeks theme is Haunted!  I just had to take a break from the assembly line of  Candy Cane Cones to play.

All of the images used here are from Deviant Scrap, I've used images from several of the micro kits offered for Halloween e.g. Toil & Trouble, The Haunted Library   As I have said they are Digital Divas at Deviant Scrap but their kits include collage sheets for those of us who cut and paste!

HALLOWEEN POST CARD "ESSEY THE WITCH"

Are you familiar with Deviant Scrap?  Check out the series of micro (with a micro price of $1.50!) Halloween kits being offered.  I picked up the first two a few weeks ago and I am going back for more LOL Of course they are digital divas at Deviant Scrap  but all of their image kits include jpegs for those of us who cut and paste!