I'm ready for the school carnival

I hate being poor but I'm glad I taught myself to face paint. Now I can dress up even if I can't afford a costume. It doesn't help that I have such excellent taste in costumes. The one I want is a black widow spider and is $75 - yikes. Maybe I can get it after Halloween 75% off and save it for next year. I did buy the black fiber with my Michaels coupon so I could make my hair falls.

I'm also going to a party tonight. I think I will keep the hair falls but may change the paint to sexy swirls or maybe a sugar skull on half the face. I have to be at least half way pretty. Which half is the pretty half is up to the beholder or beer holder as the case may be.

Some creepy creations

To be added to my Witches Cupboard Swap box. Image from Altered Pages.




A Frida button bat fairy. Frida stamp from Invoke Arts.




An homage to the gothic novel. Woman is from Stampland Chicago. Web is Stampin'Up!



An homage to Poe - the beating, the beating, the beating of his hideous heart. Heart is from Stamp Francisco.

Behold - the uterus of power!

Mixed Media Monday - Famous People

Here is my submission for MMM. The Marilyn stamp is from Stampsmith.

I need input

Ack! I haven't been creating as much lately and now I am indecisive. So what do you think flower in the middle? On the side? Or no flower? And do you think I should add some more embellishment to the crown or leave it alone. Help me!

Miss Minnie

I miss little Rylee Boo. I closed my home daycare and now am a work outside of the home mom. I like my new job. It's nice to be out of the house and with grown ups but I miss the kiddos. Miss thing was going to preschool anyway but I do get attached. I had her since she was eight weeks old and it makes me sad that they won't even remember me. Her little baby sister was the sweetest. I do love the babies. They just don't stay little, bitty babies long enough. Still, it was time to move on. I was lucky to have a job with the great benefits of hugs and being told you are loved for seven years.

Mama Mia here I go again

I just went to see Mama Mia and I can't stop singing Abba songs. It was so much fun and I had to sing along at the movies.

Woot woot! - First time published in Somerset Studio

I'm so excited. Though I have been published in other publications, this is my first time in the fabulous Somerset Studio. I just had to share my excitement. When you get your Sept./Oct. issue check me out on page 100.

Mixed Media Monday - Numbers

My submission for Mixed Media Monday Number challenge.

Wednesday Stamper - Keyhole

My keyhole submission for Wednesday stamper. I'm kind of wishing I would have went with my first thought which was the keyhole on a heart BUT I wanted to try something different. The chipboard bird is from maya road. I rusted it with EZ tintz (actually I think much better than my previous experiments). I stamped the autumn leaves swirls and the Stampin' Up! keyhole and added the quote. Fast and easy. I feel like I need to kick it up a notch but I guess it will do. Now I'm off to be wowed by everyone elses submissions.

Ack! Why are my photos so fuzzy! I need a remedial photography class. Photography for dummies. How can I always mess up when I just have a point and shoot. Aren't they supposed to be idiot proof? Okay since it's too fuzzy to read my quote says "have you checked your flight path". I'm off to read my camera manual. It's either that or I have to figure out where I put the scanner.

4x4 Friday - Statue

My first submission for the 4x4 Friday challenge. This was a fun new size and shape for me. The main collage image stamp is from Stampin' Up! and the swirl stamp in the corner is Autumn Leaves.

Pretty kitties

Some cute kitties to share. I've been out trying to drum up some face painting business. Hopefully I will be able to get some steady jobs rolling.

Rusting chipboard

I was inspired by the fabulous Audrey Hernandez (check her stuff out at Small Creations - the link is to the right under eye candy) to try rusting some chipboard. Of course, I don't have a rusting kit like she did. I did have some terra cotta glimmer mist and espresso adirondack color wash so my experiment began.



This is the chipboard sprayed with just the terra cotta glimmer mist. Pretty but a little too sparkly to look rusty.



I smudged some vintage photo distress ink which did help calm down the glimmer a bit.




Here is the chipboard with the espresso adirondack color wash. It was VERY dark. I added some glitter spray to it. I think my results are that I can call this altered chipboard but it really doesn't look rusty.

Here are a couple of cards I made with the finished product.



I love this skeleton stamp I got from After Midnight. I'm not crazy about the circles and the balance of this card but sometimes, you just have to say its good enough and walk away. It can make you crazy trying to figure out what it needs? if it really needs more or maybe I should take away an element? I guess that's what they call the creative process. Ack this one is horribly fuzzy too. I need to work on my photography skills. The quote on the circle says "can we hold eternity". That was the inspiration for adding the clocks.




I'm not sure if this picture came out clear enough to share but it's here anyway. This one is using another stamp from After Midnight, the mermaid. She's a sexy pinup mermaid. Well I am back to creating.

Manga Me

I just had to share the cutie manga me created at www.faceyourmanga.com.

Taggerific

The couple stamp is from Eclectic Omnibus and the rose is from Stamp Camp.

Altered Playing Cards

I love retro images and I adore the bright colors of these playing cards. The soft colors of the baby images isn't usually my thing but it's fun to try something different every now and again.

Style - Mixed Media Monday

My first contribution to Mixed Media Monday. I love these challenge and inspiration sites. It always helps get the creative juices flowing to have a new theme each week.

Cowgirl Collage

I just wanted to share this cowgirl collage I made for my Keno gift this month. I love how it turned out. The Cosmo Cricket papers are so fabulous. Elizabeth Shea had used them on some submissions in Stampers Sampler and that inspired me to pull them out. Almost all of the stamps are Oxford Impressions. I think there is one from Queens Dresser Drawers in there. It's on a 9x12 canvas.

One more

I have been visiting blogs tonight (my gang is gone and I'm trying to stay busy) and it has inspired me to try to kick mine up a notch. So that's why I went from never posting to a gazillion in one night. This is miss pretty princess. That's all for tonight but I am going to try to jazz up my site and post more regularly. Thanks for looking. Comments are appreciated. They make me feel special.