Happy Haunted Humpday....Beware the BatGirl!

Hello and Welcome to Happy Haunted Humpday hosted by Marfi of Incipient Wings! This week I present to you a rare sighting of a creature almost unknown in the modern world...a creature so terrifyingly cute that you can't help but be thrilled when you spot her....the daylight pic above is the only one known to be in existence...The Purple BaT Girl! You can spot her by her purple wings and body, her sweet face, and her sharp little teeth. She likes to snack on snails, rosebuds and Gummy Bears....and sometimes as night falls...you may hear the flutter of her wings as she searches the night....for a new friend....awwwwww!

So cute...and I only bite a little bit!

Be sure to visit Incipient Wings for more Haunted Humpday posts and look on my left sidebar for other Halloween blog events...And don't forget I will be hosting a Haunted Halloween Doll Challenge this year...click on the link or the pic for more info...hope you'll join me! Happy Haunted Humpday everyone!

Haunted Humpday...Tabby's Spellbook

Hello and welcome once again to Haunted Humpday hosted by the most magickal Marfi of Incipient Wings!  For this week, I am posting this unfinished Tabby's Spellbook project that I started a while ago. This was so much fun to do and very easy...want to know how I did it? Here you go.....

Find a vintage hardcover book with a cover you like (mine is a vintage book with an embossed cover) Find a vintage photo that speaks to you and make a copy of it, glue it to the front of your book. Embellish the photo with pens, pencil, etc. Seal with Modge Podge or matte medium. Now, here's the really fun part...to make the cool embellished frame...warm up that glue gun, ladies! When it is really hot, draw the glue around your photo in the desired pattern. Let cool completely and use metallic acrylic paints or Rub n Buff to enhance and add color. Add rhinestones or whatever else you like...and voila! Very cool spell book. I'll be finishing mine in time for Halloween!

Love this song, perfect for this time of year...EveryDay is Halloween by The Postmarks...



Be sure to visit Incipient Wings and visit all the other artists who are celebrating Happy Humpday...and a little birdy told me BlissAngels is doing a Day of the Dead Challenge today too!

This is a DOD doll work in progress I am doing in Michael DeMeng's Distressed Dollie Class!

Click on the Broomsticks on the Bayou above for info on the blog party by Frosted Petunias and Incipient wings!  Happy Haunted Humpday...Happy Fall Equinox...and thanks for visiting! xo

P.S. Hope you'll join me for the Haunted Halloween Doll Challenge on October 12th!

Dia de La Muertos...Day of the Dead Portrait

                       

 
Hello and welcome to Paint Party Friday and Haunted Humpday...and Happy Friday the 13th! This week I am linking one post to both, it's been a crazy busy week! I thought it would be fun to try and do a Day of the Dead portrait. I have always loved the DOD/Dia de La Muertos art and found a cool little workshop by TenTwoStudios. I used an image from a magazine as my model and then gave her a DOD makeup, roses for her crown and collaged her on an 8x10 wood background. I'm still working on some of the details but I think she's close to being finished. I had alot of fun creating this piece. She's now available in my Etsy Shop!

This year I will be hosting what I hope will be a very fun Haunted Halloween Doll Challenge, click on the link for more details...hope you'll join me!


And here's a little something to get you in the Halloween mood......Silly Symphony Skeleton Dance by Disney...Spooooooky!

Thanks so much for visiting and please check out all the other artists this week for Haunted Humpday and Paint Party Friday! Have a great weekend!

Paint Party Friday...A Sweet Little Painting

Happy Weekend and Happy Paint Party Friday! This week I took a short break from altering dolls to do a sweet little mail art swap in the True Free Spirit workshop taught by Mindy Lacefield. The style is primitive and childlike, the swap theme was to make a piece of mail art in the TFS style on cardboard, seal it with beeswax and mail it to your partner in an altered envelope. So much fun! I love how the natural beeswax gives a dreamy look to the finished art. This little painting is 8 inches long by 3 1/2 inches wide on cardboard.

If you would like to see what else I've been up to this week...here's my post from Haunted Humpday for this week, another cute but creepy doll bottle....AND...my big announcement, I am hosting a Haunted Halloween Doll Challenge (click to see post) this year! All doll art is welcome but it must be haunted/spooky in keeping with the Halloween theme. Please grab the challenge button to add to your blog and take a look at my left sidebar for other fun Halloween art events. I hope you can join me!

Have a great weekend and thanks so much for stopping by! xo

Haunted Humpday!

Welcome to Week 2 of Haunted Humpday hosted by Incipient Wings! This week I have been working on 'Jeannie in a Bottle', another altered bottle with an altered vintage doll head stopper. I altered a Halloween bottle from Michaels again but in a slightly different way. I adore the bright green glass and didn't want to change that, so instead I made a face mold and added it the front of the bottle, then painted the face with acrylic paints and black mica flake. The vintage doll head is altered to look like a cute but creepy little demon, using acrylic paints, resin clay and black mica flake. I'll be adding ribbons and embellishments to the bottle once all the paint and glaze is dry.

So what makes this post a haunted post, besides the old dirt, dust and cobwebs in my unclean kitchen? Well, ask yourself this instead...who is Jeannie? Why is the bottle named 'Jeannie in the Bottle'? Figure it out yet?

So the story goes that a cute but creepy little demon lured poor Jeannie to look inside the pretty green bottle...when she did he trapped her soul inside...and what you see now is her face as she tries to escape...from...the...inside...of...the...botttlllleee......muuuuuwwaaahhaaaa.....

Please be sure to stop by the other Haunted Humpday posts by going to the Incipient Wings blog and scrolling down to comments. And look for a post from me in the next week announcing a Haunted Doll Challenge for October...details coming soon!

And a quick note..I promise I will be posting other things besides haunted dolls....but right now I am possessed.....oh, no...I mean OBSESSED...with dolls!

Happy Wednesday and hope you have a super Haunted Humpday! xo

Happy Wednesday...Welcome to Haunted Humpday!

Happy Wednesday and Welcome to Haunted Humpday, a Halloween blog event hosted by Marfi Bradford of Incipient Wings!

I will be joining Marfi and all the other fab artists each Wednesday posting spooky, haunted and terrifying art and photos....muuuuwwwwhhhaaaaa....My post this week features a resin skull I purchased at Michaels and altered/rusted with the Sophistocated Finishes Rusting kit....and of course a haunted post would not be complete without a new altered dolly head I made in Michael DeMeng's Distressed DollHead workshop....Don't believe in creepy dolls gone wild? Watch this...if you dare.....



Be sure to visit Marfi's blog today to find all the other Haunted Blog posts listed in the comments. Have a great day and be afraid...be very very afraid! xo