The Play Date Cafe - colour challenge PDCC103

This is my first time playing along with

The Play Date Cafe

challenge blog and I hope

it isn't my last!

The colours we had to use in any project of our choice were

 'Rust', 'Storm' and 'Deep Sea'.

Well that was easier said than done!

Rust was no problem as I had some

 Friendly Plastic and Sari Ribbon

which fitted the bill and became a bodice and sleeves.

The other two colours

Storm and Deep Sea

took me a little longer to come up with, but I eventually settled on

 some more Sari Ribbon and thin cotton

which became the skirt.  I also had some Friendly Plastic which

perfectly complemented these colours and that became the

heart shaped hands!

I didn't set out to make a witch, but that's what she looks like to me!

Her face is moulded from air dried clay painted with acrylic,

water colour pencils and a Sakura Jelly Roll pen.

Her hair is fibres and her hat is more of the Sari Ribbon.

I painted on the neck so the head didn't look as though

it was floating in space!

She is glued onto mountboard covered with

old sheet music coloured with paint and edged with a

copper coloured pen.

Only the head and the bodice are actually glued down

so the rest of her can move (not that I've been playing

with her or anything ... cough, cough!!)

I'd never have thought of putting these colours

together, but I do love the combination.

One last photo -

her best withchy pose ...

Thanks for looking - I'm off to find her a broomstick now!

Miss Halloween 2009

This month's theme on the Art Raffle is 'Black and Orange' (although it doesn't necessarily have to be Halloween related).

As my creative brain doesn't stretch very far I decided to make ... yes, another paper doll!  She turned out to be something of an exhibitionist with her tight bright orange bodice, pumpkin button bra and black lacy tutu with matching cloak.

Her hair and bodice are Plastraw (like raffia but stronger), her crown is a glittered up plastic embellishment and her stripey socks are coloured in with Marvy LePlume markers.

She looks like a winner to me - so I've crowned her 'Miss Halloween 2009' ........ what's that you say .... 'Smashing Pumpkins' ?   No, I've never been into their music ..... sorry, I couldn't resist adding that!

Halloween Altered Domino Book

I decided to make another of these little 'books' so I could use a lovely image I found here of a gothic lady caught in a spider's web - very haunting indeed!

I highlighted the web with some Ranger's Stickles (unfortunately some found their way across the lady's eyes - oh well, all adds to the mystique I suppose!)

The inside page of the 'book' is handmade paper and because it is so thin, the rubber (polymer) stamped image shows through the back of it.

I bought the stamps last weekend at Ally Pally and they seemed just right for this theme - the back of each domino has a gothic door on and the centre panel the large spider's web - no sign of the spider though thank goodness!  The stamps are from Lavinia who I hadn't heard of before now, but I think they're lovely and I wish I'd bought more!

I finished the book off with some black ribbon and crystally bits and coated with some Krylon Crystal Clear.

Altered Domino Book

This month's theme (set by Viv) over on the GAS (Group for Altered Swaps) group on Flickr is an altered Halloween domino book.

Well, I've never been into the whole Halloween thing much so the subject didn't excite me - however, after seeing some beautiful creations in the photostream of the GAS group I was suitably inspired!

I found some lovely vintage images in another Flickr group (thanks Suzee Que!) which I decorated my dominos with (I used the same dominos - childrens' wooden ones - which I used for the Christmas charms in the post below).  I also had some cute pumpkin buttons which I've had for years and never before used.  I stuck two together and glued them to the ribbon ends.  This is the first domino book I've made and I had a little trouble with sorting out how to attach the ribbon - any tips will be greatly appreciated!