Last efforts

Hi Everybody!

The month is coming to a close, and I have 2 more pieces

I would like to link before the next challenge cycles begin.

The first piece is for my challenge at Tag Tuesday, 

autumn or Halloween. The three sweet little witches are

an image from Gecko Galz, printed onto canvas,

which was fringed and then sewn onto 2 coordinating

backing papers. The owl strip was punched out:

The second piece is for Elke's lovely challenge at

Art Journal Journey, 'Landscapes of the soul'.

Last week I cut a large face stamp. It took several days as the cutting 

hurts my hands so I couldn't do too much at one sitting. 

The A3 background here was brayered with some left over

autumn colours, and the stamp was used to 'ghost' stamp the page - 

it wasn't re-inked after using it on another page, so this is the faded,

second or 'ghost' print. I added more colour using Calligraphy

permanent markers from Lehmann and Weber. The birds were 

stenciled:

This is the stamp:

Some photos showing the very changeable weather

we had this week:

I was alone at the ice parlour drinking my coffee:

The evening sun lighting up the remaining leaves against

the dark clouds:

Lots of colourful leaves:

And a mix of sun, wind and clouds all week:

Here's wishing you all a good start in the new week!

Take care, and thanks for coming by!