Mischievous Mary: October 2006

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Dark Halloween ATCs

I finished these Sunday night for my Dark Halloween ATCs swap at Swap-bot. The gravestones are just cut-out black cardstock on an acrylic background with some pulled apart used dryer sheets for the wispy clouds and mist tendrils. Well, that's what they're supposed to be! The cards are both glued and sealed with Liquitex Matte Medium. The center card looks a bit shinier than it really is because it reflected the flash somewhat. These are the cards by the artist I'm sending my cards to. Now I'm embarrassed to send mine!

Over at Squidoo I now have a lens called "Artist Trading Cards are Dangerous!". There are some good links in there with more to come. And over at Artwords this week's topic is Gothic. Join us! (Click image for a larger view.)

Saturday, October 14, 2006

Brown Crocheted Scarf

OK, so I started this scarf a couple(?) of years ago... for my daughter... for Christmas... when she was in high school... Well... I finally finished it for her 20th birthday... and she's now a sophomore in college. Talk about procrastination! An added incentive was to submit it to Artwords for this week's topic: Brown. ;) The yarn was a pleasure to work with. It's a tweedy soft multicolor acrylic that spiraled around a thin thread. It was an inexpensive yarn by Coats and Clark's Red Heart brand so I didn't have to worry about ruining it and it washed and dried really well, as you can see. It's just two skeins worth of triple crochet worked inbetween the stitches. It's rather wide and long for scarf so it could also be used as a shawl. I liked it myself but I don't know if the yarn is still available, the Coats and Clark website was really s l o o o o w. Click image for a larger view.