Creep Softly Studios

The Great Paper Mache Pumkin...

2012-01-24T13:26:00.000-08:00

Just found this website and this class, how fun! Paper mache pumpkins!

http://www.stolloween.com/?p=5676

Happy Halloween!

2011-10-31T06:45:00.000-07:00

This year has been so busy I haven't had much time to think about, or plan for, Halloween. It's a sad state of affairs I tell you. I've been so focused on my family and getting my art studio built that I haven't even had time for art. That is all going to change soon though. I want to wish everyone a very Happy Halloween. Hope you have fun today!

The Creative Connection Event!

2011-07-30T11:35:00.000-07:00

I really need to attend this event. I have so many things I want to learn about applying your creativity into your business and making your business about your creativity. I want to go to meet new people, to learn, and to be inspired to take my artwork to the next level.
I can't get there without help and I just learned that they are giving away 2 tickets and a hotel stay, these paid for would make it possible for me to go instead of just sitting at home watching the fun online and never getting to participate.
Maybe I will be lucky! Who knows, it could happen.
http://www.thecreativeconnectionevent.com/

OWOH Winner Announced!

2011-02-17T09:29:00.000-08:00

Today is the day!

Announcing the winner of my OWOH door prize, the charm bracelet with quilted folder is....

Pattee from Odd Dolls

Congrats Pattee!

Thanks so much to everyone for coming to visit, I've had a wonderful time getting to meet new folks and visiting some amazing blogs too!

Happy day!

One World One Heart Blog Event

2011-02-02T11:31:00.000-08:00

Hello and welcome to Creep Softly Studios. I'm Thespa and this is a place for all my Halloween themed artwork and inspirations. I love Halloween, it brings out the kid in me.

Have a look around and you are always welcome at my other blogs in my sidebar.

Now for my giveaway...

This handmade bracelet with glass beads and Swarovski crystals held in a quilted cover.

All you have to do is leave a comment to win!

Have fun at the OWOH!

Pumpkin Carving Tutorial From the Master!

2010-10-29T06:55:00.000-07:00

Most of us who love Halloween are familiar with the Pumkin Carving Master Ray Villafane.

But even though I have seen his work I didn't know that he has a pumkin carving tutorial on his blog.

So go check it out, gather your tools and fail miserably as I'm sure I will, LOL but it will be fun to try!

Ray Villafane Pumkin Carving Tutorial

Awesome Vintage Halloween Spinner Game

2010-10-20T08:41:00.000-07:00

Found this amazing PRINTABLE vintage Halloween Spinner Game at Percy & Bloom

http://www.percyandbloom.com/the-vintage-moth/2010/10/3/free-vintage-whirl-o-halloween-game-and-images.html

Front and back of card as well as the spinner pieces. How Cool!

Updated artwork! Finished!

2010-09-27T08:12:00.000-07:00

I finished up this canvas that I posted last week. I painted their clothes and I think that made a lot of difference. It feels finished now. And they are much cuter!

Can you feel it? It's almost October, a chill is in the air and my favorite time of year is almost here.

I feel happy inside.

Thanks for visiting!

Tricky Three Halloween Collage on Canvas

2010-09-24T07:27:00.000-07:00

Started this collage last night at about 9pm, went to bed about 11:30. Their hats turned out good I think and I like the collage background. I think I will add a painted wardrobe for them though. But here it is as of now.

Hope you have a great weekend!

If you have a second I would really appreciate your vote!

VOTE = FREE ONLINE ART CLASSES

Thanks for visiting!

Bewitching Travel Case! & VOTE 4 ME! PLEASE!

2010-09-13T09:58:00.000-07:00

I finally finished this Bewitching travel case. It's been a long time in the unfinished pile of things. I had some time to work on it this weekend and am happy with the way it turned out.

Every witch needs a place to put her spell book, her most recent potion, and a few key ingredients.

I love the Tattered Angels Halloween stamps.

NOW FOR AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!

*** I NEED YOUR VOTE ***

I am in the running for a sponsorship from Prilosec OTC.

If chosen a sponsorship would provide me with recording equipment to make mixed media art classes and tutorials. These classes and tutorials would be made available to you for FREE on YouTube.

I have so many ideas for art techniques to share with you all.

Please help me by going and voting! You will need to sign up on their site to vote but I promise you that they do not share your information and you will receive no aggravating spam emails.

http://www.officialsponsor.com/applications/view/6800

Just click the link above to go vote for me Thespoena M., and if you have a minute please leave a comment under your vote. Comments get noticed by judges.

*** If you know someone who would like to take FREE mixed media art classes and tutorials, please pass this link along and ask for votes. ***

Thank you all so very much and Happy Haunting!

Creap Softly And Carry A Magic Wand!

2010-07-01T06:48:00.000-07:00

My blog motto, LOL.

Photoshop is great isn't it?

I love old wooden blocks, especially the ones that are nice and aged with the grain really showing through when you paint them.

Creep Softly

And Carry a Magic Wand!

The White Rabbit

2010-06-25T06:38:00.000-07:00

I made this little guy a while back while playing with modeling paste, and just got around to painting him last night. I'm including him in the Mad Tea Party on my other blog.

I added him with wire to an old wooden block that I altered. I bent the wire in a spiral to simulate the rabbit hole, I think I like it.

Technique:

Use a plastic card to spread paste in a thin layer over cardboard and draw a picture into it with a stylus or pen, let dry and paint.

A Work In Progress

2010-06-15T11:25:00.000-07:00

Currently working on this tall thin guy, putting down layers of paint and testing patterns.

Notice his hands are two different sizes? Love the creep factor that goes along with that. Tee-Hee.
I'm working on his coat right now, a rough cross hatch pattern I put on quickly this morning just to see if I like it on his coat, I think I do so went and picked up some very fine brushes today and I'll paint over the roughed in lines with gray and start over again with neat lines.

Close up of roughed in lines.

I've still got to make his cane, it will come up just under his large hand.

Love those tails.

I'll show more pics when I get him finished.

Pumpkin Pete

2010-05-12T06:22:00.000-07:00

Another Sculpey learning experience. Pumpkin Pete (named after my brother, tee-hee) After I made this I went looking for tutorials online about sculpting hands cause these just weren't what I was going for. But again I'm learning, and not too bad for my second attempt at sculpting a figure from scratch.

I do like his face though, you know that expression "a face only a mother could love" well...LOL

He has a wool tunic tied with a wool sash.

A little pumpkin bauble on his hat.

His hands will hold a sign eventually, when I get it done that is.

Must be Halloween in May. Of course Halloween every day of the year sounds good to me. LOL

A Little Trickster

2010-05-10T13:13:00.000-07:00

Say hello to my little friend! This is "Little Nikki" He was a fun little guy to make. I am very inexperienced with polymer clay, I've just never really had the motivation to use it before, but lately I've been getting ideas. So I'm playing a little, learning a little, and having lots of fun. Just like this little trickster.

I hope you are all having a great week!

Magic Hour! Mixed Media Collage Box

2010-05-03T13:56:00.000-07:00

I showed a picture of my grandma and her sister wearing witch Halloween costumes recently and now I've done something with it. I made this little shadow box theater.

I added an antique spool as a stand for the altered vintage sewing table drawer.

I added Prima butterflies as wings and Prima flowers.

It looks so much better in person all the glitter just sparkles and you can appreciate the depth much better.

Two little witches - My grandma & her sister

2010-04-23T09:12:00.000-07:00

I have been entrusted with all of our family photos and while looking through them I found an old album that belonged to my grandma. When I saw this little picture my heart melted. That little cutie on the left is my grandma Mary Virginia and one of her sisters in on the right. The photo was actually only approx 2"x2" and the entire left side and all the grass at the bottom was missing. I had a little Photoshop session to restore it to this full picture.

Normally when I find old pictures at flea markets I will share them with others freely but this one is all mine.

I'm planning some neat mixed media Halloween artwork with it.

Do not share without permission -if you want to blog please give full credit, do not use in artwork, do not sell, reproduce nor distribute this photo in anyway. It belongs to Thespoena McLaughlin 2010

Thanks!

Finally finished a Halloween project!

2010-03-24T08:59:00.000-07:00

I'm so glad to have finally finished a Halloween project. I've been so distracted with my other blog and projects that I haven't gotten to finish one in a while.

I found the old leather pouch at a flea market for 50 cents and just knew I could come up with some use for it, the same day I found several antique cabinet cards in small sizes for a dollar each. I think I like how well it turned out.

Halloween Clown Polymer Clay Piece

2010-02-02T06:40:00.000-08:00

I was snowed in this weekend and was working on several things. Some mixed media artwork which I shared on my other blog. And I was making some polymer clay molds and casting pieces, after that I had a little bit of conditioned clay left over and made of this tiny little man, I think I'll add a crepe paper ruffle around his neck to finish him off. I'll be working on more Halloween things soon.

An awesome Unicorn Skull

2010-01-14T06:41:00.000-08:00

A good friend from work made this Unicorn Skull and gave it to me today. I thought it was really cool and just had to share it with you.

Handmade by Eric Linn

Printable Potion Bottle Labels AWESOME!

2009-11-30T12:09:00.000-08:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lovemanor/

Love Manor on Flickr has some amazing bottle labels that are sufficiently "CREEPY"

This one is just a sample of one of their labels.

Also check out their blog

http://lovemanor.com/blog/

It's really cool too!

Me-Ow Song 1911 Antique Sheet Music with Cat Image

2009-11-23T06:21:00.000-08:00

I got excited when I found this antique sheet music at a local used book store. I just LOVE the cat image on the front!

Creepy Pixie - Master Mischievous

2009-11-22T20:56:00.000-08:00

I found an old desktop skeleton under a plastic dome, very cheap and cheesy looking and picked it up for a song knowing that I could think up something for it. (I am incapable of passing up a skeleton)

This is the finished "altered curiosity" dome.

A close up of my captured creepy Pixie (notice the two larger fangs, yikes!)

And coming up are a few pics of the process...

Isn't he sweet! He is named Master Mischeivous.

Trick or Treat - a little Halloween Carnival fun!

2009-10-26T06:34:00.000-07:00

Here is a little guy I came up with while playing with modeling paste. He was originally an artist trading card but I though he needed a little more atmosphere so I add layers and stitching.

Alice in Wonderland Altered Book - OR a little altered goodness from The Graphics Fairy!

2009-09-22T20:20:00.000-07:00

Here is the start of an altered book I'm working on to submit to the Stampington and Co. call for art themed Alice In Wonderland. My first two pages show graphics graciously posted on http://www.graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/ I love all the images she finds and posts for others to use freely in their artwork. To color the pages I used Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist and Glimmer Screens.

Halloween Bag Ladies! Altered Antique Doctors Bag. Witchy!

2009-09-22T19:30:00.000-07:00

I had a lot of fun with this bag. I used Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist over paint, and old photo postcard, some stamps, and some cardboard. I can imagine a proper witch carrying this as she rides her broom across the sky on Halloween night.

Halloween Treat Container!

2009-09-22T19:11:00.000-07:00

A quick and fun little treat container I made using some scrapbooking supplies and a paper mache container from Hobby Lobby. Happy Haunting!