Sunday Postcard Art Twofer: Season of the Witch and Sloths

Greetings! How are you? I am still painfully stuck in Neck Crick Land but fighting hard to keep it from turning me into an old grump. I must admit, I have never had this much sustained and radiating neck pain before. Honey has slathered so much ointment on me he is beginning to think he's basting me for the oven, lol. I am constantly doing stretching exercises, hot and cold compresses, nothing seems to abate it. I've even gotten out the dreaded neck collar to wear. I fight becoming crippled every single inch of the way! After all, 18 years ago I was told I'd for sure be in a wheelchair in 10 years, so... please pray for me if you have some room for me amidst everyone suffering worst things? I would be most grateful! Every day is a GIFT!

At any rate, let's move along to something more fun, shall we? The theme for this week at Sunday Postcard Art was "Sloth". The theme the week before that was "Seasons". I am sharing both today. 

My take on the Seasons theme: I started out to just do a regular old Autumn scene, but then Donovan Leitch's old 60's song cued up in my mind and would not leave. (I have now lost count how many times I've sung "Must be the season of the witch" to myself lol.) I knew I had these corny Technique Junkies Best Witches stamps that I'd yet to ever use so hey! Then I began joking to myself, "yes it is indeed The Season of the Witch! Ghost of The Bachelor: The Bewitched Version. Who will get the rose?" Hahaha Just in case you even needed a roadmap to understanding my strange sense of humor. ;-)

My apologies to those of you who love that show. I never could get into it myself.

  

I wanted to show these process photos of the other contestants in the background, before I upstaged them with the finalists. Plus to show the dimension resulting from using foam tape on the curtains and the ghost guy. I probably could have stopped right here, but I had those Technique Junkies beauty queens...

The Bachelor Ghost is pretty cute, no?

And then I thought, what do I do with this? Hmm...

I put my postcard on a 7x7" Deco to display in my art corner, along with a couple of Gecko Galz witches who look like they don't approve. Hmmm, maybe they are just jealous they didn't make the cut? LOL

This is how I colored the Sizzix Architectural Corners die cuts -- with Copper Brilliance ink direct to paper, then I hit them with my heat tool to set the ink. 

This is a shot to show what's underneath everything since I tend to cover up a lot. The chipboard backing from a Graphics 45 is my recycled base underneath a layer of dark purple with silver cobwebs, 3 lines of washi tapes and my copper-colored corners. I ink-distressed all around with VersaMagic chalk ink direct to paper.

And here's where it hangs in an arrangement on our foyer table with my other "witch" art. You saw the tag in my last post and I shared the black and white deco last year.

And finally, moving right along to this past week's "Sloth" theme at Sunday Postcard Art, I created a little collage of a sloth yogi practicing his natural chillax, which I've translated to "No Hurry ... Be Nappy". LOL I crack myself up. Makes me giggle every time, I'm a sucker for a good pun or play on words. 

I found him at Eclipse Design SVG on Etsy. Printed him out, colored him up with Promarkers and then added a kazillion white marks for his fur with a Posca paint pen. I outlined his eyelids in silver metallic gel pen so they could be seen.

He is sitting on a lawn colored green and cut twice with Lawn Fawn's Grassy Border die. The sky above him was inked with Palette ink blues and blending brushes. An MFT rainbow die cut is behind him, colored with Promarkers. And MFT clouds as well. The funky white and orange die cuts at the top and the bottom are Art By Marlene for Studio Light. 

He looks so happy there! I never was a big fan of sloths but they are growing on me. 

Here's a close-up of the sloth, sorry it's blurry. The camera insisted on focusing on the rainbow! 

And a final view. I guess I love this little guy! I gifted this to a neighbor friend who enjoys collecting small art and retired with Honey back in 2018, so the advice will be appreciated and probably already followed! Thanks for visiting and hanging in for this long post -- have a great rest of your weekend, XOX

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

1.  Sunday Postcard Art: Seasons -- I had me a little play on the word Season :-)

2.  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity #108 : 31 Days of Halloween - I used LCD stamps Mum Border, Dolls Set 1 and Perspective Floor on the Seasons postcard  - lots of hand-stamping.

3.  Sunday Postcard Art: Sloths

4.  Gecko Galz October Customer Blog Challenge: Happy Haunting  -- The two witches on each side of my Deco are from the Witching Hour collage sheet.

5.  Gecko Galz Facebook Group October Challenge: Use Orange and Black  

6.  2 Crafty Critter Crazies #43 -- final entry #5 -- Sloth

7.  Crafty Animals #43 -- final entry #3 -- Sloth

8.  Crazy 4 Challenges C4C558: Copper -- Corners on Witch Deco

9.  Colour Crazy Craft Challenge Week 41: AG w/Colouring -- Promarkers on all of it..

10.  Paper Funday #22: AAG + Opt. Halloween -- Option played

11.  Outlawz Monday Greetings 10/12-10/25: My Halloween

12.  Try it on Tuesday: Halloween

13.  Modsquad Challenge: Spooky

14.  Crafty Calendar Challenge : Halloween

15.  The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge: Lots of Layers - My Halloween Witches Deco has LOTS of layers. :-)

16.  The Three Muses: Orange and Black and Green - My Halloween Deco and the Sloth postcard

17.  #TGIFC287: Trick or Treat - My Halloween Season of the Witch Deco

18.  Classic Design Challenge #10: AAG

19.  Art Journal Journey: Hold the Line -- My 7x7" deco has lines of washi tape, spider web lines and a line of witchy lady contestants hahaha!

20.  Arty Divas #30: ATG -- entry #4 of 5

21.  Aud Sentiments #262: Sentiment + Fall/Halloween

22.  Country View Challenge October: Halloween Scene (Make a Scene)