The great Halloween roundup for 2016

Just some teasers as to my Halloween makings for this year. You saw the tote bag.
Here are some stamped cards  (post on how I made them to follow this week)

And the inside of the cards

They are quilted and attached to card stock.

I'll tell you about the stencil and the card making later, as well as the Halloween quilt. It's a whole pattern How-to that can be used for any collection.(Later...)
I used this stencil

to ink and paint 9 sugar skulls  all with different colored flowers. I used a new tool (later...)

Here is a Halloween throw sized quilt

And the piece de resistance, my peyote bracelet complete with skulls and swarovski crystal fringe!

I still need to finish the fringe but it's almost done.
I changed the pattern a little
1. I did even count peyote, and made it narrower than the pattern called for
2. I did long fringe on both sides
3. I put colored skulls instead of their tasteful gray

the link to my halloween or Fall colored bracelet is at ArtBeads, and it's a free pattern.
trick-or-treat-bracelet

I like Halloween

It was a good kick start to return to the studio, along with my community of Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks. I needed to sew, and create, and make. I had a hard time coming back to it from the loss of my Poodle-son Cole as all the joy left the building. I had to go find Joy and bring it back, little by little.

The house is not as joyful as it was... I still cry each day.... it's just that I create something each day between the tears and it's a start.

Enjoy these posts from prior Halloweens with my darling boy...

http://lapaylor.blogspot.com/2013/10/voodoopoodle-ive-come-for-your-bones.html

link to this post is pirate-poodle