Hi, I'm Torrey. Welcome to Left Field, where creativity runs amok and imagination is ALWAYS more important than knowledge. Shoes are not allowed but ties are optional. This is a repository of snippets from my life out here in Left Field. One never knows what shiny bits of creativity will be found here... cards, scrapbook layouts, photography, poetry, recipes, ponderings, rantings and musings. It could be anything! Life in Left Field is always changing, always real, always ...interesting.
Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts

October 30, 2012

Black and White Spooktacular

So. Are y'all ready for Halloween? Alas, this year I will not be handing out candy. I will keep the house dark so as not to falsely lure the multitudes of trick-or-treaters. Just couldn't afford to hand out candy this year. It's too dang expensive. In all hopes, our house won't get egged or T.P.'d in retaliation.
Over at Bombshell stamps, it's time for our monthly blog hop...and it just HAPPENS to coincide with Halloween! Cool! So our hop mistress, Alison, tasked us with creating a Halloween project in nothing but black and white.

If you sauntered over here into Left Field from the UBER wicked Alex's blog, then you made it safe and sound. Did her raven, Edgar, peck at you? He's quite the cantankerous bird sometimes! Now, sit back...dim the lights...and read on if you dare... as you enter....

THE TORREY ZONE
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The room is empty, except for a silhouette of a woman's profile projected onto the bare wall. 

"Good ee-vening", she says in her best Alfred Hitchcock voice.

Lightning punctuates her greeting as the lights blink out in instant response and plunge the room into utter darkness.

 Suddenly, an eery beam of light bathes the center of the room, like a spotlight caressing an empty stage, as a gathering of rattling beings (festooned in faded black tutus) emerge from the darkness and dance lithely, in unison, across the floor.

 Ghostly organ music begins to waft its otherworldly whine. The melody...hauntingly familiar. 

 Is that Swan Lake?

 Really?

 Who knew skeletons knew ballet?

Who knew they wore tutus?

Yes, this IS the Dance Macabre.

 MuA Ha ha ha ha ha ha.


Thank you for hopping by! Now it's time to skitter over to the delightfully spooky Kelli's blog  Be sure to leave treats (or tricks) along the way in the form of comments. And please play along with us and create a Black and White Halloweeny card!

Here is a complete blog list if you get lost or want to retrace your steps. It's much more effective than leaving bread crumbs.

Torrey (me)
Mari 


Ingredients:
Muertos Doll digital stamp - Bombshell Stamps
Fantasy Bombshell digital stamp (tutu)- Bombshell Stamps
Nestability die - Spellbinders (Label Ten)
Prismacolor Colored Pencils
Spiderweb border, and Drippy border punches - EK Success for Martha Stewart
rhinestone swirl, lace, ribbon - Prima
Rhinestones - Michaels
patterned paper
glitter pen - Sakura
cardstock.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

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October 21, 2012

Frightful Greetings

It's challenge time over at Kenny K's Krafty Krew. This week we're pulling out all things creepy, ghoulish, and macabre to celebrate Kenny's new line of Halloween images. Our sponsors this week are:

The prize from Kenny is the winner's choice of 5 digi's.

And our second sponsor is 
Loves Rubber Stamps
The prize is the winner's choice of a $10.00 stamp from her store!


Our theme this week is

That's Just Frightful!

So get your spooky shoes on! 
(You know...the ones with the spiders and blood all over them). 
And join us in a spooktacular challenge!

I decided to use Kenny's new "Haunted House" image. It SO reminds me of the Addams Family house, doesn't it? They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky. They're altogether ooky, the Addams Family! Their house is a museum, when people come to see 'em. They really are a scree-am...the Addams Family. 

You're gonna be singing that all day now. 

Mwa hahahahaha. I'm pure evil.


Wanna know the BEST part about this card??? 
It glows in the dark. Don't belive me? 

Look what happens when the lights go out!!
 Cool huh?

Ingredients:
Haunted House image - Kenny K
Photoshop (for coloring)
Patterned paper - Design Originals
Glow-in-the-dark paint - Tulip
Spider web border punch - Martha Stewart
cardstock
transparency
black tulle
upholstery trim


    

 


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October 31, 2011

...Smell My Feet



Tricky

Candy, oh candy
 in my Hallow’s Eve sack
that I gained from trick-or-treating

Would just disappear,
 unusually fast,
for a goblin came-a-eating

tearing through wrappers,
like a paper shredder,
…to stop would be defeating

So she ate and ate
First chocolate, then taffy
(and the cycle kept repeating)

Her grubby hands flew
from MY bag to HER mouth
(to me, it was totally cheating)

Eyes wide, I watched her
gobble up my whole stash
(lucky me... I had ringside seating)

Then I realized,
in a horrible flash,
that with whom I was competing

Was not, in fact,
a wretched ghoul at all,
it was ME, ‘neath the ghost’s sheeting.

~by Torrey Moseley 10.31.2011


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October 25, 2011

A Very Skelly Halloween Blog Hop!

Hi Ho! I'm Torrey, I'm one of the newest members of the Bombshell Stamps Guest Design Team. I'm Ms. December. So, be sure to check back, often, to see what I cook up in my "labora-torrey" out here in Left Field !!

It's that time of the month...NO...not THAT time *rolls eyes*. It's the last Wednesday of the month so that means it's time for Bombshell Stamps monthly Blog Hop !! YIPPEE!!!  Appropriately enough, this month's theme is:
"A Very Skelly Halloween" 

If you hopped over here from Kelli's blog...you're in the right place! Hooray!! If not, don't fret!! Just hop on over to the Bombshell Blog and you can start from the beginning! You won't want to miss any of these FaBuLoUs projects!

This is the first time I've participated in a Blog Hop. I'm sorry I don't have any candy to share this time around. WHAT?!? NO CANDY?!? ON HALLOWEEN?!? IS THAT EVEN ALLOWED?!? I am sorry. I hope to have some candy for y'all soon. Besides, candy rots your teeth. In the meantime, give me your address and I may send you a toothbrush. hee hee hee. (gee, can you tell I'm really into "tooth hygiene" lately? Do you think it's because I had a root canal last week? Nah.)

Anyway...Participating in the hop was super fun, and got me in the trick-or-treating spirit! I ended up making 2 projects for this Hop. My first offering is this pumpkin treat basket. How stylin' would it be to hand out treats with this baby??? Or, do like I did...put in on the coffee table loaded with treats for anyone who cares to stop by. Martha Stewart's got NOTHING on me!!!
 Project # 1 
(Trick-Or-Treat Pumpkin Basket)
I got this pumpkin basket on sale at Michaels...it was a perfect platform for this project, don't ya think?
Here's the basic recipe to make this project:
  1. Punch out multiple sections of grass and iron fence from cardstock and splice them together to make bottom border. Adhere ribbon around bottom edge, and affix whole shebang to basket with foam tape.
  2. In photo editing program--size and arrange enough skeleton pieces for 6 whole skeletons and print out on white cardstock.
  3. Color skeleton pieces (I used colored pencils) and cut them out...carefully.
  4. Assemble skeletons using mini brads at joints--that way you can pose them however you like.
  5. Print sentiment on white cardstock. Die cut shapes around words. Color sentiments (I used colored pencils). Coat letters of sentiment with clear lacquer and let dry. Mount on black cardstock.
  6. Arrange and affix skeletons and sentiment blocks as desired on basket with foam tape.
  7. Drape gauzy netting over handle for extra creepy effect.
  8. Fill with goodies.
Close up view

Ingredients:
  • Digital skeleton stamps - Bombshell Stamps "Muertos Doll" 
  • cardstock (white, black, kraft)
  • Border punches (grass, iron fence) - EK Success for Martha Stewart 
  • Prismacolor colored pencils
  • Nestability dies - Spellbinders (Inverted Scalloped Square, Long Scalloped Rectangle, Deckled Oval)
  • Ribbon and mini brads - Creative Impressions 
  • Glue Glider Pro adhesive - Glue Arts  
  • Clear lacquer
  • foam tape
  • Halloween decorative gauze - Michaels
  • apples - from some wrinkled old lady who came to my door selling apples. She kept muttering something about a "magic mirror"...she looked harmless enough...

Project # 2
(Happy Skeleton Card)
...Since I had leftover "stuff"...I made a card that coordinates (sort of) with the basket. I had just enough fence and one lonely skeleton left. I drew out the gravestones on cardstock and colored them in with (you guessed it) colored pencil, then cut them out. The sentiment is made from 3-D stickers by Jolee's. The top flap of the card is a good inch or so shorter than the underlying bottom--to allow for the word "Halloween" to peek out from behind the spiderweb edging. I punched the right edge of the top flap with a spiderweb border punch. I punched the edge under the word "Halloween" with a drippy edge punch and backed it in red to give it a little...oomph. Everything is adhered to the front of the card with foam tape and my adhesive gun. That lonely skeleton doesn't look so lonely anymore. He's happy now!


Card Ingredients:
So, thankyouverymuch (as Elvis would say) for spending some time here with me in Left Field (where creativity runs amok)
... please continue on with our BLOG HOP!!! You're gonna be visiting Meredith next! Have fun, and thanks for hopping by!

Here is a full list of the blogs on this hop:
Torrey (you're here!!) 


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