First Night Design | Halloween: The Final Frontier card #GCU #Sold!

This cute illustration of a young witch (surely an innocent apprentice!), with her cat and pumpkin carriage, takes us back to the early 20th century when greeting card illustration was highly inventive and extremely popular. I have given her a new lease of life with a starry night background.

Take care and keep laughing!

First Night Design | Gravestone Hell #Halloween

FROM THE ARCHIVE 18th October 2014

My own textures and photographs, along with some Photoshop brushes, went into creating this image which, you will not be surprised to learn, is geared for…

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First Night Design | Halloween: The Final Frontier

Halloween: The Final Frontier Large Gift Bag

Halloween: The Final Frontier Jumbo Tote Bag

Zazzle tells me that now is the time to promote my products for Halloween. Since I almost never do this with calendar dates in time to make a difference to my sales, I’m continuing with the theme for today’s post. Look away now if you can live without 31st October!

I selected the witch from a vintage image from The Graphics Fairy and then created a black background with stars. I’m rather fond of the result though I say it myself as shouldn’t.

Halloween: The Final Frontier Standard Cocktail Napkin

Halloween: The Final Frontier Small Square Tile

ACT I  SCENE I	A desert place.
[Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches]
First Witch	When shall we three meet again
	In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second Witch	When the hurlyburly’s done,
	When the battle’s lost and won.
Third Witch	That will be ere the set of sun.	5
First Witch	Where the place?
Second Witch	Upon the heath.
Third Witch	There to meet with Macbeth.
First Witch	I come, graymalkin!
Second Witch	Paddock calls.	10
Third Witch	Anon!
ALL	Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
	Hover through the fog and filthy air.
[Exeunt]

Halloween: The Final Frontier Address Label

Available at the following galleries:
Zazzle US
Zazzle UK

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First Night Design | Gravestone Hell #Halloween

Gravestone Hell © Sarah Vernon [Click to buy]

My own textures and photographs, along with some Photoshop brushes, went into creating this image which, you will not be surprised to learn, is geared for a spooky Halloween!

Gravestone Hell Tote Bag © Sarah Vernon [Click to buy]

Take care and keep laughing!

The Witch’s Cat and The Tree: 2 out of 1

The design for both The Witch’s Cat and The Tree was created in a similar way to the Thanksgiving card featured in the previous post.  In other words, I used a fairly ordinary photograph of a tree that I took at my local park in Richmond, Surrey, and added several different textures.  And, of course, I did my usual experiments with blending states in Photoshop.

The Tree

The finished image as above stands alone and is being sold on RedBubble.

For the Halloween version, The Witch’s Cat, I simply added an arched black cat, as above,  from the redoubtable Graphics Fairy.

I am in the process of uploading it onto products at Zazzle.  Of all the products available at Zazzle, I love adding my designs to the Avery binders.  I’m not sure why it excites me so much but here is The Witch’s Cat binder.

The Witch’s Cat

Take care and keep laughing.

Halloween: The Final Frontier

Halloween: The Final Frontier

This Avery Binder uses my latest Halloween design featuring a vintage image from The Graphics Fairy and which I’ve placed on a starry night background created with Photoshop brushes.   This is not a witch of which to be frightened, although I’m a little concerned at how tightly she’s hugging that cat!  Perhaps it’s a matter of butter wouldn’t melt and there’s a terrifying hag bursting to come out.  Maybe the real witch is hidden inside the enormous pumpkin.

Available on other Zazzle products and posted on  The Graphics Fairy‘s Brag Monday.

Take care and keep laughing!