FREEBIE FRIDAY 19 - ONE FOR THE MEN

Hello Peeps,
I hope this will go up because it's on autopost and it's let me down before. :-(
I am away for a couple of days on Kos, but here is your FREEBIE FRIDAY 19 - One for the Men :-)


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A FLOCK FOR A FRIEND

Hello Peeps,
Here is a little card I made to go with a present for a cyber friend of mine - Sandra of  STAMPING FOR PLEASURE  :-)
Now this lady used to have a couple of chickens that were regular posts on her Blog - getting up to their antics in her garden. :-)  She doesn't do that Blog any more but I thought she might like a little flock for indoors :-D  Would you believe it though .... I forgot to photograph the 'Girls' before I posted them, so here's hoping Sarn can take a pikky of them so I can put it on here.
*** Well - Sarn took me a pikkie of the Chooks at their new home... so here they are ......

Anyhoo, I made this little card to go with them using STAMPIN' UP products. I have had this little set for a while now but couldn't decide what on earth to make with them. This is what I came up with - I followed a design I had seen elsewhere, but used different colours and papers, and somehow it doesn't seem as good as the one I followed !!! How does that figure ?????  Maybe I should just stick to the Dark stuff :-D LoL
Sarn is a SU demonstrator, so I am sure she will be able to point out what I haven't quite got right with this one :-) 

Products:

'Language of Friendship' Rubber stamp set by Stampin'Up

'Chelsea Green' papers from Docrafts Papermania 6"x6" Capsule 

Challenges I am entering with my card:

SMEARED & SMUDGED MEMBERS' MAY BLOG HOP

Well Good Morning Peeps.  SMEARED & SMUDGED FORUM are having their May Blog Hop and there's going to be lots of exciting projects to see, so I hope you will pop round to everyone and have a look. I have put the Blog List down underneath. They always have very exciting things to see - so don't miss out. :-D



I missed out on getting on the List but I did make something. 
Oh, No... it's OK... I'm on the Blog List now... YaY... Thanks Tori xxx
This is a 'newbie' for me.... I tried an Art Journal. I'm going to enter this in the ROCK n ROLLA Challenge at Smeared & Smudged coz I was inspired by this month's Vid - Tom Petty. It's a great video with the song.... you should go see :-) Click HERE to have a look.

Here's my effort...... took me ages and I was a bit out of my comfort zone, but I am sort of pleased with it - it kinda' connects and flows through... I think !! :-)

It's a big A4 watercolour book I decided to use so here are the pages individually.....

Click on pic to enlarge.

On the left page, my main image is called "Laura The Librarian" from Opal Manor. I coloured her to look like Alice and wrote on her book cover. She also has glossy accents on her glasses :-) The bat is from the 'Little Bit Batty Set' by Smeared Ink. I tried embossing a net in gold on a painted background but you can't really see it, and my background went a bit 'muddy' :-( I got some lace on there too and used stamp pads to blob over it. The flowers are the bits left from die cuts, and I also used some as a stencil in the background there.... see ???? ! I wrote a couple of quotes from AIW book on there too. :-D

This is the right-hand page and the background was done with inks and various stencils. I drew a b/w room. The Raven is from Smeared Ink's 'Quoth The Raven' Rubber set, which I got from their Rubber Club :-D Cool eh ?!! More doodling and stuff and my Cheshire cat in the corner.

OK that's it - not too bad for a newbie maybe ?!!

So here's the official Blog Hop List if you would like to go and look around :-)

Black Dragon

Laura

Kristy

Kapree

Hazel

Kay

Rick

Monique

Rocio

Jane

Shell

Lady Brayton

Fiona
IKE - that's me :-) 

 OK - I'm off for a looksee myself now, so I'll catch you later. xxxxxxxxxxxx

Challenges I am entering:

Smeared & Smudged ROCK n ROLLA Challenge May - Tom Petty Video
Inklings & Yarns - Inky Linky 15  Anything Goes
Rhedd & Rosies Challenge #6  - Fantasy/Mythical... well AIW is deffo Fantasy right ?!!
The Three Muses - Project with a Quote

WOO HOO !!!! - 250 FOLLOWERS :-D

OMGoodness Peeps,
I have just seen that I have reached 250 fantastic Followers :-D

>>>>>>>250<<<<<<<

Thank you all so much....... this definitely deserves some sort of Prize Giveaway thingy.... stay tuned and I will definitely come up with something :-D  :-D
LUV you all xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

WOYWW 206

Hello Peeps and welcome to WOYWW  206 (What's On Your Workdesk 
Wednesday).

Now - if you're not familiar with what this is all about, why not pop over to Julia's blog at Stamping Ground and have a look :-)
I have been playing with crochet hooks and various cottons recently and been making some little flowers :-) It keeps my hands occupied in the evenings when I watch tv. I had been making little bunnies, but since Easter has been and gone, I changed to flowers. Don't know what I am going to use them for, but I thought I might send some as little 'gifties' to my more fluffy/floral craftmaking Chums :-)
I started off with a 5 petal design and then I found a pattern for ones that you roll up - and they are cool. 
Here's some pikkies anyway :-D .........................

Click on pics to enlarge.

Then an idea came - why not sew one onto the other to make a bigger flower... so I did that as well. :-)

Well - I'm off now to see what other WOYWW - ers have got to show me this week. See ya' xxxxxxxxx

CARDS TO CHEER A CHUM :-D

Happy Sunday Peeps, and Happy Mothers' Day to those of you around the world who are celebrating it today :-)
A couple of weeks ago LISA from DECOSSE's DYNAMITE DOODLES, put out a request for some Get Well cards for NAOMI from CREATIVE BUG ON THE LOOSE... the poor girl is suffering with her health problem and can't even sit at her computer or nothing' - she must be bored to tears AND sick !!! We wanted to cheer her up a bit, so Lisa arranged for a Post to go up today showing all the cards that had been made for her :-D I was lucky enough to be given a brand new digi  to play with, drawn by Naomi.... he's called 'Sick Lolly' and here's what I made....

I used up some snippets to make the card and 'paper pieced' his blankie, after scanning one of the papers. :-D Oh yeah - and then I made a paper pleat to go across the underneath. !!

and here's the inside using 'Dr Doctor' from the Creepers Set by SMEARED INK

The other cards have all been posted by Lisa on the CREATIVE BUG site HERE, if you'd like to pop over and see them :-)

So, NAOMI, I hope you get to see these soon and that they give you a bit of cheer.

Challenges I am entering:

Snippet's Playground Wk 72

BIT OF A FLOW :-)

Hello Peeps,
I seem to have a bit of a flow going at the moment, so I have whipped up something to enter the LEFT OF CENTER Challenge #5, which is 'Use a Digi or LOC Theme' and is sponsored this time by DELICIOUS DOODLES.

For my creation I have used 2 Delicious Doodle image and my own digi for the background, and a tbale top image from the web.

I have gone with a totally digital creation, coloured and assembled in PSE9.

                                                 Click pic to enlarge........... if you dare !!!

Images:

Delicious Doodles:  'Hungreeeeee!'

                              'Eyeball Wormetti'

IkesArt:      'Castle Room'

SCROLL DOWN FOR FREEBIE FRIDAY & PAINT PARTY FRIDAY

Challenges I am entering:

Left of Center Challenge #5 - Digi or LOC Theme... hmmmm I think both bwaahahahaha
365 Cards Day 130 - Colour combo  - yep got them !! :-)

                                 

Just Add Ink Challenge #165 - Just add Woodgrain .... yep ! Got that :-)

PAINT PARTY FRIDAY Wk 9 - YEAR 3

Hello Peeps and welcome to my offering for PAINT PARTY FRIDAY.
This is a portrait of a Harris Hawk that I painted for my husband. He was thinking of getting one of these birds but they are very high maintenance and it's not like to can just ask your neighbour to 'feed + fly the bird' LoL In the end, he just had to make do with a painting :-D

Sorry about the strange bits on the left, but she's already framed up and it's a slight reflection on the glass. !!!

Mediums - Gouache on Bockingford W/C Paper

FREEBIE FRIDAY 18 - MOTHERs' DAY

Hello and welcome to FREEBIE FRIDAY 18........ a little something for Mothers' Day in parts of the world this weekend.



Ikes World is a No Copy Zone and nothing on this site/Blog can be pinned/published to Pinterest or similar communities. These images are given to YOU personally and you do NOT have the right to share or paste anywhere else. Send people here to me. If you wish to 'shout' me anywhere, please ask for a 'Watermarked' copy. Thank you :-)
Any more 'Pinning',  '+Plussing' or whatever and I shall stop giving Freebies altogether.
* To snag these - just click on image to enlarge and Right Click to Save.*

See you later :-D xx

QUOTH THE RAVEN - QUEST 21

Hello Beloveds and welcome to Quest 21 over at QUOTH THE RAVEN ....... ANYTHING 'POES'.
Before I show you my project I wish to say huuuuuge CONGRATS to our Winner - FIONA aka Anubis and our Top 3 ... Croms, Julia and Keren.

Now I actually got my butt in gear this time and managed to scrape out a project. I have made an altered box. This was a little box I made ages ago for Valentines Day probably and I decided to Poe it up :-)
I used my 'Raven Poe' as the top piece (available from my SHOP here). Around the sides I used 'Flower King Horizontal Border' from Smeared Ink. I used black distress ink round all the sides, and added some blue/black roses to match up with the skull border.
I am going to use this box to put a little giftette in that I am making for a chum :-)

We had a fabulous number of peeps play along with us last month, and I hope you will pop over to see the gorgeous creations my Teamies have made for you to see, and maybe even play along with us this month.

Just remember - it says Anything POES, so your project must be related to Edgar Allan Poe or his works in order to qualify for the Prize. :-)

See you later and thank you for dropping by xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Challenges I am entering:

Smudgy Antics - Alter a Box

Charisma Cardz Challenge #18 - Black, White and 1 other colour  (mine is green)

Crafty Ribbons Challenge #45 - No Design(er) Paper

Papercrafting Journey - Anything Goes