WELCOME

Hi and welcome to Ike's World. I AM PROUD TO BE A PREVIOUS DESIGN TEAM MEMBER FOR SMEARED INK, SIMPLY CREATE TOO,DELICIOUS DOODLES, POISONED PEAS PLEASE(now shut down)PATH of POSITIVITY, FOREVER FRIENDS DESIGN TEAM, SCRIBBLES DESIGNS, A MINION AT HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE, a STITCHY's ANGEL at OSAAT. I am Co-Writer on QUOTH THE RAVEN and I run my own Challenge at IKE'sWORLD CHALLENGES, and SUYP Cats Only Challenge. Thanks for visiting and please drop by again :-)

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Saturday 30 November 2013

EXTRA CANDY ADDED FOR OVER 300 FOLLOWERS :-)

Hello Peeps,
Well I promised that if I got over 300 Followers by the time the Blogiversary Candy was due to be drawn, that I would throw in some extra goodies..... so here they are....



A huuuuuge THANK YOU to all my Followers and these items will be going into the swag bag :-D  Only 1 day left before the Draw.

Don't forget... to be in with a chance to win these goodies you have to be a Follower AND leave me a cuddly comment below on the main CANDY Blog :-D

SPYDER's SNOW ANGEL BEAR

Oh, just look at this cutie that I snagged as a Freebie from SPYDER this week.
A little Bear making a Snow Angel  hee hee :-D
If you would like to get him - he's this week's Wednesday Freebie so you better hurry up and go HERE.
I have coloured him with Promarkers and used Stickles on the snowy bits. I found a packet of these fabbo snowflakes... they have 2 sides, white and sort of holographic so I mixed them around.
It's been a while since I coloured up some 'Spyders', so I hope she likes this one :-D



Challenges I am entering :


LOC Challenge -  NO People
Pattie's Creations Challenge #81 - Christmas, must use an image
Polka Doodles Challenge #48 - Sketch  (Rotated)
Fairy Tale Challenge #81 - Photo Inspiration Snowflakes
Snippet's Playground Week 100 
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Extra
Stamping for Pleasure - Rudolph Day

CHRIMBO TIDDLIES

Hi Peeps,

Are you all getting excited about my Blog Candy draw ????  It stays open until midnight tonight and then I will draw the lucky Winner tomorrow :-)

Anyhoo - today is not a good day for me as I lost one of my beloved Kitties last night due to poisoning, so I have immersed myself in some crafting of little frivolities.
Now - I have many, many digi stamps from SLIEKJE... who gives away her digital cuties for FREE. !!!! She just loves drawing them. I know she is also a cat lady coz she has some gorgeous photos of them on her blog header.
But I digress.... I snagged me this little cutie the other day and decided to colour him up and use him. I used Copics and  Stickles to give him some bling and the paper and border are snippets from my box :-)



I've got some other bits to show you, so I will be back later :-)

Challenges I am entering:

Winter Wonderland Challenge - A Christmas Mouse
Crafty Catz Challenge #209 - Santa Claus is Coming (mine is a Mouse LoL)
Stamping For Pleasure - Rudolph Day November



Wednesday 27 November 2013

MY 3 YEAR BLOG-AVERSARY CANDY ALERT

Hello Faithful Peeps,

I am here to celebrate my 3 year Blog-Aversary :-) I am almost up to 300 Followers too - which is awesome.
It seems not that long ago that I took my first tentative steps into BlogLand and now look at me - 3 years on, several DT positions and running my own Challenge Blog :-D
I have met so many lovely people here in cyber space and I really enjoy finding out what everyone is doing, learning new stuff and taking part in Challenges.
So to celebrate and give back to you what you give to me - I shall offer you this selection of Blog Candy.
I photographed it in bunches, but it is ALL one big Candy package for the lucky winner :-D




Oki Doki. if you'd like a chance to go in the Draw for this package, you must be a Follower on my little Bloggy here (please don't just follow and then drop off after the Draw coz I hate that !!!) AND leave me a little bitty comment down below here, and I will enter all the names for Mr Random Thingy to pick on  30th NOVEMBER 2013. If we get to hit over 300 Followers by then too I may well throw in some extra Goodies :-D (No pressure there then hahahaha LoL ). Please feel free to Post a pickie on your sidebars too if you so desire :-D

Thank you for being out there for me and with me :-D




WOYWW # 234

Happy Wednesday Peeps, and welcome to WOYWW #234 as hosted by the lovely JULIA. If you don't know what this is all about then pop over HERE and have a look.

Well - mine today is more like What's UNDER Your Workdesk - I have just finished a mahusive order of Chrimbo cards and at least I have started to tidy up.... I emptied the bin  !!! I daren't show you the top of the desk - or the rest of the room for that matter coz there is stuff everywhere !!!  I will post pictures of some of the cards a bit later on :-)



I will start the tidy up today so that I can get my Mojo better from it's totally frazzled state ... hahaha !!!

I did get a chance to relax a bit and produce something for the Rock n Rolla Challenge over at SMEARED & SMUDGED FORUM... the song this time is 'Doom & Gloom' by the Rolling Stones.  I drew a digi of Mick and used other elements from Smeared Ink to complete my piece.


Items Smeared Ink items used:
'Specimen Jar' 
'Void' from the Absent Corner paper set
'Triple Hearts' from the Bloody Valentine set.

OK - that's it for now.... I hope you will pop over to JULIA's place and hop your way around the world with WOYWW #234.  See you later.

Oh yeah..... I got Blogiversary Candy up above and my new Challenge Blog is at IKE'sWorld Challenges and there's a Freebie there to play along with :-D 

Challenges I am entering:
Rock n Rolla - Rolling Stones Doom + Gloom
Smudgy Antics - Anything Goes




Thursday 21 November 2013

MIDWAY POINT AT QUOTH THE RAVEN - COLOUR BingPOE

Beloveds - we doth find ourselves midway twixt the allotted time for QUEST #26 - COLOUR BINGPOE over at QUOTH THE RAVEN and here is something to whet thine appetite.



IKE - Vertical Far Right 


I have used a Silhouette cut frame, stamped rubber 'Silhouette Raven' by Lost Coast Designs, backing paper by Bo Bunny 'Et Cetera Watermark'.
Flowers made with a die and feathers from my Chooks :-D 

I hope you will come over and play along with us :-)

Monday 11 November 2013

MY NEW CHRISTMAS IMAGE

Hello Peeps,
just popping in to show you my new Christmas image which is available as part of the Holiday Collaboration over at STITCHYBEAR . The Collaboration is free when you spend $10 in the StitchyBear Store :-)
The Girls have been working away to make creations using all the Collab images and they can be seen at OSAAT Challenge Blog.
So - here's a bigger view of "HOLLY"  by IKEsART  .... at the moment she is exclusive to StitchyBear  :-)


Sunday 10 November 2013

LEST WE FORGET



My DaD   1923 - 2013
RIP  .. and THANK YOU  xxx

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them

Saturday 9 November 2013

QUOTH THE RAVEN QUEST #26 - COLOUR BINGPOE

Hello Peeps,
Sorry I am late with this but you know I've had electric problems :-(
Here is my creation for Quest #26 over at QUOTH THE RAVEN which this time is Colour BingPOE.
Here is the chart and you do the usual thing - any 3 colours from any row for your creation :-)
I have used the Centre Row Down......  Claret, Dark Purple and Olive.



I used my digi - SCHEHEREZADE from my POE collection to illustrate his story ... The 1002nd Tale. If you don't know it, you can read the story HERE



Our Congratulations to LYNEEN for winning Quest #25, and to our Top 3 :-D
I hope you will whizz over and see what my Teamies have made to show you :-)
Bye for now xxxxxxxxxx

I GOT A PREZZIE :-)

Hello and Happy Saturday,

I popped in to say that today I have glorious sunshine and full electricity - which is soooooo good after the traumas of this week !! :-)
Anyway.... last week I really needed a digi stamp of a toilet and I thought I had seen one at SCRIBBLES DESIGNS but I couldn't find it. Well _ I contacted Sandy to ask her if I had seen it and she told me there never was one.... BUT drew me one specially :-D      How coooool is that ??!!!!

Here is the toilet and it comes complete with Loo Roll :-)  Click on the Pic to go to the Shop ..


I wanted to enter the latest challenge over at CREATIVE CORNER CHALLENGES.... 'Sing a Song'... to make a creation inspired by a song. So I have made something to go with "Ode to the Toilet (Put that Toilet Seat Down)" by Brad Paisley :-) If you've never heard it you can go here ....  www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIiFGTwkm1I


I typed out the words of the song and printed them in green for my backing. I edged the card with distress ink. I fussy cut the toilet and the froggie and coloured them with Copics.  They are put on with 3D foam pads for extra pop :-)

Scribbles images used:   Toilet and Carl 


Challenges I am entering:





Tuesday 5 November 2013

FUN WITH ATCs #100 CHALLENGE

Hello Peeps and welcome to the 100th Challenge  over at FUN WITH ATCs 

I have made an ATC which has 100 tiny butterflies on it.  I wiped the card with a tri-colour stamp pad before cutting out the butterflies  with my Craft Robo. I added Stickles to them for some extra glitz  and used a little flower punch to do the 100. :-) 



My background paper says Congratulations in gold, but you can't really see it now. :-) LoL

I hope you will pop over and the the other gorgeous ATCs from my Teamies :-D



Sunday 3 November 2013

HAPPY MO-VEMBER :-D

Hello Peeps and Happy Sunday,
I just realised that it's MO-vember again........ not that I have any intention of trying to grow one bwaahahahaha !!!

I had a silly idea using one of Sandy's Sheep from SCRIBBLES BY SANDY  - he's Mr Wool and I have added him a Moustache which is also by Sandy :-D




I used the left over bits from die cuts as stencils for the flowers and orange ink pads for my background. The webby circle is by DECOSSE's DYNAMITE DOODLES and is part of the Mini Halloween Kit.

Challenges I am entering:

Scribbles Designs Challenge #10 - Shades of Orange.
Amusing Challenges - Autumn Colours 
Cupcake Inspirations  #235  Photo Inspiration Challenge
Pile It On #44 - Animals With Character
Quirky Crafts #22 - Make Us Laugh (just for fun coz I am GDT there this month !!)





Saturday 2 November 2013

FOUND A NEW CHALLENGE SITE STARTING + DT CALL

Hello Peeps,
I have found a new Challenge site being started up by a cyber chum of mine and her friend................


.. if you click on that Banner it will take you there. :-)
They are also having a DT CALL that runs until 20th NOV and you can get all the Deets HERE

The Challenges are due to start JANUARY 2014 and I can't wait to see what they are going to get up to :-D

Well - New Challenges are greeeeaaaaat so why not pop over there and show them some support. (I guess I am a wee bit biased coz I am one of their Sponsors, but boy - have they got an awesome list of other Sponsors !!! FABBO )

So - what are you waiting for ?? Why not whizz over and have a looksee ?  :-D  See ya' xxxxxxxxxxxx