POCKET LETTER # 2

Hi Peeps,

I am here with my second only Pocket Letter. I have made it for the FAERY INK Competition over on their FB page.
All the images are from Faery Ink and are coloured with Spectrum Noir pens.
The idea was to make a 'Themed' PL so I went for FAIRIES.

I made a stick pin for the side and attached beads and charms to the ribbons.

I am still not sure exactly what I am doing with these PL but I enjoyed my colouring in :-D  LoL

Challenges I am entering:

Faery Ink FaceBook Pocket Letter Competition  *** WINNER ***

OH DEAR !!!

Ooops - well, it looks like Baby Bat has caused a bit of a stampede when he went trick or treating on the beach !!!! Perhaps they should have waited around a bit to see how cute he is :-D

I used,

Digi Image - Baby Bat by MISS RACH

At The Beach Plate 32 by DeStempelwinkel Rubber stamp set

Promarkers

Challenges I am entering:

Miss Rach Challenge Oct - Halloween By The Sea   *** WINNER ***

DeStempelWinkel Challenge #18 - Halloween/Autumn/Fall

A Gem of a Challenge #156 - Too Cute To Spook

Inkspirational Challenge #94 - Cute Halloween

Fantasy Stampers Challenge #48 - Animal Antics

YACK !!! - CHRISTMAS :-(

Hello Peeps,
I hope you are looking forward to your crafting weekend. ?
I haven't been down more than a couple of times in my room this week, but - seeing as I totally walked the legs off the Dog this morning - I thought I would give him a rest down here out of the heat. :-)

Not much Mojo about this end but I decided to have a play with my Spectrum Noir pens and pencils.
I wanted to play along for RUDOLPH DAY, so I went to the Chrimbo box and I found a plastic bag with loads of little snippets in and some printed out images ready for colouring.
On a friend's Blog the other day, she had pictures of Hedgies in her garden that made me smile so this little guy is just the thing :-D  If you want to see them , then go visit Di.... HERE 
I coloured up this little " Santa Hedgie " from SPYDER.

The card is a piece of old shoebox and I have tons of snippets of white card lying around, so I used a 'Cuttlebug'  Christmas Tree embossing folder on some of that.  I smurged a bit of green ink pad onto the 'inny' side of the embossing folder and then stuck it through the machine. This would, in fact, be the backside of the finished embossed piece doing it this way, but I liked just the hint of green that it gave me and doing it the other way smurged ink around the image that I didn't want :-D

I found some teeny pieces of an old paper with sentiments on it and used those up too. :-)

Well - there you have it anyways - not really feelin' it this week, and life is definitely 'bleh'  just now  :-(

Thanks for dropping in and I'll catch you All later xxx

Challenges I am entering:

Rudolph Day September 2015   ***WINNER***

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #247 - Something beginning with P - Present

Snippet's Playground Week #195 

AND NOW...............THE CREEPY SCHTUFF :-D

Well Peeps,

I guess you have been wondering where my "Creep" had gone ???? 
No ?!! Have you been lulled into cutesyland by my recent samples of sweet cuddly-ness  and hath forgotten that 'creep' is what I am known for ???!!
October and the Halloween season is fast approaching and my gore is itching to break free :-D Bwaahahaha
I shall tempt thee with a little piece today that is pretty 'middling' as far as blog/gore and snot goes :-D.... I have altered a piece of a giant wooden kiddy puzzle that was kindly sent to me by a good chum. :-)
Beware - there is a little blood spatter ..........................

I covered the piece in a thick layer of gesso and then pressed some surgical gauze into it before it dried. Then I blobbed on some Combi Pearl liquid for sheen (can't see it in photos I'm afraid).

I made some paper roses from an old book and inked with inks and found this weeny 'ghost' cabuchon/sticker doodad in my stash.

The ghost face is 'CbrGhost set 1' from the Halloween Mix Set by MOUNTAIN GOAT DESIGNS. It was one of those multi artist sites giving free stuff, but looks like it no longer exists.  :-(

I printed her out and then wet her a bit and pressed her into the gauze and added more gesso around the edges.

Then I dropped some red ink from an eye dropper on whilst everything was still wet.

The leaves are scrap pieces of baking parchment backing from using a very fine die :-D

I hope you haven't been given too much of the 'queazies' ??!!! LoL

Challenges I am entering:

Domino Art Challenge #16 - Spooktember  *** WINNER ***

QUOTH THE RAVEN - QUEST #48....MATERIAL THINGS

Hi Peeps,
Here I am with my creation this month for our latest Quest over at QUOTH THE RAVEN.Our challenge theme this month is "MATERIAL THINGS", so we want you to create a POE inspired piece which must include some material/fabric.
You can make anything you like as long as it has this and is obviously connected in some way to EDGAR ALLAN POE, since that what our Blog is all about :-D

I have finally finished converting my mobile phone instruction book I have been upcycling for a while now, and this piece covered the last two pages.

Here it is....

FRONT COVER 

I chose to illustrate ELEONORA by Edgar Allan POE and have used one of my images from IKEsART...'THOUGHTS' and my skellie hand.

I used a piece of multi colour canvas for the backing of both pages.
I added my image - I left her in monotone hues.

Then I cut a strip of brown satin and sewed down the middle whilst pleating it. I also made roses from the same fabric.

I finished off with a quote from the story...  " She had seen that the finger of Death was upon her bosom -  that, like the ephemeron *, she had been made perfect in loveliness only to die".  

* noun, plural ephemera 

 [ih-fem-er-uh] (Show IPA), ephemerons.

1.

anything short-lived or ephemeral.

2.

ephemera, items designed to be useful or important for only a short time, especially pamphlets, notices, tickets, etc.

 If you would like to read the works of EDGAR ALLAN POE and this story, then click HERE.

You have one month to play along with us at QUOTH THE RAVEN and we would love to see you there.

Thank you for dropping in.

Challenges I am entering:

Altered Eclectics September Challenge - Anything Goes
Card & Scrap Challenge #102 - Flowers
Crafty Time Challenges - September - Anything But A Card
Re-Cycle, Re-Purpose, Re-Invent Sept Challenge 
Smudgy Antics Sept Challenge - Anything Goes  ***WINNER***

COLOURING UP AND CRAFTING A NEED :-)

Hi Sunday Peeps,

I have been playing with my Promarkers and Spectrum Noir pens yesterday and I also went shopping for a few digis. :-)

I have been reading a lot of books recently, and numerous times I thought to myself...... "Isn't it a fantastic thing to be able to read !!" ?  Something I totally take for granted because I just do it, but I was enjoying my books so much that I was thankful that I could read :-D  Anyhoo - it brings me on to my latest creation, because my old bookmark blew into the pool, so I needed a new one and I found the perfect image.

This is one of my new acquisitions - she is from The East Wind and is called "The Bookaholic". I used plain beige card and a piece of very old book page behind her edged with inks.

I am going to laminate it, but I wanted to take a decent photograph first as the shine of the laminate will probably naff it up !!! :-D

The sentiment is a quote from Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), a Roman philosopher/politician ...........

"A room without books is like a body without a Soul ".

Well, I am off for some more creating. Thanks for dropping by xxx

Challenges I am entering:

The East Wind Challenge #35 - Anything But A Card***WINNER***
Just Us Girls Challenge #302 - Colour 

Scrappers Delights Challenge #46 - Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin' Challenge July - No designer paper

Create & Inspire Challenge #25 - Anything Goes

TRAVEL TAG

I made this travel tag for a couple of Challenges using backing paper from Paper Journeys  - "Travel by Land and Sea" paper collection.

The Stamp is from the Alice plate from DESTEMPELWINKEL. You can see her there waving a little hanky to the ship. I coloured her with Prismacolour pencils.
The edges of my tags were done with Cat's Eye Chalk inks.

I added a brad and a little anchor I found in the street, which I guilded with some bronzing paste.

Thanks for popping in and I hope you are having a fun crafting time too :-)

Challenges I am entering:

DeStempelwinkel Stampers Challenge #15 - Travel ***WINNER***

Tag Along Challenge #97 - Nautical