QUOTH THE RAVEN QUEST 33.. A PUNCH OF POSIES

Good morning Peeps,
Here I am with my creation for this month's Quest #33 over at QUOTH THE RAVEN. Our theme is "A Bunch of POEsies"  and we are looking for flowers on your creation BUT it still has to be connected to the Master - Edgar Allan POE, coz that's what we're all about right ?! :-D

Here is my piece - a book cover that I shall be making more creations to go inside... eventually LoL
I have called it "The Book of My Mind's Eye"..... not really sure why but that was an idea I woke up with and here it is. !!

I covered some thick cardboard with kitchen roll and squidged it all up to get texture and then put Gesso on it. Then I used different inks and dies splurged on it to make it brown. I also used a sort of paste stuff called 'PRECIOUS METALS'  Bronze that the wonderful BD sent me as a gift :-)  LUV this stuff.

The eye was made with half a styrofoam ball and more kitchen paper for the lids. The veins were done with tiny pieces of red feather. Eyelashes are made from a brown feather. I then stuck it to some embossed card and made a ripped edge.

The flowers were made with my new STAMPIN' UP punch and stamps set called 'Flower Shop'. I then coated them with some nail varnish that I don't like on my nails coz it takes foreva to dry !!!  When you move it in the light it changes hue slightly - sorry that doesn't work on a photo !! LoL It's pinky/purple one way, or blue/green, or a sort of yellowy hue :-)

Hingey things and swirls from stash box.

I am going to enter into the SoSS Challenge - C is for CRAP... coz I have no idea why I bought a sheet of stick on hinges and locks that don't even look like metal AND they don't stick properly and that awful nail varnish (and you know... I found 2 pots of the same darnstuff !!!) hahahaha LoL

OK - that's it for now I think.

We are a little short staffed at QTR this month so BLACK DRAGON will be posting her creation  a bit later on. :-D

Bye for now and I hope you will come over and play along. I mean - FLOWERS.... how dfifficult can it be ????!!! hee hee 

Challenges I am entering:

Crafty Creations Challenge #264 - Something with 'S'... Swirls

HobbyBook Challenge - Show Us Flowers

Inky Impressions #161 - Anything Goes

A Step In The Dark Challenge #2 - Anything Goes/Purple

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge #8 - C is for CRAP

21st Century Pillow Book - Flora & Fauna

WOYWW #260...5 YEAR CELEBRATION & ATC SWAP

Hello Peeps and Happy Wednesday,

Welcome to my desk for the WOYWW #260  and it's the 5th Year CELEBRATION.

If you don't know what this is all about then pop over to the amazing founder of WOYWW... Julia at STAMPING GROUND and you can see what's going on.

I am participating in the ATC Swap that is running with this celebration and here is my Swapsie piece.

Beside it is a whole box of ATCs that I have made, so if anyone else would like to swap then just shout up :-D Leave me a comment and we can arrange all the deets. :-)

I do Gothic/Horror ATCs as well as 'normal' ones, so let me know what style you would like.

Here is part of my desk this week, which is not very tidy I'm afraid. I got some boxes I've been transforming and a nearly finished tag. The rest is a bit too like a bombsite to show you LoL

Right - we are supposed to keep this short and sweet so I will pop off now to go and hop some other Workdesks. Bye for now xxxxxx

LOOKING FOR 1950s DIVA

Hello Peeps,

Are you out there or can anybody help me find 1950s DIVA.....


This is the start of her email address. This person has made an order from IKEsART that I am desperately trying to send but the Post Master keeps bouncing the emails back to me.
I have tried several different emails to send it from but I cannot get through.!!
I have also sent a message back via PayPal to say that there is a problem. !!!

If this person is YOU or anyone knows who uses an email addy that starts like this - can you please contact me so that I can try and arrange to send you your digis.
You have PAID so you must be waiting for them ??!!

QUOTH THE RAVEN QUEST #32 - RAVING RAVENS... MIDWAY REMINDER

Hi Peeps,
Here I am to remind you that the latest Quest over at QUOTH THE RAVEN is halfway through. QTR is an Edgar Allan POE based Challenge site and the theme for Quest #32 is RAVING RAVENS, so basically you can anything you like as long as there is a Raven on it somewhere.
Here is my midway inspirational piece.

The background and elements used are from the GOTHIC POETRY SET  by DEVIANT SCRAP and the Raven (from Smeared Ink) has been fussy cut and layered up 5 times. I think actually I should have 'flipped' him to make him look the other way now that I sit and look at this more !!

I printed out some POE pictures onto assorted backing paper and then cut 1.5" circles with my punch and folded the edges over to make 1" squares and stuck them in a random pattern on the right there. The whole background paper contains the poem "The Raven" By E A POE.

Challenges I am entering:

CraftyGirls Challenge #18 - Anything Goes

Bloggers Challenge - Things With Wings

Daring Cardmakers Challenge - Light as a Feather

Polka Doodles Wk 20 - Things With Wings

Dream Valley Challenge #32 - Things With Wings

Artistic Inspirations Challenge #92 - Anything Goes/Punches or Dies

IT'S TAG TIME

Hi Peeps,
Here I am to show you the Tag I have made for the MAY TAG SWAP over at IKEsART FAN PAGE on FACEBOOK - you'll find it under 'EVENTS' at the top. The Theme is "PUNCH DRUNK" I have have used a border punch 4 times down the side and I've added punched out flowers. The image is my New  "SAUCY FAIRY" which was released this week and is available in my SHOP.

The punched strips of card are bits left over after cutting out other projects - I have a whole box of card 'bits'. I also used odd scraps of card and papers for my flowers and I found a really great poem about Fairies by Joyce Hemsley. My 'SAUCY FAIRY' was coloured with Copics.

It would be wonderful if you came over and joined our SWAP - sign up is open until 13th MAY 2014.

Challenges I am entering:

Open Minded Crafting Challenges #10 - Use some Ribbon

Punk You Girl Challenge #12 - Things With Wings

WagsnWhiskers Challenge #128 - Ribbon & Bling

Alphabet Challenge - G for Gorgeous Gowns

Emerald Fairies Challenge #28 - Flowers, Ribbons &/or Lace

CMD Challenge #9 - Long Hair

Copic Marker Spain May Challenge - Women

Crafts & Me Challenge #148 - Make A Tag

Flat Friends Challenge #20 - Die Cuts/Punches 

SNIPPET's Playground Wk #124 

Time4Scrap Challenge #39 - Anything Goes

Anything But A Card - Colour  Challenge 

PREZZIE FOR A CHUM

Hello Peeps,

Well a wet, grey and dreary day here in Greece today ... Yuk !!

I have made a little wall hanging for a friend who has some "crafty cats", who lurk where she's working and quite often nip in and out of her craft videos on You Tube, when they're not supposed to   :-D  LoL
I saw these FREE digis by SLIEKJE and knew I had to send them to my friend. I coloured them up to look like her cats using Copics and black Pilot pen, then cut some letters and words from magazines to stick on my hanging. I edged it with Precious Metals leafing finish. :-)

So there we are :-D xxxxxxxx

Images: Crafty Cats Freebie by SLIEJKE

Challenges I am entering:

50% OFF - HALF PRICE BIRTHDAY SALE AT IKEsART DIGIS

Hello Peeps,

50%SALE

Here I am popping in to tell you that I am having a HALF PRICE SALE on all Digital Images over at IKEsART starting on MONDAY 5th MAY 2014 and running for 5 DAYS to celebrate my Birthday :-)

YES - That's 50% off ALL Digis for 5 days starting 5th MAY 2014 ........ all the 5's :-D

Now - there's only one small snag ..... try as I might I can't get my Store to accept a Discount Voucher, so in order to do this, we can either use the Checkout with PayPal as normal and then I will send you half your money back via PayPal OR you can EMAIL me with your list of Digis and I can send you a correct PayPal Invoice. It's a bit of a pain in the butt I know, and yet another reason why I am looking at alternative online store sites !!!

Anyhoo.... there are 6 Catergories of digis to browse through over at IKEsART  so why not get a coffee/tea and have a browse. I have cute 'n' cuddly and the more darker stuff for the Gothic/horror fans amongst us :-D

I am adding some new designs there today too :-D

"GULP !"

 "I THINK OF YOU"

 "YO !!"

Hugz
IKE xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

SENDING MOO HUGS !! :-D

Here is a card I made for a male friend and I thought this image was such fun. I think this will work well for a man coz they're not exactly 'into' cards are they ?!!! :-)
The image is called "SENDING MOO HUGS" by SPYDER, and I used it on the inside too with it's sentiment.I made the outside sentiment up myself.
I printed the Moo 6 times in different sizes and then layered them up with foamies.

Challenges I am entering:

LEFT OF CENTRE Challenge #31 - Card For A Male

C.R.A.F.T Challenge #258 - Birthday

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #320 - Paw Pals

Paper Crafting Journey - Spots and/or Stripes Challenge 

The Male Room - Give Us A Giggle Challenge

Little Red Wagon #236 - Seeing Spots

ATTACK OF THE GIANT KILLER CAT !!!!

For the easily frightened amongst you... LOOK AWAY NOW !!!...................

This piece was put together using the two latest FREEBIES from SPYDER..... this week's Freebie called "Emmy-May & Twiggles" and "Hello Pussy Cat" which is last week's Freebie.

I have paper pieced her T shirt in a Freebie paper - also from Spyder - "Scribble Flowers & Dots Paper". I coloured both images with Copics and then fussy cut + layered them up to make them 3D.

My programme that I just quickly pop into to make my watermark + Blogsite text bit on my images is the one that has disappeared from my computer and I don't have the CD to re-install it, but I just found another programme to do it simply in, so I am calming down a bit now :-D !!!

Also - I don't know what's going on but I can now see all the Followers sections when I visit Blogs - which I haven't been able to do for a month - so now I can join other Blogs again !! YaY !!!

See you a bit later xxxxx

Challenges I am entering:

A Step In The Dark Challenge #1- Skulls/Anything Goes

Cute Card Thursday #320 - Paw Pals

MAY MEMBERS' BLOG HOP FOR SMEARED & SMUDGED FORUM

I am late with my piece as I have mega problems with my graphics programmes this morning on my computer :-( !!!

Hopefully you found your way here from SHONI, but if not - don't worry the Blog Roll is down below :-)
This month our theme is WATER and this crazy little guy would certainly have to live there !!! He was a freebie from SMEARED INK but I can't remember what he's called :-(

And one with my Mermaid image... an ATC.

I was hoping to show you something infinitely better - but I am tearing my hair out and highly stressed, so keeping this short and sweet !!! 
Next on you Hop list is REBECCA. Enjoy your Hop :-D xxxx


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