HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED TO THINK ........?

Well, it's me again today.
I was thinking recently that I pick up loads of Freebies along my Blog browsing and stash them away on my EHD, but then don't use them. So - I have made myself a little pledge to start sorting through and getting them out to use.

This one is new, however, and is from SCRIBBLES BY SANDY and is the FREEBIE for this current Challenge - 'BOYS WILL BE BOYS'. I've already slapped one entry in but - having taken the marbles freebie - I decided to do another, pretty deep and thoughtful creation.
Without further ado, here it is..............

The Marbles are from SCRIBBLES, the background is from DECOSSE's DYNAMITE DOODLES - called MLT Night Sky 2 and the hand and Earth are  by ME ( I drew it for this creation). 

I added a swirl effect to the backing paper and the marbles were coloured in PSE 9. The hand was coloured with Prismacolour pencils blended with baby oil. 

Now, I hope it fits with the Challenge theme ? I know Boys like to play with marbles and this is a very BIG Boy playing with these :-D

I'm off to walk the dog now, so that's probably all from me today :-)

Thanks for stopping by and your lovely comments.  xxxxx

Challenges I am entering:

SCRIBBLES DESIGNS CHALLENGE #32 - Boys Will Be Boys

A LITTLE CREEPY CUTIE :-)

Me again,
Now, I must admit that sometimes I am struck by some cutie creepy images.... not very often  cuz I like the gory creepy as you well know - but I rather fancied this lil' lady by JULIA SPIRI... a new digis artist I have been seeing quite a bit about recently.
I treated myself and got " GOTHIC WITCH " :-)

I coloured her up with Spectrum Noir pens and added white highlights and her pearls with a Nail Art white pen.

I used my STAMPIN' UP 'Spider Web' embossing folder with a bit of black ink smurged over it to make her a background, and my 'ARCH' from IKEsART, which has been done with black faux marble. To finish I used a (new) Silhouette cutting file to make a little spider web swirly corner. 

Right - I am off to enter her now in JULIA's fist Challenge on her Blog which is HERE. :-)

Thank you for popping in :-D xxx

Challenges I am entering:

Julie Spiri Challenge #1 - Anything Goes with a Twist - Anything New

Crafting By Designs Sept Challenge - Anything Goes

Inspiration Destination Challenge #49 - Anything Goes

Colour Q Challenge #306

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***

SITTIN' ON THE BEACHES, LOOKIN' AT THE PEACHES :-D

Well - here's COOL CARL and his Boyz chillaxin' on the beach "watchin' da laideez"  :-D
I see they have a few beers there too and they're even using Cat's dustbin as a beer cooler !  
Wait a minute......Hey !......... Oh, my gosh ! ..... is that Mr WOOL ???!!! .... crikey - I hope Mrs Wool doesn't find out about this !!!! :-)

I made this large A4 picture - all the images were coloured with Promarkers and Spectrum Noir pens and there is some 3D work. :-)

Images used:

Scribbles Designs - Cool Carl, Foxy P-A-B, Gone Buggy, Mr Wool Smiles, Alley Cat 3, Bubbles the Fish

Sassy Studios - Beach Resort Sassy

Tellen's Place - Beach Diva Diane (No longer trading I think)

Background  - Free Clip art Beach scene

Challenges I am entering:

Scribbles Designs Challenge #32 - Boys Will Be Boys

Crafting By Designs Sept Challenge - Anything Goes  ** SPOTLIGHTED **

Cardz 4 Guyz Challenge #86 - Colour

ACK !!! NOT MORE CATS !!!!!

Well - I'll be darned...... Don't you just hate it when a cunning plan totally backfires ?!!!
Since I moved here, the word obviously got about that there was a potential 'crazy cat lady' living up the mountain and, on top of the 6 cats that we took on that went with the house, others have gradually snuck up here and ingratiated themselves upon me.
Only 2 of the original 6 still survive, but since then, a further 10 have arrived in some way or another. :-)
When Spring came and "Kitten Season" started again, I was dreading getting another influx but I thought I had escaped by getting myself the small Houndo Boy and that he would keep other interlopers away. !
This all worked well to plan - with him chasing off any cats that he knew weren't 'his' - until last week when my Daughter and her family were here.
During that time 3 more refugees arrived within the garden. They are attempting to encourage 2 others and the beloved Houndo is just greeting them and letting them walk on by !!!! :-(
It's not that I mind greatly.... you know - 16 cats, 17, 18, 20 cats - hey ho, but one of them is really noisy and is constantly everywhere I go saying 'Meooowww, meooowww' ALL THE TIME, and it's driving me nuts !!
We are now into the 2nd 'kitten season' and I am digging the Moat as we speak  hahahaha :-D 

Well then - here's a little depiction of my situation. Yes - they may well have bought me prezzies and lovely wool in the purest Greek Blue - but enough already or I shall disappear until a mound of furry critters one of these days. !! 

As for Houndo Boy - well, he's just crashed out in his dog bed whilst it is presently 'cat free' and he CAN get in it LoL  :-D

Images used:

SLS Lines - Cool Cat Trio  - paper pieced with assorted cat fur, and some colouring with Promarkers.
Photo of my house + garden taken by me 2005.


Challenges I am entering:

Your Scrapbook Place Sept Challenge - Anything Goes
SLS Lines  August Challenge - Summer Holidays (I think all the cats are taking theirs at my house !!) **** TOP 3 ***

COPY CATS

Hi- happy Monday Peeps and to those of you having a Bank Holiday.. I hope you have some good weather ?

I saw some beautiful cards today over on the Blog of KT FIT KITTY and I was busting to try her technique out... so off I went.
Well - it all went a bit 'snafu' on me but I carried on and made some cards with my results anyways :-(

Here's what I ended up with.

Now, I don't know whether my watercolour paper was too thick or I was using the wrong sort of inks, but it didn't do what I wanted. I know I had the paper wet enough cuz I had to hang it out on the line to dry off. The puss cats were stamped on but I had to go over this one with a marker as it didn't come out too well.

I used BoHo Chic papers from First Edition and flower buttons from my stash and copied Sketch #357 (inverted) from Sketch Saturday.

I tried this one using Stayzon but I think the watercolour paper is too bumpy for a good image.

Stripey paper is from my snippets box and the twine is part of a recent Prize and is from  STAMPIN' UP .. 'In Colour Accessory Pack'.

I followed Sketch #235 for this one.

        

This one totally didn't really work because I blobbed it with Tim Holtz alcohol dies - and of course, they don't go with water !!! :-(  I wuite like the effect, so I used it anyway.

The papers are bits from my snippets box and I don't know who they are by. The kitties on these cards are from De-Stempelwinkel - Cherry Pie range. This one uses Sketch #340 (rotated).

Since I semi-failed at this I decided to have a go with bleach on coloured card and I made these.....

The Puss cat is from TLC Creations and the other two are from The Graphics Fairy.

With these, I bleached the red card using a mister containing ordinary household bleach and a little water and then dried it with my heat gun.

I then printed the images onto it - having lined them up, added sentiments and then test printed them first.

I made two little cards and a kitty ATC with a tiny cat brad embellie :-D

I added my own sentiment to the Cow card and she is placed on a backing paper that says 'Hello' in lots of different languages :-)

So - I got lovely inky fingers and had a pretty good time today. :-D

It's no good.... I shall just have to fly over to see KT FIT KITTY for some lessons :-D hee hee 

Thanks for dropping in. xxx

Challenges I am entering:

Sketch Saturday Week #376 - Use any Sketch #215 -375.

Glitter & Sparkle Challenge #152 - Add Buttons

Crafting From The Heart Challenge #75 - Anything Goes

Pile It On Challenge #84 - Friends/Friendly Hello  (Moo Cow card)

Snippets Playground Week #192    **WINNER**

SUNSHINY DAY :D

Hello Peeps and Happy Sunday,

I am now getting back to normal after having my lovely Daughter and her family here for a fortnight. It seems very quiet and a bit lonely now they have all gone back :-(
Surprisingly, I decided to work with my favourite colour today - Yellow - and so am having a bit of a sunshiny day :-D

My first one is using up my snippets of patterned vellum and daisy ribbon with a Freebie image from NEWTON's NOOK DESIGNS - who I only discovered this morning, and I have fallen in love with the Newton Stamp sets, so might just be treating myself pretty soon :-D I used the sketch given for this week's Challenge. 

I printed out the image 4 times and coloured it with Spectrum Noir pens and then fussy cut the pieces to decoupage up with foamies. I added a blob of Diamond Glaze to the little Ladybird and then used a black pen to draw the flight line up to the text and past to the bug :-)

My second card features this week's Freebie from  A DAY FOR DAISIES, and I have coloured this one with Promarkers.

I cut it out with my new frame die - Pierced Stacker #4 - from Cheery Lynn Designs.

This card also uses snippets of papers from the plaid collection at DOODLE PANTRY and some oddments of paper for the lacy borders.

I cut out some leaves and made some lemon blossom to add in the corner.

I followed SKETCH #249 from Sketch Saturday for this piece, but I turned it sideways..

I definitely feel a bit jollier having been working with yellow this afternoon :-)

Thank you for dropping in.

Challenges I am entering:

Newton's Nook Inky Paws Challenge #24 - Sketch

Sketch Saturday Challenge #376 - Pick any sketch 215-375

Dragonfly Dreams Challenge August - Things With Wings  (Ladybug)

Snippet's Playground Week #192

A Day 4 Daisies Challenge #129 - Add Some Plaid

IS IT CHRISTMAS YET ??!!!

Here I am with my piece for the Stamp of the Month Challenge at FROM THE HEART STAMPS.
This month we got "Candy Cane for Snowman" and I have coloured him up with Promarkers and cut him out with 'Die'sire' Circle Doily from Crafter's Companion.

I used a Tim Holtz Alterations Snowflake Die to cut the flakes and edged everything with Blue Archival ink.

I joined all my pieces together to make a Christmas hanging.

It was a bit of a pig to photograph because it kept twizzling around, but I think it shows up ok :-D

I had to lay it down to stop it spinning in the end :-D

Well - it feels chilly here with my air-con switched on. :-) Thanks for stopping by - I hope it's not as hot and sweaty where you are as it is here !! Phew !!!!

Challenges I am entering:

From The Heart Stamps Progressive Challenge - August

Little Claire's Designs Challenge #60 - Christmas in August

A Gem of a  Challenge #152- Do You Wanna Build A Snowman ?

ONE STITCH AT A TIME DT CREATION #244 - FOUR LEGGED FRIENDS

Hello Peeps and welcome to Challenge #244 over at ONE STITCH AT A TIME..... 4 LEGGED FRIENDS.

This time I got to work with PANDA BEAR DESIGNS and I snagged myself an image from Stitchy. The Sponsor for this fortnight's  challenge is StitchyBear Digi Outlet with the August image and papers prize pack.   :-)

                                        

Here is what I made this time using 'Once Upon A Time Paper Pack' by Panda Bear Designs  and 'Dino' by Stitchy Stamps..........

  

I made one of those pop-up card thingies but cut the top to look like a castle battlement. I covered the card in the yellow and grey 'Brick' papers from Panda Bear's collection.

The I printed out the Dinos in various sizes and 'flipped' a couple too so that they weren't all facing the same way :-)  That is one of the really cool thing about using DIGITAL STAMP IMAGES - you can do all that stuff which you can't do with a rubber stamp !!! :-)

Anyways - I coloured them in with Spectrum Noir pens and then fussy cut them out and stuck them onto acetate strips and placed them on their 'castle' I made a little Home Sweet Home banner and voila !!!

These guys are so cute that I would LUV to have them as my 4 Legged Friends :-D

So there you have it :-) Thank you for popping in and I hope you will come over and play along and see what my Stitchy Angel buddies have made to show you :-D

PLEASE READ OUR RULES

1)  You can enter with as many times as you wish with images from any store, we would obviously love you to use our image :) :)  If you are using StitchyBear products then we have a second challenge on our FaceBook page which you can enter into too
2) You must link to our challenge blog.
3) No backlinking, you project must be a new project, blogged after our challenge goes  live.

Welcome back to our little bit of blogland.. Its a special place where we share our fortnightly challenges and inspirational cards by Stitchy's Angels.  We don't have a lot of rules to follow, but please take the time to read the rules above if you want to join in with us.

HAPPY MAIL DAY :-)

Hi Peeps,
I am just popping in to show this this gorgeous card I received today :-)
It is from Fiki at BAD KITTY'S CRAFTROOM all the way from Croatia :-D

Look at that really cute kitty at the top and the gorgeous girlie image dressed up as a kitty :-D

And see how it opens in this really cool way.... it's soooooo pretty. :-)

Thank you very much Fiki  :-D xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx