HOLLEY's CELEBRATION

Hi Peeps,

Happy Saturday and I hope you are managing to squeeze in some crafting time this weekend ? :-)

My little chum Holley is having a special event throughout February to celebrate a health milestone which is very personal to her and she is having competitions and prizes all through the month. I am going to be involved in there somewhere too :-D

Well - for Wednesday 2nd, there is a Bookmark Making Contest and this features a really cute image which was made especially for Holley by Sandra Caldwell. I went and bought this image and made a bookmark for the competition.

I coloured the image with Promarkers and used a page from a book, and sat the little bear on an embossed 'congratulations' banner. Then I added a  die cut border and an inspirational quote from John Guare, which says " It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday ".

I inked the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink and added a little tassle from my stash.

Image: "Bearly a Headache" by Sandra Caldwell is available on Etsy.

I hope you will pop over and join in, see the other bookmarks and show support for Holley :-)

Hugz

IKE xx

Challenges I am entering:

Holley's Bookmark Making Contest

Challenge Up Your Life #34 - No designer paper

Creative Fingers Challenge #102 - Anything Goes

The Stamping Boutique #25 - Die Cuts or Punches

WORDS, WORDS, WORDS...

Hellooooo Peeps - it's nearly the Crafty Weekend !!!  (oh - for those of you unlucky souls who have to work that is !!) the rest of us are just on 'Yay - permanent crafting time'  :-D  LoL  Good job I live too far away for you to hit me !!! :-D

Anyways - I definitely don't DO Valentine's Day and all that schmaltz so I made a little creation that just about sums me up  AND it has cats..... cool eh ???? :-D

The main images are Cats rubber stamps from DE-STEMPELWINKEL which I stamped with Versamark embossing ink onto red card, and then sprinkled with Personal Impressions Black Super Sparkle Powder before heating. It looks glorious close up but of course, it doesn't photograph at all well !!

The kitties come from Plate 31 - Cats... but I bought these two as singles but I can't find them like that now in the shop.

The pretty bit in the middle is a SARNTANGLE - made with a rubber stamp which came from an exclusive set on limited edition last year.  If you didn't get yours then, don't worry because you buy them in singles as DIGIS if you go see Sarn HERE.   I coloured it with Promarkers.

The background is an embossing folder - sorry it has no name or markings on it and then I smeared it with various shades of red ink pads.

The whole thing was mounted onto a red card and then I doodled some hearts and stuff around the edges.

It's funny - when I went to put a title on my Blog, as I typed it I began singing one of the songs from one of my all time favourite films - My Fair Lady...... "Show Me"...

Words! Words! Words! I’m so sick of words! 

I get words all day through;
First from him, now from you! 
Is that all you blighters can do? 

SONGWRITERS

ALAN JAY LERNER;FREDERICK LOEWE

If you know it then it's probably got you singing now too hahahaha

(full lyrics can be found Here)

Thanks for dropping in :-) xxx

Challenges I am entering:

De-Stempelwinkel Stampers Challenge #2 - Words

More Mixed Media Challenge - Red

TEENSY INCHIE ART #2

Hello Peeps - are you looking forward to the weekend ???? !! :-D

Here I am with another INCHIE for the latest Challenge over at EVERY INCHIE MONDAY and the Theme this weeks is "Bulldozer". This would actually be week 5 and I have every intention of doing weeks 1 - 3 so I can keep up my collection. I will post them all together at the end of the year :-D

I decided to do a play on the word so I ended up with a Bulldozer bulldozing the Bull...dozing !!!! hahahaha :-D 

These little suckers are great fun to make but I have yet to come up with a good solution for actually photographing them ! Still working on that :-)

The Bulldozer is a free colouring page from My Colouring Pages site and this was coloured using Promarkers.

Challenges I am entering:

Every Inchie Monday February 1st - Bulldozer

KITTY KARD

Good morning,
I have popped in with a recent commission card on which I have used one of my new cat stamps. I treated myself to some in the sales just after Christmas, so I am hoping to use them all to show you over the next week or so :-)

This one uses some kitty papers - I bought them from someone selling their stash but I don't actually know who makes them.

I cut an oval and used a text paper from the same set underneath.

I stamped the kitties on to cream card and coloured them with Prismacolour pencils. I used am embossing folder for the sentiment band.

These are JGS386 Mr & Mrs Cat from WoodWare - clear magic singles collection, and I used one of the sentiments that came with the set, stamped onto a filigree heart from the Wooly Bears - Isobel set I bought from Kanban. 

I used the little bears for the first time on this card that I made for my friend's Birthday..

I stamped the bears onto some textured card for effect and coloured them with Prismacolour pencils. Then I stamped their clothes and bows onto some snippets of card from my stash box and stuck them flat onto the bears. I used another snippet and a decorative punch for the border for them to sit on. :-)

My kitty card is my display piece for my new Show Us Your Pussies - Cats Challenges with starts today over HERE. This month it's all about Kitty Love especially for Valentine's Day. 

The new Challenge is also up over at IKEsWORLD CHALLENGES - which is also Valentine's themed. Click HERE to go see that one.

There are new FREEBIES on both those Challenges for you. :-D

Thank you for popping in.

Challenges I am entering:

Bunny Zoe's January Challenge - Hearts

Crafting From The Heart Challenge #97 - Anything Goes

Ellibelle's Creative Moments February Linky Party - Critters & Creatures

Love To Scrap Challenge LTSCB #71 - Have a Heart

The Crazy Challenge CCH #215 - Love

Where The Heart Is Challenge #6 - Love

NEW IMAGES SET IN STORE TODAY.... DO YOU WANNA WINNIT ???! :-)

Hi Peeps,
Just popping in now to tell you I have a new image Set just gone into my Store.... SEXY STAR WARS.
Why not get your   'YowZa', 'Hanz SoHunky', 'R2Me2', 'Darf Vamper', 'C36B-PO', 'WooHooky', 'Sleya' and 'Storm Trupa' .grin emoticon
 Full Set for $12  OR put me a nice smoochy comment over on the posting for this at the IKEsART FACEBOOK FAN CLUB page and you could WIN the whole Set for free :-)
Clicky HERE to go there.

This will be open all weekend and I shall do the Draw from the comment there on Tuesday 2nd FEB. 

All together now..... Daa Da DaDa Da Daaa Da, DaDa Da Daaa Da, DaDa Da Da !!! hee hee   :-D

TRYING SOMETHING NEW

Good morning happy Peeps,
I was hopping through Blogs this morning and I came across a fabulous Challenge for 'INCHIES' where they give you a word and you make an inchie to go with it every week, so that at then end of the year you have a teeny collection of art :-D How coooooool !! Now, I have only ever made one of these before and I have missed the first 3 weeks , but I will catch up with those for my collection later. :-)
So - the word for this week is VILLAGE.
I have used one of my  Scenes from my World Tour Series - Greece digis , because that is where I live, and coloured it with Promarkers.... extremely fiddly but very rewarding when you finish :-D

It was a bit hard to photograph and I propped it up with my pencil sharpener LoL :-)  Should one put something next to it for scale and to prove that it is an 'inchie' ?????

This scene was photographed up above the village of ΜΑΣΟΥΡΙ  (pronounced Massoori) and shows the island of ΤΕΛΕΝΔΟΣ  (Telendos) in the background just across the sea. It's actually pretty close to us and there is a grand swim across to it in August :-D Takes about 7 minutes on the ferry boat.

Well - there it is.... something new for me for this year and I think I will try and keep up with the weekly themes. I think I might glaze them all when I have finished and make like a little mosaic plaque :-D

Challenges I am entering:

Every Inchie Monday 25 Jan - Village

LOOK WHO I AM SPONSORING :-)

Hi Peeps,
Just popping in to say that I am Sponsoring the current Challenge over at GLITTER & SPARKLE.....Challenge #172 - SAY IT WITH MUSIC.
There are some super creations from the DT and that is such a fun theme.
If you would like to pop over then click HERE.

POE APPRECIATION BLOG HOP - LAST DAY

Sadly, here we are on the last day of the POE Appreciation Blog Hop .The Blog Hop is sponsored by Lost Coast Designs  and  Carmen's Veranda. They have a fabulous Poe stamp & lots of crow & raven themed stamps to choose from so stop by and check them out! One blogger will be randomly selected to win a $10 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV.

Stamps used are SMEARED INK, I also raided the stash box for flowers, plastic netting tassles and glitter. :-D
The background was made using inks that I splattered and smurged around :-)

I have really enjoyed this Hop and seeing all the gorgeous POE tributes. I hope you have too. :-)

Bye for now and thanks for dropping in xxxxxxxxx

An InLinkz Link-up

POE APPRECIATION BLOG HOP - DAY 4

Here we are on DAY 4 of the POE Appreciation Blog Hop .The Blog Hop is sponsored by Lost Coast Designs  and  Carmen's Veranda. They have a fabulous Poe stamp & lots of crow & raven themed stamps to choose from so stop by and check them out! One blogger will be randomly selected to win a $10 gift certificate to spend at LCD/CV.

The main stamp on this one is the Raven which is from SMEARED INK - Quoth The Raven rubber stamp set (no longer trading).

I hope you have been over and had a look at the other Hop participants - there's some great creations to see. :-D

Thanks for dropping in xxxxx

An InLinkz Link-up

QUOTH THE RAVEN QUEST #52 - MIDWAY REMINDER

Good morning,
I am here with my piece for the Midway Reminder of our current Quest over at QUOTH THE RAVEN - #52  ANYTHING POEs.

I have used a web image of POE, crow tree stamp by De-Stempelwinkel and a crow stamp I cannot remember who it's by. The Text used for The Raven poem by POE is called October Crow.

Also - if you are a POE fan, you can get a double whammy by entering your piece at QTR and also in the celebratory Blog Hop being held to commemorate the birthday of Edgar Allan POE, hosted by Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda.

Click on the Badge to go over and see and I hope you might join in :-)

Thanks for dropping in.

Challenges I am entering:

POE Blog Hop