SMEARED & SMUDGED MEMBERS' MAY BLOG HOP

Well Good Morning Peeps.  SMEARED & SMUDGED FORUM are having their May Blog Hop and there's going to be lots of exciting projects to see, so I hope you will pop round to everyone and have a look. I have put the Blog List down underneath. They always have very exciting things to see - so don't miss out. :-D



I missed out on getting on the List but I did make something. 
Oh, No... it's OK... I'm on the Blog List now... YaY... Thanks Tori xxx
This is a 'newbie' for me.... I tried an Art Journal. I'm going to enter this in the ROCK n ROLLA Challenge at Smeared & Smudged coz I was inspired by this month's Vid - Tom Petty. It's a great video with the song.... you should go see :-) Click HERE to have a look.

Here's my effort...... took me ages and I was a bit out of my comfort zone, but I am sort of pleased with it - it kinda' connects and flows through... I think !! :-)

It's a big A4 watercolour book I decided to use so here are the pages individually.....

Click on pic to enlarge.

On the left page, my main image is called "Laura The Librarian" from Opal Manor. I coloured her to look like Alice and wrote on her book cover. She also has glossy accents on her glasses :-) The bat is from the 'Little Bit Batty Set' by Smeared Ink. I tried embossing a net in gold on a painted background but you can't really see it, and my background went a bit 'muddy' :-( I got some lace on there too and used stamp pads to blob over it. The flowers are the bits left from die cuts, and I also used some as a stencil in the background there.... see ???? ! I wrote a couple of quotes from AIW book on there too. :-D

This is the right-hand page and the background was done with inks and various stencils. I drew a b/w room. The Raven is from Smeared Ink's 'Quoth The Raven' Rubber set, which I got from their Rubber Club :-D Cool eh ?!! More doodling and stuff and my Cheshire cat in the corner.

OK that's it - not too bad for a newbie maybe ?!!

So here's the official Blog Hop List if you would like to go and look around :-)

Black Dragon

Laura

Kristy

Kapree

Hazel

Kay

Rick

Monique

Rocio

Jane

Shell

Lady Brayton

Fiona
IKE - that's me :-) 

 OK - I'm off for a looksee myself now, so I'll catch you later. xxxxxxxxxxxx

Challenges I am entering:

Smeared & Smudged ROCK n ROLLA Challenge May - Tom Petty Video
Inklings & Yarns - Inky Linky 15  Anything Goes
Rhedd & Rosies Challenge #6  - Fantasy/Mythical... well AIW is deffo Fantasy right ?!!
The Three Muses - Project with a Quote

WOO HOO !!!! - 250 FOLLOWERS :-D

OMGoodness Peeps,
I have just seen that I have reached 250 fantastic Followers :-D

>>>>>>>250<<<<<<<

Thank you all so much....... this definitely deserves some sort of Prize Giveaway thingy.... stay tuned and I will definitely come up with something :-D  :-D
LUV you all xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

WOYWW 206

Hello Peeps and welcome to WOYWW  206 (What's On Your Workdesk 
Wednesday).

Now - if you're not familiar with what this is all about, why not pop over to Julia's blog at Stamping Ground and have a look :-)
I have been playing with crochet hooks and various cottons recently and been making some little flowers :-) It keeps my hands occupied in the evenings when I watch tv. I had been making little bunnies, but since Easter has been and gone, I changed to flowers. Don't know what I am going to use them for, but I thought I might send some as little 'gifties' to my more fluffy/floral craftmaking Chums :-)
I started off with a 5 petal design and then I found a pattern for ones that you roll up - and they are cool. 
Here's some pikkies anyway :-D .........................

Click on pics to enlarge.

Then an idea came - why not sew one onto the other to make a bigger flower... so I did that as well. :-)

Well - I'm off now to see what other WOYWW - ers have got to show me this week. See ya' xxxxxxxxx

CARDS TO CHEER A CHUM :-D

Happy Sunday Peeps, and Happy Mothers' Day to those of you around the world who are celebrating it today :-)
A couple of weeks ago LISA from DECOSSE's DYNAMITE DOODLES, put out a request for some Get Well cards for NAOMI from CREATIVE BUG ON THE LOOSE... the poor girl is suffering with her health problem and can't even sit at her computer or nothing' - she must be bored to tears AND sick !!! We wanted to cheer her up a bit, so Lisa arranged for a Post to go up today showing all the cards that had been made for her :-D I was lucky enough to be given a brand new digi  to play with, drawn by Naomi.... he's called 'Sick Lolly' and here's what I made....

I used up some snippets to make the card and 'paper pieced' his blankie, after scanning one of the papers. :-D Oh yeah - and then I made a paper pleat to go across the underneath. !!

and here's the inside using 'Dr Doctor' from the Creepers Set by SMEARED INK

The other cards have all been posted by Lisa on the CREATIVE BUG site HERE, if you'd like to pop over and see them :-)

So, NAOMI, I hope you get to see these soon and that they give you a bit of cheer.

Challenges I am entering:

Snippet's Playground Wk 72

BIT OF A FLOW :-)

Hello Peeps,
I seem to have a bit of a flow going at the moment, so I have whipped up something to enter the LEFT OF CENTER Challenge #5, which is 'Use a Digi or LOC Theme' and is sponsored this time by DELICIOUS DOODLES.

For my creation I have used 2 Delicious Doodle image and my own digi for the background, and a tbale top image from the web.

I have gone with a totally digital creation, coloured and assembled in PSE9.

                                                 Click pic to enlarge........... if you dare !!!

Images:

Delicious Doodles:  'Hungreeeeee!'

                              'Eyeball Wormetti'

IkesArt:      'Castle Room'

SCROLL DOWN FOR FREEBIE FRIDAY & PAINT PARTY FRIDAY

Challenges I am entering:

Left of Center Challenge #5 - Digi or LOC Theme... hmmmm I think both bwaahahahaha
365 Cards Day 130 - Colour combo  - yep got them !! :-)

                                 

Just Add Ink Challenge #165 - Just add Woodgrain .... yep ! Got that :-)

PAINT PARTY FRIDAY Wk 9 - YEAR 3

Hello Peeps and welcome to my offering for PAINT PARTY FRIDAY.
This is a portrait of a Harris Hawk that I painted for my husband. He was thinking of getting one of these birds but they are very high maintenance and it's not like to can just ask your neighbour to 'feed + fly the bird' LoL In the end, he just had to make do with a painting :-D

Sorry about the strange bits on the left, but she's already framed up and it's a slight reflection on the glass. !!!

Mediums - Gouache on Bockingford W/C Paper

FREEBIE FRIDAY 18 - MOTHERs' DAY

Hello and welcome to FREEBIE FRIDAY 18........ a little something for Mothers' Day in parts of the world this weekend.



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See you later :-D xx

QUOTH THE RAVEN - QUEST 21

Hello Beloveds and welcome to Quest 21 over at QUOTH THE RAVEN ....... ANYTHING 'POES'.
Before I show you my project I wish to say huuuuuge CONGRATS to our Winner - FIONA aka Anubis and our Top 3 ... Croms, Julia and Keren.

Now I actually got my butt in gear this time and managed to scrape out a project. I have made an altered box. This was a little box I made ages ago for Valentines Day probably and I decided to Poe it up :-)
I used my 'Raven Poe' as the top piece (available from my SHOP here). Around the sides I used 'Flower King Horizontal Border' from Smeared Ink. I used black distress ink round all the sides, and added some blue/black roses to match up with the skull border.
I am going to use this box to put a little giftette in that I am making for a chum :-)

We had a fabulous number of peeps play along with us last month, and I hope you will pop over to see the gorgeous creations my Teamies have made for you to see, and maybe even play along with us this month.

Just remember - it says Anything POES, so your project must be related to Edgar Allan Poe or his works in order to qualify for the Prize. :-)

See you later and thank you for dropping by xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Challenges I am entering:

Smudgy Antics - Alter a Box

Charisma Cardz Challenge #18 - Black, White and 1 other colour  (mine is green)

Crafty Ribbons Challenge #45 - No Design(er) Paper

Papercrafting Journey - Anything Goes

MEET THE FLOCKERS

Good Morning Peeps, and welcome to Bit By The Bug Tuesday :-D
                                                   
Today is a new release day over at CREATIVE BUG ON THE LOOSE and I was lucky enough to be given the new digis to work with. Naomi is still on 'Sicky Squad' and her Blog is being managed by the wonderful LISA over at DECOSSE's DYNAMITE DOODLES. Lisa started a special thing .... to get us to make cards for Naomi to hopefully cheer her up and also let her know we are all rooting for her :-) If you would like to join in there go HERE... scroll down a bit and you will see a message from Lisa giving the instructions on what to do :-) You can make a card up to 12th May, when Lisa will then post them all on a special Blog Post. Mine's in and the actual card it making it's way to Naomi by the proverbial 'Donkey Mail' :-D

So... back to my creations..... the new digi is called "The Flockers" and I made two projects.
My first is a Bob Voyage card. This image seemed to say to me that it would be great for a journey, so I put them on a holiday type background, added a compass coz I figured they would be going South, made a post card and then coloured the images with Copics, cut them out and mounted them with foam pads. I also added a tiny flock of birds that was a freebie from Digital Stamp Design. To get yours go HERE.

Then I got an idea about where they might be going, so I made a 3D project and call it 'Flocker Island' Here they are just arriving.

This time I coloured them digitally and printed them out twice - once on the 'flip, so they would look as good from the back. I also did the same with a palm tree, cut out a few extra leaves to stick on for 3D effect,  and then mounted it on a pipe cleaner. I stuck it into some clay in a small plastic dish and then put some tiny pebbles from the beach round the bottom. It would look great with some blue water in it too but I think my clay might suffer a bit.

The tree stands about 7" tall, so I enlarged my Flockers to suit.  The two halves of the image are sandwiched together on a wire so the birds kind of dingle around a bit in the breeze :-D. The smallest was a right little 'Flocker' to cut out and paste together round his wire !!! LoL

Here's a closer peek.

I think they work equally well in bright colours - it's such a versatile little image :-)

Well - there you have it.... why not pop over the CREATIVE BUG and get yours. 

See you a bit later :-D    xxxxxxxxxx

Challenges I am entering:

Make My Monday - Anything That Flies

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Challenges for Everybody #19 - Anything Goes

OSATT #162 - Anything Goes

SEARCHING FOR MY MOJO

Me again on a Wednesday.... shock, horror !!!! :-D

I am fighting to find my Mojo and this morning I went Blog hopping - desperately searching for inspiration.... well not exactly coz there is always mahoosive amounts of gorgeous creations for inspiration........ but maybe I was searching for my Mojo... Anyhow, I found a lady who made the most fantastic pyramid card and I just had to try it. This also fitted with the latest Challenge at Scribbles Designs # 4 which is asking for a 'Shaped Card'

I used papers from Sizzix, 'Little Sizzles' pads and plain white cardstock. The image is "Mr Wool 3" from Scribbles Designs by Sandy, and he was put on with silicone to make him pop up a bit. I then cut some daisies and a butterfly with Silhouette and put them round the side with some die-cut swirlies :-D Voila !!!! 

Now - this is not a patch on the fabulous creation by the lady I found this morning but I quite enjoyed my first pyramid. Unfortunately, since I found her, my computer did a stupid glitch thing and the page I had open with her details disappeared when I had to re-start, so I can't tell you her details at the moment :-( Sorry about that, but I will go search and see if I can find her again. She gave this brilliant Tutorial on how to make this card. I will update later when I find her  OK ? :-)

YaY - I FOUND HER..... ANNETTE IN OZ... she's got a fabulous TuT there but you just gotta' see her creation.... it sooooo rocks !!!!  :-D

Challenges I am entering:

Scribbles Designs Challenge #4 - Shaped or Easel Cards

Crafts & Me Challenge #131 - Floral Frenzy

Creative Belli Challenges #168 - Spring ... I got a Spring 'lamb' (well I am sure Mr Wool feels like a lamb hahahaha)  + daisies. Pretty Spring-ified to me :-D :-D

Penny's Papercrafty Challenge #125 - Animals

Ruby's Rainbow Challenges #53 - Furry Friends.... yes I know he is 'woolly' but he sure looks friendly :-D