A BIT OF RED & PONDERING

Good morning Peeps,
I was dingling about here yesterday trying to find some inspiration to start a Journal and going through all my digis and stamps and stuff, when I came across this guy. I wondered what was going through his mind, and then browsed the internet for the word 'Pondering', because I thought that was what he was doing.
Anyhoo - I found this really cool poem called "Tense Minutes" by someone called PENCIL SLAYER and I thought it just fit perfectly with the skelly man.

I printed him out and cut round and placed him onto a brick wall stamped background with foamies. The corner is cut with a Marriane Creatable Die.

I guess we all get 'pondering' days in our crafting worlds - and I never did start that Journal LoL :-D

Thanks for dropping in.

Challenges I am entering:

De Stempelwinkel Challenge #4 - Red

Cutting & Stamping Challenge #8 - Anything Goes

Inspiration Destination Challenge #21 - Anything Goes

Dazzling Diva Challenge #63 - Mood Board - I went with the red

HAVING A PLAY DAY

Hello Peeps,
well - it's a bit wet and windy today so I am staying indoors and having a play day in my studio :-D
Here's a little St Patrick's card I made using a Freebie I got from DEARIE DOLLS.... St Patty's Day Doggie. I coloured him with Spectrum Noir pens to look a bit like my little houndoe (who happens to be asleep in his basket beside me). After colouring I cut him out and raised him on foamies.
The background paper is from Doodle Pantry - St Paddy Digi Papers and the cut outs/swirls are ones I bought this morning from SILHOUETTE.
The lace is scraps from my stash.
I stamped Lucky on the little shamrock banner with my baby letter stamps (from China).

Thank you for stopping by :-) xx

Challenges I am entering:

613 Avenue Crafts #111 - Anything Goes optional Birthday

Quirky Crafts Challenge #4 - Our Best Friend

Come & Get It Challenges - Layer it On

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #4 - Anything Goes

Crafting From The Heart #68 - Anything Goes

OSAAT DT PIECE CHALLENGE #231 - BIRTHDAYS

Hello Sunday Peeps,

Just flying in quick to show you my piece for OSAAT CHALLENGE #231 - BIRTHDAYS.
The image I got was 'BIRTHDAY SURPRISE' stacked papers by PANDA BEAR DESIGNS.

I made a mini scrap book out of 5 x 5 envelopes and used all the papers in the set :-) and I added some little extra plain tags for journal entries.

Thank you for dropping by and we hope to see you over at OSAAT #231, so you can see what my Angel Teamies have made for you to see too.  xxxxxxxxxxxx

Challenges I am entering:

S'AGAPO PANTA

Hi Peeps and happy Saturday to you All,

I decided to have a challenge entering day today and here is my first piece.
It's a bit of a play on words as the Greek for "I Love You Always" is....... ............Σ 'αγαπώ πάντα... which is pronounced sag a po  panda - which just meant I simply HAD to use the FREEBIE papers and bits that I got this very morning from MEINLILAPARK...... Pandas  :-D  LoL

I got the backing paper and border from Sandra at Meinlilapark and then she kindly gives a link to 16 other Freebie PANDA goodies, where I found the big image and the finger puppet panda kit :-D 

I used some die cuts and copied the Layout from the Chocolate, Coffee & Cards challenge blog.

Thank you for dropping in :-D

Challenges I am entering:

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards Challenge #85 - Layout

A Creative Need February Challenge - Love & Desire

Cut It Up Challenge #65 - Exotic Animals + a die cut

Left Of Centre Challenge #66 - Use Your Dies

QKR Stampede Challenge #127 - Critters

Simply Create Too Challenge #79 - Anything Goes

The Stamping Boutique Challenge - Hearts

Sister Act Card Challenge #94 - Anything Goes

Send A Smile 4 Kids Challenge - Die cuts or punches

QUOTH THE RAVEN CHALLENGE #41 - WEEK 3

Good morning Peeps,
Here I am with my creation for WEEK 3 OF our latest Challenge over at QUOTH THE RAVEN - #41 FOR THE LOVE OF POE.

Since it was the month of the dreaded Valentine's Day , this Challenge is all about Love. Love for POE, or one of his love poems, or one of the ladies he wrote love stories about... you get the idea. :-D

I have made for you a Tag....

The background card is brown and I inked the edges. Then I stuck on some kitchen paper and spritzed it with Perfect Pearl mists in various colours. It looks great in my hand but not so much in the photos :-(

I then used the remainder from a die cut  - it looked a bit like a Gothic cross and I like to use up my snippets :-D

I used another of the left-overs to stencil through onto white card for the small panel and used my new SARNTANGLES rubber stamps on graduated colour card to hold my raven and POE portrait. I used the love stamp repeatedly across the card until the ink ran out :-)

So, I hope you will come over to QUOTH THE RAVEN and play along with us this month. We have a great Prize for the Winner and you can snag yourself a coooool Winner or TOP 3 Badge :-D

Thanks for stopping by.

SARNTANGLE SUNDAY :-D

Today I have been playing  again with my set of LIMITED EDITION - "SARNTANGLES".... created by Sarn over at STAMPING FOR PLEASURE.
These were drawn by Sarn and then turned into a fabulous rubber stamp set and I couldn't wait to get mine.
If you want your own set of these, then pop over HERE for the instructions on how to get them :-D

This first one was was printed onto card with black ink and then coloured with Spectrum Noir pens - CT1, CT3, CT4, GB6, OR2, BG2.

I then mounted it onto a pale yellow die cut doily. The sentiment comes with the Set and was printed onto a thin strip of paper and rolled at the ends.

This 2nd one is an ATC and  was done with ultra fine glitter - a technique I haven't done for yeeeeeeeeeaaars. I used to do a lot of this with Mandalas. Anyhoo - the image was stamped with embossing ink and sprinkled with Black embossing powder and heated. I then used a micro nozzle glue pot to flood the petals with glue and then sprinkled the ultra fine glitter in. 

Colours used, Pink Alpha, Neat Blue, Strato Blue - from  Patsymay, and Blue Sky from Powderz.   When it was dry I cut it out with a die and mounted it onto butterfly blue shiny card.

This one I fancied doing pink - which is an unusual colour for me, but I have a friend who adores pink, so this may well get to be her birthday card :-)

I used 2 different Sarntangles for this one and the middle one was stamped separately onto card, then coloured and mounted with foamies for extra pop.

These are coloured with Spectrum Noir pencils from the 'Primaries' tin.

Sarn makes some absolutely fabulous cards, and she has some gorgeous examples made with her own new stamps. I think I am going to have to copy some of her card designs as I can never get her wonderful effects on my own LoL !! :-D

Thank you for dropping in and I hope you will pop over to see SARN  in all her creative glory :-)

Challenges I am entering:

Alphabet  Challenge - Z is for Zentangle

SCOTTIE BIRTHDAY

Hello Peeps and Happy Sunday,
I am here with a card for a Scottish friend on mine and I always try to find something appropriate to him. This time, I used some information about his name as my background and I found a fabulous little Scottie Dog cutting file - 
SCOTTIE GIFT BAG by MEGAN HARDY available at the Silhouette Store.

I only used one part of the collection - the Dog bit -  and made him a bit bigger, then cut him with my Craft Robo.
I cut one in black and one in white and stuck them on top of each other but slightly off-set. Don't ask me why... I just did !!! 
I made his little coat with some clan tartan, which I hope is the right one for my friend !!
I finished with a sprinkling of hearts which were left over from a previous cutting session :-)

Thanks for stopping by..... I'm off to play with some stamping now :-)

Challenges I am entering:

Crafty Calendar February Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge #43 - Two's  (2 dogs)

WOO HOO !.....SARNTANGLES

YaY !!! Today I got my set of LIMITED EDITION - "SARNTANGLES".... created by Sarn over at STAMPING FOR PLEASURE.
These were drawn by Sarn and then turned into a fabulous rubber stamp set and I couldn't wait to get mine.
If you want your own set of these, then pop over HERE for the instructions on how to get them :-D

Here is my first creation...........................

I printed this one onto some brown card with black StazOn and then used a tiny brush with some bleach to colour parts of it. I was quite happy with how it went. I also wiped bleach all around the outer edge of the card.

Then it was mounted onto some colour fade card, then brown, orange and the final cream backing with an added slice of ribbon.

The "Imagine" word art comes with the set too along with a couple of others - if you look at the pikkie up above, you can see the whole set.

Sarn makes some absolutely fabulous cards, and she has some gorgeous examples made with her own new stamps. I think I am going to have to copy some of her card designs as I can never get her wonderful effects on my own LoL !! :-D

Thank you for dropping in and I hope you will pop over to see SARN  in all her creative glory :-)

Challenges I am entering:

Alphabet  Challenge - Z is for Zentangle
Frosted Designs Friday Challenge - Get Messy x 2 (well I did - I forgot how long StazOn takes to dry so I smudged it but managed to rescue the card with some rubber stamp cleaner, and I got white spots on my fingers from the bleach hahaha LoL)
Simply Create Too #79 - Anything Goes
Stempelsonne Challenge #134 - Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations February Challenge - Anything Goes
That Craft Place - Anything Goes

NEW IMAGES AT IKEsART

Hi Peeps,
I have been drawing and thought I might make some pretties instead of grousomes :-D
I give you ..... BRIDES...........

These beauties could be 'altered' to be Brides of Frankenstein too maybe... yes ???!!! LoL

They will be in the SHOP later this evening, but how's about we play a little game......... anyone who leaves a comment down below can win THE WHOLE SET !!! :-D 

This chance will run until next Friday, so why not go for a chance ?

Who said Friday 13th wasn't lucky ???  Well it might be for just you xxxxxxxxxx

NORTHERN LIGHTS

Hello Peeps,

I have popped in to show you a set of ATCs that I made for a Swap in January over at YOUR PAPER PANTRY.
There was a cool video that Stephanie did showing us how to make the Northern Lights background with inks and daubers and then stamping trees on there. I had a go........ I didn't have the sorts of inks and stuff she had and only had 1 tree stamp, but I managed to prepare my backgrounds and then feed them into the printer to put some trees on there. These are silhouette digis from BECCY's PLACE.

I didn't then have any daubers either so smurged mine with fingers and make-up sponges.  The hills were masked off before the sky was done and the stars are done with a white nail art pen :-D
Had to wait until now cuz I lost the photos that I took and had to ask Steph to do it :-D

The top centre one I tried on photographic paper but it didn't work out so good - but when I rubbed it I got that coooooool turquoise bit where the ink started to come off !!! :-D

I really enjoyed trying a new technique and can't wait to get my Swaps back from the other Girls. I've seen a couple and they look awesome !! :-D

Thanks for dropping by xxxxxxxxxxxx