OSAAT DT PIECE CHALLENGE #230

Hello Sunday Peeps,

Just flying in quick to show you my piece for OSAAT CHALLENGE #230 - Anything Goes With LOVE.
The image I got was Dinosaur with Magnifying Glass by the brilliant KEN BENNER.
I decided to make it into a mirror instead to fit with my sentiment. You can just about see a bit of his face in there :-D

I coloured the Dino using Spectrum Noir pens using the pointillism technique.

Colours: LG4, CG1,CG2,CG3,CG4,JG3,LV1,LV2,IG4,IG3

The background is a digital scrapbook set by Jen Wuthridge called "For the Love of Kraft".

I cut out my dino and mounted him with foam pads and added some hearts. I made a sentiment box in Photodraw. 

I think the Dino really loves himself :-D

Thank you for dropping by and we hope to see you over at OSAAT #230, so you can see what my Angel Teamies have made for you to see too.  xxxxxxxxxxxx

Challenges I am entering:

2CuteInk Challenge #122 - Valentine/Love   ***WINNER***

CraftyBoots Challenge - Hearts & Valentines

Dream Valley Challenge #99 - Valentines

House of Cards February Challenge - Love

Make My Monday - Valentine's 

 Come & Get It Challenges- Love is in the Air

Glitter & Sparkle Challenge #123 - Love is in the Air

Great Impressions February Challenge - Love, Love, Love

Opus Gluei Challenge #202 - Be My Valentine

Quirky Crafts Challenge #3 - Quirky Love is in the Air

THE WAIL OF THE TRUCULENT TEENAGER

Hi Peeps,
Are you chilly where you are ????
It has been mild here for a few days but rumour has it that we will get really chilly (for us anyways) from Monday for about 4 days...... It will be 5 degrees but with wind chill will feel more like -5 !!  I think the weather is doing this out of spite, cuz the friends that I have been house/cat sitting for since November, will be returning home from Australia on Sunday night !! Bwaahahahaha.... bit of a change from 40 degrees huh ??!! LoL

So anyways, here is a little chilly willy winter piece to get me prepared hee hee

I have used  my image of Snow Deer Scene by IKE at STITCHYBEAR STAMPS. for the background and the skeleton image is from De-Stempelwinkel, printed onto card, fussy cut and raised on foam pads. I added a sentiment and a couple of snow flake embellies.
The sentiment is the typical response to asking a teenager to do anything for you that may take longer than 10 nano-seconds !!! hahahah LoL

Well I'm off to house/cat sit now ( 3 days and counting !!! Got to do a mega house clean for them tomorrow).

Bye for now and thanks for dropping in :-D xx

Challenges I am entering:

De-Stempelwinkel Challenge #3 - WINTER

QUOTH THE RAVEN CHALLENGE #41 - FOR THE LOVE OF POE

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

Seeing as we have the dreaded Valentine's Day creeping up, 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

My piece is an illustration of one of POE's poems.... "FOR ANNIE"  (1849).
"For Annie" was written for Nancy Richmond (whom Poe called Annie) of Lowell, Massachusetts. Richmond was a married woman and Poe developed a strong platonic, though complicated, relationship with her. The poem was first set to be published on April 28, 1849 in the journal Flag of our Union, which Poe said was a "paper for which sheer necessity compels me to write." Fearing its publication there would consign it "to the tomb of the Capulets," he sent it to Nathaniel Parker Willis for publication in the Home Journal on the same day as Flag of Our Union.^[18] The poem talks about an illness from which Richmond helped Poe recover. It speaks about "the fever called 'Living'" that has been conquered, ending his "moaning and groaning" and his "sighing and sobbing." In a letter dated March 23, 1849, Poe sent the poem he wrote to Richmond saying, "I think the lines 'For Annie' (those I now send) much the best I have ever written." Nancy Richmond would officially change her name to Annie after her husband's death in 1873.

Synopsis:
A dying man gives thanks that his "lingering illness ".... life....  is finally over. He is now beyond pain and suffering. But no one, he says, should think pityingly of him. After all, everyone will lie in the same bed he does. Moreover, his death is not final. As his lover, Annie, looks on him and cries because she thinks he is dead, he declares that his heart and his thoughts are more alive than ever, for they are filled with the sight of Annie's love. Though dead, he lives on because of her love.

The poem reverses ordinary ways of thinking about death and life. Life is an illness and death is a cure rather then visa versa. Death is also not just a matter of body. The man's mind and heart are alive even though his body is quite dead. Poe expands on this theme in The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

I have completed another double page in my altered mobile phone instruction booklet. I now only have one more double page to complete and it's finished :-D

I have used my FREEBIE POE backing paper, a heart die cut, The coloured digi is from IKEsART and is called "POE DEATHBED", and the frame is 'Wiseframe', which may be from Digital Two for Tuesday but I am really not sure. !! Sorry about that. Inside the frame is an excerpt from the poem....

If you would like to read the whole poem, then go HERE.

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.

IKEsWORLD NEW RELEASE BLOG HOP - SEA LIFE

Hello Everyone and happy Tuesday.
We would like to welcome you to the IKEsART  NEW RELEASE BLOG HOP and we are here to show you ...... SEA LIFE.....
This set contains 12 digital images as is available right now from IKEsART and also at STITCHYBEAR STAMPS  for only $12.......

Here's my piece that I made...............I used the Anemone in various sizes and colours and the Seahorse Head.......

The Teamies had a play with the new images are here is the BLOG HOP ROLL so you can whizz round and see what they have to show you and maybe leave them some lurve on the way.

                           IKEsWORLD CHALLENGES --- You are HERE

BLACK DRAGON

GINNY

JANE O

SALL

MIMI JANE

SHELL

SAMARA

IKE

Don't forget too that you still have until 9th FEBRUARY to join in with the latest IKEsWORLD Challenge #30 SKETCH  and grab your FREEBIE if you go HERE.
Thank you for stopping by :-D xx

Challenges I am entering:

Craft Your Passion Challenge #247 - Anything Goes
Through The Purple Haze Challenge #76 - Anything Goes
Use Your Stuff Challenge #171 - Song Title or words (Under the Sea from Little Mermaid )

IT'S MACABRE MONDAY AGAIN

Hello Peeps,
It's that time of the week when we whizz over to HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE .

Yup, it's February again, and you know what that means, right? The entire rest of the world goes ga-ga over love and sweetness and pink and cherubs. Frankly, we in the Dungeon are too twisted and dark to put up with that malarkey, so instead our February challenge is

It's A Love/Hate Thing

This means that you can make it about love or hate, OR use something you love, or something you hate. We're always open to interpretation, but PLEASE nothing sweet and insipid or we'll have to burn it. Seriously. No traditionally "nice" Valentine cards, ok? Make it gothic, make it creepy, make it beautifully twisted and dark and you'll receive so much Minion love that you'll need to get checked out for communicable diseases. Remember, we're now monthly and you can enter up to three macabre creations each month.

Here is my piece for this month...

I have used a cutting file to make the backing - this was a FREEBIE from BIRD's CARDS, and on top of that I have used a couple of elements from Vintage Valentine Dictionary Collage Sheet, which is from SENECA POND CRAFTS.

The main image is called "Detatched" and is by CHEMICAL BOMB. I coloured him with Promarkers.

The background of Love/Hate I made myself. The Fonts I used are ' Times New Romance' and 'Uneasy'.

This piece illustrates my love for vintage stuff and off the wall creepy images and my absolute hate for slushy, mushy, waste of time Valentine schmegg !!!!!

I hope you will pop over and see what my Minion buddies have created to show you at HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE, and maybe you will play along with us too. ?

Thank you for dropping by xx

Challenges I am entering

WHY DID THE CHICKEN NOT CROSS THE ROAD ?.................... (Contains a rude word) !!!

Hello Peeps,
If you are not in the mood for a semi-rude word then don't read any further........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Over at the SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS the current Challenge #26 is called Snarker's Choice, whereby we can go back over the past year's Challenges and pick a Theme we want.
SOSS is also celebrating their 1st year Blogiversary.. so CONGRATS to them.

I have decided to go with P .. is for PROFANITY with my little creation, and this is entitled "WHY DID THE CHICKEN NOT CROSS THE ROAD ?".......

I have used 'Funny Chicken 1 + 2' from MEINLILAPARK along with "Bad Day" by me at IKEsART.

Thanks for dropping by :-)

Challenges I am entering:

Sisterhood of Snark Challenge #26 - Snarker's Choice P for Profanity

IT's RUDOLPH DAY FOR JANUARY

Hurray for RUDOLPH DAY - what an excellent way to use up all those odd and sods I have lying around from Chrimbo :-)  The idea is we make a card for the 25th of each month and that will give us a head start for this year's festive season :-D

Here's one with an embossed snowflake background and little snippets of some of my papers I used this year. I had a couple of snowflakes too which were cut by a friend of mine on her Cricut.

The backing card is actually a kind of pearly glossy pale grey but it doesn't actually come out well on the photo !

This baby is for the Rudolph Challenge over at SCRAPS OF LIFE BY SCRAPPYMO as she has been good enough to take over this Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Challenges I am entering:

Rudolph Day - January

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog #243 - Snowmen

Snippet's Playground Wk #161 - 2nd entry

MORE NEW IMAGES

Here I am again with some more NEW IMAGES to show you that are now available from IKEsART today :-D
Click on Pics to enlarge.....

Thanks for stopping by :-D xx

OSAAT CHALLENGE # 229 - ANYTHING GOES WITH PURPLE

Hi Peeps,

Well, here I am with my piece for the Design Team over at OSAAT - they are a fabulous bunch and since I do a lot of work with them on the Sponsorship side and stuff, I decided to join them on the DT  and they said 'Yes' , so I am now officially one of Stitchy's Angels :-D

Here is my piece for Challenge #229 - ANYTHING GOES - with PURPLE. 

I used backgrounds from Crafty Chaos - 'Absolution Deferred' and 'Gothic Bruise' sets.

For my main image I was given 'SIANNIE' from KAZ KRAFTZ at STITCHYBEAR STAMPS.

I decided to show two sides of the image - the light and the dark side of a personality, so I flipped her and printed her out twice. The images were coloured with Spectrum Noir pens.

I made a sentiment panel and decorated it with one of the fabulous little clay Skullies I have from Creepy Glowbugg. 

The Sponsor for this weeks challenge is StitchyBear Digi Outlet with this 5 image prize pack. 

Thank you popping in and I hope you will come over to OSAAT and play along :-)

Challenges I am entering:

Crazy 4 Challenges C4C270 - Opposites

Kit & Clowder January Challenge - Anything Goes with hand coloured image

Chocolate Coffee & Cards #83 - Colour Inspiration

My Time To Craft Challenge #276 - Two or more People

STUFF I HAVE BEEN MAKING

Hello Peeps,
I have been busy this end making loads of things but I forgot to Blog them, so here's a few pikkies :-)

Here's an ATC I made for the December Swap over on KRISTY'S BLOOMING JOURNEY FB Page... I forgot to take a photo before I sent them off but Kristy did it for me :-)

NOV + DEC ATC Swap at MY CRAFTS FORUM

Themes - Flags and Christmas Carol 

My ATC for the "New Moon" themes swap over at SMEARED & SMUDGED FB Group 

A card commission for a friend - Her Son IL is an online war games buff - it's one of those triple mountain card thingies. 

A card to accompany a present for a friend of mine overseas. 

I shall be entering this one over at SNIPPET's PLAYGROUND. I cut the lattice with my new die cut from Couture Creations - 'Tied Together' from their Momento Collection. The background is a small piece of rainbow card I found in my snippets box. The main image is called 'LUCE' from Vera Lane "Les Chats" Stamps. There are 4 cats in this crazy collection and I couldn't resist them :-D  I coloured it with Spectrum Noir pens, BT2, BT3, BT4, CG3, CG4, and mounted it with foam pads. The Love Tag is from a freebie set I got from MY SCRAP CHICK - Valentine Tag Printables.

Thank you for dropping in and having a look :-D

Challenges I am entering:

Snippet's Playground Wk #161  (My kitty card at the bottom)