I'M A SPONSOR :-D

Hello Peeps,
This week I am co-sponsoring {PIN}SPIRATIONAL CHALLENGES #55 and this is the pic that is for inspiration.
                                                
Isn't she so sweet ???!!
I gave the Team 2 DT some images to play with  - Snow White, Alice and KT Swing -and they have made some beautiful creations.
The Challenge runs from 30 April - 6 May and the Prize from me is 5 Digis from my SHOP.

It would be lovely if you popped over and left the Girls some LUV and maybe played along with them too. You have to admit the picture is so lovely and the colours are a definite {pin}spiration :-D

See you later xxxx

ERIC NEEDS A 'LITTLE WOMAN'

Gosh - I nearly forgot my entry for the literary challenge over at THE HOUSE OF BEARS - April Book Challenge. This month the book concerned is "Little Women"  by Louisa May Alcott, and the Bears were kind enough to give us a list of quotes from the book to use as our inspiration.

I have done a bit of dark humour using one of my digis, I loving call 'ERIC' and I am sure he is definitely in need of a little woman.....bwaahahahahaha !!!!!

I thought this quote from The Bears choices was pretty apt for the look on his face :-D 

I made him a hand embossed 'brain' background for inside the card and smurged it with red,pink,  green and black inks to make it look 'brainy'.

Well - that's it... I'm off now for coffee.

Byeeeee xxxx

Challenges I am entering:

The House of Bears April Book Challenge - Little Women

Craft Your Passion Challenge #160 - Well Read.... add text

Crafty Boots Challenges - Use a Character

The Paper Nest Dolls Challenge #3 - Embossing

MACABRE MONDAY HDH166 - STEPHEN KING NIGHTMARE

Well good morning Peeps and welcome to Macabre Monday a la HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE.
This Challenge is all about creations inspired by the works of Stephen King...... love him, read them all, absolutely fabbo, so I simply had to play along with this one :-D

For my creation I decided upon "PET CEMETERY" and have used my own digi 'POE CAT' (available in my Shop). I also added a small pikkie of the man himself in the corner. Then I cut a grave scene fence with Silhouette and put that in front. It's a little hard to see coz everything's black, but it is there. The quote is from the advert for the book :-)

Click on Pic to enlarge

Please drop by HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE.... if you dare..... and see the gorgeous creations the other Minions have to scare you with - hahahahaha !!!

Catch you later xxxxxxxxxxxxx

GLITTER AND GORE

Hello Sunday Peeps,
Here is my piece I have made for the Glitter & Gore Challenge over at SMUDGY ANTICS. I have been having a bit of a creative block recently but got inspired last night and this one has come out quite well. I have used 'MoonStruck' from the Movie Madness range by SMEARED INK (drawn by me :-D) and a couple of heads from the 'Gross Anatomy' set.
I coloured her digitally and then printed her 4 times and fussy cut for 3D effect. I used glitter on my moon and on parts of the sky. I coloured the heads using Copics.

Here's a closer one trying to show the glitter on the moon !! I think you can just about see it, but if I use too much flash it bounces off. Glitter is a bit of a bugger to try and photograph and it definitely don't scan !!! :-D 

I made up a sentiment and smurged some red ink over it for a draggy blood type effect for added gore :-D

I am hoping I will get my Mojo back soon as everything is such a bloomin' struggle just now :-(

Anyhoo, thanks for looking and I'll see you later xxxx

Challenges I am entering:

Smudgy Antics - Glitter & Gore

Alphabet Challenge - F is for Fantasy (well I wouldn't want her in my 'real' world, would you ?!!)

Jelly Park Challenges - Make us laugh or smile (well - how about a little dark humour ??)

Art Impressions Challenge #108 - Layer it Up

Papercrafting Journey - Use a Sentiment 

Sara Hurley Challenge #79 - Projects With Character

DT CALL AT PUNK YOU GIRL

Hey Peeps - here's a new Challenge site opening for those with a darker side, Punk, Goth, Emo... whatever your Dark Side is LoL
They are having a DT call prior to starting their first Challenge so get your butts over there and have a look and try out for the DT :-D  Project requirement is 1 or 2 per Month, so no pressure there !!. Whizz over and check it out. :-D


                        

FREEBIE FRIDAY 17 - WORLD TOUR SERIES..... SPAIN

Hello and welcome to FREEBIE FRIDAY 16... WORLD TOUR SERIES..... this week we are off to  SPAIN.

Ikes World is a No Copy Zone and nothing on this site/Blog can be pinned/published to Pinterest or similar communities. These images are given to YOU personally and you do NOT have the right to share or paste anywhere else. Send people here to me. If you wish to 'shout' me anywhere, please ask for a 'Watermarked' copy. Thank you :-)
Any more 'Pinning',  '+Plussing' or whatever and I shall stop giving Freebies altogether.
* To snag these - just click on image to enlarge and Right Click to Save.*

IMAGES REMOVED TO SHOP

Oh yeah..... if you missed ITALY last week.... scroll DOWN coz it's still there for a short while :-D Huggies.

Thank you for leaving me some luuuuurrrrrve :-D  See ya' xxxxxxxxxxxxx

FREEBIE FRIDAY 16 ...WORLD TOUR SERIES - ITALY

Hello and welcome to FREEBIE FRIDAY 16... WORLD TOUR SERIES..... this week we are off to  ITALY.

Ikes World is a No Copy Zone and nothing on this site/Blog can be pinned/published to Pinterest or similar communities. These images are given to YOU personally and you do NOThave the right to share or paste anywhere else. Send people here to me. If you wish to 'shout' me anywhere, please ask for a 'Watermarked' copy. Thank you :-)
Any more 'Pinning',  '+Plussing' or whatever and I shall stop giving Freebies altogether.
* To snag these - just click on image to enlarge and Right Click to Save.*

IMAGES REMOVED TO SHOP

All other WORLD TOUR SERIES Digis can now be found in special price Bundles in my SHOP.

See you later. Enjoy !! xxxx

MACABRE MONDAY AT HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE

Hello Monday Peeps and welcome to MACABRE MONDAY HDH165 at HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE............ SKELETAL REMAINS
Now that means anything with Bones, Skeletons, Skulls etc.
This week we are sponsored by THE OCTOPODE FACTORY and I was lucky enough to receive 'JACK' to play with :-D

                                               

Since Spring is allegedly coming for most of you !!! .... I decided to have a Spring theme to my creation.
I coloured 'Jack' digitally in some 'Springy' type colours... well for him anyways..... and he is in his world together with some skellie sheep and flowers from the 'Killer Bo Peep' set by SMEARED INK.
The other side is of course the 'normal' world with gay Spring flowers and frolicking lambies .. alias 'Mr Wool' from SCRIBBLES DESIGNS. Little do they know of the strange creepy alternate Spring world symbiotically existing beside them !!! bwaahahahaha LoL

Well - there are loads of gorgeous creations for you to feast your eyes upon over at HDH, so why not pop over, have a squint and play along with us :-D
See you later xx

Challenges I am entering:

TOFF Challenge - Flowers ... well he's definitely got some hee hee !
Tammy's Scrapping Corner #58 - Spring has Sprung
Craft a Scene - Down on The Farm wk 3
Joanna Sheen Challenge - Spring Into Spring 
Scrappy Frogs Challenge - Think Spring

PAINT PARTY FRIDAY WK 5, YR 3

Happy Friday everyone and it's time again to go check out the glorious array of different art at PAINT PARTY FRIDAY. I love to sit here with my coffee and go through all the Blogs looking at the fabulous creations. Such inspiration there :-)
I hope you will pop over and have a looksee.
Here is my offering for this week....... this is an early work from a few years back now that never made it to the place it was going ! Long, boring story, but these babies are still in my possession... which is cool  :-D

Click on pic to enlarge

Painted in Gouache on watercolour paper.
Thank you for visiting. x

QUOTH THE RAVEN QUEST 20 - PICK ANY 3

Hello Peeps,
Sorry I am a little behind at the moment. We had guests for a few days and I had no time to come down and sort myself out.
Over at QUOTH THE RAVEN this time we have a new Quest.... A list of lovely things to use and you may choose any 3 to make your creation.
I have not yet finished my project, but please pop over and see what my Teamies have to show you..... AWESOME !!!
The Quest runs for a whole month, so you have plenty of time to enter and here is the Prize for this month....

I hope you will come over to play along and now I am going to get my butt in gear and finish my project :-D See you later xxxxxxxxxx

FREEBIE FRIDAY 15 - SPRING

Good morning Peeps,
Spring has sprung here in Greece - wall to wall sunshine yesterday and not a cloud in sight........ I hope you are getting some.
Today I offer you a Spring image ...... I hope you will soon been getting some ........................decent weather, that is !!!   :-D


IMAGE REMOVED BACK TO SHOP

See you later for Paint Party Friday :-) xxx

MACABRE MONDAY AT HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE - HDH164

Good Morning and welcome to Week 2 of HDH164 - "BARE BONES/CAS" (Clean & Simple) Challenge over at HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE.
Inevitably I always struggle with CAS - always want to pile more stuff on there LoL  I have used a new digi I drew over the weekend. It is coloured digitally and the backgrounds are from Crafty Chaos  'Lair of The Beast' set. The frame is digital as well so this is a totally flat piece. I haven't named my new digi yet as I am still 'tweaking'...... I can never quite leave them alone - there's always something else I see/feel the need to change LoL I was thinking of something like "Put your face on, we're going out"  hahahaha !!!

I hope you will come over and play and see what the other Minions of the Dungeon have made for your inspiration.

See you later :-D  xxx

FREEBIE FRIDAY 14 WORLD TOUR SERIES - BULGARIA

Happy Friday and welcome to the next stop on our World Tour...... BULGARIA..... especially for my friend BORQNA who lives there :-D She sent me a fabulous calendar and a fridge magnet with recipes on it. It is amazing how the Bulgarian food is very much like our traditional recipes here in Kalymnos.
I have added a style of National Costume here, but - like us here in Greece - Bulgaria has variations according to which area you come from. :-)I hope you enjoy them but please respect my wishes and DO NOT SHARE or PIN. !!

IMAGES REMOVED TO SHOP

 

Now - I have also done this digi of the Alexander Nevski Cathedral in Sofia..... if anyone wants one please email me at     ikesart AT  hotmail  DOT com  :-D

Ikes World is a No Copy Zone and nothing on this site/Blog can be pinned/published to Pinterest or similar communities. These images are given to YOU personally and you do NOThave the right to share or paste anywhere else. Send people here to me. If you wish to 'shout' me anywhere, please ask for a 'Watermarked' copy. Thank you :-)

I hope you enjoy these...................................See you later. xx