CHRISTMAS IS COMING SO THEY TELL ME :-D

Good morning Peeps,
I have finally finished painting the sitting room and now I must dedicate myself to doing Chrimbo cards. Here are two of my first commissions which are winging their way to Oz as I speak. :-)
They were made using 2 stunning paper kits I bought from TLC CREATIONS -  " Poinsettia Party Journal Set " and  " Winter's Nature ".

They were both layered up with 3D foamies and I added die cut floral embellies.

I must try and remember to do my own cards this year !!!  I usually am so focused on getting the commissions done that I forget all about myself !! LoL

Right Ho - I must away..... I have a small Doggo here for Christmas holidays, so we better go and do the " Walkies " now it has got light :-D  I'll slip in a photo later if I can get a decent one :-)

Thanks for popping in.

Challenges I am entering:

KITTY LUV

Good morning everyone,

I am here to tell you that there is a new challenge up at SUYP Cats Challenges #15 KITTY LOVE with a new FREEBIE for you. This Challenge is for Cat lovers and runs for a month. You can use any images you wish as long as there are Cats as the main feature. :-D

Today I have made a card using a vintage kitty image from TLC CREATIONS.
You all know I really LUV cats but I think a couple of these little guys don't love their bath hahahaha :-D
The card was made using a new freebie digital scrapbook set I got from DELICIOUS SCRAPS called ' A Mother's Love'.

I hope you will come over and play and maybe Follow us. We are working to get 150 Followers and there will be a Prize when we get there :-)

Week 2 of IKEsWORLD CHALLENGES is also up with the gorgeous creations of TEAM B for you to see and you'll find another Freebie on Week 1.

Also there is an exclusive Freebie over on our IkesArt Facebook Fan Page.

Thanks for dropping in today xxx

Challenges I am entering:

Crafting When We Can Challenge #137 - Flowers  19/2

Artistic Inspirations Challenge #172 - AG  20/2

Through The Craftroom Door Challenge - AG 15/2

X RATED XMAS 2

Hello Peeps.... Warning !!! Look no further if you don't like gore !!!!  :-D

I have whipped up another offering for the X Rated Xmas challenge and a dark Creepmas challenge or two LoL
I chose to illustrate that well known song...... " Last Christmas, I gave you my heart "....  using one of my own ex-Smeared Ink digital images, which is called - spookily enough - ' I give you my Heart'  bwaahahahaha

So here it is...... don't look if you're squeamish............  

.......  I warned you :-D

Background paper is from TLC CREATIONS and Label is from FAR FAR HILLS - I altered the colours scheme in a graphics programme.

I would like to enter into these Challenges:

SoSS Challenge #74   - X Rated Xmas    *** Princess Winner ***
Dream In Darkness - December Challenge   9/1   ***** WINNER *****

COPY CATS

Hi- happy Monday Peeps and to those of you having a Bank Holiday.. I hope you have some good weather ?

I saw some beautiful cards today over on the Blog of KT FIT KITTY and I was busting to try her technique out... so off I went.
Well - it all went a bit 'snafu' on me but I carried on and made some cards with my results anyways :-(

Here's what I ended up with.

Now, I don't know whether my watercolour paper was too thick or I was using the wrong sort of inks, but it didn't do what I wanted. I know I had the paper wet enough cuz I had to hang it out on the line to dry off. The puss cats were stamped on but I had to go over this one with a marker as it didn't come out too well.

I used BoHo Chic papers from First Edition and flower buttons from my stash and copied Sketch #357 (inverted) from Sketch Saturday.

I tried this one using Stayzon but I think the watercolour paper is too bumpy for a good image.

Stripey paper is from my snippets box and the twine is part of a recent Prize and is from  STAMPIN' UP .. 'In Colour Accessory Pack'.

I followed Sketch #235 for this one.

        

This one totally didn't really work because I blobbed it with Tim Holtz alcohol dies - and of course, they don't go with water !!! :-(  I wuite like the effect, so I used it anyway.

The papers are bits from my snippets box and I don't know who they are by. The kitties on these cards are from De-Stempelwinkel - Cherry Pie range. This one uses Sketch #340 (rotated).

Since I semi-failed at this I decided to have a go with bleach on coloured card and I made these.....

The Puss cat is from TLC Creations and the other two are from The Graphics Fairy.

With these, I bleached the red card using a mister containing ordinary household bleach and a little water and then dried it with my heat gun.

I then printed the images onto it - having lined them up, added sentiments and then test printed them first.

I made two little cards and a kitty ATC with a tiny cat brad embellie :-D

I added my own sentiment to the Cow card and she is placed on a backing paper that says 'Hello' in lots of different languages :-)

So - I got lovely inky fingers and had a pretty good time today. :-D

It's no good.... I shall just have to fly over to see KT FIT KITTY for some lessons :-D hee hee 

Thanks for dropping in. xxx

Challenges I am entering:

Sketch Saturday Week #376 - Use any Sketch #215 -375.

Glitter & Sparkle Challenge #152 - Add Buttons

Crafting From The Heart Challenge #75 - Anything Goes

Pile It On Challenge #84 - Friends/Friendly Hello  (Moo Cow card)

Snippets Playground Week #192    **WINNER**