ANOTHER CARD COMMISSION

Here I am again with another commission for a friend to give to her sister. Apparently she is a mad mountaineerer, snow walker + skier !! Jolly good luck in that freezy weezy weather I say... Rather her than me :-D
Anyhoo - I made a triple mountain fold card - - well it fits doesn't it ??!!!

I snagged a couple of clip art images from the Web and a fabbo silhouette and this morning LISA at Decosse's Dynamite Doodles gave away a fabulous 'Snowflake Border' which I put with her 'Snowflake Paper' too. If you pop over to see her, you can pick up the links to the other Freebies )the Paper and some Word Art). I used her snowflake paper on the back too but I faded it down a bit, so my friend can write her message there.

Afterwards I thought the sky was a bit bare so I stamped some white snowflakes using a stamp from Wild Rose Studio.

Challenges I am entering:

Cards Und More  Challenge 74 - Ice & Snow
Deep Ocean Challenge Blog No.43 - Anything but a Square
Tuesday Alchemy Challenge 48 - Winter Wonder

NEW IMAGES AT SMEARED INK

Here is a showing of my New Images which are exclusive to SMEARED INK... 
These are the 'FALLEN ANGEL' series.... 3 Fallen Angels and The Collector :-)

I have just finished some VALENTINE images, but we are awaiting their release into SI Shop.

PET ROCK CHALLENGE

Hi Peeps,
Over at YOUR PAPER PANTRY they are having a  Fur & Feathers Pet Rock Challenge this month. To go to YPP click HERE.
I've had my rock for a week but it didn't give me much inspiration until yesterday :-) I started off painting it white as a base and then a little picture came to me. When I came down to the studio this morning I had a sudden brainwave and got such a crazy idea.
Here is my original sketch....

I got out my Gouache paints  and after a play around I added a goggly eye and  this is what I finished up with...

Now - as you all know - I don't often do cute and fluffy, so this fits quite well but I think he might give people a scare or two over at YPP  Tee Hee !! :-D

I'm also known for doing scary, horror, gory or totally 'out of your head' kind of stuff, so you weren't expecting a 'cute' pet rock were you ???? :-D 

Challenges I am entering:

Fur & Feathers Pet Rock Challenge at YPP

HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE HDH159

Hello again,
Well, today is Macabre Monday over at HAUNTED DESIGN HOUSE, the Challenge is called 'Famous Last Words'.
Create a piece using a famous last line from a book, film, poem or use a deathbed utterance or confession. 
I decided to use the purported last utterance of CHOPIN.

Frédéric François Chopin  1810 – 1849 was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is widely considered one of the greatest Romantic composers. Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola, a village in the Duchy of Warsaw. A renowned child-prodigy pianist and composer, he grew up in Warsaw and completed his music education there; he composed many of his mature works in Warsaw before leaving Poland in 1830 at age 20, shortly before the 1830 Uprising.

Following the Russian suppression of the Uprising, he settled in Paris as part of Poland's Great Emigration. During the remaining 19 years of his life, Chopin gave only some 30 public performances, preferring the more intimate atmosphere of the salon; he supported himself by selling his compositions and teaching piano. After some romantic dalliances with Polish women, including an abortive engagement, from 1837 to 1847 he carried on a relationship with the French writer Amantine Dupin, aka George Sand. For most of his life Chopin suffered from poor health; he died in Paris in 1849 at age 39.

FOR THE SQUEAMISH.................LOOK AWAY NOW !!!............................................

I used a piece of sheet music by Chopin and then stamped over it with one of my new 'Inky Dreams' rubber stamps from SMEARED INK. I used Versamark embossing stamp with red powder, and melted with my heat gun. I printed out and coloured 'Open Torso' - from the Gross Anatomy Set also by Smeared Ink, then I coloured him a little with pencils. I found a little portrait of Chopin on the Web and the quote, which I printed out in Dymo.

Challenges I am entering:

Haunted Design House HDH159 - Famous Last Words

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - What Are You Known For ?  (My love of Horror/Gothic/Gore and quirky mind set) Tee Hee 

CARD COMMISSIONS

Happy Monday Peeps,
Here are a couple of card commissions I completed yesterday :-)
I also made matching wall clocks out of CDs.

This card is made for one of our Greek friends for her Birthday today. Here they don't really celebrate the Birthday as much as the Name Day, and they don't really exchange cards, but Marika will appreciate this. She is totally obsessed with shoes, so I will be putting a little money pocket on the inside so we can all put something in there and she can buy some.

I totalled CASE'd a fantastic card from CHRIS V  at Easily Amused, who is a DT member at Stamping For The Weekend. I went there on directions from a friend and found this fabbo Challenge this week too..... "Something Girly". I was so in love with Chris' card I knew it would be perfect for my friend. I used papers and elements - 'Endeavour' from Scrappers Emporium.


Challenges I am entering:

Stamping for the Weekend - Something Girlie
Shelleys Images - TTT 1,2,3    (Shoe card - 1 Lace, 1 Pearl, 1 Flower)
Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge 162 - A Trio of Embellishments  (Shoe card - 1 Lace, 1 Pearl, 1 Flower)
Sugar Creek Hollow Challenge 45 - Tic Tac Toe - Centre Row Down (Shoe card - 1 Lace, 1 Pearl, 1 Ribbon)
Amusing Challenges - Birthday    (Dora Card)
Dream Valley Challenges 49 - Girls, Girls, Girls   (Shoe Card)
Here Come The Boys Challenge 44 - Bingo  (Patterned Paper, Distress, Image)

BIT OF WHIMSY ON A SUNDAY

Back again !!!
I found some new people A & T DESIGNS and got some super Freebies on their site.

                                        
 I made this little inspirational card with all freebies from A & T and a bit of lace from my stash.

Digi Paper - A&T Designs

Image: 'Pip on a branch' - A&T Designs Colouring in PSE9

Senti tag made myself - Font 'Bite Me'

Stick I made with punch-outs and beads from stash.

Card and lace from stash.

Challenges I am entering:

Corrosive Challenges 166 - Put a Pin in it.

Allsorts Challenge Week 190 - Flower Power

MAYZYART CHALLENGE - ROMANCE

PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR FREEBIE FRIDAYS

Hi there and happy Sunday,
Today I am messing about with Challenges :-) I have just finished a new batch of images for SMEARED INK so now I am going to play :-)
Over at MAYZYART - the Challenge at the moment is Romance, so I decided to have a dig through and see what images of theirs I have. I just fell in love with this little girl and I guess she could be cartwheeling for joy and in love (probably with a puppy or kitten or something coz she's only young LoL)
I used my new embossing folder from Couture Creations Romantique Collection and it's called 'Timeless'. It is such a beautiful thing, and I bought it for scrapbooking and making mini albums coz there's a cool panel in the middle that would work well for journaling.

Card from stash.

Embossing folder - Couture Creations

Flowers from stash.

Sentiment tag I made. Font: Times New Romance

Image - MAYZYART  - was a Freebie - no name given(maybe given at CDAC for a Challenge ?). Coloured in PSE9

Challenges I am entering:

Mayzyart Challenge 9 - Romance

FREEBIE FRIDAY 3 - GREEK SERIES

Good Morning Peeps,
Doesn't Friday whizz round quickly ???!!
Well - here is No.3 in the Greek Series - a church scene with sea and mountains :-)
If you didn't snag the others in this Greek bit, then just scroll down OK  xx

IMAGE REMOVED TO SHOP

Maybe next week I'll give you the National Costume and then let's shoot off to another country the following week...... what say you ??????

BOOKMARKS

Today I have made a Bookmark to enter in the Dilly Beans Challenge - BOOKMARKS.
I have used 'Heart Monster'. I coloured him digitally and then printed him out 3 times. He is 10cm high for this project. I stuck him onto very thick card and then fussy cut the other 2 prints and layered him up with silicone glue to make him 3D. I then made a giant paper clip with some wire and attached him to it and Voila !! - my bookmark.

Click on pic to enlarge.

So there he is. I think he's going to be strong enough if I am careful with him but I might cover him with glossy accents to make him very tough :-)

Challenges I am entering:

Dilly Beans Challenge - Bookmarks
Crafty Catz Challenge 166 - Anything But A Card
Forever Night Creepy Challenge 61 - 3,2,1 Anything Goes  (Well I got 3 layers, 2 different mediums - paper + metal) and 1 image.... hope that counts )
Inspire Me Fridays 92 - Anything Goes

HAPPY MAIL

Happy Saturday Everyone,
I hope you are all getting ready to enjoy a crafting weekend :-)
This week I received some happy mail - a parcel from a friend of mine BORQNA from Bulgaria. She sent me a calendar with some awesome photos of Bulgaria and she made me a fantastic card using one of my freebie images... a Snowman.
It's just perfect in the cool blues of winter. Here he is..

I have put her Blog addy on there for you. Borqna lives in Sofia and she puts some gorgeous photographs on her blog, she makes projects and also writes some great articles, so I hope you can pop over there for a browse when you're having coffee. Don't worry, it's all translated for you too, so you'll be able to read what she's saying :-)

Thanks again Borqna - hugs and I hope you are surviving in the snow !!!!    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx