A Few Random Makes...

Hello wonderful Bloggers, Crafters and Friends. 

Today I am blogging something that has nothing to do with any design teams.... It's been a while since I have done this! 

 "The Mad Crafters Giggles" offer a Daily One Word Wonder Challenge, and I have actually managed to enter a couple of times this week.... I know, don't feint lol 

The First word was Butterfly/Butterflies. Here is what I made - 

What I have Used - 

- Craftwork Cards 'Time Flies' Paper sheet 6x6

- Craftword Cards 'Time Flies' embellishments kit for the Butterflies and Sentiment

- Textured Purple Mirri Board from my stash

- Flat backed Gems

- Glossy Accents

- Various Paper Roses from my stash

- Pearl Spray

The Second word was Autumn. Here is what I made - 

What I have Used - 

- Backing Paper from the House Mouse CD

- Topper sheet from the House Mouse CD

- Orange Pearlised Card Stock

- Skeleton Leaves

- Glossy Accents

- Woodware Leaf Punch and Embossing Punch

- Vintage Photo Distress Ink from Tim Holtz

- Flat Backed Gems

A Random make - 

Thank you so much for visiting my blog and leaving me such wonderful comments. I hope you like my card. 

A Step In The Dark Challenge #2

Welcome fellow Bloggers, Crafters and Friends. 

WOW that first two weeks went so quickly. Thank you to everyone who showed me such amazing support on my first post for A Step In The Dark Challenge Blog. 

http://a-step-in-the-darkness.blogspot.co.uk/

Again, I understand that the dark themes aren't to everyone's tastes, but you have all supported me and left such brilliant feedback on my techniques used etc....It means so much to me.

The theme for A step In The Dark's Challenge #2 is..... "Anything Goes/Purple"

Our Amazing sponsors for this challenge are The East Wind and Make It Crafty

 

I chose to use an Image from The East Wind called Lucy Loo Love Letter 2.

Here is what I have made.....

The spiders web and Skeleton Frame were both cut using my cameo. 

The backing card was sprayed with purple and black mica inks. I then drew my own border with a thin black pen and used wiggly lines . 

I coloured the image with WHSmiths colouring pencils. I cut it down to fit in the frame and distressed it with black soot TH distress Ink and sprayed with the same mica sprays as on the backing. I then added black flat backed gems to the corners. 

 I used a selection of paper roses with a black feather and some black wired bead sprays. I added some skeleton leaves and a hat pin. I know skeleton leaves aren't that fashionable anymore, however I LOVE them so will use them lol 

I finished the card off by embossing a wooden skull and crossbones. 

A Step In The Dark only accepts dark, punk, emo, gothic, cute scary, steampunk etc entries, so I know for a fact this challenge wont appeal to most of my followers..... However, I hope that it will appeal to the dark lovers that visit my blog.

Thank you once again for visiting my blog and leaving such lovely comments...

Left Of Centre, Just For Fun and Punk You Girl

Welcome fellow Bloggers, Crafters and Friends. 

Sorry Folks, this is gonna be a long one lol 
I have three Design Team Pieces to share with you today..... I will do them separately as they are  totally different types of Challenge Blogs. 

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It is time for the Left Of Center Mid Challenge Inspirational post.... The theme this time around is

"Card For A Male"

Remember, you don't have to to make anything dark, as long as you stick to the theme. If you do make something dark, it can be anything you like.... 

http://leftofcenterchallenges.blogspot.ca/

The Left Of Center offer fortnightly challenges. We are very lucky to have an amazing list of Sponsors who offer wonderful prizes to our winners..... 

We have two brilliant sponsors this time. The first is Ike's Art and the second is Dilly Beans

Both of these companies have sponsored us for a while and are absolutely amazing. The both have gorgeous images that colour wonderfully and look amazing on any project. We are very lucky to have their support and images. 

So, Challenge #31 - Card for a Male. For this challenge, I chose to use an image from Dilly Beans, but it was a very hard choice to choose between the two. 

The image I chose from Dilly Beans was "Bolt Robot Frame" as I wanted to make my card for a younger male. 

Here is what I made.....

As you can see, the image is brilliant and perfect for a young boy. I coloured him in with WHSmiths colouring pencils and did a random background so there wasnt so much white on show. I used a white rangers pen to highlight areas.

I used a cog stencil and sprayed a light blue mica spray over the top to give it a broken up shimmer (You can just see the shape of a cog on the robot head). The image was backed on black card. 

The main backing sheet is a 12x12 cog design backing paper, which I matted with the same black card as the other layers. 

I used the same cog stencil, and covered it with Black Sparkle Medium. This is the first time I have used it and absolutely loved it. I was too impatient to allow this to dry naturally..so I might have hurried it along with my heat gun...Shhhhhhh

I backed this in the black card. 

The strip of cogs is made with a lot of black sparkly cog peel-offs that I have had in my stash for a while. 

I finished with some black Card Candi and a black Birthday peel-off sentiment. 

I really like the blue and the sparkly black in this card. To me, the robot looks quite cute lol 

I hope you like this card and it will maybe give you the push you needed to join in the challenge yourself....Remember, it doesn't have to be dark, it just has to fit the theme!

Here is the link to the Left Of Center Challenge Blog again, so no excuses....Chop chop....

http://leftofcenterchallenges.blogspot.ca/

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Its mid month so that means only one thing...... Mid way inspiration post for the Just For Fun Challenge Blog!

Our Challenges are monthly and Run from the 1st of each month, with a mid way inspirational post on the 16th of each month. 

We have nice easy themes, that can be adapted to be used in any form of crafting. We accept all forms of crafting, as long as it fits our challenge themes. 

This months Just For Fun theme is "Ribbon/Lace", so a really nice and easy one. 

Here is what I have made.....

I have used a Lelli-Bot Crafts Topper from the Radiant Butterflies Kit. This kit is beautiful and very versatile. I have matched this with a backing paper from my stash, and a lovely frame that I cut on my Cameo. 

I chose to use some lace that is thick and gorgeous and worked well with the other colours of the card. 

The butterfly embellishments and the roses and bow are all from the Lelli-Bot Crafts Radiant Butterfly Embellishment Box.

The finishing pieces of the card are Craftwork Cards Card Candi. 

I hope you like this card and it has given you the little kick you needed to maybe join in with the Just For Fun Ribbon/Lace Challenge Blog. 

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Its mid month so that means Mid way inspiration post for the PunkYouGirl Challenge Blog!

http://punkyougirl.blogspot.co.uk/

PunkYouGirl is a monthly Dark Themed Challenge Blog. 

We are dark themed, so want to see all your dark themed entries. We don't want fluffy and cute, we want dark/gothic/punk/alternative/grunge etc....

We are extremely lucky to have a great list of Sponsors who offer some wonderful prizes to our winners. 

This months Sponsor is the amazingly talented Delicious Darkness / Delicious Doodles

http://deliciousdarkness2.blogspot.co.uk/

This months Challenge is #12 - Things With Wings

Here is what I made using Delicious Darkness's Steam Punk Fairy. 

I coloured the image with WHSmiths colouring pencils. The wings I used glitter pen and a glaze pen. The glaze pen I added some texture to it so it looked like veined textured wings. I also added glazing to the eyes, earring and arm cuff. 

The backing paper is from Craftwork Cards paper pad called 'Time Flys' and it is gorgeous. I mounted this on purple card. The image I counted onto purple cordination card which I embossed a spiders webb design onto, and then mounted it all onto black card. 

The spiders webb I cut on my Silhouette Cameo along with the gorgeous spider, which I sprayed with gold mica spray. 

This isn't a DARK card, but it is in a dark theme. I think the image is too pretty to make into a really dark card. 

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Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving such wonderful comments, I read every single one and appreciate them all. 

Something Pretty and Cute

Hello wonderful Bloggers, Crafters and Friends. 

Today I am blogging something that has nothing to do with any design teams.... It's been a while since I have done this! 

Today's One Word Wonder over on "The Mad Crafters Giggles" facebook group is WINGS. 

I have had some Hobby House topper sheets for ages and ages and never gotten round to using them. I hunted high and low to find them. I was very pleasantly surprised when I did, there were more sheets and even more lovelier than I remembered. 

This is what I have entered into the One Word Wonder Challenge....

What I used.....

Hobby House Topper,

Both papers from the 'tea party' paper pad from Craftwork Cards

Sentiment from 'tea party' Embellishments pack from Craftwork Cards

Pink and Blue Pearl card 

Diamond Sparkle/glitter Medium from Imagination Crafts

Three sized paper roses

Pink and Blue mica sprays

Pearl spray embellishment

Babies Breath flowers

Skeleton leaves

Flat backed gems

Card Candi from Craftwork Cards

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges.....

Tuesday Throwdown - #195 Spring Blossom - Ends 20th May

Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes - Ends 20th May

Just Inspirational Challenges - Anything Goes - Ends 19th May

Scrap Creations - Mothers Day or Girly - Ends 19th May - WON TOP PICKS AWARD

2 Cute Ink - Use Glitter - Ends 25th May

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Cute - Ends 24th May

Crafting From The Heart - #18 Anything Goes - Ends 18th May

Imagination Crafts Challenge - Things With Wings - Ends 20th May

Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - Birthdays - Ends 19th May

My Craft Creation - Anything Goes - Ends 24th May

The Paper Nest Dolls - Anything Goes - Ends 23rd May

Through The Purple Haze - Anything Goes (Optional theme - for a male) - Ends 18th May

Challenges 4 Everybody - #41 Anything Goes - Ends 30th May

Come and Get It - Birthday - Ends 16th May - WON TOP PICKS AWARD

Dream Valley Challenges - Anything Goes - Ends 16th May

Glitter and Sparkle Challenges - Female Cards - Ends 17th May

Hobby Cutz Challenges - Fairies - Ends 18th May WON TOP PICKS AWARD

Robyns Fetish - Flowers In The Image - Ends 17th May 

Scribble and Scratch - #18 Anything Goes - Ends 22nd May

Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes - Ends 14th May

Thank you so much for visiting my blog and leaving me such wonderful comments. I hope you like my card. 

A Step In The Dark Launch

Welcome fellow Bloggers, Crafters and Friends..... Your visits mean the world to me.

Some of you might have notices the "A Step In The Dark" Design Team Badge on the side of my blog.... Well today see's the launch of their first ever challenge!! 

I know a lot of my followers/friends aren't fans of my 'Dark Side' but, it is something I really enjoy doing as it gives me a freedom to try new things and not worry about getting them absolutely perfect. This side of my crafting is an outlet for me to mix things up a bit and let my hair down..... I appreciate your support and comments, even though its not your 'bag'.

 

To get to the "A Step In The Dark" Challenge Blog, please either click on the badge above, or the link below.

http://a-step-in-the-darkness.blogspot.co.uk/

They also have an amazing Facebook group in which you can share your dark makes as well as your challenge entries

https://www.facebook.com/groups/629105100496386/

"A Step In The Dark" is dedicated to anything dark, gothic, punk, grunge etc.....Meaning NO cute or normal makes will be accepted!!!!

We will be running fortnightly challenges, so plenty of time and opportunity for you all to enter.

The Challenge Blog owners, Erin and Fiona, have been working extremely hard securing us a list of AMAZING sponsors. These sponsors are not only providing the Design Team images to work with, but supplying their brilliant images as prizes for our challenges. 

The first challenge theme is 'ANYTHING GOES / SKULLS and we have two, yes TWO sponsors for this challenge. 

Our amazing sponsors for our first ever challenge is "DELICIOUS DARKNESS" and "LACY SUNSHINE"

http://deliciousdarkness2.blogspot.co.uk/

http://lacysunshine.weebly.com/lady-heathers-curiositiesmoppets.html

We had a choice of which sponsors images we wanted to work with....well as it was our first challenge I thought I would work with both....greedy I know, but who can blame me?!

Here is what I made using the Delicious Darkness Images - 

Make One

The backing has been sprayed with two different mica sprays. I have mounted the purple onto black card and added black peel off strips to the edges. A cut out cobweb was added and then flower/flourish black peel offs. 

 The main image on this card is the gorgeous Deadly Nightshade from Delicious Darkness. I coloured her with my WHSmiths Pencils. This image was so lovely to colour as you can add as little or as much colour as you want too. 

I added black peeloff strips to the edges and black flat backed gems to the corners. 

The skull stack is from Dilly Beans. I coloured these with the same penciles and then black glittered the eye sockets. 

Make Two

 I used a flat canvas. I covered this with mod podge mixed with purple distress ink. I stippled the mixture each time I added a layer. 

I then sprayed the surface with mica and ink spray mixes, stuck some cobweb diecuts on top and then sprayed it some more. 

I distressed the ends of the bow ribbon and glued this down with a feather and bead spray and put a gorgeous skeleton cameo on top. 

The image above is called 'Cranium Caresses from Delicious Darkness. 

I couloured her with the same colouring pencils. I added some glossy accents to parts of the image to make them stand out. I have to admit, I love the way the glossy accents works on this image. 

I sent this make to my wonderful friend Maureen Scott, who loves all things dark and has a collection of makes from the big names in dark crafting.... I wanted to add mine to it lol 

Here is what I made using the Lacy Sunshine Image - 

 The backing is a Kanban card stock that I mounted on deep red and then black card. 

I used another diecut cobweb, which was mounted on the same red, as was the image. I then used black lace around the image edge, and boy was that tricky for me..... 

 The above image is called 'Sadie' and is from Lacy Sunshine. She has been coloured with the same colouring pencils. I really enjoyed colouring her hair and dress as it gave me so much opportunity to practice my shading.

I finished the card off with large red roses, black flat backed gems, a feather, bead spray and another gorgeous cameo and finally diecut bats.

I hope you will help support this new Challenge Blog by popping over to the "A Step In The Dark" blog and join in with the Anything Goes/Skulls theme.... Remember, it has to be made in an alternative style, no cute and cuddly etc....

As always, thank you so much for visiting my blog and leaving such lovely comments....I hope you will still comment on this post, even if you hate the dark themes.... Thank You Lovelies

Left Of Center - Challenge #30

Welcome Lovely Bloggers, Crafters, Nosy Parkers and Friends lol It is always lovely when you pay my blog a visit.

Today see's the Mid-Way Inspiration for Challenge #30 - Spring Fling over on the

Left Of Center Creative Challenges Blog

Left Of Center Creative Challenges offer fortnightly challenges. We have a post at the start of the challenge and then a mid-way inspirational post a week later. 

We have a set theme, however if you choose to make something alternative/dark/gothic/punk etc then you can do an anything goes make. 

We have a HUGE amount of AMAZING sponsors and this Challenge is Sponsored by the very talented Delicious Doodles.

Challenge #30 launched a week ago , so this is just a little added inspiration to hopefully encourage you to join in with the fun. 

You don't have to make something alternative/dark etc, you can make what ever style you want, as long as it fits our themes. 

Left Of Center also has a facebook group, that we would love you to join. This group is to show your Left Of Center makes and chat to like minded crafty people

https://www.facebook.com/groups/366516863488820/

Well, here is what I made... The image is called Lilleth

I coloured the image with my WHSmiths colouring pencils. I tried to use as many brighter colours as possible. I backed the image and the textured lilac backing paper with a dark green card.
I coloured the image and sentiment a couple of times so I could cut out elements to decoupage for depth to the card.

The flowers I used a large embossing tool to round the petals to give these dimension and depth. I diecut some swirls and leave sprigs to allow the foliage theme to spill out onto the card. 

I LOVE the brightness to this card, and I think it represents spring perfectly. 

I hope you will all join the Spring Fling Challenge over on the Left Of Center Creative Challenges Blog....Remember, it doesn't have to be dark!!

Thank you for your constant support and encouragement