Let's Ink It Up Challenge #5 Scene It!

Hi everyone, hope you enjoyed Strictly Come Dancing!!!! Who's your favourite? Sorry I know this is only relevant to those who live in the UK but I love watching.
So on to the next challenge at Let's Ink It Up and we would like to see you Make A Scene - this can be interpreted any way you like. BUT you must remember to use stamps only.

Our sponsor this time is Tickled Pink Stamps who are offering a prize of $10

 "Tickled Pink Stamps is based in Australia and is the home of the Lil Lolita and Lil Lads Stamps. They are everything quirky and sweet all in the one stamp and perfect for any occasion. Tickled Pink Stamps also has a range of sentiments and images to match with the gorgeous Lil Lolita and Lil Lads ranges. With new images coming all the time there is always something there to suit everyone and help bring out the quirky in us all...."

So here is my creation .............................

.........................without the ribbon...........................

............so where is the scene?.....here.........

.................and here..............

(If you click on any of the photos you can see a larger image).

I really look forward to seeing your scenes.

I am entering this in the following challenges:-

C.R.A.F.T Challenge - Spooky,

Dutch Dare - Halloween or Purple, Black Orange and Green,

Meljens Challenge - Anything Goes,

Paper Cutz Challenge - Halloween plus circle,

Raise the Bar - Black, Orange and Purple,

Magical Monday Challenge - Halloween plus a magical character (my witch),

My Time To Craft - Halloween,

Kaboodle Doodles - Batty,

Fab 'n' Funky - Things that go bump,

Sisterhood of Crafters - Boorific!,

Stamp With Fun - Halloween,

Little Paper Shop - Glitter (on the cobwebs and witches belt),

Ooh La La - Scary Stuff,

Crazy Challenge - Halloween and

Creative Inspirations - Spooky.

Ingredients

Images and Sentiment:- Elusive Images Witching Time and Spookylicious stamp sets. Belles and Whistles Little Witch with Broom
Papers:- Bearly Mine Designs Halloween papers, Glitter sheet silver and black (punched bats) from Craftime, Silver miricard for matts. 
Tools:- Time Holtz Distress tool, Spellbinders Labels Seven and Eight, Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Dusty Concord and Black Soot. Purple glitter glue
Medium:- Watercolour crayons
Other:- Ribbon from stash, bat punch

Spectacular candy

No card tonight but a massive candy shout out for Stacy who is offering a mega Tim Holtz candy - you reallly should check it out - or maybe not then I have a better chance of winning!!!!!
You have until 31st October 2010 to play so off you go!!!

Hugs and Good Luck

Have a MICE Halloween!!

So do you think I like Halloween or is it just the stamps!!!! I was determined to use these this year - I ordered them last year as part of a win at Simon Says Stamp but they didn't arrive in time for Halloween then. They are the House Mouse Halloween set. I have coloured the three mice with watercolour crayons. The sentiment is from a more recent purchase from ebay but SSS has them in stock - Inkadinkadoo All Hallows Eve. I separated the sentiment and inked around the edges using Tim Holtz distress inks - Scattered Straw and Tea Dye. Here is a closup........................

The background paper is from my latest find - Bearly Mine Designs - her papers are so sharp. I have used my Spellbinders Nestabilities Large Labels and Labels 8, which has been glittered with gold.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:-

Something Completely Different - Black and Orange,

Stampin' Bs Design - Fall Colours,

Creative Belli Challenge - Pumpkin and optional sketch,

Cute Card Thursday - What's Buggin You?,

Everybody Art Challenge - Halloween,

Lots To Do - Plain and Simple,

Penny's Challenge - So long as it flies,

Polka Doodles - Something Spooky,

Tuesday Taggers - More than 2 legs and,

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge - Monochrome.

Let me know what you think.

Hugs

Spookylicious

Good afternoon everyone, hope you are all OK. Firstly, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who made suggestions about dealing with a 4 year old who won't sleep through.  She is getting slowly better and I know in time all will be well.

I found a fabulous place for papers and she is giving away the ones I used in my card - Bearly Mine Designs - you must check it out.

I have used the shown below from Sketch Saturday..................

...................and here is a closeup of my card............

The image of the witch, the two bats and the small tag sentiment are from Penny Black. I have used water colour crayons for the main image and TH Distress Ink - Black Soot for the bats.

The "Spookylicious" sentiment is from an Inkadinkadoo set. It has been cut out with my deckle edge scissors and inked around th eedges with TH Distress Inks - Tea Dye and Scattered Straw as has the tag. I have added fibres to the tag in purple, orange and green. The buttons are from the Papermania Capsule collection.

I am entering the following challenges:-

All the following have Halloween challenges

Stampin' for the Weekend,  Moving Along with the Times, The Creative Cottage Challenge,  Crafts and Me,

By the Cute and Girly,  Stamping Magic,  Aly's Sunday Challenge,  Stamp Something.

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Bling,

Sentimental Sundays - Tag and sentiment,

Cupcake Craft Challenge - Scary Creatures,

Tuesday Taggers - More than 2 legs,

Craftalicious Challenge and Paper Cutz - Anything Goes,

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - Inked and edge distressing,

The Wild Flower Patch - Black, Orange and Green.

Sketch Saturday

Penny Black Saturday - Two or more Penny Black stamps and,

Meljens Design - Tag It!

Please leave me a message so I know you have visited, your comments mean everything to me.

Hugs

Aud Sentiments Challenge #13

Welcome to another challenge at Aud Sentiments, I can't believe we are on number 13 already. Thank you so much to everyone who joined in with the Halloween challenge - you obviously enjoyed it. Check out the challenge blog to see who won.

We are sponsored this fortnight by Revi Devi and we were allowed to use the Baby Boy and Baby Girl kits.

So any guesses what the challenge is? Use any New Baby sentiment - easy peasy.

Anyway I made a bit of a project to show off some of the digis..............

..................and on to the inside pages - the frames are blank for the recipient to put photos in...............

(you can click on any photo for a larger image)

......................and finally....................

 ....phew so what do you think? I did some paper piecing on the digi images to match in with the papers.
The stars have been coloured with Sakura stardust pens. The papers are from a Funky Hand CD called Funky Word Books it makes things so easy.

Please check out my team mates for some more inspiration - their links on on my left sidebar.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

I shall also enter this in the following challenges:-

Totally Gorjuss - Not a Square,

Marks Finest Paper - Stripes,

Craft Your Days Away - Babies,

Sentimental Sundays - Tag It and,

One Stitch At A Time - Use Digi Stamps.

Summertime Designs "A kit for Easton"

I have been a big fan of Summer Driggs for nearly a year now, she makes fantastic kits and just gives them away.
Her latest kit however, is something a bit special and very touching. The picture is of a dearly cherished child called Easton - he has had a rough first few months of his life and it is not over yet. His family have been to hell and back having recently lost Eastons brother.

Summer has designed the kit to help raise money for the family as the debts are rising and unfortunately the USA doesn't have anything like the NHS - we are so lucky here in the UK.

So please have a look at the kit here and if you can leave a donation - every little bit helps.

Thank you for reading this.

Bizzy Becs has a new store............

..........................and she is offering all this candy - check out her new store here for your chance to win.

Hugs

Let's Ink It Up Challenge #4 Halloween Colours

Another fortnight has flown by and here we are again with our 4th Challenge at Let's Ink It Up I can't believe how quickly this is going. Thank you to everyone who played along with their favourite stamps. Another difficult decision for our top three and we also had lots of fantastic entries for our new DT - thank you everyone.
Our sponsor for this fortnight is........................Bizzy Becs

.........and the Prize is a Goodie Package valued at $15.00 (Will be made up to suit winners taste).

Bec says, Bizzy Becs sells a wide variety of products that suit all cardmakers. Gorgeous rubber stamps, including Bizzy Becs Stamps, Magnolia, Bildmalarna, Whiff of Joy to name but a few, Copics, Spellbinders, Cuttlebug and lots of embellishments and other yummy goodies………

So what do we want you to do this week?

HALLOWEEN COLOURS .... so it doesn't have to be a Halloween card - STAMPS ONLY REMEMBER!!

Here is my card.........................

...........and the closeup...........

Now I must say that I have taken some inspiration from a fellow crafter with the colouring. She is called Phree and her blog is Ink Stain Suirvivor some of you may know her as she does WOYWDW. When I purchased the Spookylicious set from Elusive Images I got a few inspiration leaflets too and one of Phree's cards was there. I have nowhere near matched her example but I thought the effect with the green surrounding the house was really spooky. The spider paper was torn from a book and distressed to within an inch of its life!!!! Glimmer mist and Distress inks and scrunching up and tearing were involved and I loved it!!

Please visit my team mates and get some more inspiration their links are on my sidebar. I would also like to wish a warm welcome to our new team mates - Benedicte, Joanna and Shirley.

I am also entering this card in the following challenges:-

Simon Says - Halloween,

Ooh La La Challenge - No flowers,

Meljens Design Challenge - Halloweeny,

Saturday Challenge - Distressing,

Stamp Magic - Halloween,

Easy Craft Projects - Halloween and,

Fussy and Fancy Friday - Halloween.

Ingredients

Images:- House Spookylicious set Elusive Images, Spider and cobweb All Hallows Eve Inkadinkadoo.
Medium:- Inktense watercolour crayons
Tools:- Distress Inks Dusty Concord and Black Soot, Pearl Glimmer Mist.

A Spooky Layout

(Click on the picture for a larger view)

Hi everyone, hope you are all well. I don't like to moan but I have had a really horrible day and I hate to say it's because of my little Dragonlette - she will not sleep through and I NEED SOME SLEEP!!!! She was up on and off from 3.30am onwards and I just find it impossible to get back to sleep after being disturbed. I went through a rather wobbly period of saying I was leaving and going to give up blogging etc etc...... but I'm not as I feel a bit better tonight. So now I have got that off my chest on to my layout.
I find using Digital Scrapbook Artist 2 really relaxing and fun. So I decided to check out some of the layout sketches and picked this one from StuckOnUSketches........

..............which I thought was rather fun.

I chose some pictures I had taken last year of my first cake ................yes you read right............first cake.......mainly because if they are in the house they get eaten!!!!!! Anyway my eldest daughter wanted a Halloween party - ideal opportunity to make a cake and not eat it I thought!!!

So there are a couple of challenges I would like to enter with this layout......

Moving Along With The Times - Anything but a card,

Shirley 2 Girls - Scary plus the word Boo,

Meljens Design Challenge - Halloweeny,

Simon Says - Halloween,

The Crafty Pad, I Did It Creations, One Stitch At A time and Lexi's Creations - all have a Spooky theme.

Please let me know what you think and also if you have any tips for getting a 4 year old to sleep through that would be fantastic.

Hugs

Totally Tilda Midway reminder for Challenge #6 "Glitter and Sparkle"

Good morning everyone and welcome to your midweek reminder for Totally Tilda - yes darling Susie of Die Cut Dreams asked me to Guest again - no stopping me there then!!! The current challenge is "Glitter and Sparkle" with a Tilda stamp - a marriage made in heaven don't you think.

Here is my creation......................

and here are a couple of close ups for your viewing pleasure!!!

.......................and.....................

Another sidestepper, but it just works so well - I think. The paper behind Tilda was made using an old book page, Tim Holtz distress ink - Worn Lipstick and Pearl Glimmer Mist oh and a bit of tearing!!!

The Princess castle and sentiment is from a Crafters Companion CDRom - "Boys and Girls".  

I finally managed to get the flowers organised at the bottom - hard work though.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:-

Stampavie and More - More than one fold,

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Embellish it - more than three flowers,

The Creative Cottage - Bling It On,

Crafty Catz - Birthday for child plus sparkle,

Just Magnolia - Monthly Anything Goes

Polka Doodles - Fancy folds

Thank you for popping by, hope you left me a comment.

Ingredients

Images:- Magnolia Princess Tilda Castle and Sentiment Crafters Companion Boys and Girls CD Rom
Medium:- Sakura Stardust gel pens
Tools:- Tim Holtz distress ink - Worn Lipstick, Spellbinders Labels 8
Other:- Pearl Glimmer mist, Diamond sparkles, pink gems, Flowers from Wild Orchid