Which Witch?

Which Witch am I? The Challenge over at Haunted Design House poses this question.

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece

that represents YOU at your witchy best. Maybe you like to think
of yourself as the wicked step mother type witch, or maybe one
of the old crones who live by herself deep in the woods.
If you'd rather not represent yourself that way, you can just
choose your favorite witch of all time as use her as your muse.

I had to think on this one amid other projects I have been working on. I decided to use the image from Delicious Doodles - The Pumpkin Witch, teaming up with a background from Moonlight Journey. The witch coloured with promarkers. This is the top half. I made a hanging. I do need a bit more to decorate the walls of my crafty space. There is black webby ribbon with lace and velvet ribbon just because I like lace and velvet. The purple panel is embossed vellum, I have nothing to hide.

The whole thing has bits in there to represent me as I see me.
The dangly bit with the purple feathers, for the fluffy side of me, has a mix of beads in purple and black with a little skull spacer as well.
The black roses together with the purple thistle and white heather. (English displaced to Scotland).
The "saying" off centre, as I can be, was computer generated and a reminder that I shouldn't do and say just what is expected of me all the time.

The BP from Free Craft Downloads features an exotic black orchid mounted onto black. All edges slightly distressed, a bit frayed round the edges, hahaha - again just like me.

I am entering this into the challenge over at
Haunted Design House - Which Witch are YOU

Music

To Soothe The Soul. It's challenge day over at Delicious Doodles this week and that's the challenge this time around.
I'm a bit late getting this posted and I apologise to all. Been a bit of a rough day. Still, I'm back now!
I had a hard job just pinning this down to one song. Soooo many that I could have chosen. In the end I went for Sirenia's Fallen Angel.


A gatefold card. The image is, of course, From Delicious Doodles - Fallen. Coloured with promarkers and plenty of distress inks in black and purples.

The BP are a mix of sheet music from google printed onto purple and distressed further with black DI and some papermania I had in my stash. Inside and out have the same papers. Together with some lilac hammered card used for matting and the sentiment printed on inside. Some black lace and some feathers to represent wings. The flower and lilac feathers from Duck Pond Crafts. the black from stash.

Blogger is playing tricks again and not letting me upload a closeup of the image just right this min. but the cards, when clicked on, should let you see more.
Ok my lovelies, your turn to get those thinking caps on and crafty bits out, think of a song and show us your representation of it.

I'd like to enter this card into the challenges at
Creatalicious Challenges - Use Lace
Sparkles Forum - Things with Wings
Do You Stack Up - Things with Wings
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes
Flutterby Wednesdays - Open

She's one year old

A friend's granddaughter that is. Yes, a whole one year old. Seems like only 2 seconds ago she was just new born. Time is relative and so much has really happened in the last 12 months that the accelerator pedal seems to have been hard pressed down.
Any how, back to the card I have made to mark this milestone in a young girl's life.
Regular readers to my blog might be a bit surprised at this hehe.

Yes - it's pink! Lol It's a simple stepper card

The image is from Whoopsie Daisy. An image that has been stored on the pc and never printed before. Coloured with promarkers before cutting out with a nestie and inked before removing. Mounted onto a larger matt silver base. Some glossy accents added to the balloon.
The base card is pale pink and both lined and topped with a rainbow coloured paper. Two strips of a deeper pink paper next were edge punched. One attached to the card, the other on the "insert". Some pale pink sparkly organza type ribbon topped with a frilled pink ribbon across the bottom with a flower shape punched from the same matt silver then popped up a shiney silver "1" on that.
The sentiment was heat embossed onto the insert bit with a butterfly stamp that seems to have been made for this paper. An MS punched butterfly added in the corner with a tiny dab of stickles.
No gems, pearls or other little bits were added that could be swallowed if the little girl in question should get her hands on this.

A couple of challenges I'd like to enter this card into are
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Celebrations
Cardmad Fairy's Digi Days - Don't Be A Square
Card Making Mamas - Birthday

Black and Blue

Smudgy Antics Challenge Day folks as it's Monday. This week it's all about black and blue. interpret as you will.

Take this theme however you wish. Black and Blue can be your color scheme, use the words Black and Blue in your sentiment, or bruise up some "normal" stamped image, etc. The more wild and creative you can get, the better!
We like it edgy and dark around here so show us what you've got!

This week I made a card. A "simple" double easel card. In blue and black with a touch of black humour added.
On the left is an image from the "Smitten" set from Smeared Ink. Coloured with pencils.
I added some text to the paper being read. "Man late for own funeral" for those that can't read it and a little thought bubble.

The "stop" is a rubber stamped image of a perfume bottle (Wild Frog Creations) layered up with silicon and dipped in UTEE.
The other side is Smeared Ink's Death Cab, Hearse #3. Coloured with pencils.

Again cut out and cut up to make a 3-D image. The "stop" here is a circle with flowers added to make a wreath. a black organza bow added.

The base is just a length of edge punched black card stock onto the blue cs base.

Now it's your turn. After you've been and visited my friends we'd love to see your interpretation on our theme this week.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges
Always Crafting - Anything Goes
Paper Creations Ink - Show Us your Favorite Technique - Layering a stamped image to make 3-D
The Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes
The Corrosive Challenge - Another Dimension
Our Creative Corner - Over the Edge
Forever Night Challenges - Anything Goes

Wicked with Wings

The challenge over at Smudgy Antics this week is just that. I had a really bad cold last week, almost flu like, and my head wasn't thinking outside the box, as it normally does, when I started this project. I started by stamping Bo-Peep from Smeared Ink onto a piece of A4 card with a mind to mask and stamp the raven wings using DI from the "Quoth the Raven" set, again Smeared Ink.
The picture then grew from there. Ravens followed by the skellie sheep. Upside down as if the ravens were having dinner. Then the fence stamp from the same set - Killer Bo Peep's Garden. Some of the toadstools as well. Ok I could have gone on, masking and stamping, but it had to stop somewhere. A Wicked amount of masking! lol
I coloured all this with promarkers except the ravens that were dry brushed with DI (purple, green and grey) to lift from the matt black. The background was created using chalks and a finger to blend. I stamped the letters (alphabet sets) to make the words using stazon.
Then cut down the sheet and made into a wall hanging adding a couple of strips of TH iron fence die cut from vellum. Some green braid threaded through the eyelets.

Your turn.
Let's see those "Wicked with Wings" entries people.

I am entering this into the challenge over at
Haunted Design House - Garden of Good and Evil
Poisoned Peas - Freestyle

Sir Stampalot's feb challenge - in the Garden

Annabel Lee

Annabel Lee was the last complete poem written by the Master Author, Edgar Allan Poe. It tells of a love so great, that when an untimely death befalls the beautiful Annabel Lee, the narrator's fate is that of a living death.
My project this week is a "meander book" made the same size as an ATC. Each page has one of the six verses and a picture that, I think, fits that verse. So a lot of pics. Are you sitting comfy?
The front cover
Pics taken from Moonlight Journey's Annabel Lee callage sheet. A home made lace and ribbon flower and some blood red gems and black pearls from stash.
The jade green cs to depict the sea and black satin ribbons to tie - from stash. All pages have been ink distressed with "stormy sky" DI. Each page also has black textured paper stuck to them.
Page 1 The image is from MirrorCradle.
Coloured with promarkers with chalks for the sea and sky












Page 2 Features one of the Symbology of Angels from Smeared Ink.

Again coloured with promarkers with a background of chalk.









Page 3
The background again from Moonlight Journey. The lady is from Ikesart coloured again with promarkers with a Cherry Pie stamp of Poe himself heat embossed in clear.









Page 4
This picture from Moonlight Journey, I felt, needed no extra embellishment.











Page 5
Just 2 more images that match the melancholy but also joined as the two lovers are joined.











Page 6
The ghost of the narrator as his love lies in her sepulchre.
Soot stamped image of EA Poe from the Quoth the Raven Set from Smeared Ink.









Back Page
This is the same image as on page 3. This time layered up with silicon glue to form a 3-D image and then covered with UTEE
















Did you last this long?

I am entering this into the challenge over at
Quoth the Raven - Annabel Lee
Haunted Design House - Love Lies Bleeding - Figurativly taken

Pink - To make the boys wink?

Over at Delicious Doodles Challenges this week, it's a pink week. Now this is a colour that I find hard to work with for some unknown reason. I have to tell myself it's "pale red" lol.
I went for hot pink instead of the pastel shades. I was hoping to get a better picture but a friend of my son's wanted it as a valentine card for his g/f, so it's away.
I used the Emo Valentine Fairy and Bleeding Hearts images. Coloured with promarkers. The hearts were attacked with some glossy accents as well. Some hot orange cs edged with my drippy goo punch to co-ordinate with the hearts. Some pink glitter card for the die cut swirls. Some green lace and some prima flowers with a large brad to finish it off all from stash. And I couldn't forget a little skully charm now, could I?

That's about it, except to say, let's see those pink creations over at the Delicious Doodles Challenge blog. Don't forget to go and say hi and leave some love at the other members of the DT.

A couple of challenges I'd like to enter this into

By the Cute and Girly - Hearts