A Birthday card

A Steampunk birthday card that is. Just a little bit. Both the papers used are from a CD, MCS "playing with steampunk". The image is from Kenny K. The colouring and theme inspired by ForeverNight Challenges photo .



The sketch I used was at Cards & Things, turned on it's side.
First, the image.
Coloured with promarkers with just a touch of copper paint on the sword and goggles.
The sentiment was stamped rubber into a triple embossed, in copper, piece of card.

Cogs are from Tando and TH, all other embellies from stash.

I am entering this into the challenge over at
Cards and Things - Their Sketch
Forever Night - Photo Inspiration
The Crazy Challenge - Steampunk
Birthday Sundaes - Birthday card with a sentiment

The Black Cat

As per the E A Poe story. The quest this week, over at Quoth The Raven Challenge Blog is to create something that represents this fantastic tale.
So, after much musing, rejecting first one idea then another, I came up with this. I hope the master thinks it worthy.


Loads of little boxes. All stuck together as a wall. For those that don't know the story, Go read it here.
All the boxes are made from thick orange card and well daubed with distress ink to age them. some old gold findings forming the drawer handles.
On the back however is a very different story.
Hidden, as was the corpse of the narrator's wife.
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Picture taken from here. Attached to the back with mod podge then carefully cut to fit each drawer.
It was sitting straight but the pics make it look skewed now. Oh well.

I am entering this into the challenge at
Quoth The Raven - Oh, Poor Kitty

It's Monday

Therefore it has to be Smudgy Antics day. This week is an "Anything Goes" challenge. For my part I made a card. Using a slightly different from the norm way of with a rubber stamp. Terra, over at the Smeared and Smudged Forum has been showcasing a couple of different techniques using rubber stamps. This one was so super easy that I thought I'd use it for my DT piece this week. If you want to find out how to do this - you'll have to pay us a visit. The technique uses just water, a rubber stamp and toilet tissue. Oh, an d time.
I used the Earth Goddess from the elementals set.
The image went from
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with just a bit of water colour paint.
Is it me? - but like this the valleys look like the raised part!


I made a recess for the image as it is about 5mm deep and I wanted the edges to be protected.
The instuctions for this can be found here at Splitcoast Stampers.


I cut a frame from paper and using just an edge punch went round the edges. The offcut from doing the card were used down the sides. Some webby ribbon, die cut leaves and some dewdrops to finish. I followed the sketch from Midnight Madness for the layout.

Ok guys and gals - get your thinking caps on any come show us your crafty work.
The other DT members have got some awesome pieces to show as well so don't forget to go and see their work.

A couple of challenges I am entering into
Midnight Madness - Their Sketch # 136
That Craft Place - Anything Goes
Crazy for Challenges - Fun Folds

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