3 of a Kind at Crafting by Designs

Good morning! Time for a new challenge at Crafting by Designs. This week I've used an image from Ike's Art - one of our sponsors for our "3 of a Kind" challenge! My image is called 'My Angel' and I've coloured it with promarkers.

I've used papers and matching die cut flowers and sentiment from Craftwork Cards and lots of threes - 3 papers, 3 panels, 3 flowers, 3 candi and then the image/senti/doily make 3!

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

12 Days of Creepmas Day 1 with PunkYouGirl

Good Morning December! Cannot believe how fast the year has flown by and here we are now on the first of December and time for the 12 Days of Creepmas! This is a bloghop run by the girls at Smeared Ink and I will taking part this year. Check out the Blog Roll which will be on the right side bar for the duration of the hop. If you have just arrived at me and want to see what it's all about visit Terra (the hostess) at More Smeared Ink and follow the rules you could win some prizes! If you are hopping, Teresa is next!

My first post today for the First Day of Creepmas is also my post for PunkyouGirl. We are sponsored this month by Stitchy Bear Stamps and I've used the 'Scary Clown' image by Ike's Art available in the Stitchy Store.

I have made a 4x4" Chunky Page to add to my collection and used holographic red card for the base. I've coloured my clown with Promarkers, popped a Santa hat on him from The Octopode Factory. The sentiment is from Create with TLC and some card candi finishes off the page.
Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

November Challenge at PunkyouGirl - POE!

New month, new challenge at PunkyouGirl. This month we are sponsored by Ike's Art and the theme is Anything Poes! That is - we want you to create something with an Edgar Allan Poe theme or Dark Themed Anything Goes. Remembering that PYG is a dark crafting blog so we hope you will stick to that - nothing cutesy!

I have used the image 'Poe Raven' printed him quite large and fussy cut. I have also used the freebie Poe Paper from Ike's Art and coloured it with Distress Stain in Fired Brick - adding some splodges too. The wording is from the Quoth the Raven rubber set at Smeared Ink].

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

31 DOH Day #28 and Ike's World Challenge 'Trick or Treat'

Welcome to Day #28 of 31 Days of Halloween! Thank you for all the wonderful comments! You can find the blog roll in my side bar. Your first stop on the hop is Terra, you should have come to me from Lyneen, and your next stop is Rebecca. Remember to comment on all the blogs on the hop for a chance to win at the end of the month and keep in mind the Scavenger Hunt for daily prizes!

Why not check out the LOC DT Call too - we're looking for several new DT and I am thrilled that some of the 31DOH Wicked bloggers have linked up! Click here for more info.

Today is also the launch of a new challenge at Ike's Art so I've combined my 31DOH Project with 'Trick or Treat' at Ike's World Challenges. I have used the pre-coloured 'Daemon', fussy cut and mounted on black. The background was made with Fired Brick Distress Stain and water spritzed onto a craft mat and a 'print' taken - the 'blood' then allowed to drip and dry! The 'Spooky Night' is a Silhouette Cut File and the web a stamp from Crafty Stamps.

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

31 DOH Day #22 and A Step in the Dark News

Welcome to Day #22 of 31 Days of Halloween! I hope are enjoying the hop! You can find the blog roll in my side bar. Your first stop on the hop is Terra, you should have come to me from Lyneen, and your next stop is Rebecca. Remember to comment on all the blogs on the hop for a chance to win at the end of the month and keep in mind the Scavenger Hunt for daily prizes!

Today would be the start of a new challenge at A Step in the Dark sponsored by Ike's Art and Smeared Ink, however, with life being as it is, the decision has been made by the management to temporarily close the challenge, hopefully we will return in the new year.

For my project today, I have used the pre-coloured 'Face-Off' image from Ike's Art for this first card. My DP is from Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells and An Eerie Tale. I have used the Martha Stewart Drippy Goo punch for the top and bottom borders and the viewfinder is a file by Sarah Hurley at the Silhouette Store. I have finished with a sentiment from Create with TLC and some candi.

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Ike's World Challenges #24 - Think Pink

Good morning! I'll be back again in a couple of hours for today's 31DOH post, hope you can join me then!

For now, we have a new challenge starting today at Ike's World Challenges! The theme for the fortnight is 'Think Pink'. I have used Ike's Awareness image and coloured her with Promarkers and mounted her on black card to stand out. The papers and sentiment are from Craftwork Cards Mini Mania collection. I've finished with some self adhesive black pearls.

Thanks for looking! I hope you will join us this fortnight - there's freebie for your there too!
Mo xxx

31 DOH Day #8 & Crafting By Designs 'Boo, You Scare Me' challenge!

Welcome to Day #8 of 31 Days of Halloween! I hope you enjoyed hopping yesterday! You can find the blog roll in my side bar. Your first stop on the hop is Terra, you should have come to me from Lyneen, and your next stop is Rebecca. Remember to comment on all the blogs on the hop for a chance to win at the end of the month and keep in mind the Scavenger Hunt for daily prizes!

Today is also the start of a new challenge at Crafting By Designs - one that I think a lot of the 31DOH bloggers/hoppers will enjoy! The theme is 'Boo, You Scare Me!' and our sponsor this week is Stitchy Bear Stamps. I have used a fabulous pre-coloured 'Demon' image by Ike's Art from the Stitchy store.

I have used DP from Delicious Doodles and some Martha Stewart web vellum. The top border is the Martha Stewart Drippy Goo Punch. The Sentiment is from Create with TLC. And I have finished the card with some rolled roses and a spider all cut from files at the Silhouette Store.

I will enter this in the following challenges -
Deliciously Dark Challenge - #2 Anything Goes/Gothic (bit of both? lol)
Your Scrapbook Place - Halloween
Creative Cutting Challenge - Halloween
Eureka Stamps - #109 Frightfully Delightful
House of Cards Challenge Blog - Use Dies and/or Punches (I used both)
My Craft Spot - #154 Trick or Treat
My Craft Creations - Always AG
Creative Card Crew - #72 Black Cardstock (for matting and die cuts)
Aud Sentiments - #117 Anything Goes

Eclectic Ellapu - Pink Challenge Flowers (rolled roses)

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Ike's Art New Release Blog Hop

DAY #3 OF 31DOH - CLICK HERE!

Ike's Art is releasing an amazing bunch of Zombie images.... but not your regular zombies.... most of these are otherwise cute little animals! There are 16 new images and if you hop along with us you'll see what the Design Team have created with some of them for this release.

 Here's the blog roll! You might have come to me from Shell, you could pop back to BD to start or hop on from here to Samara!
You can also see the previews of the new images over at the Ike's World Challenges Blog!

IKES WORLD CHALLENGES

IKE

BLACK DRAGON

SHELL

MAUREEN - you are here!

SAMARA

TERESA

MIMI JANE

GINNY

SHONI

CHRISTINE

SALL

JANE O

I have used the Zombie Cat, Zombie Frog and Zombie Parrot. I put together the frog card first and printed up the sentiment on the computer.... then released later that the sentiment worked even better with the parrot.... take a look, I hope it makes you chuckle!

My images are all coloured with Promarkers. This Frog card uses papers from Chillingsworth Manor by Echo Park and some Candi to finish.

'The Squawking Dead' card - I giggle every time I think of that! - uses papers from Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells and An Eerie Tale pads. The borders are cut using the Cameo.

And finally the cat card uses paper also from Chillingsworth Manor by Echo Park, the Drippy Goo punch from Martha Stewart and a graveyard scene cut on the Cameo.

Thanks for looking!

Mo xxx

Ike's World Challenges #23 - Around the World

Ike's World Challenges new theme for the fortnight is 'Around the World'. We'd love to see your creations taking inspiration from other countries.

I have used the 'Spanish Dancer' from Ike's Art and coloured in her using Promarkers and a black pencil. I fussy cut and mounted her on black card. The papers are from Craftwork Cards brand new 'JukeBox' paper pad and the sentiment and candi are also Craftwork Cards.

I will enter this in the following challenges -
Die Sketchtanten - Challenge #1 (I have flipped the sketch)
Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Ike's World Challenges #22 Feathered Friends

Morning folks! This post is a bit on the late side but here nonetheless! It's time for a new challenge at Ike's World Challenges - #22 Feathered Friends. Pop over to the blog to see the winners from the last challenge and pick up a 'Freebie' for the new challenge!

I have used the image 'Poe Bust' which has a fabulous Raven on it's head! He's my 'feathered friend' for this project and I've gone Halloween-y with this one.

The papers are from Echo Park's Apothecary Emporium and I've used a sentiment from Create with TLC. I've finished the card with black organza and card candi.

I will enter this in the following challenges:
Quoth The Raven - Tic, Tac, Poe (Center horizontal - Raven, Poe, Black)

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Anything Goes with Ike's World Challenges

Happy Tuesday folks! I am delighted to announce that I am now on the Ike's World Challenges Design Team and am thrilled to bits to be working closely with Ike and her fabulous team! So much talent and friendly familiar faces! We have our first challenge as a new team following the summer break starting today - Anything Goes. In order to win a prize you have to use an image from Ike's Art and there's usually a freebie on the blog if you pop over for a look!

I have used one of my favourite Ike's Art images for this first challenge - Alice. I have coloured her with promarkers and mounted her on black card. The blue DP is from Lily of the Valley and I've embossed some blue core Black Magic Core'dinations. The Embossing folder is 'Tea Party' from Couture Creations. I've finished with a sentiment and candi from Craftwork Cards and white organza bow.

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Challenge #39 at Left of Center... It's Christmas!!!

I hope you are enjoying our weekly challenges at Left of Center!!!
This week we have the fabulous Ike's Art sponsoring us and it's Christmas time!!! Or Creepmas time if you prefer!

I have used the Christmas Pixie image and coloured her with Promarkers. The papers are from My Mind's Eye. The sentiment and candi are from Craftwork Cards. The die is the Memory Box LaRue Flourish.

I will enter this card in the following challenges:

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Challenge #6 - A Step in the Dark - Anything Goes/Use Metal

Welcome to another challenge at A Step in the Dark! The theme this time is Anything Goes or 'Use a bit of Metal'. I'm delighted to be showing you a card today made with an image from Ike's Art - our sponsor! This is a special image to me as a very dear friend won it but arranged with the artist to have it gifted to me instead of her! This is Robot 1 and I have coloured her with Promarkers as always! The patterned paper is from Prima and I've layered it with black pearlescent paper and finished the card with silver Candi. The embossed part is aluminium plumbers tape over card. This was embossed with a Tim Holtz Sizzix embossing folder and then some Adirondak Alcohol inks rubbed into it - Lettuce, Aubergine and Meadow.

Thanks for looking and I hope you can join us!
Mo xxx

A couple of challenges!

Just a quick post from me with a couple of makes for some challenges!
Firstly I have finally gotten around to using the amazing 'Quoth the Raven' Rubber Stamp set from Smeared Ink! This was a prize that I won a few months back and I have used it to make a couple of ATCs. These are for a swap at the Smudged and Smeared forum and I will be using the theme 'A bunch of Poesies' from the current Quoth The Raven Challenge blog and I will be entering the challenge there.

I have used papers from Echo Park's Apothecary Emporium with ravens on candlesticks! The writing down the right side of the atc is a quote from 'The Raven' stamped in black Archival and clear embossed. The 'Quoth the Raven, Nevermore' was stamped with Versamark onto black pearlescent paper and heat embossed using white detail powder. The flowers are from my stash and the edges inked with Black Soot.


My next project is a Tag! This is for the current Ike's World Challenge theme 'Monochrome'. It's also for a tag swap at the Ike's Art Facebook group and will be winging it's way to Dubai just shortly!

I have used the 'Alice' image from Ike's Art and coloured her with promarkers and lavender Stickles. I have used purple pearlescent paper and lilac card - the card is embossed with the Darice 'Tea Party' embossing folder. The flowers are from Sweet Lilac and have been sprayed with purple Dylusions ink spray to match the monochrome look. The lace edges are from an xcut Lace border punch.

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

At The Movies with Ike's Art for Left of Center

We are off to the Movies at Left of Center and you have one week left to get your projects into the challenge. Our sponsors for this one are The Stamping Chef and Ike's Art and I have created a project today using 'Cognitive Thoughts' from Ike's Art.

I have coloured this image with promarkers and edged the image with Black Soot DI. The papers I've used for the card are from the Graphic 45 Steampunk Spells 8x8 and 6x6 paper pads. I have used the Tim Holtz Weathered Clock die for a bit of texture and finished the card with a bouquet of flowers - the large orange one is from Sweet Lilac and the others from my stash.

I will enter this card into the following challenges:
A Step in the Dark - #3 Anything Goes
Craftitude - #67 Use Flowers and/or Lace
Sister Act Card Challenge - #61 Anything Goes
Stampin For the Weekend - Anything Goes
The Stamping Boutique - #21 Flower Embellishment

I would also like to invite you to join me over at Lisa Tyrell's blog - Pinky Lisa's Inky Crafts! The Lovely Lisa, who is on the LOC Crew, has some fabulous blog candy up for grabs and I'd love to see you join in!

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Ike's Art card for PunkyouGirl and Left of Center!

Well, you know I dont normally double up my DT projects but it just so happens that the fabulous Ike's Art are sponsoring this month's PunkyouGirl challenge And.... Stitchy Bear Stamps who stock Ike's Art, are sponsoring Left of Center!

The theme at PunkyouGirl is 'Sexy/Steamy'. The theme at LOC is 'At the Movies' or Anything Goes LOC style. I have used the Long Tall Sally Coloured image and a sentiment from Ginger's House Sentiments. The card blank was inked with Peacock Feathers and Picked Raspberry Distress Inks. I used the Dutch Doobadoo star stencil and Black Soot DI to make the pattern and finished by adding Black Soot around the edges too. I then simply mounted the image and sentiment and finished with a black organza bow.

I will enter this in the following challenges:
Ikes World Challenge - #18 Song/Film - Lucy Lui as a dominatrix in Payback!
A Step in the Dark - #3 Anything Goes

Thanks for looking! I hope you'll join us at these challenges this month - pop over and see what the rest of the teams have to inspire you!
Mo xxx

Friendship Challenge at Love to Create

Time for a new challenge at Love to Create today and the theme is 'Friendship'. We are sponsored by Stitchy Bear Stamps who supply a vast range of digital images and papers. They also carry images from other designers including some of my favourites. I was glad to be able to use one of the set of 4 Shoe images designed by Ike's Art and I've gone with the skeleton hand shoe!!

I've used a 6x6 scalloped square card, tinting the edges with Fired Brick Distress Ink and layering up black pearlescent paper with some DP. The spotty paper was DCWV and black and white but I coloured it with the same DI. The top patterned card is Kanban. I coloured the image with Promarkers in Cool Greys and Black. The sentiment was printed from the pc and die cut.

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Tickled Pink!

Two of my favourite challenge blogs/digi artists - Ike's Art and Delicious Doodles - are going pink this fortnight for Breast Cancer Awareness! I figured I'd best join in!

I have used the 'Vaguely Goth' image from Ike's Art and the Awareness Ribbon which is from a freebie 'Awareness' set from Delicious Doodles. The challenges on both blogs are to go Pink... which is so not like me!! I usually colour this image with purple hair and lots of black as the name suggests but even she is sporting some pink eyeshadow and lipstick for the occasion, having dyed her hair all shades of Promarker Pinks!

I've used freebie papers from a crafty mag. The picket fence die from Memory Box and the frame is Spellbinders. I have used the current sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday2 so will be entering my card in their challenge too!

Challenges -
Ike's World Challenge - Tickled Pink - winner!
Delicious Doodles - Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness - spotlight
Sweet Sketch Wednesday2 - Sketch #011 - Top3!!!
Crafting Musketeers - #12 Monochrome

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Fairy Tales Gone Bad!

Ok, I dont normally double up my DT projects but this is a special one!
Firstly - It's time for a new challenge at PunkyouGirl! This is a dark themed challenge, so nothing girly and frilly and frou frou! The theme this month is 'Fairy Tales Gone Bad'! I'm not sure if Alice in Wonderland counts as a fairy tale but I have taken the iconic Alice image and used Ike's Art's version and turned her into a deadly, murdering, zombie type creature! I've die cut her with some purple dp from Kaisercraft, popped her onto a 3.5" x2.5" purple card to create an ATC. I coloured her with Promarkers and then I blew really hard across the thick end of a crimson promarker to create an airbrush blood splatter effect over the image! This is finished with some black pearls, a handwritten sentiment. It's also my effort for the new ATC swap over at the Ike's Art Facebook Fan Page if you want to join in!

And secondly, we have an Anything Goes Anniversary Celebration Challenge starting today at Left of Center - this is over and above our current Die Cuts challenge - and you are welcome to enter both with the same creation! Have a look at the rules page and check out our fabulous sponsors including the awesome Ike's Art!


Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx

Die Cuts Challenge at Left of Center and Anniversary Announcement!

The current challenge at Left of Center has another week to run and the theme is Die Cuts! We have two fabulous sponsors - Ike's Art and The Stamping Chef. I have used 'Sexy Steampunk' from Ike's Art and created a tag! This serves dual purpose! I signed up for a 'Tag Swap' at Ike's Art and so this will be sent to my swappee!

I embossed a kraft tag with a Tim Holtz Texture Fades cog folder and used Dusty Concord and Black Soot distress inks to highlight the texture. The image is coloured with promarkers and fussy cut. My die cuts are all cut from black and purple pearlescent paper - these are a large Tim Holtz cog, XCut small cogs and some Marianne Creatables chinese roses. I've layered these up, added purple and stardust Stickles in places, a black organza ribbon and a couple of black head pins.

I really hope you like it and you can join our Die Cuts challenge!

We also have some fabulous news over at LOC today - It is our first anniversary and we are celebrating with a huge 'Anything Goes' Anniversary Challenge!! We have 11 sponsors on board with fab digi prizes to be won so why not enter your die cut creations there too!

Thanks for looking!
Mo xxx