LOC #102 - Halloween

Happy Halloween! It's time for another spooky challenge over at Left of Center Challenges. This week's theme is Halloween and our sponsor is Delicious Doodles. 

I used Pumpkin Pestilence and colored with pencils. 

This image is pretty awesome so I didn't do much else with the card, just mounted on some black CS and added a touch of purple glitter glue to the corners. This was so fun to color!

Make sure to head over to the LOC blog to check out what the DT have created for you and of course the Delicious Doodles shop.

LOC #47 - Fairy Tales

This weeks challege at Left of Center Challenges is Fariy Tales and our sponsor is Delicious Doodles.  I've used Eva The Witch.  I've colored her cloak red so she looks like Little Red Riding Hood.  I think this is one gal that the big bad wolf would not want to mess with.

After coloring her with pencils I cut her out and added to a mini journal page.  I used a Tim Holtz stencil called Shatter and sprayed with Black Marble Dylusions ink. I added a spider sticker for a little bit of sparkle.
Stop by the challenge blog to find out what other fairy tales the DT team have decided to share this week.

PYG #16 What Creeps Under The Sea

Hello my crafty friends!
This month's challenge over at Punk You Girl Challenges is "what creeps under the sea".  Our wonderful sponsor is Stitchy Bear Stamps.

Please head over to the PYG Challenge blog to see what the DT has created and then join us at in  creating something that "creeps under the sea.

Happy Stamping!

LOC # 35 - Fairys

It's time for a new challenge over at Left of Center Challenges.  If you've stopped by the blog lately you probably already know but we are going weekly challenges! How fun is that?!?  This weeks theme is "fairys" and our amazing sponsor this time around is Delicious Doodles.  I chose to work with Mushroom Fairy.

I decided to go with more earth tone mushroom colors for this fairy and my card. I've colored her with pencils and then cut her out to put onto my card.  I started with kraft colored cardstock and some neutral colored flower paper from my stash. I added some washi tape at the top... I couldn't avoid the glare on it :(
Anyway I hope you check out ll the DT creations at LOC and then share your own fairy artwork with us.

PunkYouGirl - Things with Wings

It's midway reminder time at the PunkYouGirl blog for the Things with Wings Challenge.  Our amazing sponsor is Delicious Doodles.

I have made a fat page using Ivy Fairy. I've colored her with pencils and then cut her out. I added some glitter glue to her wings for sparkle.  The background I created with a few of my Glimmer Mist spray inks and the fence is a new purchase - Spellbinders Wrought Iron die.

We would love to see your "Things with Wings", please hop over to join us at PunkYouGirl Challenges.

LOC # 30 - Spring Fling

Hello my friends! This week at Left of Center Challenges we are celebrating Spring with the theme 'Spring Fling'.  I was lucky enough to get to play with this image from Delicious Doodles, our sponsor for this challenge.

This is Fairy Fae, isn't she lovely. I've colored her and her butterfly friends with pencils and then added a bit of glitter to their wings. I think Spring is my favorite season, however here in Arizona it only lasts about a week. We are already hitting the 90's here and it's only April!
I can't wait to see your beautiful springtime creations, make sure to join in the fun with us at LOC. We have fabulous sponsors and prizes for every challenge.

PunkYouGirl - Lavish Lace

Hello Friends! I'm so excited to share the news that I've joined the PunkYouGirl DT! This is my first post as a member of the design team and our theme for the challenge is 'lavish lace', we want to see you use some lace on your creations. Our sponsor for this challenge is Stitchy Bear. They have so many different stamps to choose from you have to hop of over to check them out.
For my first contribution on the DT I have used La Llorona (The Weeping Woman).

The image is so amazingly shaded I just barely added a bit of color to it using colored pencils. I started with a white CS base and used the Tim Holtz Doily tag stencil and black soot distress ink to create my lace background.  I used a new die cut I just got a few weeks ago when a stamp convention came to town (so much fun!) and at the moment I can't remember who it's from. But I used it to cut out 2 pieces of white CS and used the same black soot distress ink to color it up and added it across the front of my card. 

You should see the wonderful creations that the DT have come up with. Head on over to the PunkYouGirl Challenge Blog and then find some lace in your stash and join in on the fun. 

LOC #27 = Favorite Books

There's another brand new challenge over at the Left of Center Challenges blog today, the theme is 'Favorite Books'.  Our wonderful sponsor this time around is Delicious Doodles.  I decided to do a journal page for this one.

Once it popped into my head what I wanted to do I went to figure out which journal I wanted to play in. the very first one I went to I found an older Poe project which you can see here.  And just by a happy chance the neighboring page was blank. Of course now that I'm typing I realize I didn't take a full picture of both pages together, ug.(will have to do that once there is enough sunlight to take a good picture) Anyway I used the same watercolor crayons to make the background similar to the first page. I have a tree stencil that I sprayed with ink and carefully put down on the page but it was still wet from the water color crayons that it just kind of blobbed everywhere. So I blotted with a paper towel. It doesn't look like I first envisioned but I think that it turned out pretty cool. The fabulous Raven image from Delicious Doodles really didn't need much coloring done. I lightly filled in some areas with colored pencils (lilac and silver). Then cut it out to add to my page.  The title I stamped with some older alpha stamps from CTMH. Then I added some random dots over both pages with metallic sharpies and a white paint pen.
What are you waiting for, create a project of your favorite book or story and join in the fun at LOC. We are still celebrating our first anniversary too so we have an 'Anything Goes' challenge happening all month long. Plus we have a new FB page we would love to see you there!

Happy Crafting

LOC Challenge #15

Welcome back my friends! We have a new challenge over at Left of Center Challenges, this time around you need to include some element of water in your creations.
Our generous sponsor this week is Delicious Doodles and we all got to pick a mermaid to play with. :)  For my creation I've used Unchained Melody.

I've used colored pencils on my image and a couple shades of blue CS and blue ink to stamp my background.  I was hoping my circle stamps would represent bubbles :)
Please make sure to stop by the LOC blog to meet our newest DT members and to check out everyone's mermaid creations. Then grab your tamps and join in the fun!  Don't forget you can either follow the given theme or create something left of center.

LOC Challenge #5

Hello my crafty friends! It's time for a new challenge over at Left of Center Challenges, this weeks theme is to use a digi image. How easy is that?!?  Our sponsor this week is Delicious Doodles and I was so excited to pic out one of her images to play with.

This is Steampunk Sally, isn't she gorgeous?!? I found some really cool paper last week at Hobby Lobby and I just knew it would be perfect with this image.  I colored her with pencils using mostly brown tones with a splash of teal and reddish brown for her hair.

Thanks for stopping by, I really hope you will play with us over at Left of Center Challenges this week!

Freaky Friday Challenge #61

It's time for more freaky fun over at Forever Night Creepy Challenges! This weeks challenge is 3-2-1.  We are asking that you use 3 embellishments, 2 images and 1 sentiment. 

Our sponsor this week is Delicious Doodles and we had some wonderful images to play with.  I chose to use this Goth Guy, isn't he fangtabulous! My 3 embellishments are the 3 little black gems to the right of the image. My 2 images are the goth guy and that smudge stamp I used on the base CS. And my 1 sentiment is "believe".  

The DT has some awesome samples for you to check out so head on over to our blog to join in on the fun this week. I can't wait to see what you create!