SOARTFUL CHALLENGE - MARDI GRAS

This weeks challenge over at SOARTFUL is mardi gras,
you are given the image of the mask to use as you like, or for your inspiration.


Here is my creation for mardi gras.....
most of the layers and images are from artfreebies,

Its the pathway to the land of Mardi gras - open the double doors and step into another land.....
wouldnt you love to go there....... of course you would... and I shall be waiting.....

SOARTFUL CHALLENGE - THE WIFES LITTLE BLACK DRESS

The challenge this week at soartful is little black dress, as usual I am in histerics, as I find this digi art more than amusing.....lmao

I am getting a little more used to using my photoshop, altho I have a lot to learn, but this time around I have managed to give more layers and I have finally found the opacity button lol

Here is my entry for the challenge and I have called it..... THE WIFES LITTLE BLACK DRESS

Hope you enjoy it as much as I have making it.....

SOARTFUL CHALLENGE - CHANCE

This weeks challenge over at soartful is to use the ticket photo for inspiration and the theme being CHANCE.

I think I may have got a little carried away this week, or maybe I am going stair crazy withthis cold weather and white stuff thats now more or less gone and left us with rain rain and more rain, oh how I crave the sun and heat of the summer lol Any how, I have been laughing my socks off for the last few days as I find this hilarious BUT my hubby and son dont GET IT. lmao.

PERHAPS ITS ME!!!! but I just find it hilarious that they dont get that either lol

This is my digital image I created, but I wanted to go a little further with it.........

This is what I then created making it a more dimentional piece.......

This is just paper piecing with the same images but adding multi media effects to the background, I added a fine layer of gesso and then spritz with a pearlescent ink, but you cant really see it in the photo.

Then because I liked the backing paper I had created so much, I then went on to create this piece which has taken me roughly 3 days thinking on and off and the same making as I have added bits and pieces to it.

This time I have torn the background paper into pieces and glued it onto a backing then stitched to a pearlescent paper, added the wording with letter from a K & Co embelly kit then added the image in different colours onto the backing xxx

Let me know what you think, do YOU get it, or is it JUST ME !!! lol

Vintage Christmas Wishes

Hello everyone and happy christmas, I have not been around for quite a few days in fact almost 2 weeks, dont ask me where the time has gone, I just havent had enough hours in each day,

at last I am back on track all my christmas cards are now all finished and posted off.

Here is my last one which I made last evening after doing a little blog hopping I came across some fabby blogs which have vintage images. This image is from a fantastci blog called artfreebies. click on the link and it'll take you there, its not to be missed.I think this is gonna be my new projects in 2010, heading down the vintage trail as there are some beautiful images out there. I can see this new phase coming in lol its clouding over me right now......

This card is for an old friend, a very old friend lol. I hope she is not reading this lol.

It was nice to finally make the last christmas card but I had fun making this one as its a new way for me using the vintage photos, I love it. I distress the photo by creasing the corner and scratching the print off also added ink to the edges and then stamped over the top with a stampin up postage mark. The papers are from HOTP vintage and the stamped mistletoe is desert sand memento ink.

snowflake tags with box

I am late this evening as I have been busy making christmas cards today, trying to catch up as usual.

I wanted to show you this little gift tag box I made last week, I saw this box back in the summer from stampin gal making a box with stampin up products, of which I got the instructions, I have just got round to making this little gift box of tags, of which I made snowflakes, using stampin up stamps and distress ink.

Each tag has 4 scalloped circles back and front have snowflake, the 2 centre tags have to and from and the other has a little something for a little someone.

I have placed 12 tags in the box, showing the snowflakes in 2 of the partitions, to and from in another and in the last a little something for a little someone. to show off the tag I have added 1 to the outside of the box and tied it to the ribbon.

The acetate wrap around the box is using a foiled acetate from kanban.

These are lovely little boxes and so easy to make I want to make more of these after christmas with everyday tags inside I really enjoyed making this one.

Hope you like it.....x

Christmas Baby in the snow - mo's digital pencil too

I dont find much time to blog hop, but last night I found this fabulous blog by Mo digitalpenciltoo. who is an illistrator and has here own digi images for crafters.....when I came across this blog last evening I couldnt believe the images, they are all brilliant, I had to have some straight away, I bought 6 of the christmas stamps and I have been playing all day colouring them in, here is a topper I have made with the baby image, I have added polar white flower soft and some 3D glitter paint. I must try this in pink too and darker colours I think he/she is gorgeous. I have been using up scraps of paper from last year, these are from Glenda - elusive images from one of the cds.

ATC - Shades of Blue for England Stampers Mingle

Good evening all you crafty crafters, as you can see yes yet again its that cobweb stamp, I have got rather obsessed with this stamp lol
I made it into an atc for the october mingle over at England stampers - the theme is shades of blue.
You can just about see the glitter glue on the cobweb to show the dew drops after a shower of rain.... and the art stamp I think is brilliant, I love using it when sending something to another crafter.
Have fun with your stamping x