The ravening beasties . . .

I made this piece today for the following challenges:
Simply Betty 4th Day of Halloween - incorporate ravens and this quote from Vincent:

His voice was soft and very slow As he quoted The Raven from Edgar Allen Poe: “and my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted? Nevermore!"

Something Completely Different: purple and green
What If Wednesday - sketch 0610
4x4 Friday - Poe

Recipe: The image is Day of the Dead Timothy by Simply Betty (remember to snap up your digis while they're available, before they're turned into rubber-only format), the papers are by Crafty Chaos Designs, Gothic Bruise and Bittersweet sets, the small ravens are by DezinaWorld and the bigger raven in the corner started as public domain line art, altered by yours truly. Everything else was done by me in PSP.

Boo to you!

I've been rushing to get this finished in time for a couple of challenges, so a very short post. The image is Alice Chains by Kenny K, here are the challenges it's for:
Kenny K Krafty Girlz - bling it on. Ack, I missed the deadline for this, never mind.
Sketchy Colours - sketch
Stamping Royalty - chocolate, saffron, turquoise and deep purple
Shirley's 2 Girls - Scary and use the word "Boo!"
Speedy the Cat's Friends' Challenge - use stripes ( in my frame around the edge)
Sweet Stampin - Diamonds are a girl's best friend (bling)
Elliephantastic Challenges - anything goes
Create 4 Fun - use a digi stamp in your project

A Halloween Hanging

Here's a piece I made today, using an image from Stamp It Crazy and paper from Crafty Chaos Designs. This is for the following challenges:
Stamp It Crazy - Anything Halloween but a card
Crafting Life's Pieces - sketch #30
There She Goes - orange purple green
Peachy Keen Stamps - October inspiration, anything but a card
For Fun Challenges - use something you bought and didn't use. Although most things here are new or created by me, I've had the frame since about February
Simon Says Stamp - Halloween
Aud Sentiments - any Halloween sentiment
Meljen's Designs - Halloweeny
Gaby Abby Challenges - orange purple black
Crafty Ann's Challenge - use a digi image and your favourite colouring medium. Mine is my pc, I coloured this (and most everything I do now) on my pc
Fussy and Fancy - Halloween

New DT!

I got accepted to be on the DT for StampInsanity, wooohooooo! There are a whole bunch of new Groovy Gurlz debuting their creations today, AND we're showcasing a fabulous new release set called Devil Dolls, so pop along to the challenge blog to see all the details, or pop along to the shop to get your sticky mitts on the fab new images, or pop along to the DT blogs to leave some love and see all the details of how they made their beautiful creations, and what supplies they used.
Juanita
Blackdragon/Lynx
Sugar
Jane
Margie (DTC)
Kapree
Wendy
Dawn
Jacquie
Alison
Susan (that's me, you don't need to click :P)
Erica
Rosalien
Chelsea
Jules
Don't worry, I won't be posting the full list on every post (it's on my sidebar for future reference) but we're all just so excited about introducing ourselves and the new Devil Dolls stamps on this first week :P

My card uses the Devil Doll Lilith, from StampInsanity, isn't she beautiful? I LOVE those teeny little fangs :D And the papers are from the Halloween Bride set at Crafty Chaos Designs
So, what's the challenge?
Well the challenge is to "Trick or Treat" your project, so you can go naughty or nice, delightfully dark or commendably cute.
I'm also entering my card into the following challenges:
One Stitch At A Time - spooky
Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge - sketch 76
The Crafty Pad - spooky
I Did It Creations - spooky
Theme Thursday - dark/gothic
Pollycraft - anything goes
Lexi's Creations - spooky
And please don't forget that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This horrible disease has affected so many women worldwide, and StampInsanity have a digi stamp set inspired by the thousands of beautiful, strong women who fight this disease every day, in particular Katie, Beth's amazing cousin, who is battling through. Proceeds from the sale of the Katie for a Cure stamp set will go towards breast cancer research, so please consider doing what you can. Thanks for reading :)

Birthday card

Here's what I've made today, a birthday card using Willow from Tickled Pink Stamps and papers from the Bittersweet and Shades of Halloween sets at Crafty Chaos Designs.
And these are the challenges I made it for:
Please note - a few of them ask for bling or sparkles, I've used a glitter frame for the image and two glittery corner flourishes, click on the pic to enlarge it and see the sparkles)
Lil Lolita Boutique - purple orange and black
Creative Inspirations - birthday
Fab n Funky - use a digi image
Creative Cottage - bling it on
Mami Doodles - girl's birthday with sparkle
Speedy the Cat's Friends' Challenge - buttons and bows
Sketchy Colours - sketch #41
Party Time Tuesdays - anything goes birthday
Digital Tuesday - ribbons/ buttons/bling
A Spoon Full of Sugar - sparkle and shine
Paper Playtime - ribbons buttons and/or bling
Stamp Something Challenge - celebrate
Gingerloft Challenges - glitter or bling
Crafty Calendar - Autumn birthdays
Incy Wincy Designs - glitter or sparkles
Fairy Fun Fridays - ricrac
Papertake Weekly are celebrating their THIRD birthday (huge congratulations ladies!) and the challenge this week is to choose any one of their challenges from the past three years and use that. So, lol, I decided to combine a few of them :P
1st Oct 2007 - swirls or flourishes, 30 Dec 2007 - Bit o' bling, 3rd March 2008 - square cards, 31st March 2008 - making waves (the ricrac), 14th April 2008 - all that glitters14th July 2008 - teenage kicks, 11th August 2008 - button it, 19th January 2009 - Shape up (use at least three shapes, I used hearts, circles and rectangles), 2nd Feb 2009 - hearts and flowers, 23rd June 2009 - delightful downloads (the image), 7th July 2009 - my favourite things (purple is a favourite colour, digi images and papers are my favourite crafting stash, and damask is currently my favourite pattern (hence the background paper)(Oops, I forgot that I changed my mind about which backing paper I would use, and ditched the damask one. Even your favourite things sometimes just aren't quite right :P), 3rd November 2008 - simply sparkling, 10th Nov 2009 - digi sparkle , 2nd March 2010 - buttons bows brads or bling (I used all 4), 30th March 2010 - fill your boots time (anything goes, lol, sorry, couldn't resist :P), 18th May 2010 - say it with flowers, 24 Aug 2010 - 3-2-1 (3 heart-shaped buttons, 2 dps and 1 piece of ricrac, OR 3 colours, 2 bows and 1 image)
LOL, have I mentioned that I get a kick out of combining challenges? :P

Mirror, mirror

This piece uses Gossmere from Tiddly Inks and the papers are Broken Dreams by Crafty Chaos Designs
Here are the challenges I made it for:
Tiddly Inks - diamond glaze or crackle accent. I don't have either of those products, but I spent time creating a broken mirror digitally, in the hopes that that would count. It's a crackle glaze effect without the crackle glaze :P
Create 4 Fun - followed the sketch
Stamptacular Sunday - at least five layers
Cowgirl Challenge - anything goes
Ooh La La Creations - nothing floral
Pollycraft - anything goes
The Craft Den Anything Goes Challenge - going round in circles
Karber Weekly Challenge - digital
Penny's Challenges - circles
Wildflower Patch Wednesday - glass effect. We have the mirror and the frame made from glass-effect beads
Some Odd Girl - Monochromatic
Paper Cutz Challenge - 3 patterned papers

Dancing in the snow

This card uses papers from my Velvet Descent set, available at Crafty Chaos Designs, and an image from Stitchy Bear's The Rehearsal set, available at Stitchy Bear Stamps
And here are the challenges that I made it for:
The Burtonesque Dolls - Edward Scissorhands sketch
Paper Cutz - 3 different papers
Delightful Sketches - purple black and green
Gingerloft Challenge - glitter and bling

Dastardly Delicious Digis!

It's Monday again, and that means it's time for a new Macabre Monday challenge at Haunted Design House. This week we're sponsored by the lovely Teri from Delicious Doodles, and the challenge is to use a digi as your main focus, but, as always, we want to see your dark and creepy creations with a twist of the macabre!
My piece uses the beautiful Cloaked Lady by Delicious Doodles, and I imagined her looking back at the "normal" side of her life before heading out to follow the call of the dark things in the forest.



And these are the other challenges that I made this piece for:
Fashionista Friday If The Shoe Fits - use orange in your creation
Irish Teddy - purple and orange
Sew Many Challenges - anything goes
ColourQ Challenge 52 is to use this sketch and your favourite ColourQ colour combination of the past year.

You are a star!

Here's one I did today, using and image from Bugaboo and a paper from the Decadent Grunge set at Crafty Chaos Designs
Here are the challenges I made it for:
Karber Weekly Challenge - hobbies or leisure
Stamping Vacation Fountain of Youth - use a musical instrument
Order of the Opus Gluei - sketch
Catch the Bug - anything goes
Thanks for looking!

We have a winner!

And it's Craftdee Donna! See how I got that bit in early, so you can all see from your dashboard whether or not it's you? :P
Last Saturday, I was involved in a Practical Magic blog party, and I promised to give one lucky commenter their choice of three free products from my store. There were 54 comments, and I allowed Mr Random to pick a number (because, really, I wasn't going to put my hand into that bubbling steaming spitting cauldron :P)

Congratulations Donna, I'll be getting in touch, just let me know which products you'd like :D

It's not even digital! :o

I actually did something 3D today, lol, it's been a while. I bought a pack of cheap cork coasters and this is what I turned them into. The image is by Simply Betty and the papers are from my Spooky Fun set (I darkened it slightly by putting a semi=transparent layer of grey over the top before printing)
These are the challenges I'm entering:
Simply Betty's 12 Days of Halloween. You don't want to miss this one, but you'll have to be quick! Which is why my coasters only have a very thin coat of varnish at the moment, they weill be getting some more, but I didn't have time to wait for each coat to dry ;) Here's the challenge: On the First Day of Halloween My Ghould love gave to me... One smiling Skellington Head! Use skeletons on your project. Um, I haven't got any whole skeletons on mine, but lots of skulls :P
Simply Betty Challenges - Week 3 for the challenge and this time it's to make something Halloween, but not a card
Lots to Do - Alter it
Bee Crafty - Fluffy/Furry Friends. Well I'm pretty certain that Chloe thinks she's being friendly; I'm just not absolutely sure that the cat agrees :P
Crafty Ann's Challenge - anything but a card
Daisy Doodles - Critter Mad. Does "Mad Critter" count? :P
Wildflower Wednesday - Glass efect. I really couldn't get a good photo of the varnish looking glossy, but here it is looking shiny at least :)