Ho! Ho! Ho!

The current challenge at Open-Minded Crafting Fun in Unusual Christmas, and I had fun creating this piece. However, I do understand that not everyone has the same perspective I do on what is / isn't acceptable. So, if you don't want to see an alternative Xmas card with scantily-clad women, or to explain to children why they're on a card marked Ho! Ho! Ho!, I thought you shouldn't have to. There's no nudity, no exposed body parts that you couldn't see at a celebrity party or pop video, but, you have the choice whether to see it or not. It makes me chuckle, but I never claimed to be normal.

It's playtime!

Ack, "face your fears" they said. "It'll be fun" they said. "What could go wrong?" they said. Well, frankly, THIS is what you end up with when you give a twisted mind free rein and tell it to focus on its fears :P Now I'm going to have to watch something like Despicable Me 2 or the Lego movie before I go to bed. Just in case it isn't glaringly obvious, the fears I faced in this horrific creation are dolls heads, creepy-ass kids with evil staring eyes, and getting stuck in some macabre TV realm. Face Your Fears at the Left of Center challenge blog.

Quote by Terry Pratchett

Here's what I made today, for the Focus on the Sentiment challenge at the Digitally Sweet Challenges blog, and the Swirls and Twirls challenge at the Three Muses blog. The quote is by the marvelluos Terry Pratchett, from a book called Digger which I haven't read yet, but I found the quote online.

He's behind you!

I've been giggling away to myself while making this today. The scared little girly is by Bella Caribena at Tiny Turtle Designs and the evil snowman is by Krissy's Scraps at Exquisite Scraps. The sentiment won't seem particularly Christmassy to any non-UKers, but over here it's a traditional part of many pantomimes, when the audience chorus "He / She / It's behind you!" to the hapless hero/heroine.

I'd like to enter it into the Let It Snow challenge at the Order of the Opus Gluei blog, and the Anything Goes challenge at the Digitally Sweet Challenges blog.

Sometimes I have to remind myself . . .

Here's what I created today for the Grateful challenge at the Open-Minded Crafting Fun blog and the Anything Goes challenge at the Digitally Sweet Challenges blog.

Emily at 2

This is my second creation for the Babies challenge at the Left of Center blog, and I'm hoping little Emily here is still young enough to count as a baby. I've been having fun playing with the Hotel Hell kits from Mischief Circus and indulging, once again, my darker side. I'm not going to inflict this piece on any of the current Anything Goes challenges as I figure it's a little too macabre, but if anyone knows of any challenges that celebrate the darker side of art and will accept digital-only, stamp-free entries, please let me know.

Rock and rule!

Bwahahahaha! Did you think that a darkside baby-themed creation would be impoossible? Think again, and allow me to present my Rock and Rule perversion. It's for the challenge at the Left of Center blog, and the theme is Babies. I worried that the link-up at Left of Center might end up over-run by relatively sweet baby cards for this challenge, so I decided to throw in a healthy dose of goth to redress the balance :P And the pun in the post title makes me ridiculously happy - puns, evil babies and bloodstains; my work here is done :D

Gremlins need stories, too!

The current challenge at the Left of Center blog is Gremlins, and I've had fun indulging my darker muse.

And in the opposite corner

Here's what I created today for the latest challenge at the Digitally Sweet blog. The challenge, sponsored by Bugaboo, is Opposites, and there are many, many opposites in this piece, so I may have to list them. Black vs white, circles vs squares, , coloured centre vs un-coloured bg, CAS centre vs busy bg, zombies vs cute, death (zombie) vs life (baby), jagged edge on the "ribbon" piece across the bottom vs scalloped edges on the centre circles and green vs magenta (opposites on an RGB colour wheel) in the centre. Sometimes I worry about my obsessive tendencies :P The digi stamp is by Bugaboo and everything else was created by me.

Reflection with Opus Gluei

The current challenge over at the Opus Gluei blog is "Reflection" and as always it's open to your own interpretation, but it's definitely worth taking a look at the Design Team creations because they're wonderful. I really spent a while pondering this one and then starting but not finishing bits that I wasn't happy with. Here's what I did finish, using a quote from Nelson Mandela which not only uses the word "reflect" but also bears reflection. ;)

Do you believe?

This is my second entry for the Fairy Photo Inspiration challenge at the Digitally Sweet Challenges blog. I'm so pleased to have found somewhere that will accept my digital creations, and I knew I'd be back with another one for this challenge in more appropriate olours. The fairy is by Outlaw by Design, the elements are from Tiny Turtle Designs and the bg is by me.