Let's go manly for a change!

It's Sunday, and that of course means that it's time for a new challenge at Corrosive. This is your last week to enter to be in with a chance of winning some digis from Tiddly Inks or Whimsie Doodles and a chance to be our Guest Designer for September!
I've used an image and sentiment from Tiddly Inks and papers from Crafty Chaos Designs.

These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Sweet Sketch Wednesday - sketch #112
Crafty Hos - anything goes (last challenge for this blog, so my creation seems very fitting)
Take A Word - sepia
Creative Stamp Friends - monochrome
Simon Says Stamp and Show - anything goes
Your Next Stamp - 3 embellishments (frame, ricrac and book plate), 2 patterned papers, 1 image
Ruby's Rainbow - vintage
Crafts 4 Eternity - anything but a card
Alphabet Challenge - M is for Metal
Secret Crafter - monochrome

I love hats!

I really do love hats, possibly because I'm permanently having a bad hair day, so I had to giggle when I saw this wonderful sentiment from Tiddly Inks. I've paired it with one of the new images from the Victorian Steampunk range, also at Tiddly Inks, and used papers from a new set called Flash of Inspiration which will be in the Crafty Chaos Designs shop sometime tomorrow.
These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Mojo Monday - sketch 201
Tiddly Inks Tuesday - use a tag or ticket
Cupcake Craft Challenges - shabby sparkle
365 Cards - at least three background layers
Sparkles Forum Challenges - elegance and lace
Crafty Sentiments - polka dots
Craft Us Crazy - anything goes
4 Crafty Chicks - get your bling on
Sweet Stampin' - fashion
Make It Colourful - colour your embellishments. I had to recolour virtually all of the embellishments in this piece. The bead chain across the top was originally chrome, the bow on the tag was bright pink and the lace at the bottom was grey.
Sugar Creek Hollow - tags
Alphabet Challenge Blog - M is for Metal

What's your favourite colour?

Over at StampInsanity this week, we want you to create something with your favouite colour. Easy peasy, right? And because Mr Linky disappeared last week, Beth has offered everyone who left their project url in the comments a free digi! Hop on over to the blog to pick your favourite and email Beth with your choice. And then get creating with your favourite colour to enter in this week's challenge as well :D Now I had a very hard time choosing between purple and teal for my favourite colour, but in the end I went for purple, what do you think?

I used Pierrette from the Les Cocquettes collection and a sentiment from the Sweet Henry set, both available at theStampInsanity Store, and the papers are from the Bittersweet set at Crafty Chaos Designs.
Here are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Papertake Weekly - sketch
One Stitch At A Time - pearls and swirls
Sparkles Forum Challenges - elegant lace
Creative Stamp Friends - monochrome
Top Tip Tuesday - make it girly
Clear It Out Tuesday - anything goes, and my "old" stash is this stamp which I've had since last year and yet I've never coloured it before. Shame on me!
Totally Stampalicious - anything goes
Little Darlings Challenge - girly
Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - no markers. Obviously most of this image is paper-pieced but the bits that aren't were coloured on a graphics program.
Sweet Stampin' Challenges - fashion
Emerald Fairies - nice and girly
Digis with Attitude! - anything goes
Amber's Crafts and Stuff - patterned paper
Pixie Dust Studio - your favourite colour
Meljen's Designs - frame it
Craft Us Crazy - anything goes

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I've just been notified that the webhost data centre I use for the Crafty Chaos Designs website is having problems and my site is down. It should all be resolved and back up and running within a couple of hours, sorry for any inconvenience :)

Romance and bloodstains :P

This week's Macabre Monday challenge at the Haunted Design House blog is "Out, out damn spot!" and we want to see something that has drips or drops, splashes or splatters. Now it doesn't have to be blood, but hey, who can resist the red stuff? I made an ATC for this one, using a paper from the Jezebel's Remains set at Crafty Chaos Designs.
These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Very Sketchy At Smeared & Smudged - July card sketch
Scrappekammeret - just one patterned paper
Sentimental Sundays - focus on the sentiment
Tuesday Throwdown - something metallic
Forever Night Mini Dark Art Mondays - skulltastic
Speedy the Cat's Friends' Challenge - 3 hearts
Make it Colourful - colour your own embellishments. I this piece I recoloured the gem hearts which were originally clear. Now since I work digitally, there is an automatic "Change Colour" button, but it works best on solid flat areas of colour and is a bit too "blocky" when used on something that has numerous spots of light and dark. I've found the best way to recolour embellishments is to open up the Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation parameters and play with the numbers until you're happy with the result. I tend to work on Hue first, then Saturation, then Brightness and Contrast and then usually back to Hue and/or Saturation again for a few final changes.
Crafty Catz - no blue or pink
Fashionista Friday at If The Shoe Fits - ruby
Oh The Horror! - strips of paper and/or pumpkins
The Play Date Cafe - black and white with just a splash of one colour of your choice
Simon Says Stamp and Show - anything goes

All about the kids!

This week at Corrosive Challenges blog we're challenging you to make a project that's "all about the kids" We're still sponsored by Tiddly Inks and Whimsie Doodles, so play along for your chance to win some fab digis and to be our Guest Designer in September. :D
I made a very girly Thank You card using a digi by Crafty Sentiments and some papers I created specifically for this card.


These are the challenges I'd like to enter:

Create 4 Fun - sketch
2 Sisters Challenges - anything goes
Emerald Fairies - nice and girly
Amber's Crafts & Stuff - circles and swirls
Sisterhood of Crafters - give thanks
Papertake Weekly - getting cute
Everybody Art - dots
CR84FN Colors - yellow, pink and bright pink, using the palette to the right

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

Here's what I did with the Narnia films in mind. The gorgeous girl image is by Tiddly Inks, and the lion sketch is a free image by Rurouna, which she very kindly allows people to download and colour themselves. You can get it HERE or HERE. The quote is by Aslan / C.S. Lewis and I wanted to keep the look of the whole thing quite clean, so no patterned papers and only one embellishment.
here are the challenges I'd like to enter:
365 Cards - Day 144 Card for no particular reason
Sketchy Colors - sketch + blue beige and brown
Tiddly Inks Challenge - be inspired by a nature film. Thanks VERY much to Christie and the team for being relaxed with your definition of a nature film :P
Sparkles Forum Challenges - elegant lace
Stampin' For The Weekend - paws for thought
Crafting For All Seasons - animal friends
Paper Minutes - blue brown beige
Fab n Funky - animal magic
Fresh Brewed Designs - get wild (use animals or animal prints)

Hagrid in Batman Returns :P

Look what I did! See that sexy Catwoman up there? She started life as the equally sexy Lady Raven by Kenny K and I'm really quite chuffed with her transformation :D I LOVED Mrs Weyremaster's card doing the same thing HERE and decided to try my hand at doing the same thing with one of the KK images I already had. The Hagrid-esque image is by Bugaboo Stamps, and it's called The Gentle One.
These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Mojo Monday - sketch 200
The Burtonesque Dolls - put a Harry Potter character in a Tim Burton film
Clear It Out Tuesdays - anything goes
Kaboodle Doodles - embossing (on the word Catwoman)
Penny's Challenge - alter it (I'm counting my stamp as being altered, since she looks so different from the original)
Paper Pretties - embossing (on the word Catwoman)
Kenny K Krafty Girlz - anything goes
ABC Challenge - Y is for Yesterday. The past challenges I've used are: T is for Two or More Images, May 2011, E is for Embossing, Sept 2009, Z is for Zero Embellishments, Aug 2009, I is for Indigo Blue, Nov 2009, O is for Oval, Oct 2008, M is for Male, Oct 2008,

Creative Card Crew are back!

There have been a few changes recently and we took some time off to sort everything out, but now we're back up and raring to go. Our challenge for you this week is Animal Antics, please go to the Creative Card Crew blog to see the other DT work and enter your own piece. One of the changes we've made is that the challenge will now run fortnightly, giving you two weeks to create your masterpiece. This week we're sponsored by Wags n Whiskers, and I've used their image "Chillin' Out" to make a fun postcard.

These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Deconstructing Jen - sketch
I Did It Creations - animals
Stamptacular Sunday - animal antics
KB Cute Monday - use a digi
Stamps & Fun = Creativity - use a digi stamp
Die Cut Dreams - animal antics
Creative Stamp Friends - Summer
Paper Playtime - Summer
Cupcake Craft Challenges - stars
Polly craft Challenges - Summer fun
Sunday Postcards - Summer
The Playdate Cafe - Eggplant Fuschia Orangesicle
Do It With Digis - spots and/or stripes
Charisma Cardz - stars
Dare To Be Sassy Thursdays - fancy edges
Fairy Fun Fridays - what are you doing or where are you going for your summer holidays?
My Sheri Crafts - pets
Alphabet Challenge - K is for Kitty cats

How fabulous?

This piece uses an image from Simply Betty Stamps, a sentiment from Graphicat Designs and papers from Crafty Chaos Designs.
These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Make It Colourful - non-standard hair colours. I know this isn't up to the standards of some people's hair colouring, and I still can't get the "shine" effect but I'm really quite pleased with Betty's hair in this one. I think it may be the first time I've felt happy with using horizontal lines of colour on hair.
Graphicat Sketches - followed the July sketch
Simply Betty Challenges - use any sketch
Creative Inspiration - no flowers allowed
Sir Stampalot - anything goes

Happy birthday Lynx!

We interrupt the previously scheduled challenge to bring you Lynx's Haunted Birthday Bash!!
Actually, her birthday was yesterday, but we wanted to surprise her with a HDH birthday celebration for Macabre Monday.

Lynx (aka "Black Dragon") is a true inspiration to me. EVERYTHING she makes is stunning and she manages to fit it all in around a very busy family schedule with no tantrums or drama queen moments.

Lynx, you rock!
You can see her amazing art creations HERE and her wonderful jewellery and trinkets HERE.

She's a big fan of Mr Poe, so I thought I'd use his manically cheerful face to wish her a happy birthday - doesn't he just scream "fun and games"? No? Well, I'm sure he's giddy with excitement on the inside :P The corners are a digi from Smeared Ink, coloured gold and bevelled (think of it like heat embossing, it just gives a slight 3D aspect)
Here are the challenges I'd like to enter with this piece:
Birthday Sundaes - anything goes birthday
My Time to Craft - birds
Crazy Amigos - flying things
Ruby's Rainbow - happy birthday
Stampavie and More - birthday
Penny's Challenges - happy birthday
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes
Paperplay - things with wings
Papercutz Challenge - the sky's the limit
Southern Girls - birthdays
Sugar Creek Hollow - winged things
Stampin' For The Weekend - wings and things