Creepy Birthday, Happy Glowbugg!!!!!

Creepy Glowbugg is celebrating her birthday today and she's such a fabulously macabre Minion that I'm sure she'll be doing it in her very own creep-tastic style! I created this piece to make her smile, using an image from DezinaWorld and bg by Itkupilli.
Glo, I hope you have a wonderful day, filled to overflowing with things that will make other people shudder! You RAWK!

I'd also like to enter the following challenges:
Shopping Our Stash - vintage, distressed or shabby chic
Art With No Boundaries - anything goes
One Stitch At A Time - anything goes
Anything Goes - vintage/shabby chic
Top Tip Tuesday - birthdays
Simon Says Stamp - be inspired by a song or film title. I went with "It's My Party (and I'll Cry If I Want To)"
Crafting For All Seasons - birthdays
Crafty Emma's Store Challenge - magical or spooky. This definitely counts as "creepy" but "spooky" I'm not so sure about. What do you think?
Crazy Challenges - birthday
Creatalicious - anything goes

For the girls

It's time for a new challenge over at the Ruby's Rainbow blog and for this fortnight, we want to see something specifically for the girls. My piece uses the fabulous Kassandra from the Devil Dolls set at StampInsanity.
These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Card Positioning Systems - sketch 235
Cr84Fn - bright pink, black, grey (see image below)
One Stitch At A Time - anything goes
Totally Stampalicious - anything goes
Delightful Challenges - bling
Sweet Stampin' - for a teenager
Crafty Emma's Store - magical or spooky
Stamp Something - anything goes or say Goodbye
Stampin' for the Weekend - pink
Card Makin' Mamas - use something digital
Squiggle Stamps - spooky fun
Crafty Boots - anything goes

Get me - it's a real stamp!

It's time for another challenge at the Creative Card Crew blog and this week we're sponsored by the lovely people at Simon Says Stamp. Babies seem to be popping up all over the place at the moment, one lady on our team has a brand new granchild and four others are waiting for their own happy day, so the theme for this fortnight is "babies" My sentiment is a freebie from BrossArtAddiction, which I altered digitally. And the stamp is an actual bona-fide rubber stamp. I had to scan it in and do LOTS of cleaning up in PSP, where I also made the colour match the rest of the card.
These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Moving Along with the Times - sketch
Sparkles Forum Challenges - white plus one other colour
Pollycraft Challenges - baby love
Do You Stack Up - texture
Pixie Dust Studio - baby card
Raise the Bar - all white bg
Crafty Ann's Challenges - out of your comfort zone White bg and rubber stamps are both things I avoid like the plague
The Stamp Man - white plus one other colour
Totally Gorjuss - man/boy project
Crafty Calendar - bears

Do you get YOUR five a day?

It's Monday, which OF COURSE means that it's time for a new Macabre Monday challenge over at the Haunted Design House. Have you been champing at your metal restraints waiting for the new challenge? Well, this week we're taking inspiration from the seven deadly sins. You can pick any one or use several to create your piece. I couldn't find a digi stamp of Maleficent, so I ended up using a desktop from Disney, which you can find HERE.
Challenges entered:
Deconstructed Sketches - sketch 18
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
One Stitch At A Time - anything goes
My Mum's Craft Shop - lots of layers

Goodbye to Summer!

Here's what I did today, using Owlette by Tiddly Inks as my image and papers from the Rich Autumn Glory set at Crafty Chaos Designs. The quote is by George Eliot and reads Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
Here are the challenges I'd like to enter:
The Pink Elephant - sketch
Picture Perfect Creations - pumpkin pie, lucky limeade, rose red and island indigo
Tiddly Inks Challenges - goodbye Summer, hello Fall
Stamp Something - anything goes
Card Makin' Mamas - use something digital
Sukkersott Challenges - use a digital stamp
Craft Us Crazy - Autumn colours
Digi Stamps 4 Joy - colours of fall
Everybody Art - Autumn
Stamp With Fun - Autumn
Lexi's Creations - Autumn
Happileigh Scrappin' - Autumn
Pile It On - B is for burgundy, bird and brocade (on her dress)
Challenge Up Your Life - paper piecing
Bee Crafty - borders or frames
Desert Island Crafters - I used #6 flowers, #7 nature inspired, #8 sentiment, #9 add a little green
Just Tracy's Crafts - things with wings

Sassy Masquerade!

Sassy Studio Designs had a fabulous party last week, when they gave away a whole bunch of fabb images and sentiments, and I'm displaying what I've made with just two of them today.


I'd like to enter this one into the following challenges:
Paper Sundaes - sketch
Cupcake Inspiration - I used the colours and the randomly-sized circles
Quirky Crafts - flourishes and embossing
Sassy Studio Designs - masquerade ball. Use one of the new images and include feathers, bling, and/or sequins
Delightful Sketches - bling
The Crafty Purple Frog - birthdays
Little Red Wagon - die cuts
Craft Your Days Away - make your own flowers (not the metal and glass ones, but the one at the top with feathers for petals and a gem in the centre)


With the second card, I'd like to enter these challenges:
The Pink Elephant - sketch
Sassy Studio Designs - masquerade ball
Dare To Be Sassy Thursdays - buttons, bows, brads and bling
Pile It On - B is for buttons, bows, brads and bling
I Did It Creations - girly girls
Skrappekameret - monochrome
Aud Sentiments - for a girl
Try It On Tuesday - monochrome card
Crafts and Me - buttons and bows
Fresh Brewed Designs - use something new (image)
Sukkersott Challenges - use a digital stamp
Card Makin' Mamas - use something digital
Pattie's Creations - girly things
Allsorts - blues and greens

Purple and black with StampInsanity!

We have a new challenge for you over at the StampInsanity blog today, and we'd like to see all your purple and black creations. So I'm hoping to see LOTS of gorgeously gothic creations from all of you!
I've kept my piece very simple today, using my favourite stamp of all time, Lilith from the Devil Dolls set at StampInsanity.
These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Pile It On - B is for black, border punch, bow, bats and "bite me"
Sparkles Forum Challenges - punch it
Cooking It Up with Katie - purple + bow + sentiment
Crafty Creations - anything but square
The Pink Elephant - sketch
Magical Monday Challenges - anything goes (my mythical creature is a vampire)
Stamp Something - digital
And, just for a bit of silliness, when I showed this card to hubby he pulled a shocked face and then brought me this tomato, claiming I'd managed to shock it as well :P

A present for Edward

Here's what I've been working on today, which will hopefully make you think of the film Edward Scissorhands. The image is by Smeared Ink from the Mad Science digi set, the quote is from the beginning of the film and everything else was created by me in PSP.
Here are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Smudgy Antics - metal
The Burtonesque Dolls - re-create a scene from a Burton film
Crafty Catz - monochromatic
Stamp Something - use a digi
Pile It On - B is for . . . Burton
Meljen's Designs - no patterned paper

PMS - Psychotic Miss Silver

We have a fun challenge for you at the Haunted Design House blog this week.

HDH105
"P.M.S. Psychotic Miss Silver"
You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece
that uses or includes a angry/crazy/psychotic woman and silver.
We've all been there. Some weeks are better than others. Make her crazy. Make her angry. Make her silver. Well, not literally, but use silver somewhere on this project.

My piece uses the WONDERFUL Voodoo Woman by Teri's Delicious Doodles. Everything else was done by me in PSP. These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Stamp Something - use something digital
Delicious Doodles - fresh new start. The image is brand new to me.
Forever Night Freaky Friday Challenge - devilish intentions
Deconstructed Sketches - sketch 17
The Play Date Cafe - black and white with a splash of red. Hmmm, I made all my white bits silver, so maybe this won't count.
Shopping Our Stash - sassy, snarky or LOL, and the stash I used is the backing paper, which was one of the very first digi papers I bought, although it came in red and white instead of black and silver so I altered it.
One Stitch At A Time - use a digi
Charisma Cards - anything goes
Cards for Men - G is for Getting Even!

Funny or Punny at Corrosive!

It's the first Sunday of a new month, and that of course means that it's time for a new sponsor at Corrosive Challenges, and we'd like to see your funny creations, or projects that feature a pun. This month we have two sponsors, Paper MakeUp Stamps and Dude Time Doodles. I used two corset images from Paper MakeUp to create this bit o' silliness. The main bp was created for this project, and I paper-pieced both corsets using papers from the Pretty In Pink set at Crafty Chaos Designs. :D
These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Picture Perfect Creations - turquoise, white, melon, indigo
The Pink Elephant - paper piecing
Craft Your Passion - sketch
My Mum's Craft Shop - 123 (1 sentiment, 2 different colours of gems, and 3 images)
Crafts and Me - add a charm
Do You Stack Up - friendly critters
Some Odd Girl - paper piecing
Aud Sentiments - for a female
Raise the Bar - paper piecing
Stamp Something - use something digital
Deep Ocean Challenges - hearts
Tuesday Throwdown - use a pun
Creative Craft Challenges - charms

Don't be sad, be AWESOME!

I made another frame-y card with a digi by Dilly Beans Stamps and papers by Crafty Chaos Designs. If you'd like a chance to win some of these digis, hop on over to the Haunted Design House blog, because Dilly Beans are sponsoring this week's Macabre Monday challenge!
Here are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Sketch Saturday - sketch 170
Deep Ocean Challenges - hearts (in the main imags and all over the bp)
Shopping Our Stash - snarky sarcastic or funny
My Mum's Craft Shop - 1 image, 2 types of embellishment (ribbons and gems) and 3 patterned papers
Little Miss Muffet Challenges - purple, blue, green
Anything Goes Challenges - inspired by TV or films. Now I have to admit that I've never seen the show, but I saw this quote and loved it so much that I created the whole card around it. The sentiment is from "How I Met Your Mother"
Clearly Inspired - patterned paper
Stamp Something - digi day