New chucklins!

For those of you who don't know, we keep a few backyard chickens and decided to try and incubate some fertile eggs ourselves. So now we have 13 cheeping, chirrupping fluffballs! :D

See my feathered legs?


Just having a quick nap!

One for the boys!

It's time for another new challenge at Ruby's Rainbow, and this fortnight we'd like to see your projects for the boys and/or men in your life. My creation uses Skelekinz Boys You Rock My World by Bugaboo and papers I created for this piece.
These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Sweet Sunday Sketches - sketch 136
My Time Made Easy - pretty palette 28, yellow, teal, grey
365 Cards - Triple It (use three techniques on your sentiment. I cut the shape (digitally), stamped the sentiment and grunged the whole thing)
Dream Valley Creations - buttons
Paper Creations Ink - buttons or bows (I'm not entirely sure if digital works are allowed for this one, just let me know if not)
Crazy Challenges - use 3 colours (teal, yellow, grey)
My Time to Craft - music
Tuesday Throwdown - thinking of you
Delicious Doodles - cute as a button
Simon Says Stamp - anything goes

You're making a scene!

A Halloween scene, that is! Yes, it's time for another fun Macabre Monday challengeat the Haunted Design House, and this week we want you to create a Halloween scene. Not just a gruesome image on it's lonesome, we want to see something that has a background for your main image. And you know who has amazing background stamps, perfect for creating all sorts of wonderful scenes? Make It Crafty, that's who, and they're also sponsoring us this week so the DT have all been working with luscious MIC digis.
I had such fun putting my scene together, and I've used a whole bunch of stamps from different companies. The house and the pumpkin carriage are both by Make It Crafty, the female is by Simply Betty, the bats are by StampInsanity and the gate is by Strange Skin. The moon and bg I did myself, and the trees are PS brushes from my stash.
These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Divas by Design - sketch
Cutie Sunday - no text
One Stitch At A Time - use your favourites (digi stamps, skulls and spiderwebs)
Sparkles Forum Challenges - something that sparkles (skulls and spider)
My Time to Craft - L is for . . . Lots of stamps
Anything Goes - anything goes
Crafts and Me - stripes (just a few, on my ribbon lace bit down the side)
Phindy's Place Challenges - use opposites on the colour wheel (I've gone for blue violet and yellow-orange)
Squiggle Stamps - autumnal colours
Crazy 4 Challenges - Halloween
Whoopsi Daisy - make your own embellishments (the skulls were created by me)
The Queen's Royal Digi Challenge - Halloween
Paper Playtime - Halloween

I've got a bone to pick with you!

Here's what I've done today, using two digis from Smeared Ink. The main image is Carina from the Goth Fairies set, and for the backing paper I created a column with their Bat Skeleton digi, then repeated it across the base and flipped every other column upside down. And those fabulous skull embellishments? Are available from Creepy Glowbugg Concoctions.
These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Smudgy Antics - I've got a bone to pick with you
Mami Doodles - sketch
Raise the Bar - things with wings
Sew Many Challenges - ovals
Sassy Studio Designs - square cards
Lil Red Wagon - repeat a stamped image (that's how I made the bp)
Flutterby Wednesday - use an angel, fairy or butterfly
Crafty Boots - things with wings
Speedy the Cat's Friends' Challenges - things with wings

Kooky to the kore!

Here's what I've done today, using a FAB new image by Simply Betty Stamps, and it's called Addams Portrait, which I was lucky enough to win.
These are the challenges I'd like to enter:

Smeared & Smudged Very Sketchy - September LO sketch
Digital Tuesday Challenges - people images
Digi Stamps 4 Joy - anything goes
Anything Goes - anything goes
Deep Ocean Challenges - lace
The Crafty Pad - Diamonds are a girl's best friend (I used the same idea on my last entry, but I liked the look of the gems around the edge so much that I did it again for this one :P)
Stamptacular Sunday - use a sentiment
Jelly Park Friends - be inspired by a colour pallette found at Design Seeds. THANK YOU so much for introducing me to this site, I love the colou palettes they have and have bookmarked the site for future reference. I used the Petaled Dark pallette, which you can see to the right.
And the main challenge that got me working on this is the DT call for the Beyond The Burtonesque Dolls, who are going to be opening a brand new challenge blog soon, inspired by not only Tim Burton, but also other fun, creepy-cute, quirky films and artists. Hurrah! So I chose The Addams Family, because frankly I love this stamp and wanted to use it. If you'd like to have a go, go the The Burtonesque Dolls blog to see the details. :P

Photo au Mojo at StampInsanity

It's time for a new StampInsanity challenge, and this week we'd like you to make something inspired by either (or both) of these photos.





And don't forget to tell us how you were inspired if it's not immediately obvious :)

I've used Angelika from the Devil Dolls set at StampInsanity, I just can't get enough of this whole set. And I created the bp to re-create the theme and colours of the first photo.



These are the challenges I'd like to enter:

Crafty Catz - sketch
Crafty Boots - things with wings
Kaboodle Doodles - lots of layers
Crafty Creations - fabulous fairies
The Squirrel and the Fox - anything goes
My Sheri Crafts - sewing or stitching
Timbroscrapmania - angels or devils
Color Q Challenges - red, orange, green, purple, white. It seems I forgot about the red, I hope that's ok.

Belated birthday wishes . . .

Teri, I am SO sorry that I forgot your birthday, I hope you had a wonderful day and are stil recovering from all the hi-jinx and shenanigans! :D Here's what I made for you, using a decoupage sheet from the Crafty Purple Frog and a paper from Crafty Chaos Designs.
These are the challenges I'd lie to enter:
The Pixie Cottage - sketch #88
Shopping Our Stash - no colouring allowed (the decoupage sheet is already coloured)
Birthday Sundaes - belated birthday card
The Crafty Pad - sparkly gems
Cute Card Thursday - anything goes
Moving Along With The Times - sparkle

Apalling apothecary

It's Monday, woohooo, which means it's time for another Macabre Monday challenge at the Haunted Design House! This week the challenge is "Apalling Apothecary" You are of course free to interpret this in any way you choose, as long as it's suitably dark. Think potions, spells, old glass bottles, poison, ingredients, anything that the phrase "Apalling Apothecary" brings to mind for you.
I've taken a slightly different direction than normal for me and created a digital scene, of a witch coming to check that all is well in her stash. No sentiment, no papers, no embellishemnts, just dozens of digi bits placed togther to create this:


These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Quirky Crafts - anything but a card (a 4x4 in my case)
Scrappy Frogs - vintage
Shopping Our Stash - vintage, distressed or shabby chic
4x4 Friday - skeletons or skulls

How much stuff . . .

. . . can I possibly get on one creation? Well, apparently lots and lots. Usually I have trouble when I deliberately set out to make something "busy" but I actually love this one :D The image is Little Mermaid by Barbara Jensen, and the paper is one I made for this piece.

These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Smeared and Smudged Very Sketchy - Sept card sketch
Smeared and Smudged Rock n Rolla Challenge - be inspired by the cideo to Warpaint by Warpaint
Picture Perfect Creations - white, purple, teal
Craft Your Passion - F is for Fussy and Fancy
Crafty Emma's Store Challenges - more than four different types of embellishment (ribbon down the side, clear gems on the ribbon, purple bow, dangling crystals across the top and glitter on the purple edges)
Totally Gorjuss - anything goes
One Stop Craft Challenges - girly
Delightful Sketches - girly girl
Cute Card Thursday - anything goes
Moving Along With The Times - sparkle

Boo to you!

It's time for another challenge at Corrosive, and this time we want you to use punches and/or dies. Or, if you work digitally like me, cut out shapes from digi paper and make them look like punches and die cuts. One of our sonsors this month is Dude Time Doodles, and this little guy is actually a freebie on their blog for this week only., so pop over and pick him up if you like him. They also have a challenge running where you could be their GDT for a month if you create something using this image and enter their challenge. Why not do both challenges at once?
The backing paper is from an as-yet-unreleased set called Poison Candy, which will be available soon at the Crafty Chaos Designs shop.
These are the challenges I'd like to enter:
Sketch and Stash - I used the S&S sketch #59, and both the paper and the image are brand new.
Crazy for Challenges - pumpkins
Dude Time Doodles - use the freebie image provided
Papertake Weekly - things with wings
Mami Doodles - all creatures great and small
Sew Many Challenges - Halloween
Cute Card Thursday - anything goes
Little Miss Muffett - things with wings
Stamptacular Sunday - just sayin' (include a sentiment)
One Stitch At A Time - punches

Splat!

Here's what I've done today, for the current challenge at Smudgy Antics, plus a few others. I saw the challenge theme (Paint) last Monday, and thought, hmmmm, I've got a week, I could get out some real paints and not do a digital piece for a change. And then suddenly it was today and there are only a matter of hours left until the challenge ends! MEEP! So, it had to be digital, but I've tried to make it look very very "paint-y" and used lots of different textures and brushes. The image is Octopode from the Heebie Jeebie set at Smeared Ink.
These are the challenges I had in mind while creating:
Smudgy Antics - paint
The Pixie Cottage - sketch #87
Color Q - turquoise, celery, grey, poppy
Fairy Fun Fridays - masculine
Cute Card Thursdays - anything goes
Cards For Men - anything but square
My Time To Craft - kaleidoscope of colour
Totally Stampalicious - anything goes