Incy Wincy Design challenge - Wildlife

The current challenge at the Incy Wincy Design blog is "Wildlife", so I hope this cute little birdie from Pink Petticoat counts. As is becoming the norm for me, I coloured the image in Paintshop and then made some papers to match. The whole set of papers is available free to download a few posts below this one, but I didn't want to post the card before now as I sent it to Cheryl, so I wanted to make sure she got it before I posted.

Dare You To Digi Stamp, colour challenge

It's a colour challenge over at the Dare You To Digi Stamp blog, and the colours are oange, yellow, and either black or white. Not my first choice for colours, lol, but I think it turned out ok. :)
The image is from Sketching Stamper, I coloured it in Paintshop (quelle surprise :P) and then made the papers to match :)

Lots To Do challenge - free papers!

The challenge this week over at the Lots To Do blog is "Brights". I've been immersed in Paintshop recently, and am starting to get the hang of things (a little bit at least :P) So, I made these papers to go with a particular image, and last night I made a decoupage card with them. And this morning when I woke up ready to take photos I realised that the silicon glue had bled the colours and the whole thing looked like a smudgy mess! :o
So, I've no card to show you, but the papers are what I was most pleased with anyway. I hope you like them too, please feel free to download them and use them in your own craft work, and if you do make anything with them, I'd love to see it :)
Just click on the image to see it full-size, then right-click and save to your own pc. :)

So Artful Saturday challenge - suitcases

The challenge this week over at So Artful Saturday is to use the free image of suitcases that is kindly provided. Very fitting as Jeanette is on her travels this week. I don't have any plans to travel at all, but everyone can dream, right?



The suitcases were free from the Art Freebies blog (where the challenge is hosted), the bird and wings are both from Dezinaworld, and the woman came from either Art Freebies or Dezinaworld, but I can't remember which, I'm afraid. The background is a rice paper effect, overlaid with a vintage world map.
And. lol, I know the phrase is more normally plural, but to me, it looks like she's thinking of one specific journey, hence the singular :)

Dezinaworld lace challenge

There's another great prize available this month over on the Dezinaworld blog, and the theme for the month is lace. I'm slowly slowly getting the hang of Paintshop, but there are soooo many buttons to play around with, so at the minute there's a lot of trial and error going on :P But, at least when you work digitally, errors don't mean that the piece becomes unusable because it can all be undone and re-done as many times as necessary (lol, quite a few, in my case :P)

Digital Two for Tuesday

There are two free images available every Tuesday on the Digital Two For Tuesday blog, and the challenge each week is to make something with them. They're quite masculine images this week, and I certainly was planning on something masculine when I started, but then it began to grow and include some pretty lace and flowers. This is my first piece of digital art that's been made just for creative fun rather than to be used as something on a website, I'd love to know what you think :)

Sophisticat Challenge #5

There's a great sketch this week over at the Sophisticat blog, designed by the lovely Cheryl, with the added challenge that it should include some bling, so I hope my gems count :)
The papers are from Funky Fairy, the image is from Pollycraft, and I did the sentiment in Paintshop.

Funky Fairy Challenge #36

The theme this week at the Funky Fairy Challenge Blog is "Transport" Lol, and once I realised that a sled is a form of transport, I knew what I wanted to do. I made a very simple Christmas card, using backing paper from the FF Simply Swirls collection, and made the mats and the sentiment in Paintshop. It's a really fab prize this week, a spot on the FF Christmas workshop, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed :)

Lots To Do Challenge 40 - Places or cities

The challenge this week over at the Lots To Do blog is to make something on the theme of Places or Cities, and I've made this vintage Paris ATC. The images are all from The Graphics Fairy, apart from the sentiment which I did in Photoshop with an overlay by Tammy Jackson, available at her Voodoo Scraps blog
The background is a street map of Paris, the Eiffel Tower image is a postcard, and, lol, the other piece is actually the front cover of an old catalogue that sold ornate mirror frames, but I don't read French, and to me it looks like a fancy menu or theatre programme :P

Incy Wincy Autumn challenge

The current challenge over at the Incy Wincy blog is "Autumn" and to use the colours Orange, Green, Brown, Red and Yellow. There's a fab prize on offer, so pop along and give it a go :)
I made this 4x4, using paper designed by Dorthi, whose work you can find at her blog HERE, and the little girl image is from a Creations by JJ CD. Having the papers all randomly layered like that made me think of a pile of autumn leaves, which I liked, hope you do too :)

Dezina wings challenge

There's been a month-long challenge over at the Dezinaworld blog, to make something on the theme of "Wings" and I've been thinking about it for a while, but for most of the month I couldn't get to my digital images or print or upload. Now, everything is back up and running (yay) but my mojo is still sleepy from the long break. So, I finally finished this card last night, and just in time too, as the challenge ends at midnight tonight. The image and wings and backing paper are all from the lovely June, who runs Dezinaworld, the frame I made and the sentiment I did in Paintshop :)