where sun comes from - SDC80

Dearest Minions,

For the last challenge of the year the stampotique challenge blog are having out with old in with the new. So here is my brand new smug cat from line up which I got for Christmas and a tim holtz crown, back ground sun rays and my beloved peg stamps. The heart is cut from a glittery birthday card for added bling. I have done several cards with weenie smug.

Below is a CAS card, which is coloured with provo markers, the shadow is from a fleximarker.

I would like to everyone a peaceful, happy Holiday.... with lots of inky fingers!
EE

lucky dip - try it on Tuesday

Dearest Minions,


This is my entry to the latest Try it on Tuesday challenge which is a lucky dip of die cut, pearls, ribbon, stamped image and sentiment I chose: ribbon, sentiment, die cut and stamped image. The tag was die cut out of packaging that has been sprayed and embossed. The sentiment and stamped image where then added. The stamped image is a mask that I have used and I love the effect on it.

Tootles
EE

Flight

 

Dearest Minions,

Greetings, I love the simplicity of this image. I coloured it with water colour pencils and fleximarkers. the stone is high lighted with sparkles, which have not shown up, but are there honestly. I hope this brings a little summer into the dark winter nights

Tootles

EE

Home sweet Home

Dearest Minions,

Two friends have moved home recentley and this is my home sweet new home card for them the wonderful House image is by the very talented Michelle Webb. Do check out her blog it is very inspirational and amusuing. images coloured wih water colour pencils and then treated with a Koi water pen.

This is my entry to this week's less is more which is a one layer card and has the tittle in a row. I also entering this into:
Stamp your life - anything goes - this is their first challenge so give them ago!
and the ever wonderful inspire me Fridays.

tootles
EE

hohoho

Dearest Minions,

Greetings from dark, cold rainy Suffolk. This kind of sums up my mood, so delightfully dark and glinting.

The wonderful image is from Delious doodles coloured with alchol inks and provo markers.

tootles
EE

TIOT - lets get inky

Dearest minions,

Good morning, this is my entry for the TIOT challenge which is lets get inky. the image, Emo at Christmas is from the fantastic Delicoius Doodles - who are sponsoring us hurrah! and the sentiment is from ginger's house.

I printed the image on acetate then coloured the back with alchol inks. I then rubbed off the inks on the face. this was then stuck over a print of image which had been coloured with provo markers and fleximarkers and stuck in a die cut card to hold it in place. The surround was stamped with a craft stamper freebie stamp using distress inks.

I really did get covered in ink with this one.

Come and join us I can't wait to see your pieces/ink stained fingers!

Tootles
EE

less is more

Good Morning minions,

This is my entry to this weeks less is more challenge which is Red and green. The stamps are stampotque and HOTP (Joy.)

I hope you are nice and toastie in this cold weather. Remember a cold minion lets 007 through, so wear gloves and hat and stop spies from runing our world domination plans.

Tootles
EE

Santa Elf of Doom

Dearest Minions,

This is my new Santa elf of doom. (The Octopode factory's scarecrow) the hat is from my lost coast Mona Lisa in Santa hat stamp, coloured with provo markers and the background is the carol the holly and the ivy, printed in the font bleeding cowboy on acetate.

I think that this is rather suitable for the new ocotopode challenge which is words and the artistic stamper challenge this month which is anything goes.

Tootles

EE

watch the strange freaky birdie

Dearest Minions,

This is my strange freaky clockwork bird chap, made with hot picks and water colour pencils which were misted to give the strange glowy effect.

These are my wing'd minons, imagine the poops they can do on cars!

Tootles

EE

Christmas Sparkle DT

Greetings,

This is my main card for Christmas, the stamp is from Lost Coast designs via happy daze and the quote is from George Carlin. The card does have a small twinkly heart, but I think that the dancers are called reindeer names like Trixie, Sparkle and JoJo,  hence my non traditional Christmas Sparkle card for the current Try It On Tuesday Challenge. 

Who needs snow when you have three wild, ginger beer drinking, glam dames?

I look forward to seeing your entries.

Tootles
EE

Monster Christmas

 

Dearest Minions,

This is my monster Card. I used baby Cthulu by Stampotique and the free stamper from this month's craft stamper, the merry Christmas stamp is another freebie from a mag it is made by HOTP.

I am entering this in to CASual Fridays which is a blue Christmas scene and Less is More challenge which is to use hardware, hence the star brads and ATCs & Cards with attitude anything goes winter or autumn.

Tootles

EE

Memory - TIOT

Dear Minions,

Greeting this is my entry to this weeks Try It On Tuesday which is memories. I love this quote, "Memory is the mother of all wisedom."

The image is an acetate image on top on gesso which has been coloured with water colour pencils (which I got out of Craft Stamper mag in Nov.) I love old fresco texture, it's given the image.

Tootles
EE

birthday time

Dearest Minions,

This is yet another card made with the paper artsy Lynn Perrelli stamps. I made it for a male friend who I don't know that well so I did a theme of time and metal. do you think that the male face looks a bit like Mordred from Merlin?
Inside I made the octopodlet of birthdays.

Tootles

EE

Happy halloween

Dearest Minions

Happy Halloween, here is my second entry to this weeks Less is More which is a sketch. Here is another card which shows how the phatom of the Monty Pythons Salmon mousse stalks us.

tootles
EE

something cute this way comes

Dearest Minions,

Hello this is another halloween card, I am entering this into the following challenges:

Less is more- sketch
CASual Fridays - use Kraft card
Sunday Stamper -  harvest moom Autumn/fall colours
Fashionable stamping challenges - Halloween

The stamp is one of the new Stampotique images, Baby Cthulu. I could not resist him, I am a big HP Lovecraft fan (my favourite is Pickman's model.) the inks are distress and the sentiment is from Waltzing mouse stamps.

And here is the inside

and just a quick reminder that Try it on Tuesday has a DT call at the mo.
EE

Hallowe'eN

Dearest minions

 this is my DT piece for Try it On Tuesday the challeng is Hallowe'en. I love this image it is called Reaper and it is by the very talented Rick St Denis. the image is coloured with water colour pencils and flexi markers. The background is  coloured with distress inks and water colour pencils.

Look forward to seeing you entry.

EE

Autumn Colours

Dearest Minions,

this is my delious DT piece for try it on Tuesday, this challenge is Autumn colours, the beautiful embelishments are from Crafty Embelies who are our proud sponsors this month, HURRAH! this is a new Lynne Perelle stamp, sponged with distress inks.

I am also entering this into fashionable stamping challenges  - 32 Autumn/fall Colours to promande along the cat walk.

Tootles
EE

Coffin dogder

Good day,

This is my DT piece for this month's Smudger challenge - Hallowe'en. The digi is skull heart which so dinky and cute in a macabre way. I made this to put hallowe'en sweets in for the children, I am wondering whether to have sweets and wasbai peas....... evil laugh.

Oh and by the way, I know I have been away here is where I have been..

Barcelona! this is a view from the wondrous Miro institute and here is one of his amazing sculptures

IT HAS BUTTOCKS!
Look forward to seeing your hallowe'en entry.
Tootles
EE

a journey of discovery

Dearest Minions,

This is a card for two friends who started their married life on a beach with the rain forest behind them, so I think that the sentiment applies.

I am entering this into the following challenges:
Pause, Dream, Enjoy - faces
less is more - Love and marriage
Pan pastals - Sentiments/verses

kises and mwahs
EE

Odd bods happy homes

Good day,


The wonderful Smudgetastic Digis are sponsoring us this month at Try it On Tuesday we have an anything goes challenge.

This is my entry the tiny weenie house is from paperartsy as it the paint which is Rose. The happy little inhabitant is Monster face by Smudgetastic Digis, coloured with fleximarkers. The other stamps are by prima, the cog is by crafty emblies and finally the quote is from my trusty slice and dice dictionary.

It took ages and lots of fiddling to get the image in the correct place, but it was worth it he looks so happy.

EE

NOT stalking you

This is my entry to this weeks less is more which is brown and pink. the image is coloured with pink and fawn fleximarkers, which makes him seems more human then when I use him normally.

This handsome sexy piece is Monster face from Smudgestatic digis and the excellent quote is from Ginger's House. the card is edged with distress ink to bring out the very nice die cut shape.

I am also entering this into:
 the all sorts challenge -anything but a square
the crafty pad - anything but a square card
Meljens Design Team - anything goes

and here he is in a different colour scheme.

 

Tootles EE

Lost thread

Dearest Minions,

This is my DT entry for the wonderful smudger challenge blog which is up cycle/recycling. The box is an old graze box which is now my thread box hence the sentence. The fabulous faces are eye see you,  monster face, Pickle, coloured with flexi markers.

and the inside looks like this...
I am also entering this in to the following challenges
ATCs and cards with attitude anything goes as attitude it does have.
the joyful stamper Inspire me fridays anything goes
the stamp man - alter it
Paper crafting journey -anything goes

Tootles EE

Travel -tiot challange

Good day,

This is my entry to this the Try it on Tuesday challenge - Travel and what better way to than by paper artsy fishship? the colours are faded jeans and tumbled glass distress inks and the backing paper is from Prima botanical and features lots of old postcards& stamps.

Look forward to seeing your entry.
EE

50 shades of decay

Dearest Minions,

here is my very late entry to Macbre Monday - who you calling sucbus? and also less is more. Less is more is a recipe this week and mine is: 3 words, 2 legs 1number.

The legs belong to a wonderful free from the fabulous Ike's world it is called Witches promise.

tootles
EE

tentacles -ATC

Good day,

This is my entry to this fortnight's Octopode Factory Challenge which is circles. I have used Willow from Octopde Factory as my main image, the cheeky tentacles belong to Smudgetastic digis. I coloured the back ground with pan pastels, then stamped Tim Holtz circles over the top, then went back with a light dusting of pan pastels to bring out the circles. Willow and the tentacles were coloured with water colour pencils - I then played with my sakura pen again. The red is from my new distress ink marker which ran a bit when I sprayed the image with cheap hair spray to set the pastels - one could say that it was upset, distressed  almost...

Tootles
EE

Oggling - a new sport

Good day,

After the new sport of beach volley ball at the olympics a new off shoot sport of oggling has been bourn; always practised it has now been taken to a new level in the UK. This is my entry to this week's CASual friday card challenge which is something you would see on the beach and this week's less is more which is tearing. The wonderful smudgetastic digi image was printed, coloured with fleximarkers and then torn outusing a metal ruler, I then inked the edges with Tumbled glass distress ink.

Tootles
EE

bee happy

Yes another pun, are you shocked and amazed? this is an entry to this week's less is more challenge which is tearing and Flora and Fauna the challenge on Crafty embliesand as for once I haven't used a digi I buzzing it over to Fresh Brewed blog which has a large bouncer on the door for NO DIGIS.

 The backgrounds are Tim Holtz circles & squares and my mind's eye, the bees were a cheap stamp from Hobby Craft which was masked and then shaded with water colour pencils. the words are my beloved peg stamps and then more my minds eye for the three little bees.

tooles
EE

try it on Tuesday - Sketch

Dearest Minions,

here is my sketch for this forthnight's challenge for TIOT and without further a do here is the sketch.

Come and join us....
EE

smudge fest day 7

It is the last day of Smudgefest at Smudgy antics and it is a sketch. The prize is a droolsome bag that I am lusting after. so fingers crossed. this is my entry Emo Ninja teddy I have used two smeared ink images the Teddy who I also used yesterday and the ring he is stepping out of is from death as a plague. I used Tim Holtz stamps for the background and french stamps for the circle. The book pages are from the water babies.

Tootles
EE

Blackbird - smudge fest

Evening,

It is day 6 of Smudgefest and today's challenge is an ATC based on the below Beatles song. I chose the line "take these sunken eyes and learn to see." The main image is from smeared ink, he looks so sad I thought it fitted. I masked the central image and then used distress inks on the background and a Tim Holtz stamp. I then sprayed a mister to give a stipple effect. Sad teddy coloured with flexi markers.

Blackbird - Beatles
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free
Blackbird fly, blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night
Blackbird fly, blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

you know how when you should be doing something you do something else? well here is the first ATC. Main image lil grumpies bottoms up.

tootles EE

trouble in a hood

Dearest Minions,

Two in one day, phew! here is my entry to day five of Smudgefest at smudgy antics which had a great freebie of a  Zombie red Riding hood. The quote is from the most excellent Ginger's house.

Here is my take on it.

tootles
EE

wings and biscuits

Good morning,


this is a quick post this morning, this is a very late entry to the Octopode factory with wings challenge and this weeks challenge on the CASual fridays challenge blog which is a square card. the ever wonderful that craft place have a especially apt challenge of things with wings so he will flap over to that as well.

the card is made with a stampotique stamp bat boy - such a hunk, my new Susanna loves stamps wings set and my beloved peg letter stamps.

have an excellent day.
EE

skittles

Good evening,

This is my entry to the smudge antics smudge fest Thursday throw down. which is to use at least 3 colours from the below

I used; blue, yellow and white and the death as a plague digi from smeared ink. Do have a look at the Smudge Fest there are some wicked prizes.
EE

I can hear mermaids singing

Dearest minions,

Another card for Less is more this week, blue and green and also for crafts and me challenge which is green with envy and of course the stamp man celebrations/anything goes.

The image is the little mermaid available from crafts and me. I coloured  the image with water colour pencils and blended the image with a sakura koi water pen.
here are two more variations on the theme.
tootles
EE