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

Monster Love machine

Dearest minions,

Have had an interesting and challenging week. I thought this monster face from Smudgetastic digis is apt as I have one very patronising idiot to cope with, I now have one fat frog who was wishing he hadn't been patronising. This is my entry to Smudgy antics (triple threat) who asked us to use 3 stamps, I have used monster face 3 by Smudgetastic digis and their skull face (in his eyes, awww the look of emo lurve) and a wonderful freebie heart and sentiment from the hobby room.

This week's Less is more is a colour challenge of blue and green so he can sit there being loved up, Macabre Monday are having a freakers for all, I bet you he starts boring the other entries with tales of why his beloved is so wonderful (very Sam from season 2 of Games of Thrones.)

The digis were printed straight on to the card, I then shaded them with water colour pencils, I blended the colours using a sakura koi water pen which I have been using all afternoon with great abandon.

tootles
EE

PIg

Dearest Minions

This is my latest weenie card, not sure if it is cute or an insult. Inspired by the less is more sketch I added this little wooden pig from Crafty Emblies. So I am sending him forth to:

Less is more - sketch
Crafty Emblies - Flora and Fauna
fashionable stamping challenges - anything goes

and inside there is a cat reading a book

Just because...

Tootles
EE

Smudgetastic challenge DT - wahooo!

Dearest Minions,

I am really proud to say that I am on the Smudgetastic design team. So without further waffle here is my first design team piece, the challenge for August is vintage green. I used the the Norman digi by Smudgestastic and over layed it onto a free vintage image of some Victorian children. I then over layed some ageing gubbins over the top.

I printed the image sponged distress inks and copics on top, put a white highlight in their eyes, then I sand papered the surface and added the dictionary quote.I really like the end of the quote "a unit of a crime syndicate."

This image is inspired by the green children of Woolpit , a local legend and reason for not eating peas, ever. I really the green buggers and will pick them out of any meal including Samosas.

I would like to enter this into
Macabre Monday challenge -Freakers free for all 
Jackson Digital express- anything goes
LEJ Designs - magic and mystical
Twisted Tuesday - free for all
because I can.

Tootles
EE