Christmas greetings LOC

Greetings,

This is my final Design Team piece of the year for Left of center and I loved doing this. it a combination of Brett Welde stamps, Katzelcraft stamp (hat) Dylusion sentiments and a seasonal paper.

Happy Christmas to one and all.

tootles
EE
I am kind of hoping she goes for naughty!

Left of Center- Christmas colours

Greetings,

The funky chick of Christmas has arrived. `This is my Design team piece for Left of center - Christmas colors, which is sponsored by the wonderful Kenny K.
I used a stampotique stamp stuck a hat on and popped her in a frame.

tootles
EE

to be or not to be

Greeting,

This is my design team entry for this week's Left Of Center challenge which is creepmas. I love this time of the year, cold dark, booze, pretty lights and a great excuse to make card in the warm. I

 made this card using three of my fav stamp manufactures:
- skull - visible image
- santa hat - kazelcraft
- original quote - Carabelle studio.
papers from a selection from Making cards mag.

 Now where is that bloody mary?

tootles
EE

King of Cats -Left of Center

Greeting,
This is my DT entry for this week's Left of Center challenge which is fairy tales. As soon as I saw this wonderful image from Day for daisies I was in love he is called black cat but for me is the King of cats!I got so into this theme of fairy tales that I started researching the old fairy of the kings of cats.
The background is stamped with fleur de lis and tiny old writing. As I have a cat that rules my house, I felt the sentiment to be true!

I went to the Craft, art and cake show at the NEC yesterday. It was amazing! I have been to one in March several times but this was was HUGE. The cakes were amazing many had a Halloween theme.

Halloween LOC

Greeting,

Here is my latest DT entry for Left Of Center the theme is Halloween for all of this month. I loved this retro design from bugaboo stamps. This is Sihouette happy Halloween cat 

and here is what inspired the whole thing...

I printed this on acetate, dropped alcohol ink then backed with an old dictionary page so that the light shines through.

I also made the below card with the same formula bust used cob web dye cut and white card for the backing. I am entering this to Less is more challenge which is use acetate.
 I kind of liked the writing backwards so I left it like that, bet most people won't spot it!

Happy Halloween
EE

Vegan Zombie

Greetings,

I have excellent news; I am honored to say that I'm on the Design team for Left Of Center creative challenges. I have long been a entrant in their quirky challenges and was completely made up when I was accepted on their DT. So here is my first DT piece for their month theme of Halloween.

The image is from the most excellent and auspicious Rick St Dennis, it is called "Zombie let's have brains." I colored the image with prisma pencils which are my new craft lust objects. The fonts are "about dead" and "Bleeding Cowboy", which both seemed aptly named. I love this joke, also I think that vegan Zombies have been really under represented in the horror genre and it's time for that to change!

Tootles
EE

little one

Greetings,

I loved making this card, I gesso'd the surface and then created a great deal of mess playing with geltos. I have always wanted some but was put off by the price tag so when I saw some for £4.00 in hobbycraft two different color packs went straight in the basket. I then stamped it and mounted it.

I am entering it into the following challenges:
Less is more -peacock feathers colors
All sorts challenge - new beginnings 

and here is a piece of altered wood that I made into a home sign.

tootles
EE

that friend...

I am that friend and to quote Suckie Stackhouse I could not carry a tune in a bucket!
This is my entry to the left of center challenge which is altered images.
I used Katzelcraft images of cats then added sunglasses to the grumpy cat.

best wishes
Louise

Friends and pugs

Greetings,

This is me nipping in for the Sisterhood of Snark challenge H is hound love these Clarebelle studio stamps, the pug is so sad, he looks like he thinking existentially about a food bowl that is...... empty.this tag was made at a workshop at that's crafty with Helen Chilton, yuko paper and lots of alcohol inks, it was awesome.

and then the LOC challenge Friendship... I like to think of the stamp below as the four goose persons of the  apocalypse. Friends while the world burns!

tootles
EE

l'grumpy

Bonjour,

French the language of love ok the language of grumpy.
This is my entry to this week's less is more one layer, something french.
I loved the idea so much I did an Italian one too!
The cat stamp is by french company kaztelcraft and the background stamps are by Tim Holtz, colored in with Prisma pencils.

 
Tootles
EE

stencils

Greetings,

This is my entry to the that's crafty challenge masculine - evolution of man = deadly manly; and the less is more challenge use stencils. I used the Andy Skinner evolution stencil over a background spray painted with a dylusions number stencil.

Tootles
EE

purple

Less is more this week is purple, the challenge not the people. This is my experiment with purple paints and inks, it is not blurred, the inks blended with paint giving a smooched effect.

Talking of smooching, this is why there is usually only one seat available on a 3 seater sofa......

tootles
EE

In the pink!

I am a bit in love with silhouettes at the moment, this cute  little chap is a memory box die against a burshos background with a waltzing mouse stamp for the sentiment.

I am letting him trot out for a sniff at the allsorts challenge - in the pink.

tootles
EE

Singing in the rain

Good day,

I was extremely fortunate to have some stamps bought for me this Christmas from That's Crafty. they work wonderfully with brushos backgrounds, this is my entry to the Try It on Tuesday challenge - I can hear music. I don't really like musicals but singing in the rain is such a positive song, that I can help but hum it.

Singing In The Rain - Singing In The Rain (Gene Kelly) [HD ... - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZYhVpdXbQ

Tootles
EE

Bubbles

Greetings,

This weeks' less is more challenge is things that go pop I recently got some bubble stamps from Lavinia stamps, this challenge really kicked started me using them. the cutie on the cloud is a really old stamp that has wormed it's way back into my affections.

It has been a beautiful day here, so have some pictures of my garden looking pretty.

tootles
EE

Vintage seaside

Greetings,

This is my entry to the current Less is more challenge - seaside, I am also entering this card into the All sorts challenge - Vintage. I wanted the figure to look like a colored postcard image, so I stamped with brown ink and then lightly shaded with pencils.

a bit like this

As it is the seaside I also am entering the below image to the That's Crafty challenge - Friday 13th part 1

I made this with brushos, spray inks over a stencil by Brett Welde and then used Andy Skinner stamps on top. I love this stamp set it adds texture really well.

and I am finishing with fabulous fish (sharks can be glittery pink if they want) and Felixstowe looking beautiful in the sun.

Tootles
EE

courage

I was given this wonderful stamp recently and I am completely and utterly in love with it! the challenge at less is more is pastels. 
Lead the way my beloved Ostrich in pink ballet shoes.

EE

time

Greetings!

 

This is my many layered entry to the that's Crafty challenge - go figure.

 

 First I took a lot of paper scraps stuck them to card, trimmed to size, then I used the Brett Welde stencil of the Kracken and a tim holtz clock stencil with sage distress ink. I then stamped with the writing from the Visible image revolutions set, then I added and embossed  a Finabar figure. I added another heart in a contrasting color over the top. then I stamped over the whole thing with an Andy Skinner aging stamp, the embossing resisted the ink.

I then mounted the whole piece on a background which I had sprayed through a number stencil with.

This was so satisfying to create. 

I have also included a photo of a sheep giving me the stink eye this morning on my walk.


Tootles


EE

a stitch in geometric time

Greetings,

This is my entry to the sisterhood of snark E is for embossing  

 also Simply Less is more use 3 stamps (I used the same stamp 3 times on the basic grey paper.) 

613 avenue create - anything goes with a twist recycled (old Xmas card for background.)

For this card I embossed a piece of white card that was an old Christmas card and then added the the basic grey paper which I sewed and stamped one of the wonderful new stampotique images 3 times.

Tootles
EE

Bloom

Greetings, 

I love my alien plants blooming away, waiting to take over the world and build an army of Alan Titchmarsh clones. The wonderful stamps are from Lavinia stamps, the backgrounds are: green- Brushos and red- sprayed card ( I use a large piece of card under my spraying which then often becomes more interesting than the sprayed items....) the quote is from a French English dictionary.

So I am letting my plants march off towards the garden center in a determined manner via the following challenges:

Craft stamper - Spring flowers 

A beautiful mess -anything goes

Simply papercraft -anything goes

Tootles

EE

Vlad the Impala

Greetings,

I have a really horrible virus at the moment so am cheering myself up with a devious pun.  Does anyone else look at stamp sets and see puns? I saw this at the fabulous Inkylicious craft stall at the NEC a few weeks ago. As soon as I saw this stamp the pun was born. The background is made with brushos.

I am letting Vlad charge off at the following challenges:

Sisterhood of Snarky stampers - J is for joke.
4crafty chicks Scenic 
Crafting with an attitude - anything goes

Tootles
EE