What's Black and White with a Splash of Color?

Why the challenge at Rubber Dance Stamps this month!  The theme is "Black and White + Your Choice of One Color with the optional twist of Love or Romance.  Loved the theme when I saw the design team members makes and sat down and made all 3 of my entries in less than an hour with the long lost and/or hiding Rubber Dance Stamps from June for Dream in Darkness!  Wow , what an awesome find and hour :)

 

 

This was a little cube I found in the clearance bin and it had the sentiment embossed already in white on white so a little blue Nuance Powder and some water and magic!  All that lovely blue appeared with the words and dots so clear.  The stamp I used this time as a happy couple; I gave them too hard a time last go round so now they are in love and happy!  They are from Rubber Dance Stamps and called "Nostalgia Love".

That was it for this one two more coming up back to back :) 

Entering into: Rubber Dance Stamps Challenge Black and White+ Your Choice of Color with a twist of Love or Romance  

 

Tag Your It!

It's Go Tag Thursday time and it's all about "Wings" so hurry up and gets those wings stamped up and tagged up!  Here is my offering for the week using stamps by Rubber Dance and Holtz's paper pad which makes making things soooo easy :)

I added some crowns to the lovely ink bottle fairies and some words from Holtz's Chitchat pack and a bit of ribbon.  Hoping to get in in the linky in time so off for now!

Entering Go  Tag Thursday #7 Wings

Make it Crafty and Dream in Darkness for August

It's August, it's hot, and it's time for a new challenge at Dream in Darkness for August!  Make it Crafty is our awesome sponsor and I chose the saucy "Jet Propelled Santa" as my digital image to play with and if fact the whole DID team went a little steampunky this month!  

Yep, the old dear has made a bad landing on his skis that has caused a whole lot of damage to my house and some of my presents it seems!  

 

As you can see, he is taking it in stride with a huge grin on his face but I guess he did get about an 8.5 for sticking his landing!  

Action 5 Sky News was close by so they got an awesome photo from the air of the scene unfolding below them...even a great photo of my burnt prezzies!  Oh well, Santa tried and at least no one was home when the incident occurred!  

Hope you will all join us for the fun and win your choice of a digital image from the Make It Crafty crew; they have sooo many fantastic digis to choose from you will have so much fun!

You can jump HERE to enter the Dream in Darkness Challenge this month...remember we like odd, weird, steampunk, goth, dark, anything but CUTE!  It makes the Evil Froggie mad to see cute then we all catch heck from him....not a pretty sight! 

 

It's Altered Eclectics Time and DecoArt Time

Two of my favorite things...altered art and DecoArt products to make them look pretty!  The theme at Altered Eclectics is Anything Goes altered art and DecoArt has a fab challenge Under the Sea so I combined and came out with one pretty piece of regular old wood scrap that my sweet daddy had left  behind one of his construction projects.

Lots of DecoArt fluid acrylic blue and other blues, some interference paint, and some green metallic mixed with a bit of blue metallic for a scrumptious tropical sea blue/green make up this Finnabair style wood plank.  Seashells from my beach in Alabama and a found seashell necklace with some fabulous pieces to it and it was all done.

Hope you will join us at Altered Eclectics this month and inspire us with your awesome makes! 

I am entering this in the DecoArt Under the Sea Challenge

It's a Man Thing at Eclectic Ellapu for August

Finally trying to get into the swing of my two new design teams of which I am so happy to be a part of but life definitely got in the way making it a little tough to get going.  I am catching on with what is going on a bit now so hopefully I can contribute in a good way.  Our theme is basically anything masculine as in images, textures, your interpretation of masculine. Mine went to a series of orange and black cards I had made using Holtz's stamps and another stamp set that is at my home while I am at my mom's that I simply can't recall the name of but they worked beautifully together for a very simple care suitable for anyone of any age.

I hope you explore your imagination and join us; you can play with the purple or pink team :) or both!  We hope to see you at Eclectic Ellapu Challenge Blog this month!

August and Rhedd's Creative Spirit

I had this almost finished for July as you will recall when it disappeared..those darn gremlins!  But what a surprise when I found it all ready to finish for August.  Like a mini present :)  I have seen a lot of cereal box notebooks big and small so definitely wanted to give it a try.  I used the glue resist method then Nuance Powders with some Gelatos to add some shimmer.  The binding went a bit wacky but I can still use it.

I love the colors the Nuance Powders available at Lost Coast Designs produce and the resist with the glue was my first try but fun.

A huge green bead? found in my stash of broken jewelry bits and bobs became the perfect clasp and needed no painting!

Tangled Blue Rose had given me a ton of paperclay flowers and fun things..even a fly! so I colored them carefully with watercolor paints to keep from dissolving them.  The fly just had to go there for my title of the notebook "Always a Fly in the Ointment".

Come inspire us at Rhedd's Creative Spirit Challenge blog this month so we can visit your blogs and leave some love!  Thanks for having a look xx

Sneak Peek at August's Collection at Dragons Lair Designs

Summer is fast retreating....not fast enough for South Mississippi but retreating none the less and I have a sneaky peek for you.  As you know I can't talk anymore or I might spill the beans so here it is...a tribute to my mom and dad.

Please drop by on the first for all the wonderful details!

• Dragons Lair Designs Store - A fantastic range of digital downloads
• Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog - Bookmark us and come back regularly for inspiration
• Dragons Lair Designs Challenge Blog - Challenges starting the 1st Friday of every month with different themes, please come along and take part
• Dragons Lair Designs Fan Group - Even more inspiration, challenges, freebies and fun activities
• Dragons Lair Designs Facebook Page - Please do pop over and "Like" our page
• Dragons Lair Designs Etsy Store  - Another location to get hold of our range of digital downloads
• Janette Padley's Creations on craftsUprint - Yet another location to get hold of our digital downloads
• Dragons Lair Designs Crafts Group - selling buttons and bits and bobs

Kit and Clowder Lessons are Working!

I love my Create and Learn classes each month and the mermaid pencil coloring one was so awesome! I even got brave enough to post her at Kit and Clowder ....nerve shattering event..but really such nice people there!

Her name is Floating Pearls and she is by Ching-Chou Kuik from her Etsy store .  She is colored with Prisma colored pencils and layered with some dies and designer paper.  A ribbon finishes off my card.

I would like to enter here in the following challenges:

WORLD WIDE OPEN DT  

INSPIRATION DESTINATION

Lemon Shortbread #20

Dragonfly Dreams 

Rustic Culture Mini Kit 30% 22nd - 29th July at Dragons Lair Designs Store!

Love this mini kit it can be so useful for a man's page or to scrapbook a camping/outdoor event.  I did not have any pics here at mom's so I used a black cat :) from Dra...   You can get this mini kit for 30% off from July 22 - 29 so grab it and get started saving those memories!

Lots of papers and elements with this mini kit...makes it seem like a big kit to me!

Hope to see you at our monthly challenge for this month the theme is "It's a Zoo Out There!"  so my kitty fits the challenge theme...goodie!

• Dragons Lair Designs Challenge Blog - Challenges starting the 1st Friday of every month with different themes, please come along and take part
• Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog - Bookmark us and come back regularly for inspiration
• Dragons Lair Designs Fan Group - Even more inspiration, challenges,
• Dragons Lair Designs Store - A fantastic range of digital downloads
• freebies and fun activities
• Dragons Lair Designs Facebook Page - Please do pop over and "Like" our page
• Dragons Lair Designs Etsy Store  - Another location to get hold of our range of digital downloads
• Janette Padley's Creations on craftsUprint - Yet another location to get hold of our digital downloads
• Dragons Lair Designs Crafts Group - selling buttons and bits and bobs

We'd love to have you join us in our Fan Group and post up some pictures of any creations you make using any DLD items.

New Stamp Release Event at Lost Coast Designs

Welcome to the party!  It is with much anticipation and much fun play that we would like to share with you some of the fantastic new stamps we have at Lost Coast Designs!  I just swooned at the sight of this stamp "Winged Girl".  It takes me back to a vintage, fantasy type period of time when a lovely girl with wings could absolutely exist and flit from flower to flower spreading joy and happiness to all she met.

I made this while staying with my mom in the Intensive Care Unit and although I had some basic goodies in my rolling craft bag, it was not like being able to dig through my stash at home where my cheesecloth was or my ribbons.  I did think about swiping a pack of gauze for this one but remembered my raisings and did not do it :)  So hand rolled flowers, some Gelato colored leaf shapes and a cute paper pad had to suffice. I will definitely do this one again with the right materials but I am pretty happy with her as she is right now.

Our event will be running on the  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity  until     and we do hope you will play with us and enter your make at the Portal linky HERE.  And all of our fun challenges and events will be listed there for you to see and join in the fun with us.  Still time to get your entry in for this month's challenge which is "Anything Goes" and we know we all love that one so jump HERE and pop in your link.

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My trademark or style runs toward simple no fuss or frill types of projects.  I use just enough to enhance the image and let the image do the rest. The rest of the time I spend getting painty, inky, and really messy with paints making my own backgrounds and canvases.

WORLD WIDE OPEN DT  

INSPIRATION DESTINATION

Lemon Shortbread #20  

Dragonfly Dreams

July Monthly Fan Group Challenge "Gentle Waves"

Come by the Dragons Lair Designs Fan Group and join us in playing with a mini kit called "Gentle Waves" and get a chance to win a mini kit from Dragons Lair Designs Store .  I made a digital layout with the words for the Butterfly Collection to put in the frame which I love that cardboard look!

Hope to see your inspiration in the album HERE.  All of our links are below and you will finds lots of goodies to look at and don't forget the Sunday Showcase where a freebie is always given!

 

• Dragons Lair Designs Challenge Blog - Challenges starting the 1st Friday of every month with different themes, please come along and take part
• Dragons Lair Designs Inspiration Blog - Bookmark us and come back regularly for inspiration
• Dragons Lair Designs Fan Group - Even more inspiration, challenges,
• Dragons Lair Designs Store - A fantastic range of digital downloads
• freebies and fun activities
• Dragons Lair Designs Facebook Page - Please do pop over and "Like" our page
• Dragons Lair Designs Etsy Store  - Another location to get hold of our range of digital downloads
• Janette Padley's Creations on craftsUprint - Yet another location to get hold of our digital downloads
• Dragons Lair Designs Crafts Group - selling buttons and bits and bobs

We'd love to have you join us in our Fan Group and post up some pictures of any creations you make using any DLD items.

Two More for the Lost Coast Designs New Stamp Release Event

I am just having too much fun with these new stamps from Lost Coast Designs !  And I finally am back at my mom's apartment out the back door of my house so I can pop in and out to grab my goodies instead of trying to make do with my carry all of craft things that does not hold nearly enough goodies!  I have two to share with you this time.  The first is the fabulous ZENTANGLE FEATHER 1 stamped 3 times on white cardstock and because of no spray bottle at the hospital, I patted the paper down with a wet paper napkin then sprinkled my Nuance Powders and patted them around.  Those powders are so fantastic that they looked fab even doing it the weird way :) I glued them to some designer paper and glued that to yellow cardstock dabbed with the leftover green Nuance Powder napkin. The senti is from a freebie kit in a magazine that I managed to grab as I had none of my wonderful Misc. Words with me. I snagged some gauze and used Distress Ink to color it before layering the sentiment stamped on a bit of paper from the feather coloring paper...always keep a paper under your project to soak up those luscious colors!

 This next one had me drooling..again! when I saw it in the store.  It is the CALLIGRAPHY SHRINE layered on some more designer paper and some portions from two of Carmen's Veranda squares stamps. I used ARCHITECTURE SQUARE and PARADISE SQUARE. We had made it home in time for me to add the word from the MISC. WORDS set which I absolutely love and use over and over again.

 Thanks for stopping by again and please check out all the details of the event at the  Lost Coast Portal to Creativity where lots of cool things are going on and lots of chances to win awesome stamps!  And remember our challenge this month!  The theme is ATC'S...we all love to make those so get busy and toss that entry in the linky!

 Lost Coast Portal to Creativity

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Carmen's Veranda

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My trademark or style runs toward simple no fuss or frill types of projects.  I use just enough to enhance the image and let the image do the rest. The rest of the time I spend getting painty, inky, and really messy with paints making my own backgrounds and canvases.

WORLD WIDE OPEN DT  

INSPIRATION DESTINATION

Lemon Shortbread #20

Dragonfly Dreams 

Under the Sea with DecoArt

We all know how I love the beach, the sea, etc....you are fed up with hearing that I know :)  But when DecoArt gave the challenge "Under the Sea" could I pass that one up?  Of course not!  I began with a lovely mermaid themed underwater cardboard canvas..when thinking of keeping the cardboard out of the landfill gave me a whole new direction.  We have failed our Mother Ocean (yep, a Jimmy Buffett fan, too) and I heard her call.  Her beauty is being destroyed by our own needs for toss away stuff and a turning of our heads at what happens with this junk.  A good friend of mine does assemblage work that is so meaningful....some people take it the wrong way unfortunately, but she points our through her art the things we do that destruct our world around us.  So enough chatter here is my canvas "Father, alter us through love".

DecoArt gesso, modeling paste, blue fluid acrylics, and other colors which will be pictured below were used. 

A crucifix was given me by my friend mentioned above so I thought it fitting to add it. The words are from Tim Holtz's Chitchat Pack.

The broken heart is from a handle of a mug one of my children gave me but sadly I found broken just last week so now I can keep it.  The die cuts are from Cricut, a flower making cartridge but the leaves bundle reminded me of coral for some reason as did the flower coil.  All had some DecoArt metallic gold rubbed across and some glass beads along the bottom for maximum shimmer along with DecoArt's fabulous shimmer spray....yummy!

Thanks for stopping by and please check out the link about to DecoArt's challenge and also the products listed below :)

I am a messy crafter so sorry about the messy bottles!  I get all painty and into it!  Also use all my DecoArt products until the last drop of goodness!

Entering DecoArt's Challenge Under the Sea

http://asyoulikeitchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/your-trademark-style-and-why.html 

My trademark or style runs toward simple no fuss or frill types of projects.  I use just enough to enhance the image and let the image do the rest. The rest of the time I spend getting painty, inky, and really messy with paints making my own backgrounds and canvases.

INSPIRATION DESTINATION