Quixotic

Good afternoon!! Here I am sharing my Quixotic Card this week. I post on Wednesday's over on the Quixotic Blog, but I seem to have lost the use of my brain over the past few days.. and I forgot to post here. HA! I hope you've all had a better start to the week than me.

I'm gonna keep this short and sweet 'cause I am pooped!! I did have a plan in mind to use the Quixotic Sketch as inspiration for this card, but I've only recently got my laptop back to life after leaving my charger at my boyfriends over the weekend. NEVER again. I've been having withdrawls. So, inspite of the fact I don't have a photographic memory.. I had to go with something different.

Instead I used an adorable Some Odd Girl Stamp - Tobie and His Puppy stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I've had this stamp for forEVA but only just got round to inking him up now. Is that bad?! I don't know why I put it off for so long, him and his pup are the sweetest (of friends)!! There are so many colour options with this image too, you could make your project really personal! :)

I have coloured Tobie using Copics and ProMarkers to match papers from MME Mabel 6x6 paper pad. I've also used a paper doily and some American Crafts Ribbon. The edges have been distressed and I've doodled around the main panel on the cardbase using a brown fineliner.

Copics - Skin: YR000, YR00, E11, R30; Hair: E33, E35, E37; Eyes: E33, E35; Dog: E44, E47, E49, W0, W1, W3

ProMarkers - Jeans: Cornflower, China Blue, Midnight Blue; Oranges: Honeycomb, Ginger; Greens: Mint Green, Soft Green

Like I said, short and sweet! ;) Enjoy your Thursday.. whatever you may be doing.

Pollycraft Challenges #116

Hey all, I'm gonna keep this real short and sweet, 'cause it's late, and I'm pooped. Oh, and Despicable Me is coming to an end and I want to be asleep within the next half hour at the most! LOL.

So this is my post for the new Pollycraft Challenge which was picked by our very own Mary J and went live on Monday. We want to see

SPOOKY GOINGS ON

Some of you may or may not know that I've got my second ever craft fayre this Saturday. It's Halloween themed and there will be fancy dress and trick or treating all happening. So I decided to make another little tag to add to my collection. It's such a shame that the UK don't make a big deal about Halloween - I don't know many.. if any people.. who send and receive halloween cards, so I went with something a bit less specific. Tags can be used for millions of things *short and sweet, Lou*

So here is what I came up with for the challenge this week..

Of course I had to use Luna, she just screams "awesome" to me. I decided to colour her in more subtle shades this time round - she looks so neat. Do those eyes remind you of anyone? Edward Cullen perhaps? Well.. that's the look I was going for. Not as honey golden as his, I'll admit!! But they look better IRL than on this picture - isn't that always the case?!

I added a sentiment from an Amy R set and some little "x" stitches made using a brown fineliner. Some bats in the top portion and some orange bakers twine complete this little project.

Once again, sorry I'm so late. I'd left my laptop charger at my boyfriends over the weekend, what a nightmare it has been. I now feel extremely lost and have a lot of things to be catching up on.

Roll Up, Roll Up. It's SUNDAY!!

Now that Sundays are 'free' from posting on my blog, I thought I'd do a little weekly round up (obviously not every week, 'cause my life just ain't that interesting) - but I thought it'd be nice for the people who read my blog to get a little insight into stuff other than my crafting, but admittedly it will mostly be crafting!! HAHA. Let's see how it goes. I totally stole this idea from Kim Dellow's Blog, but the girl is amazing - I'm sure she won't mind! The whole round up/ news thing seems to be catching. Check out Simonne's Blog too!! :)

Unfortunately while you are sitting reading this post I'll be at work - sore feet and all. Yuck. No crafting time today I tell ya, and I'm missing out on my Sunday roast!! :( On the plus side, I sat for almost four hours in my car yesterday.. colouring. Whilst the boyfriend played rugby. It was far too cold to be standing still on the sidelines!!


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You all ready for some NEWS?! Check out Paulas post over at Pollycraft right NOW.. There are some MAJOR plans in the pipeline, you guys will not wanna miss out. PLUS Paula's having a huge sale on ProMarkers



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So this week.. I found this amazing opportunity floating about there in blog land. If you like The Octopode Factory stuff, you GOTTA check out THIS POST over at Lily's Blog. The girl and her designs blow my mind!! If I didn't have so much already going on I would so apply!! Why does life have to be so busy?!

I also want to share a link to Kristina Werners Blog - she was the girl who totally introduced me to card making through her YouTube channel a few years back now. I cannot thank her enough!! She has the third series of her Holiday Card Making Series 2011 up and running now, it's well into it's third week.. so head on over to her Blog now and see what you've been missing out on!

Along the lines of inspirational girls.. have you lot checked out Amy Rysavy's Blog - Prairie Paper and Ink. If not, get yo butts over NOW. She's recently wrapped up a Halloween Card Making Series and has a Christmas Card Making Series in the pipeline. Wowzers! I've been a follower of her blog for aaaages and I always sit and watch her videos when I'm stuck for inspiration.

I don't know if any of you know, or follow me over on Facebook, but I've been thinking about 'crafting on the go' lately - well, transporting some of my craft stuff too and from my boyfriends! LOL. Whenever I'm there I'm always itching to be doing something while he watches the football/ rugby or plays on his xBox. You know the deal girls - boys and their toys!! So late last week/ this week I set about finding some tools and products to help me do that.

I already own a lap desk thingy I bought from Argos AGES ago which is really handy as it is a reasonably large area in which to lay out your stash and create on at the same time. Then I was thinking about how to make my alcohol markers portable. I don't have all that many, at least.. I didn't think I did until I started fitting them into this little tote from The Glitter Pot.

Here is a picture of my little tote full of marker goodness. I think I'm in love! LOL. It's just gonna be a huge problem when I expand my collections and add some Flexmarkers into the mix. Yikes. Gonna be another mission to find somewhere where they all fit together! I reinforced the tote with some scraps of corrugated cardboard - not that the PM's stay in their designated squares, but hey.. it works at a push and it means I can now colour on the go. Happy times.

Okay, so who said this would be about something other than craft?! Oops! Think I've waffled enough. Heehee..

P.S The Glitter Pot have AWESOME delivery times and even better customer service. Highly recommened. They have brilliant prices too. 5*

Punch it Out at LLLC

It's Friday again, and that can only mean one thing. Inspiration from Team Friday over at La La Land Crafts! ;) I made this card well ahead of time, because surprisingly enough time has been on my side this week. Magic or what?! This week we want to see you use those..

PUNCHES..

in innovative ways.. or traditional ways. :) You need some inspiration?! Head on over to LLLC now to see what the rest of Team Friday have up their sleeves for ya!!

I've used Lil' Rocker Luka - isn't he a sweetie?! I love his pose and that cap is so cool. I've coloured him using a mix of Copics and ProMarkers..

Skin: YR000, YR00, E11, R00

Dark Greys: Ice Grey 5, Black

Greys: Ice Grey 5, 4, 2

Guitar: Ice Grey 1, 2, Blender

Blues: Cornflower, China Blue, Midnight Blue

I've only used two little slices of patterned paper from My Minds Eye Hattie collection, as I wanted Luka to be centre stage. I've stamped a sentiment from a Hero Arts set in Blue Bayou ink from SU!

As for punches.. I used SU! Decorative Labels punch to create the details around the circle. SU! Spiral Border punch down the right hand side. SU! Large Star punch.. for the stars and finally SU! 1 1/4" square punch to create the banner ends. I hope that gives you plenty of ideas! :)
 

Old School and Shoosies

It's Thursday again my friends! ;) Long day at work today, yack. Tis monies though.. so I ain't complaining. I bought myself some new (walking) boots (for work) on Tuesday and they're the comfiest(sp?!) ever! :) Happy feet = good times. They're Brasher and just awesome. I have numerous pairs of walking boots but of course none of them were black.. so hell - I just have another pair to add to my collection. It ain't like my feet are gonna grow anymore though, right?

Onto some sadder news! :( I lost the first round of darts singles last night. I won't go into details.. but to say I was gutted would be an understatement. Ahh well, there's always next year. Plus I have the doubles to play yet, so fingers crossed for me and my partner for that. I want at least one trophy this season! :)

Okay, now I've sufficiently waffled on.. let's introduce the new challenge over at SOG this fortnight. We want to see..

BLACK AND WHITE IMAGES

Challenging for me, definitely. But that's the whole point!! I find it so hard to create enough definition and depth between the shades of colour. I used a mix of Copics and Promarkers - ice, cool and warm greys.. so my image looks a bit higgildy piggldy. I was waiting on my delivery of a few more Copics to try and do the whole image in Warm Greys, but they didn't arrive in time. I was already a day late uploading my card to the DT blog. Silly me! :(

As warned.. here are some more papers from that delicious American Crafts - Hello Sunshine collection. *blush* I told ya!!

I dunno what it is.. but for a neat freak I've got a love for adhereing papers at wonky angles lately. Hopefully it's just a phase as I think my cards are starting to look a little 'samey' - please tell me otherwise! HA. Anywho, I used the gorgeous Kimono Kaylee from the latest SOG digi release.

I went a little OTT with the Liquid Pearls too, but I kinda like it - ties it all in and adds another touch of blue aside from the seam binding. I used a sentiment from Hero Arts and punched three pieces of blue patterned paper from the Hello Sunshine collection using SU! Decorative Labels punch to create a strip across the card for my sentiment.

I would like to enter this card into these challenges:

× Craft Room Challenge - Black and White

× My Time To Craft - Punches and Dies

× Sweet Stamps - Lots of Layers

 

Head on over to the challenge blog now to see what other creations the ODDies have made using their Black and White images. :)