Challenge Time

 I had some time this weekend to play with a few of the challenge images on the Gecko Galz blog challenges and here is what I created...

Card Challenge...

Fantasy Challenge

Gothic Challenge...

Steampunk Challenge...

Tag Challenge... 

The pelican riding the turtle is a free collage image at some point.

I thought it went well with the tag.

There are a few more challenges to go...hopefully I will have time to complete them sometime this week or next weekend. If you have a bit of free crafting time hop on over to the blog, Gecko Galz, grab the free images and give it a go! You might just be a lucky winner :)

Conjurer of Dreams - Woodland Wildlife

Hello Friends!

It's my day to share my creations for  Conjurer of Dreams and this month our theme is Woodland Wildlife!

I started off by making a few cards..

My first uses this lovely owl and tranquil lake scene...hence Tranquil Beauty :)

My next card incorporates the stag which was a free image on the blog with the Forest Path background. 

My final card used an image from Beaver Dam that I paired with a bunch of candles I die-cut. 

For my final project I made this darling little Woodland Wildlife accordion tag album. I used images from many different sets with the base of it being Forest Animal Tags

I fussy cut some of the baby animals (bears, fox, wolves) and added them here and there on some of the tags. I thought this might be a fun design to write a little note to someone (a few words on each tag). Hmmm not sure to whom yet but it should be in the mail soon!

Hope you've enjoyed our little trip to the woods...

Have a lovely day friends!

Star Maidens & Christmas in July!

 Hello my ink stained friends! Today I am fortunate to share my makes for this month's theme at Gecko Galz.... Star Maidens!!

I had such fun with this theme - so many ideas came to mind, I had a hard time narrowing it down.

So to kick things off I created this fun round wall art piece. I painted the background using a variety of metallic paints then flicked on a bit of white paint to help create my night sky. The main image is from the Star Maiden collage sheet set which I printed and fussy cut to fit my very large 13" sky. 

My next project is this lovely Star Maiden door hanger. A bit of embossing to make her pop.

My next Star Maiden is this canvas piece. She is just so lovely I really wanted to make a colorful background to frame her. Added a few air dry clay embellishments to enforce the "star" aspect.

Up-cycled Gift Boxes...Originally these boxes were filled with sheets of washi stickers...well, you know how it goes - the boxes were just too nice to throw away so I decided to turn them into some pretty Starry Maiden gift boxes. 

Finally I have a pair of cards I made using various bits and bobs from my stash.  The top card is very me...blue, sparkles, shimmer but I was really stretching myself with the bottom card.  I very rarely work with oranges and yellows (well aside from Halloween) so this was out of my galactic comfort zone....hope you like it.

I hope you have enjoyed my projects for July but don't go yet...

This month Gecko Galz is celebrating Christmas in July!!

We are giving away an full collage sheet on every Design Team post this month instead of the usual single collage image. I am so excited for you to head over to the Gecko Galz blog and snag today's Christmas present...

The Girl Next Door!

I simply adore this collage sheet because you know how much I love retro, sassy ladies.  Here are a few projects I made with this sheet...

Be sure to pop on over to the blog to collect this and every free Christmas in July collage sheet this month!! Happy Crafting my friends...stay inky!!

Crafts Galore - Fred She Said...

 

Hello friends! New month, new Anything Goes challenge at Crafts Galore!!  If you create anything during the month of July be sure to pop it onto the blog and you could be the lucky winner!

This month the design team is playing with images from Fred She Said. I am tickled to say I was able to choose the lovely Hollyhocks image for this challenge and here is what I made...

I printed an arrangement of the different hollyhock images from the set onto a piece of watercolor paper. I then colored them using a combination of Prisma colored pencils, watercolor paints (background) and added some highlights with a marker. I then popped a bit of fence diecuts and sentiment. 

Be sure to stop over at Fred She Said to see all of their lovely digis and remember if you make anything during the month of July to add it to the list...you can't win if you don't enter!