Happy Halloween to you All

Morning all and what a spooky day it is:)

Now if you remember my drunken craft evening with Polly, well after some minor alterations whilst not under the influence here is what I made. Edited to tell you it is a hat

The design is made by Polly who very generously gave us her template to bring home, can see some more of these little numbers coming out of the closet as they are so easy to make.

So without any more waffle, here is my Halloween creation

really enjoyed creating as you can imagine :)

Thought I would enter this into just a couple of challenges and if I win anything will have to share with Polly, would only be right :)

I would like to say hello to my new followers, and as always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for the lovely and inspirational comments you leave, which allows me to hop on over in return to see your own lovely work.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Cupcake Inspirations - gorgeous sweet halloween treats image

2 Sisters - Halloween of fall colours

Crafty Calendar - All things Spooky

Crafty Mess - Halloween

Anything Goes - Anything Goes

Cards and More - Fall or Halloween

Crazy Amigo - Halloween

Creative Card Crew - Fancy Folds

LEJ Designs - Anything Goes

Ribbon Carousel - Halloween Spirit

Top Tip Tuesday - Halloween

Top Tip

don't create whilst under the influence :)

enjoy the rest of your day

Hugs

xxx

All Soft and Cuddly - Polar Bears by Wild Rose Studio

Good morning to you all again, looks like snow each time I look in the sky so thought I would introduce you to some cuties that live in the snow

This is one of the new Traditional Release images from 

Wild Rose Studio

called

Polar Bears

I decided this weekend to follow a sketch, not something I normally do, so it was a challenge, I also wanted to use some of my older Xmas papers up and found some Polar Bear papers :) just perfect I thought, not sure now if they go that well with the other papers but there you go!!

The Sketch is from 

The Sketchy Challenge

I rotated it to suit my image.

So here is my playing

The base layer and contrast is an antique gold, the papers I am sorry not sure they are so old.  Bling added for snow and a star too, a little bow and some pearls to give it a little extra. Quite a basic layout for me.

here is a close up of the image

Polar Bears by Wild Rose Studio

coloured in copics with some Atyou and all that bling.

If you want to see more of the Wild Rose Studio collection or be inspired by others hop and see us on 

Facebook 

or in the 

Wild Rose Studio's gallery

I would like to say hello to my new followers, and as always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for the lovely and inspirational comments you leave, which allows me to hop on over in return to see your own lovely work.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Dream Valley Challenges - Glitter and Bling

One Stitch at a Time - Make 1 for Xmas

Penny Black and More - Animal Magic

The Crafty Pad - Xmas is Coming

enjoy the rest of your day

Hugs

xxx

Trick or Treat Mid week Squeeeeak !!!!! for the HM & F Monday Challenge

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

gosh doesn't time fly and here we are again with the mid week squeeaky!!!!!

for the

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge

the theme this week is

Spooky Sweet!!!!!!!!! Colour Challenge

the colours being

Orange, Purple, Lime Green and Black

with the Addition of a Special Blog hop!!!!!
details of blog hop below :)

with our fabulous sponsor

One winner will get a $25 gift certificate from House-Mouse Designs

here is my midweek creation, but do hop over  to the main challenge site to see the rest of the amazing inspiration from my sister meeces :)

I made an easel card.  The base colour and contrast is a lovely deep purple and the papers are 7 Gypsies some really old papers I have but the colours were exactly what I needed. The image frame is a new nestie with the image plate trimmed to fit.  The lush deep purple satin ribbon wrapping around the bottom of the easel and over the corners of the return. A triple bow has been added with the little silver pumpkin charm.  On the return is a Memory box die with a nestie scallop sat on top.  The distressing is TH distress ink Dried Magnolia. Edged in stickles.

Now on to those close ups

The return first as just had to show you the little meecey under his blanket being a ghost so cute :)

and then the image

Coloured in copics

The images are from a clear stamp pack, so versatile and lots of them

*House Mouse CLEAR Stamps HALLOWEEN CSHM047

from Simon Says Stamp, adorable so many of them :)

Do hop over and join us for the challenge :)  and hop!!!
you can read how here

Don't forget, you too may submit your House-Mouse, Gruffies and Happy Hoppers creations directly to THE Official House-Mouse Designs site found HERE!  

I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave me such inspirational and kind comments, and this then allows me to hop on over and visit you in return.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Amusing Challenge - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations Paint - Halloween

Fashionable Stamping - Halloween Colours

Red Carpet Studio - Pumpkins / Halloween

The Squirrel and The Fox - Ribbon

Cupcake Inspirations - delicious cakes for Halloween photo inspirational

hugs

xxxxx

Wicked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIM..................

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

I recently saw a card made of layers using your graphic program and decided to give this a go.

This is a one layer card, created in Photoshop then printed off and then coloured with copics.  The papers were from somewhere on the net sorry lost the link now but so bright and vibrant even if my photo does not show this.

Here is the image on close up coloured in copics with Atyou Glitter pens too.

The image is from Crafts and Me and is called Pricilla.

The background is BV02 feathered with the blender

I would like to say hello to my new followers and I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers who take the time to leave me such inspirational and kind comments, and this then allows me to hop on over and visit you in return.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenge
Craft Punked - Halloween
Craftymess - Halloween
Digi Haven - Halloween
Dilly Beans - Halloween
Forever Night - Colours Orange Black Grey

enjoy the rest of your day

Hugs

xxx

Funny Ha Ha !!!!!! Just not like me

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

At the weekend  I am attending the family gathering, fancy dress is optional (so I will not be partaking) as the theme is Halloween.  Although I have agreed to take my mousie pumpkin for decoration :) a fitting location.

So here I am today with her Birthday card, now I have not gone sassy this time, but an unknown for me "humour"

See what you think, I used one of my recent win images from Bugaboo this is Stella Peeker Another Drink with the matching sentiment.

Another of my 8 inch square cards, a grey base colour and contrast, with papers from Grimsby Crafts.  Punchwork dressed with lace and a dotty black ribbon.  Lots of Hobby House pearls and some gorgeous pearl black swirls.  The airbrushed R04 Wild Orchid Crafts flower I think works perfectly here.

Here is a close up of the image

coloured in copics with some Atyou Orange and red and distressed with TH Magnolia.

I made a box to match

I hope she likes it.

I would like to say hello to my new followers, and as always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for the lovely and inspirational comments you leave, which allows me to hop on over in return to see your own lovely work.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Divas by Design - Orange

Perfect Sentiment - Happy Birthday

Creative Card Crew - Fancy Folds (the box)

Flourishes - A Birthday Card

enjoy the rest of your day

Hugs

xxx

Bella with Gifts by Wild Rose Studio

Good morning to you all again, it is so foggy outside and so miserable

and this creation may make you feel even colder.

I decided that my dear little Bella's need to come out and visit you all again and couple that with I needed to use some more die cuts that arrived in the post (not sure how that happened honestly!!)

So here is my playing

I made another one of my half circle cards, and this is the largest of the new fancy grand circles (one of my new dies sets).  The inner layer is also the next size in of these gorgeous dies.  I added the image in the fancy oval added some of my Memory Box frostyville dies and my new circle frostyville die :) The papers sorry that old that I do not have a cover on them any more. 

The sentiment is by Wild Rose Studio from the Jolly Greetings set.

here is a close up of the image

Bella with Gifts by Wild Rose Studio

coloured in copics with some Atyou, stickles and liquid applique (non puffed on this creation, although not sure I like it this way, sort of looks like pearls!! and not snow on the close up)

If you want to see more of the Wild Rose Studio collection or be inspired by others hop and see us on 

Facebook 

or in the 

Wild Rose Studio's gallery

I would like to say hello to my new followers, and as always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for the lovely and inspirational comments you leave, which allows me to hop on over in return to see your own lovely work.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

Creative Card Crew - Fancy Folds

ABC Challenge - New to You (dies lots of)

The Crafty Pad - Use an animal

Hiding in My Craft Room - Die Cuts

One Stop Craft - Anything Goes

enjoy the rest of your day

Hugs

xxx

Boo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Spooky Blog hop and colour challenge with the House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

 Hope that the header got your attention :) as today sees the next special challenge at the 

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge

now this was not going to be my turn but I sort of had to borrow it, as I just needed to use some new meecey purchases, so the theme is 

Spooky Sweet!!!!!!!!! Colour Challenge

the colours being

Orange, Purple, Lime Green and Black

with the Addition of a Special Blog hop!!!!!
details of blog hop below :)

and with our fabulous sponsor

One winner will get a $25 gift certificate from House-Mouse Designs

here is my creation, but do hop over  to the main challenge site to see the rest of the amazing inspiration from my sister meeces :) and enter the blog hop as there are some gorgeous pieces along the way for you to win.

Again this is photo heavy so you may want to grab yourselves a drink :)

I made a pumpkin, an idea I had a while ago, well actually when I was having coffee with Lols and Christine in Doncaster.

I will do the close ups first before letting you into the how I did it bit

The images are from a clear stamp pack, so versatile and lots of them

*House Mouse CLEAR Stamps HALLOWEEN CSHM047

from Simon Says Stamp, adorable so many of them

and here is how I created it

 blew up a balloon drew around the middle, then a circle for the front and then used my old newspapers and some PVA and did paper mache.  several layers but on day three when I went up to add more layers the balloon had died :(  it was strong enough to keep going, so told Matt I needed some bumps for the shaping so he squashed some toilet roll inners and cut them and we sellotaped them on and then I carried on covering with paper

I then trimmed it at the bottom and around the front and tidied it before giving it a coat of gesso and then I sprayed the inside a sandy yellow colour and the outer a bright orange. It was too bright so I used my TH vintage photo to tone it down a bit, before adding some poinsettia green flower tops for the stem.

I glued some grassy fronds from the cheapy shop around the outside and on the floor inside so it looked as if it was sat on the grass and then used some lovely ostrich feathers in orange and black to make those horrid stringy bits that are inside the pumpkin. 

The rest was just sticking my little meeces onto sticks etc to dress

Do hop over and join us for the challenge :)  and the HOP!!!!! 

okay so how is that hop working?, 
well here are the requirements
House Mouse Challenge Rules apply to win any of the prizes
Leave a comment on all DT blogs
You must be a follower of this blog
Please post the image in your side bar
You must be a follower of the House Mouse Challenge blog
and
You also need to add your creation for the theme 
and 
leave your comment on the challenge post to confirm you have completed the Hop!!
you can enter my candy using the linky below :)

Easy so

Just in case you get lost on the way here is the list of the DT for you

1. America Kuhn
2. Christine Craig
3. Dawn - October GDT
4. Dorte Kvist
5. Heather Gilfoy Bond
6. Kate Wiles (that's me)
7. Lori Barnett
8. Lorraine Aquilina (aka: "Lols")
9. Mary Giemza (Floater DT)
10. Natascha Banning
11. Stacy Morgan
12. Sue Drees
13. Sue Kment
14. Tracy Thompson
15. House-Mouse and Friends MC (Blog-Hop ends here)

Here is the candy you could win from my page

Don't forget, you too may submit your House-Mouse, Gruffies and Happy Hoppers creations directly to THE Official House-Mouse Designs site found HERE!  

I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave me such inspirational and kind comments, and this then allows me to hop on over and visit you in return.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges

2 Sisters - Cute and Creepy

Allsorts Challenge - Autumn Colours
Challenge Up Your Life - Autumn/Halloween
Crafty Calendar - All things Spooky
Simon Says Stamp - Eerie Inspiration

Crafty Mess - Halloween
Crazy for Challenges - Orange black purple
Di's Digi Designs - Too Cute to Spook
Just Some Lines - Too Cute to Spook
My Sheri Crafts - Halloween
Sweet Stampin - Halloween
ATC's and Cards with Attitude - Halloween
Card Crafters Circle - Halloween
Crafts for Eternity - Pumpkin Spice
Crafty Catz - Halloween
Dilly Beans - Cute and Creepy
Fussy N Fancy - Anything Goes
Our Craft Lounge - Scary and Spooky
Simply Create Too - Pumpkins
Stampin for the Weekend - Something spooky
Heck of a Challenge - Spooktacular

hugs

xxxxx

Going a Little Potty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today I woke up to a BT text message inviting me to lunch, at 6.45am........... this may have been a nice surprise if I actually had known who the message was from!!!!!! anyway, this follows on from one heck of a fabulous night on Friday evening.  I was invited to Halloween craft evening with my wonderful friend Polly.  I took my bottle of wine and my body and well let us say that I did come away with a completed creation and slightly worse for wear at 12.30am.  Waking up on Saturday with a little bit of a head :)  With the thought that I had a copic class to run, so had to get my head together rather quickly.

As it was the class was full with 11 lovely ladies attending and my head I believe was with it for the task ahead.  The lovely Polly popped in to see the lovely Betty and obviously to tell the class of my prior activities.

So here is the card that I created for the class to follow, I had done one similar which everyone loved so recreated it for the class

Recipe

Silver holographic base colour and contrast

Kanban papers - Grimsby Crafts

Lace, ribbon and pearls - Grimsby Crafts

Image - Bella in Pot by Wild Rose Studio - Grimsby Crafts

Here is a close up of the image

coloured in the following copics

Atyou - 07 Olive, 03 Red

YG03, 67, G21, G99

C7,5,3,2,1

R29, 27, 22, RV10

YR23, E15, 18, 

E40, 41

The next class is booked for the 17th November 3.30pm - 6pm

and the colours required are

E71, 43, 49

G29, YG17, YG03, Y21, YR23

R29, 27 and 22

with Atyou

Yellow, Red, Grey, Melon, Olive

I would like to say hello to my new followers, and as always I would like to thank all of my wonderful visitors and followers for the lovely and inspirational comments you leave, which allows me to hop on over in return to see your own lovely work.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges and thank Feline Playful for their assistance

One Stop Craft - Anything Goes

Christmas Stampin All Year Long - Traditional Xmas

Clearly Inspired - Ribbon or Twine

QKR Stampede - Animals

enjoy the rest of your day

Hugs

xxx