More Pantomime Inspiration

June 16th 2012
A reminder post for our Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge which still has a few days to run & is being sponosred by The Octopode Factory - Lily has kindly donated a $10 Voucher to use in her Etsy Store so make sure you get your entries in!!

For this ATC I've used a great "Boy" image from Lily's Charlie Chaplin Collage sheet. I made the text background myself.

Soar & Hope

May 27th 2012
A reminder post for our So Artful Challenge - you still have a week left to add you inspiring "Steampunk" link!

I've made 2 co-ordinating cards using some great Octopode Factory Steampunk images along with some foreign text pages from Ali at Vintage Design Pages - these were a lot of fun to make!

Getting PINKED!!

May 10th 2012

A very pink card made for the current Octopode Challenge - "PINK"!! My favourite colour!! I've used a gorgeous little "princess" image from one of Lily's Collage Sheets - check out Lily's Store.

Belated Easter!

April 12th 2012

I should have posted this earlier for Easter!! This is my Altered Coaster entry for the current Octopode Factory Friday Challenge Blog.

I've used an image I won from a previous challenge "Rosalina" - she's great! The egg & bunny ears Rosalina is wearing are from collage sheets by Lisa's Altered Art. Of course everything is pink - my favourite colour!! I think Rosalina is looking somewhat concerned about that big chocolate bunny!!

Spring is Sprung!

March 27th 2012

Spring isn't coming here - just the opposite in fact - but I'm happy to make something bright, cheery & flowery!! This is my new tag for the Spring Challenge at The Octopode Factory Friday Blog. I've used a great image from Lily's Edgar Allan Poe Collage Sheet - isn't she great? I've added lots of little punched flowers with a bit glittery Stickles added to the centres for some sparkle!

Royal"TEA"!!!

March 15th 2012

I'm just in time with my creation for The Octopode Factory Friday Challenge - theme of "Royalty" - LOL I couldn't resist adding my humour to this and making my creation Royal"TEA" using 'Teapot Alice"' and adding a 'crown' to her head and making a collage background of high tea delicacies & crockery using collage images from Freubels Freebies. hope you appreciate my sense of humour!!!

Alice said: "I'm tired of being only 3 inches high"

March 8th 2012

A fun challenge at The Octopode Factory Friday Challenge Blog - "Mushrooms"!!! I've made this fun gate fold card with a quote from Alice in Wonderland and great Alice & mushroom images from Lily's range of quirky designs!!

To make this card I used watercolour paints (some very cheap kids paints!!!) and painted both sides of the card all over then put both sides through the printer to print the mushrooms on the card. Then I "coloured" the mushrooms "messily" LOL with paints. I printed Alice on white paper, coloured her and fussy cut her out then stuck her to the inside of the card. I quite like the effect!!

Anyone for Cake?

March 1st 2012

Here's a birthday card I've made for the current Octopode Factory Challenge using Lily's "Marie" image - love all that hair she has LOL! Marie has been coloured with Copics and I've added a little die cut birthday cake!!

Gold Star for Tea Making!

January 15th 2012

I've made this fun little card for the new challenge at The Octopode Factory which has a theme of "Stars"!!

I've used Lily's "Alice" image and coloured her with Copic Markers. The blue background has the Alice image repeated to fill the background plus the little wording I made up to add some humour. I addeda "Gold Star" to Alice to fit the theme this week and a little teapot charm and fibres at the spine!

Christmas Wishes

December 23rd 2011

Another Festive themed challenge at The Octopode Factory Challenge Blog - Christmas.
For this card I've used "Rapunzel" and added a little santa hat and coloured her in traditional green/red. I've added dimensional magic to her hat, dress & hair ties.

The background is an embossing folder from Tim Holtz (one of my favourites!!) and I have embossed the whole background with polysparkle embsossing powder to give it a real shine!

Here's another picture I took with the flash to try to show the sparkly background:

A cut above the rest...

December 17th 2011
"Winter" is the theme of the new challenge at The Octopode Factory this week. I don't have a lot of "wintery" images but I did have this cute little snowman on one of Lily's Xmas Collage Sheets so I thought he was perfect for this challenge.

I used chalks to make the tag background then popped it through the printer to add the clipart snowflakes and the humourous"wording". I added real buttons to the snowman's eyes and a little pair of scissors with the fibres!

Silence!

December 3rd 2011
The new theme at The Octopode Factory Challenge Blog is "Movies/Films" so this was a great opportunity to make something with "Charlie"!

Of course my printer has run out of most of the colours and so he's feeling a bit "green" but I think he actually fits in well with the black/red & purple colours I've used. As you can see I've used a "Numbers" embossing folder for the tag background - to symbolise being at the movies and the old films had the "countdown" before the movie started LOL might be showing my age here!!! I've used little letter stickers to make the wording.

It's Tea Time!

November 26th 2011
What a great new theme at The Octopode Factory Challenge Blog this week - Anyone For Tea??

I've used one of the first and favourite images I purchased from Lily - "Steampunk Violet" - I just love her hairful of clocks LOL!!

The collage background uses images from some great freebie sheets from Freubels Freebies - these little tea cups and jugs and plates were just perfect for the effect I wanted on this card - thanks Rian (she has a great blog with all sorts of goodies)!

And you know at my house it is always tea time!!

Things with Wings

November 19th 2011
As you can see this is the new theme for The Octopode Factory Challenge Blog for this week and guess what???? I'm a Guest Designer for this week!!! I'm so excited Lily asked me.

Here's what I made for this challenge - a little fabric wall hanging using "Tinkerbell" and some Butterflied from Lily's range of digi stamps. I made the sentiment myself. Everything has been printed onto fabric and coloured with Copic Markers and then I've hand sewn all the bits and pieces together!

I just love to make fabric creations!

Hope you can join in this week's fun challenge - make sure you check out The Octopode Factory Etsy Store if you don't have any images!

I'm also linking this up to the new Soartful Challenge which has a "Sew Pretty" theme and as this is all fabric and "sewn" together it fits the new sewing theme perfectly!

We loved with a love that was more than love

November 1st 2011
Gingersnap Creations have had some great challenges for the month of October with Edgar Allan Poe a feature! And for this Colour Challenge of Black & Greys I've made an altered caoster.

I've used images from a collage sheet from The Octopode Factory - the same sheet as my Raven Tag but this time I printed the sheet in grayscale so they suited the colour theme.

I've used a coaster covered with black & white paint dragged together to make black & grey colours and I've made a little torn paper background for the images as well. I've added some black tulle, some skeleton leaves, a flower which I rubbed a grey ink pad over with a little heart brad and I added the quote by Edgar Allan Poe:

We loved with a love that was more than love.

I've made the coaster into a little hanging by adding some fancy ribbon to the top. I love how this turned out - I think the black & grey colours are very effective.

And the Raven, never flitting....

October 28th 2011

This new tag has been made for the Gingersnap Creations Random Redhead Challenge - Ravens! I've used images from a great "Poe" collage sheet from The Octopode Factory.

The background is watercolour paper & pencils - I love the effect! And printed onto the watercolour paper is the last verse of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" Poem. I've mounted that onto black card and stapled some ribbon to the top of the tag. I added a bit of tea stained muslin behind the Raven image.

My "Raven Tag" also suits The Octopode Factory "Halloween" Challenge this week!

Calling All Angels

October 23rd 2011

If we were all like angels,

the world would be a heavenly place.



The theme for the new SoArtful Challenge this time is "Calling All Angels" and I couldn't resist making this little altered coaster with a cute little Angel image from one of The Octopode Factory's Collage Sheets.

The background of the coaster is a few different colours of paint scraped around with a credit card and I've added some pink, blue & purple feathers along with a little quote, some muslin cloth and a few "gems"!

This is the House that Jack built...

October 21st 2011

The new challenge at The Octopode Factory Challenge Blog is "Houses" so I've made this little collage card using images from one of Lily's Christmas Collage Sheets. I thought the little gingerbread house would be a fun image to incorporate into this week's theme.

I made the background with ink pads and stamped images and I added the wording which I edged with the ink pads and also to finish off added a little spanner charm.

Black & Orange

October 14th 2011
A great colour theme for the new Octopode Factory Challenge this week!

I had fun with Lily's Angel Girl who's "halo" slipped off her head and now she's wearing a "witch's" hat LOL!! The angel has been coloured with copics in orange and grey tonings.

The background image is from Dezinaworld - I love the skulls on it and I added a little skull charm to match the theme.

Don't Speak - Let the Music tell the Story!

October 8th 2011

This "set" of ATC's has been made for the new challenge at The Octopode Factory which has a theme of "Music" this week.

I've used images from the Charlie Chaplin collage sheet and added the wording - my thought process behind this is that Charlie starred in silent movies with music as the "sound" to help tell the story along with the acting.

I had a lot of fun making these little ATC's and I love these quirky images!