Still on with spiders...

As I sat watching television last night I coloured and doodled

around this freebie image from The East Wind

(I used a variety of pens - Copics, Promarkers and Spectrum Noir were all to hand!)

I then made it into a little card, matting and layering different papers onto a green card blank - and of course using some of my spider web embossed paper.

Finally I stamped a few extra spiders using my Viva Las Vegas Spider stamp

I will link this to The East Wind Challenge 26 Doodle Doodle Doo

Happy Crafting!

Work in Process

I have not made an 'art journal' page for a week or two

so decided to make one for the Chic Craftique Imagine Challenge on Facebook.

Are you anxiously waiting for winter to turn to spring.... We challenge you to use these "doodles" and the word "imagine" in an art journal page or on canvas board, chipboard or a card/tag.. Whatever you like and show it off. (this is not for a prize , the doodles are freebies) If you like you can abandon it and take a pic to show us where you abandoned it and tell us how it made you feel :)

So first of all I printed one of the doodles.

I taped it down to my craft mat and taped some torn scrap to hide some of it...

I then took some distress ink, spritzed it and used it as water colour to paint colour across the image.

I used the leftover to soak into a piece of watercolour paper...

You can see this element in the following photo - and the base

 (a sparkly brown cardstock although the sparkles don't show up too well in the photos).

Both have Stickles around the edges.

(You can also see the state of my table!!)

I then collected these pieces together...

I have now added Stickles to my main image and some green embellishments- what are these called?'

Been in my stash a while anyway!!.

The ribbon attached to the base is some lovely spider web mesh.

Next stage - added letters - I thought of these but decided they were ugly...

so went for gold...

Next should I add the Snowflake made using the TH die??

 (The magazine page had similar colours to my Distress Inks)

Again I didn't like it...so went for flowers from my stash...originally bought in Abu Dhabi!

What do you think?

I am going to link this to Clear It Out Challenge - Anything Goes...

Happy Crafting!

Challenge #68 at LOC

Today we are sponsored by 

and I just couldn't resist #422 Heart Monster

My make is a trio of ATCs

I started with three pieces of card from the  DCWV Rockstar Mat Stack -

 same design, different colours, with added sparkle around the edges from gold Stickles.

I printed the image three times and coloured them with Promarkers.

Each image was matted onto a different sparkly paper.

Finally I added googly eyes and some bits from the original cardstock to embellish...

Pop over to LOC to see the other spectacular makes!!

Happy Crafting!!

Dragons Lair Designs - More than Two Folds

The March Challenge starts at Dragons Lair today - More than two Folds!

I have another calendar page for you...

Each of my pages starts with a 12 by 17cm piece of pale green Bristol card.

I started with 6 pieces, hole punched and fastened together with rings at the top edge.

This is the third page I am showing you - you may remember January and February...

Anyway for March I started with paper from Aged Journal 

The March theme is 'More than Two folds' - this paper already has two folds on it - but I decided to do teabag folding to demonstrate more...and also team up (?) with the lovely Floral Teaset.

I made two medallions - for each I started with 8 squares (2 inches by 2 inches)
 cut from more of the paper.
These pictures were taken on my worktable so are not very bright...



Each square is folded with a middle fold and two diagonals.

The sides are pushed in to make a two triangles.

Using the top triangle the two points are folded in to make a square on top.

Then each piece is tucked in to make the medallion. I used a glue gun to hold them in place.

You can see a tutorial on You Tube of how to fold this medallian here

I coloured the Floral Tea Set with Priomarkers, added the calendar page (with a little distressing) and trimmed one of the medallions to fit.

Finally, a little gold bling and ribbon...

Happy Crafting and see you at Dragons Lair!

New Sketch~N~Scrap card Sketch

A new card sketch has been posted at Sketch~N~Scrap today!

Why not have a go and link up your make?

This is the sketch:

Despite spring flowers popping up everywhere, the weather is still pretty wintry

 and this saying came to mind...

The March wind doth blow and we shall have snow.

But this is a common misquote - it should be

 The North wind doth blow and we shall have snow.

So this is the sentiment I used for my inspiration today!

I just printed it on teh computer...

 I just used just the bottom half of the sketch matting and layering papers from my blue scraps.

The snowflakes were cut using a Tim Holtz Snowflake Rosette - a long strip die which is cut up and then stuck in place using a glue good. The paper I was upcycled from a magazine.

Hope you like it and will join us at SNS...!

I think this would be a lovely Christmas card so I will link it to

Crafty Hazelnut Cut it Up

CraftyHazelNut Extra for March

Crafty Hazel Nut Patterned paper

Holly Jolly Dies and Punches

ABC Edging Punch or Die

Happy Crafting!