Sall the Crafty Baker

This fortnight over at  Ikes World Challenges  the requirement is to create using this sketch. It's that time of year, where the Christmas tree has gone, the evenings are getting lighter and I'm thinking of spring and that bursts of sunshine.  However in my head somewhere is that nagging thought that if I don't get a move on my handmade Christmas will be a disaster.  So it's time to start lists of whose getting what, how many cards are needed and of course to make a start on them.  which is exactly what I did with this challenge. I have some special friends who get some extra special cards where possible and these always take more time to make so I try to get them done as soon as possible.  Anyway this is my take on the sketch with a Christmas card. For this card I have used the two images from Ike's Art , Hot Santa and Santa Hunk and I decided that I would go down the all things Christmas route a little further and use a song lyric as a se...

Well with all these books I'm reading and no bookmark {I think the bed ate it because I can't find it} I clearly needed to get inky and make myself another one.  I think these might become popular gifts this year, well popular from the point that I adore making them so there will be lots to give away. For this one I have stamped my new favourite stamps from smeared ink  and cut them out, placing them on as clean a piece of white card I could keep it but with red ink about it was never going to stay spotless lol.  I then backed it onto red card.  I'm going to upload this to the following challenges:   White and one other colour at Quoth the Raven  and  Smudgy Antics anything goes .

Hey everyone, This should be my last DT post for  Ike's World Challenges  {assuming I have counted properly which I doubt very much}.  I have loved every second of my time working with some very talented people and am delighted to say some are life long friends.  The encouragement to express my creativity and insane ideas has been faultless and such a positive experience, I would like to thank you all because I all I have learnt will forever remain with me. However, I am delighted to say that my insaness is welcome and I will be staying on with Ike's world challenges.  Thank you so much for letting me stay it is amazing and I am sure some day soon I will stop smiling about it. Well I admit that this project relates to the theme in what could be an 'abstract' way. I couldn't decide how to go about this until I was talking to a friend who suggested I use some art journalling...this is the result.  Something old is quite easy, I love a bit of history...

The challenge this time over at Ikes world challenges is creepmas AKA the dark side of Christmas.  This was a little tricky for me because to me Christmas is all about the sparkle and the colour for me.  I did however have an idea when I saw the nativity set in Ikes store. I printed the stable multiple times and coloured each one as I wasn't sure how much of each or where I was going to cut the decoupage lines to begin with.  I also printed, the star, stable doors, nativity, Holly fairy, Kings, herod, hay bales, angel and a large holly leaf.  I coloured it all using a combination of promarkers, inktense pencils, h2O's and colour soft pencils, oh and some weird glitter pens that I'm not sure I like, before I started fixing it together.  I started by sticking the flap of the door behind the nativity and gluing it all in. Then decoupaged the whole walls and roof of the stable.  The last level was just the walls and floor rock/bricks.  I a...

The theme at Ikes World Challenges this time is "It's raining cats and dogs"...I admit it's raining men would have been more fun...a little risque but fun all the same!  Anyway back to the point....using the theme raining cats and dogs I wasn't really sure what I was going to do...have dogs and cats sat under umbrellas?  Maybe not. In the mean time a card swap challenge came up and in my drugged {antibiotics; second set for long term chest infection} up state I chose the following for the swap: Theme Au Natural, Dry embossing, heat embossing,  white ink stamping or ink resist, no bought embellishments everything must be made by you, must contain an animal, two different colouring mediums, die cutting and the card must not be rectangle, square or circular.  You can see why my swap partner hates me can't you?  It was the different shaped card that 'inspired' me with Ikes theme.  I drew around my paisley die and labourisly cut it out ...

This week over at Ikes World Challenges we are being inspired by the photo and or colours.  I usually like a challenge like this as it's very much open to interpretation; which for me is what craft and creativity is all about. This is the photo to inspire you: I took the colours and tried to stick to them but occasionally I couldn't I just had to let my brain run away with itself.  I choose to take the inspiration of the dream catcher literally and made one...well Ike made it and I 'decorated' it. For this project I used:  Colour soft pencils, promarkers and liquid pearls. I literally just cut and coloured this before attaching 'scary' nightmare images of Ikes {sorry hunni they aren't that scary really I promise} and 'nice' images that had climbed through the dream catcher to become pleasant dreams.

I was in two minds about playing with the Clear it out challenge this week.  I haven't felt like doing much at all but today I felt the need to do some art journaling.  Due to unfortunate circumstances I have missed my balcony adventures in Brixham with a special friend so I dug out a Micheal Powell stamp and decided to have a little play on a nautical themed art journal page. The challenge requires I use three of the same thing and my three things are: three stickle buoys/porthole shapes Three sailing boats {hand made using promarkers and liquid pearls} Three pieces of ribbon Three waves using liquid pearl I have stamped and coloured the harbour image in inktense pencils, matted it on gold mirri card.  The paper is a christmas paper from DoCrafts but I like the nauticalish strips.  My Journaling reads: Why can't all towns and villages have bright coloured houses like coastal towns?