Something Fishy

Hello Nomad friends.  Hope you had a great weekend.  I spent two days dancing with a vicious little virus that came in Saturday morning with a hedgehog in my throat and then hit me with a herd of buffalos and left me feeling like a merry-go-round on a roller coaster.  Don't you just love it when annoying weekend visitors move along!!  Feeling very much more ooman today and found a sentiment to finish this A5 journal page I was working on.

I started with an A5 sheet of Marianne Designs Seabreeze papers.  I added some ripped dark blue strips and some dark blue glitter through a Rubber Dance stencil.  The light house and anchor are from UHK-Gallery Lighthouse papers, cut with Studio Light Mosaic ATC die.  I added an offset dark blue ATC behind each of these.  The fish were cut from some maritime themed wallpaper and the sentiment is ripped from a Prima journaling card.

OK, off to water the garden before my tomato plants give up totally. 
Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Fun with ATC's

The Outlawz Challenge Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone 

The Outlawz Challenge August Linky

Allsorts Challenge 830 - Something Beginning with B B is for blue

Abstract Sky

Hello Nomad friends.  Yesterday I had an Oh! moment when the Rudolf Days challenge popped up in my blog feed.  Bit silly really cos every 25th to end of month is Rudolf Days, but I hadn't really come to grips with the fact that March is rapidly disappearing.  Proof that I am really losing the plot when I dropped over to 52 Weeks To Christmas and saw it was challenge week.  This always happens the last Thursday in the month, but again, Surprize!!!!!  All sypathetic 'Me Too's' will be appreciated so I feel less crazy, or at least less lonely in my madness.  Bwahahhaaahaahaaaaaa!!   So here's a reindeer, sailing through a blue diamond sky surrounded by pink clouds.   Bwahahhaahaahahhaaa!   Ha!!

I used Kort og Godt blue diamond card base edged with Sky Blue Promarker.  I found a scrap of pink paper and ripped it into vaguely triangular shapes and positioned them in an ascetically pleasing manner.  The reindeer is Sixxiz die with matching embossing folder.  I die cut him from a scrap of silver textured wallpaper, embossed with the matching folder and smeared with Prickly Pear archival ink.  If you zoom in he's got amazing fabtabulious texture and glans.  Uh,,,,, shine!!!!  That's the doodie!!   Another few scraps of pink and blue and Papirdesigns God Jul (Merry Christmas) die cut sentiment.

Thanks for dropping by.  Do pop back soon for more of my surreality.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
March Rudolph Days Challenge
52 Weeks to Christmas Challenge - March
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 534
Double D Challenge - Skies
Pixies Snippets Playground Challenge 399

Wall Painting

Hello.  Welcome.  Power Poppy have an interesting challenge.  They have got together with PageMaps and there are 10 sketches to choose from to enter the challenge.  Sometimes such things really grab Mr Mojo's attention and he thinks it would be fun to try and do all 10!!  Then Poppystamps are looking for snowdays and there are so many places still wanting winter and christmas and we are just spoilt for choice of places to play..........

I found a bag labelled 'stamped and painted scraps' in a corner of my craft room.  Now, some of those scraps were pretty substantial.  I found a piece where I had played with Hero Arts Stunning Snowflake stamp and Stormy Sky distress ink and spritzing before stamping.  Then I cut Poppy Stamps Heart Swoosh from a scrap of blue card and covered the heart with a stamped circle of wallpaper, also from that scrap bag.  I stamped and embossed the Panduro reindeer scene and added some colour with Promarkers and a white gel pen.  The other two papers are both from DCWV and the sentiment is from Rubber Dance.  

I used this sketch from Pagemaps

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at

Power & Spark - Grab A Map

Poppy Stamps Challenge 40 - Snow Day

ABC Christmas Challenge - A is for Antlers

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge 437  winter, blue, snowflakes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Winter Blues

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Use Patterned Paper

This Is What Happens When You Tidy Up

Hello.  Welcome.  So I'm doing a little organising and I move some sheets of paper and find two queen of hearts, a mad hatter and a piece of wall paper.  I am fairly certain the queens and hatter are from a previous wonderland inspiration that fizzed and died, but since Lost Coast are back in wonderland and looking for steampunk I thought I would too.

Yes, I know.  It's weird.  Or maybe 'what is it'??  Both valid responses!  But steampunk isn't one of my things.  I always think metal and cogs so Korthobby charms it is.  The eagle eyed may have spotted the snowflake.  Ah, well, not quite enough cogs you see, and I figured it was wonderland so probably the weirder the better.  Yep, that weird background is a piece of wallpaper.  I mounted it on a journaling card cos I figured this wonder of wondering was going to be way to heavy to fly with a pigeon.  I stamped, embossed and fussy cut the queen and the hatter.  I coloured the queen red and left the hatter b/w, but maybe he should be coloured as well?  What do you think?  

Queeny says 'Look at the time, wildflower past a dragonfly already'.  Hatter replies 'Strawberry shortcake'.   Hugz

Joining the madness at
Lost Coast Portal to Creativity - Steampunk Queen of Hearts
Dream in Darkness Challenge - February
Korthobby Utfordring - Alt er Lov med Metall fra Korthobby 
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Use Your Favourite Tool my heat gun is right up there are one of my favourites.  And my big scissors for the fussy cutting.  Two big favourites LOL

It's A Boy

Hello.  Welcome.  I have decided to play along with  Kathy Racoosin's 30 Day Colouring Challenge.  I thought it might be inspiring and motivational to try and colour for at least 5 minutes a day.  So here's today's yesterdays!! 5 minutes..... 

So I found this Unity Stamp Co. About a Boy image I had already stamped and black embossed.  I fussy cut him and coloured with sharpies.  I added some gold to the buttons.  OK, maybe not quite 5 minutes.  But colouring.  Then I decided I wanted to do something with him.  I found this wild retro wall paper, a sample acquired many moons ago, stuck it to a base card and added my boy.  One feels he needs a sentiment, but 20 minutes of searching and nothing presented itself as perfect so.....  Mayhaps he will remain mute.  

Joining the fun at
The Unity Stamp Co .Challenge 28 - Colour 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
HIMCR Challenge 201 - Freestyle 
The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge - Day 2 
The Unity Stamp Co. Friends With Flair 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz