Number of the beast

Currently ‘Haunted Design House’ is celebrating its milestone of reaching 666 followers and I really wanted to join the party. They chose the Iron Maiden song ‘Number of the beast’ as their theme for this fortnight’s challenge. I really had to wreck my brain, but last night I finally came up with an idea!

Here’s my interactive  house shaped ATC :

I’d like to enter this ATC into the following challenges:

• Haunted Design House: Number of the beast
• Stampotique Designers challenge #152: Sentimental
• A step in the dark: Anything goes/zombies (I obviously opted for ‘anything goes’)
• Crafty cardmakers: Wooden it be lovely (–>wooden doors & window)
•  SimonSaysStamp Monday challenge: I ought to use this more (I never get down to using zigzag scissors, but they were perfect to create those roof tiles!)

 Stamps used

• Window: StampItCrazy
• Door: Crafty Individuals
• Cobweb: stampers anonymous
• Spider: Martha Stewart
• Checkers: Stamp Francisco
• Cat: Rubbernecker
• Speech bubble: Kelly Panacci
• Monster: Stampotique

Never too early for Halloween

Wicked Wednesday wants us to create an ATC featuring a die-cut. I used a graveyard die-cut and spiderweb border punch:

 

Stamps used

• Witch: Third Coast
• Sentiment: Quietfire
• Bat: Stampers Anonymous

Halloween in April

Ok, let’s make that May… Here’ s my atc for the current challenge at the Dilly Beans challenge blog.

Stamps/images used

• Heart monster: Dilly Beans
• Tree, sentiment: Katzelkraft
• Cross: Cherry Pie
• Spider: Martha Stewart

To each his ground on which to flourish…

Writing in my art journal is getting more and more important to me these days. I’d like to share with you a page I created to commemorate a wonderful person who died of cancer  at the age of 47.  Despite the sad occasion, I managed to turn it into a bright and positive page, for that totally reflects his own state of mind.  The idea for this page has been slumbering in my mind ever since Dan died two years ago, but I’m so glad I finally created this spread, for it helps me cope and I’m sure it will bring back many happy memories every time I’ll look at it.

I incorporated a photograph I took many years ago, but I blurred it a bit, for I don’t want to share anyone’s picture without their permission.

I’d like to enter this journal spread into a the following challenges:

• Try it on Tuesday: handwriting
• Inspiration avenue: hearts and trees
• Inspiration Journal: show it with words

The quote I used for my pages comes from a beautiful song called ”To each his storm’ by ‘Rome’:

If this journal spread inspires you in any way (the colours, the theme of nature/trees, your favourite song quote, the theme of commemoration/illness …) in creating your own, please feel free to  post a link to your creation in my comments, so that I can have a look!

Butterflies & old bookpages

Hello! Back again, with a series of ATCs that I’d like to share with you:

 

I’d like to enter these ATCs into the following challenges:

• Moo Mania: old bookpages
• Take a word: butterflies
• Craftitude: anything goes or love

If the broom fits…

Hello again! I’ve got another atc to share with you:

This is my entry for the following challenges:

• The Octopode Factory Friday Challenge: witches
• Kreativer Bastel Blog: Halloween
• Craftitude: Spooky

Techniques and stamps used

• Gelli plate background with acrylic paint
• Witch: Octopode Factory
• Cauldron: Cherry Pie
• Sentiment: Quietfire
• Stripes, cobwebs and bats: Tim Holtz

Curiouser and curiouser

Here’s a bright and sunny card I made for a couple of challenges:

The Altered Alice challenge wants to see a lovely garden and/or bright flowers. I used my Tim Holtz tattered florals die. The shape of the leaf was stamped with a scrap I cut out of the waste of a sheet of rubber. I doodled the details of the leaves.

The Stampotique Designers Challenge wants us to combine two or more stamps. I put Moth Fab’s head on the shoulders of a Dilly Beans image of Alice .

Simon Says Stamp and Show celebrates Stamptember and chose ‘Read all about it’ as this week’s theme. Lewis Carroll’s story of Alice makes great literature, of course. Moreover, I added several pieces of textbook papers and incorporated a Cherry Pie text swirl in the background to tie with the theme.

I hope you like it!

Sunshine

Sunshine (we all could do with some, I’m sure…) is this week’s theme set by Wicked Wednesday weekly ATC challenges. Some time ago, I created an ATC that fits the bill:

Stamps used

• Sun: All Night Media
• Background stripes: Tim Holtz
• Sentiment: Hero arts

Huginn and Muninn

Haunted Design House wants to see a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based art piece featuring eyes. Here’s my ATC:

As you can read on the website of Alpha Stamps, Huginn and Muninn are a pair of ravens associated with the Norse god Odin. Huginn is “thought” (sometimes “idea”) and Muninn is “memory.” They are sent out at dawn to gather information and return in the evening. They perch on the god’s shoulders and whisper the news into his ears.

I’d also like to enter this ATC into this week’s “Anything goes with a twist” challenge set by Try it on Tuesday. The twist consists of using products available in the Craft Barn webshop and featuring the links to these items. Here’s my list:

• I used wax paper to create a wax resist background.
• The wax resist background was sponged with Distress inks: spiced marmalade and wild honey
• The images where stamped using Ranger archival ink jet black.
• I used a  Versamark pen to outline and heat emboss the borders.
• The ATC card base was cut out using Tim Holtz alterations movers and shapers.

Stamps used

• Huginn and Muninn: Alpha Stamps
• Postage stamp (I removed the original image inside): Stampinback.

A heart that hurts…

Well, I know, I’ve been rather quiet the last couple of weeks. Maybe that’s because I’m not a big fan of  Valentine, and of course this theme is omnipresent at this time of the year.  We often tend to forget that it might be a difficult period for those who have no one by their side or who’ve lost a loved one.  Only two weeks ago my best friend lost her loving husband, and so for the first time in 17 years he won’t be by her side on Valentine’s day.

So this ATC is my tribute to all people who lost a loved one.

 

This was meant to be my entry for the Haunted Design House ‘Shot through the heart’ challenge, but I didn’t finish it in time. Fortunately, I still can enter it into this week’s challenge, which is ‘Freaker’s free for all‘.

It’s also my entry for Studio L3’s Holtz-ian ATC challenge. I used a Stampers Anonymous heart stamp, an Idea-ology game spinner and Ranger’s Glossy Accents. The computer generated sentiment is an extract of the song ‘Bright lights’ by Placebo (I already shared it with you in this post).

Thanks for looking!