Seafaring Mice

 Hey guys,

We have a new challenge over at I Love Promarkers today, with the optional theme of By the Sea. I love this challenge as it encompasses so many options. We are sponsored by the whimsical Di's Digi Stamps, and I chose to use this lovely mice in a newspaper boat digi stamp for my card.

The image was coloured with promarkers before being fussy cut. I used a patterned background block which can in a paper booklet from a magazine a few years back. I thought this was perfect for a sea backdrop for my little mice. To finish I simply added some drop diamantes as sea splashes.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

ThePaperPlayers #789 Masculine

AddictedtoCAS #309 Critter

TheCardConcept #228 summer by the sea (CAS design)

TheMaleRoom #211 The Outdoors

CraftyCalendar - All about the men/boys
dragonflydreams - masculine

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Cross Stitch Bookmark

 Hey guys,

We have a new challenge starting today over at Moving Along with the Times, with the theme of Use your Favourite...Stamp, die or tool. My favourite tool for card making is thread and needle, however it does take quite a while to create a card so I do not make that many. I also love using dies to create aperture cards.

Here is my bookmark that I stitched up just in time for this challenge to go live.

This was a free kit with The World of Cross Stitching magazine and I do love the colours used for the birds. So nice and bright - perfect for summer.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

SimonSaysWednesday - Anything goes

ThePaperPlayers #788 Tic-Tac-Toe (flowers, free and patterned paper)

613AvenueCreate - May flowers

Thank for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Masculine Bear on Motobike

 Hey guys,

Thanks for popping back to see my finally finished bear on motorbike, using the pencils class from Kit and Clowder to colour this one. I am limited in my pencil colours, so it looks nowhere near as detailed (I only have 24 colours). This is my inspiration for our Masculine challenge over at Creative Moments.

I am quite happy with how he has turned out - now I just need to find a frame for him before Father's Day! Do pop over to the blog to find more information about our sponsor.

I would like to enter him into the following challenges:

CraftyCatz #714 Anything Goes

AddictedtoCAS #309 Critter (CAS as it is just the image which will be framed)

Allsorts #850 Anything Goes

SimonSaysWednesday - Anything Goes

Hugz Tinz

Dragon skin from a pour

 Hi guys,

Our new challenge has started today over at I Love Promarkers. I wasn't able to join in this week due to lacking time to create a card, however do pop along to the blog to see what the DT have created - there is some fabulous inspiration!

I do have a new fluid art to share with you that I made when my parents came to visit, whilst doing some with them (they have never done it before and their creations are quite amazing!).

For this canvas I put ribbons of purple and blue acrylic paint (Artiste paint in Electric Blue and Metallic Amethyst) down onto the canvas, then layered some cheap black and white onto these. I placed white at the top and back at the bottom. I then swiped down from the top using damp kitchen roll. Using the same roll I swiped back up from the bottom. I then dipped a comb into silicone and pressed this into the paint to create the scale-like effect.

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges:

craftycatz-Anything Goes

allsorts - Anything Goes

SimonSaysWednesday - Anything Goes

Thanks for looking

Hugz Tinz

Fluid in the blue

 Good evening,

I thought I would share a few of my most recent creations with you. This time I went for a colour palette of blue, yellow, black and white for my paintings. All of these were layered the same way - white, yellow, black and blue, with 3 layers of each.

This first one was a dirty pour, where I just poured from the cup straight onto the canvas in a wavy line. Once the cup was empty I simply stretched the paints over the canvas. The ribboning created the interesting effects in the paint pattern.

This one was a flip cup. As can be seen the blue and the yellow largely mixed to give a central area that is a dark greenish-yellow with a blue tint. To me this one looks like an angler fish, with the areas where the blue has remained at the corners being the water it is swimming through. There is a beady yellow eye!

this final one is a tree ring pour - the first one that has created actual tree rings rather than a rose :D. I do love the effect that this one has produced, with some lovely knotted areas. To do this I did change direction of my circles a couple of times whilst pouring. It is also interesting how the blue is all on the one side and the black on the other.

I would like to enter these into:

Craftycatz #713 Anything goes

Do let me know what you see in the flip cup, and which one is your favourite of the three!

Hugz Tinz

Make it Masculine

 Hey guys,

We have a new challenge just started over at Creative Moments, with our optional theme for the month being Masculine. The lovely Alyce from Kit and Clowder has sponsored us this month (my emails were playing up and I got my class late, so watch out for that on the reminder post, 1st June). I used one of her older images for my first card.

I coloured this sweet little bear using a mixture of pencil crayons and alcohol markers. I am currently colouring the bear from the previous class, so do come and check out the reminder post on the 1st June!

I would like to enter this little bear into the following challenges:

ABCChristmas - J for Just enough/K for Knitwear (both themes)

TIOT - Keep it simple

ATSM #517 Christmas

PFP #837 Masculine

Thanks for looking,

Hugz Tinz

Special Birthday Lilies

 Good evening,

Our new challenge has gone live today over at I Love Promarkers. Our optional theme is Special Occasion, and we are sponsored by the lovely Sheepski designs.

I coloured the image with Promarker pens, then die-cut the image using M&C stitched square nesting die. The same size die was used to cut a piece of patterned paper from a 3x3 paper stack from the Range. The smaller square was used to cut the music note paper in two squares. A larger square was used to cut the pink card mat. This was adhered to the blue base card and then diamantes and a peel-off '50' were added to finish.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create - May Flowers

dragonflydreams - Use Die-cuts

SimonSaysWed - Use Craft Dies

Thanks for looking and do pop over to the challenge blog to see the rest of the DT creations.

Hugz Tinz