Skater Boy Photoshop Brushes

I made this quick Skater Boy Birthday card with a free silhouette clip art by keepdesigning.com and some free grungy PS brushes by Damnedinblack.net.

Pretty simple huh, not much else to it, except some DP scraps, a Cuttlebug folder, Versamark, and a corner & hole punch. Too simple. Love those Photoshop brushes!

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Colour Throwdown - #159 (blue, red and black)
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes
Frosted Designs - Punches (corner punch and paper hole punch)
My Mum's Craft Shop - #23 Happy Birthday

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.

Things With Wings Journal

Good morning everyone. Welcome to another challenge by Little Miss Muffet Stamps. Today's challenge - #18 Winged Things. That could be fairies, birds, bees, dragon flies, or like I chose, butterflies. I was reminded of a verse I have on a little ceramic charm box about butterflies and happiness, so that became my theme.

This Kaitlyn image, just screams "happiness" to me, so how perfect to go with the phrase.

I had to incorporate flowers and swirls ( I chose flourishes) for the Allsorts Challenge - Week #120. P is for Pastels at the Alphabet Challenge Blog. As well, I coloured my Kaitlyn's dress in purples for Make It Colourful's - #34 Make it Purple challenge. Last, but not least this qualifies for the Quirky Crafts Challenge Blog - ABC Anything but a Card Challenge #19

Jan at She's Gone Digital is having an "Art Journal Link Party". Link up your art journal from this week.

Mixed Media Details:
I Gesso'd my (5x7) journal page and let dry over night. Using water colour paints, I swirl around various colours then dried them with my Embossing hand dryer. The bottom left corner I went over with an alphabet template with Acrylic paint. I added SU flower and butterfly stamps which I coloured in using Acrylic paint and a blue ZigZag marker. Added some stamped Inkadinkadoo flourishes & butterfly then some spots and dots with random Studio G stamps. Using my Embossing dryer allowed me to dry the mediums between steps quickly to move on to the next layer. The black splatter is black Acrylic paint water downed and dripped on with a tooth brush.

Oh and I re-tried the facial detail technique with much better results, gotta love Copics!

Art Journaling Tiddly Style

Wow, do we ever have a FUN challenge for you today over at the Tiddly Inks Challenge Blog - #65 Art Journaling Tiddly Inks style. Just let you creative juices flow. You can't do anything wrong, it's all about the process, not the finished product. Here is great artist who's Journal pages will blow your mind: The Kathryn Wheel. I have to run out and get my hands on some Dylusion inks and paints after seeing her crafty designs.

Just a note about our current challenge, it will run for 2 WEEKS!

This is my FIRST ever attempt at Art Journaling - I think I'm hooked! ;D


I started off with envisioning lots of my own doodles within some swirls of hair. I decided the face of TI's - Druscilla would make the perfect anchor and kept her gorgeous wings after repositioning them.


I took a LOT of artistic license with Christy's Tiddly Ink images. Using bits and pieces of different digi's; copying and scaling in Photoshop just as if I were doodling. Almost everything within the wings is a portion of 9 manipulated Tiddly Inks digital images.


I rough ripped finished image, coloured it with Prismacolour, Crayola and Watercolour pencil crayons; glued into sketch pad then free hand doodled with marker. The rest was filled in wtih various pencil crayons, Pearl Ex, beads, dragon flies & key pendants, Stickles, letter rub on's and cracked glass technique.

I used parts a pieces of the following Tiddly Ink digi's:
Face, wings and top of hair - Druscilla
Hearts - Annies Bear
Butterflies - Flutterby
Apple Core - Love At First Byte
Grungy Ink Stain - previous freebie
Mushrooms - Fairy Fae House & Paper extra's
Spider Web - previous freebie
Flower Words - Flowery Wishes
Sea Monster & Skull Pile of Gold - Pirate Mega Pack

The journal around the edges is my ART credo. "May you always have the freedom to let your creativity flow. May you always use that freedom. May you always have the courage to push outside your comfort zone, add more and go bigger. May you always know when to self edit. May you have the confidence NOT to self criticize. May you always love what you've created. All these things I wish for you."

Please don't forget to check out the other Tiddly's Journals. This was such a fun and creative challenge, it's a must see.

Melanie New Release

Time for the Thursday New Releases from Little Miss Muffet Stamps. I chose to feature gorgeous star catcher Melanie. Don't forget to check the Challenge Blog to see samples of new images.

I apologize for how "surprised looking" I coloured her ;D. I was playing with Barbara's (owner/designer LMM stamps) technique of adding more facial definition with my Copics. I think I made my dark shadow beside her nose extend too high above the eye brow. If it had gone under the eyebrow, Melanie would have looked less shocked.

I have combined the following challenges to create my card.
Splitcoaststampers: SC349 - Wednesday Sketch challenge
Allsorts - Week #119 Blue & Green
Pile It On - PIO#36, B is for: bows
My Mums Craft Shop - Layer It Up

Tiddly Super Star

I felt like playing along with this weeks Card Positioning Systems - CPS 234 card sketch. I chose to use Tiddly Inks Basement - SupahStar combined with Jillibean - Gazpacho Soup DP. I hand doodled some squiggles and faux stitching as well as some doodler border.

I went a little crazy on the details. I hand sewn all the swirls both on the TI image and on my squiggles. Plus the sentiment tag, stars and glasses are all glitzed up with Stickles. Since Anything Goes pretty much happened on this card, I why not submit it into the Anything Goes challenge over at the Phindy's Place Challenge Blog.

The shirt, glasses and hairband tie dye was done in PS before I printed the image. I paper pieced jean DP then hand sewed with pink embroidery floss.

Have Goose, Will Travel

Today's easy peasy challenge over at the Squigglefly Challenge blog is: Colour Me Blue & Green SFC114. Simply use Blue and Green in your project.

We love to see your all of your entries, but in order to win a prize, you must use a Squigglefly image and here's the link to "Freebies" at the Squigglefly store.

I had coloured this Cheryl Alger's - Goose Riders for another challenge, but never ended up using it. It was just sitting on my desk and I thought it would be perfect for today's challenge. I threw it together, with last weeks Cute Card Thursday Challenge - Sketch #179, but since I am too late to enter for that one, I can use this weeks A Pinch & a Punch challenge. Added a few die cut arrows, punched brads and the faux sticker is actually from the cover sample sheet of the Echo Park - Little Boy DP package.

Go grab yourself some "freebies" at the Squigglefly Store, and play along with us this week and don't forget to hop on over to the Challenge Blog to check out the Design Team projects.

Purple, Blue & Green Challenge

Hey there, welcome to the Little Miss Muffet Challenge Blog Challenge #17 - Purples, Blues and Greens. I really wanted to use Summer Breeze for my image and went on a frantic search for the perfect background.

Since I couldn't find just the right background image I decided to make my own - I wanted the wind to be blowing the background images too. What a great way to combine this challenge with Make It Colourful's Challenge #32 - Sunset with Clouds. I haven't had a chance to play along with MIC lately, but didn't want to pass this one up. I used the Midnight Madness Sketch #MMSC119 over at Pricillastyles blog, admittedly I flipped the middle border piece. This also qualifies for My Mums Craft Shop Challenge - It's Easy as 1-2-3 , I used 3 colours in my layout, purple, green and blue.

This was my "Night Sky" inspiration photo:

I admit, I had to photograph this card several times, the colours changed drastically in the photo's for some reason. This is the one that seems closest to IRL.

Now head on over to the Challenge Blog and check out all the other projects.