Mid challenge inspiration - Once upon a nightmare/dream.

Hello everyone

My word the weeks are certainly flying by now aren't they?

Before you know where we are our American Friends will be celebrating Thanksgiving and then it will be Christmas. It must be an age thing because I certainly don't remember time going this quickly when I was a kid. Mind you the six week summer break certainly seemed to go quite quickly, maybe I just don't remember time the same when I was younger? Hey ho.

So time for team Aurora to pop in and give you a little bit of mid challenge inspiration for our current challenge which is:

ONCE UPON A DREAM/NIGHTMARE

Now when I first saw this challenge I thought, well that's easy mine will be once upon a dream because there are dozens of dreamy images in Mitzi's collection.

But then I thought, hang on minute - why don't I step outside of my comfort zone and go with Once upon a nightmare for a change?

Well, that's exactly what I decided to do in the end.

And do you know what? I surprised myself!

I really enjoyed doing something a little darker.

Okay, it is not really really dark but for me it is something way different to what I normally do.

So, I decided to use DARK PRINCESS for this challenge.

You can find here here on Etsy

and here on Aurora Wings.com.

Now as I said this is way out of my comfort zone so please be kind:

I decided to add the image to a canvas which I painted black with acrylic paint and then matted and layered the image onto some gorgeous Designer Paper from Claritystamp.  This is from the pad called Shenandoa which you can find here.

I'm a bit disappointed that the paper buckled when I added it to the canvas  but I can't do anything about it now.  Think I used a bit too much glue! DUH!

Anyway, I can tell you that it took me hours to colour all those little red flowers but I am really happy with them.  I decided to go with monochrome for her skin as I think that makes it look darker.  There are four layers of five colours on the blue flowers.  I had done three layers and every time I looked at it I just wasn't happy so back I went to go over them again.  I am so glad I did as I think they now look how I wanted them too.

In real life the picture is quite a bit darker than it looks on these pics and it is now hanging in pride of place in my craft room.  After spending so much time on it I can't stand the thought of parting with it so on my wall it will stay.

The background is done with Prismacolour pencils and again there are four layers of four blues on here and then I blended them with my blending pencil to soften where the colours merged.

I hope you like her - I have to say I am really chuffed with it.

I also sprayed the entire image with Crafter's Companion Spray and Sparkle in Silver.  In real life it gives the image that extra bit of umph!!

Can't wait to see how many dreams or nightmares we get for this challenge.

Hope you have as much fun as I did.  Remember, part of the challenge is doing something you wouldn't normally do so why not challenge yourself this time.

See you soon

TTFN

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 Challenges: 

Dragonfly Dreams - Anything Goes

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes

A Bit more time to Craft - Anything Goes

A perfect time to craft - Anything Goes

Classic Design Team Open Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafteezee Shop - Anything but a card

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge - Anything Goes

Multifold challenge at Totally Tilda!

Hello all.

Well it's Sunday again and that means it is time for the new challenge over at Totally Tilda.

Please remember to hop on over to the Totally Tilda challenge blog and have a look to see if you were one of our lucky winners/Top 3.

Remember our winners and top three are chosen by Susie and the Design Team.

No random.org here! So if you won it's because we loved your creation.

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Right on to the new challenge.

The theme for this fortnight's challenge is:

MORE THAN ONE FOLD

This time we are lucky to be sponsored by:

And the prize is a £10 voucher to use in their store.

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So here is my creation for this challenge:

I used a pop out card available at Whichcraft. If you haven't shopped there before you really should go have a look, they have some fabulous stuff.

So here is how I did the outside of the card:

The die cut is a Memory Box one which I added two different coloured inks to and placed them on to some Magnolia DP.  The two little butterflies are self adhesive and I've had them for ages.

The background has been done using Clarity Stamps small tree stamped in second and third generation ink to give the effect of distance.  I used the edge of one of the christmas tree stamps for the grass and bottle green adirondack ink with my sponges.

Tilda and my fence are coloured with my Polychromo pencils and I'm really pleased with how they came out.

I also added a Memory Box die cut Magnolia Tree.

So there you go folks, my more than one fold for this fortnight's challenge at Totally Tilda.

Now it's over to you, I just know there are going to be some stunners.

Don't forget to have a look at the rest of the DT creations, there are some absolutely brilliant projects this time.  I work with some very very talented girlies.

Have fun peeps.

Three of Something at Ooh La La

Well these weeks are rushing on by aren't they!  Wish it would hurry up and get a bit warmer though don't you?
So Monday again and that means time for another challenge at Ooh La La.  Thank you for so many wonderful entries into our Bling It On challenge - boy am I glad it wasn't me choosing the top 3 this time!  Remember to stop by the Ooh La La challenge blog and see who has been handpicked as our top 3.
So onto the next challenge which as the post title would suggest is asking you to use Three of Something.  Now obviously this is a wide ranging challenge, you could use three images, three flowers, three papers, three gems - whatever you like so long as there is three of SOMETHING on your creation it will count towards entry into our top 3.
So here is the card I made for this challenge:

You will see that not only have I used three images, I have also used three gems at the top right of the card.  All the papers and images are from the Shoes in Bloom CD which you can purchase here.  I have also added a piece of lace down the left hand side just to finish it off.

Please remember to let me know what you think and then stop by the rest of the Design Team blogs (links on the Design Team tab at the top of the page) and have a look at their wonderful inspiration.