Cyber Monday @ Tellen's Place

Yep - 25% off ALL images at TELLEN'S PLACE.
Including those dark images, anyone that knows me, will know I love these.
The two dark Christmas images, Chained Ghost & Grub Scrooge




and inside

Very "A Christmas Carol" don't you think?? Hence the sentiment I used.
The background on the front is a free image on the web of a victorian street. The paper on the inside with Scrooge is from Crafty Chaos' "Rich Autumn Glory set".

The image of Scrouge is coloured with promarkers, Chained Ghost (Marley) is painted with distress inks. The chain is from stash.

Please also go look at the cards made by fellow divas, Sandra over at RosePetal Designs, and Terry at Tellen's Place and Crafter's Delight. They go for the more traditional look with the "signature" images. You won't be sorry if you go look.

Get those savings and visit the shop

Give Thanks

Yep - Friday already!! The challenge over at Tellen's Place this week is aimed at "Giving Thanks".
Not just for the American Thanksgiving but for other 'thankyou's as well.
I had great fun and a little giggle with my DT piece for this challenge. The sequence just wouldn't leave my head so I had to go with it.
A waterfall card..... sideways........


It's the journey of that turkey to the table .......

with Gretchen doing the honours

All ready for the table :)

There are loads of tutorials over on youtube for making waterfall cards, so I won't bore you with another here. A cardmakers version of the old Flick books.

I used a pearlised brown cardstock for the base, layered with burnt orange then a yellow from the DCWV citrus range with circles on it (harvest time/circle of life). The images printed onto white and coloured with promarkers and ink distressed with pale orange.
The ribbon for the tags and brads from stash, the flower from Crafty Feelings.
SO
Get your thankful foot forward and let's see your projects.
Terry's organised a fantastic prize of a $20 gift card from Scrapbooking.com! To get you started with inspiration, there are two freebies available as well over at Tellen's Place!

I am entering this into the challenge over at The ABC Challenges - H for Holiday
Also The Papertake Weekly Challenge - Autumn Skies
The Creative Card Crew - They are having a "Give Thanks" challenge
The Crazy Challenge - Thanks or Thanksgiving
The Crafty Ho's - The challenge is using Autumn Colours
Digi Doodle Shop's Best - Anything Goes

Black Background

Yes, that's all that Tellen's Place Challenges want to see this week. Anything dark and creepy, or if you're still in Halloween mode, a new creation as long as it's a black background. The divas have done a grand job with giving everyone some inspirational pieces. Please go look at them all and leave some love.
For my part, this is what I have made......


A simple card. I started off by painted black cardstock with acrylic paint, blending the "sandy beach" into the cave...... the lair of Clawdeethor, who now has lunch all lined up. To the blackpaint while drying I added some fibres for lichen. This was then backed onto some black ink distressed yellow paper, the remnants of past meals adorn the side. This was then all mounted on more black cardstock. The Clawdeethor image was coloured using a mixture of watercolours and promarkers.
The prize will be 3 FREE TPD images from the Etsy store and the holiday images up and ready for grabs.

I am entering this into the Corrosive Challenge for Black and Blue this week.

It's Time For Dark and Creepy At Tellen's Place

Two more days to go before that fab night and we're all gearing up for it. Well at Tellen's Place we are. Dark and Creepy is the challenge this week. For my part I have chosen to use ALL the "dark" halloween images that Marcus drew for this celebration time. I was very lucky to have the opportunity of getting my sticky (and inky) mitts on a couple of skulls (and coffins). Oh boy have I had fun.
The one for the challenge this week ....... taken in candle light .......... to hopefully show what it will look like on the night ...............













I started off by sealing the skull with watered down PVA as it is made from paper mache. Then a couple of coats of black acrylic paint. Then a thin coat of gloss. (to give it more of a slimy look)
While this was all drying ... printed onto thin paper each of the images. None of the images are more than 4cm tall. I flipped the doubles - so easy to do with digis.
The images were coloured with a variety of mediums - paint, pencils and promarkers and all fussy cut out. They were then mod-podged onto the skull.
To finish, when all that was dry, using metallic paint I painted little dots all over and highlighted the teeth adding a little extra sparkle on 2 of them.

Now it's your turn to show us Dark and Creepy (or anything Halloween). The girly girls amongst the Divas did it ......... so can YOU!! So come along to Tellen's Place and show us. Terry has even supplied a freebie to help you out and the winner will get 3 images from the store!!!

The first Crafty Purple Frog challenge is still on and they do say more than one entry allowed, so I am entering this into their "Anything Goes" challenge.

New Releases for Tellen's Place Designs - More

Yes more!!! Marcus has been churning out yet more images. This time in the "Diva" range for you girls out there that prefer the girly girl images. Please go have a look at the Tellen's Place blog to see what our Sandra has created to show them off.

TPD's images are on sale - buy one, get one FREE!

AND there's still a day or so to enter our latest challenge as well to show us your buttons.

Meanwhile, Marcus has also drawn up some Halloween representations of us girls - how he sees us ... (these images are not in the shop) and this is ME

I made a door plaque to go on my crafty room door. I coloured me with promarkers. The papers are all from Crafty Chaos from the Halloween Howlers range. The "charms" down the side are a mixture of buttons and bits from a bracelet. Eyelets attached and threaded with ribbon.
The purple hair..... I really do have. hehehe

I am going to enter this into one or two challenges this week for Halloween as it is celebrating that time.
Pear Tree Designs - Halloween challenge
I Did It Creations - Surprise Me - Anything goes challenge

CreethanSumi

That's the name of this great image from Tellen's Designs. There I was - making some of those "C" cards for others. This image popped into my head as an ideal candidate for the Lil' Lurid and Lovesick challenge over on Haunted Design House this week.
Not much to it really... A young beautiful girl swooning over an ogre who doesn't care.....

The sentiments stamped down the sides are from the Lil' Grumpies set available from Smeared Ink.
It was all coloured in promarkers with some watered down distress inks and some metalic paints to add that slimy look to the ogre. This was backed onto some red coredinations that I distressed ... a lot..The little hearts have been sitting in a little box in the bottom of my drawer for what seems like an age. Stuck them on using microdots then added a shiny brad from stash.
Then onto deep green card base.

Buttons, Lovely Buttons

This week, Charlene's Button Box is sponsoring Tellen's Place's "Let's See Some Buttons" challenge.

A little info about our sponsor, Charlene: "I live in Illinois with my wonderful husband and our three children. I've been creative most of my life. I'm an avid scrap booker and in my quest for the perfect embellishment I came across clay buttons. I had too many ideas in my head for just myself so I started selling them. Now I'm here to offer them to everyone I can." You can check out more information about Charlene on her blog. The winner of this challenge will get to go to Charlene's Etsy store and choose 5 sets of her beautifully crafted buttons for FREE! How cool is that?

The Divas were all lucky to recieve a sample to work with, all different and pot luck who got what I think. I got these amazing leaf ones - gorgeous autumnal colours. The image I chose to work with is one of the newest ones to be available in the shop - PERA.


The buttons are knotted with some embroidery silk and Pera is coloured using promarkers with a touch of silver gelpen to highlight her dress and gold gelpen to give some shine to the bangles she wears. The wings had a mixture of gold glitter and stickles to aid in the definition. To show both the buttons and the image to their best advantage, I went with a black background onto which I had stamped (masking some) some leaves in glittery very pale yellow, pink and orange. Unfortunately the colours are so pale I couldn't get them to come out in a pic - look so much better in real life. The leafy ribbon was (part of a fantastic RAK from a dear friend) then added before attaching to a pale mushroom shade card. This in turn was attached to a leafy patterned paper and some more of that mushroom cardstock. The bottom ribbon is a shiny raffia type twisted with bronze organza ribbon. Then all onto a black cardstock base. I do like my black, hehe.
Hope you enjoyed looking as much as I enjoyed making this.
Now get on over to Tellen's Place and show us what you can do.

"Let's see some buttons"

There's a gorgeous freebie there for you as well and we would love to see it being used this week. Make it pretty, make it glittery, or make it dark and mysterious ..... your choice.

I'm entering this into a few challenges
One Stitch at a Time - Embellish It - ribbons and buttons
The Corrosive Challenge - No White - They are pale colours - but no white here
Pear Tree Designs - Free for all
Riley and Co - Autumn Colours
The new monthly challenge site Karber - they have a fantasy challenge running this month
Flutter By Wednesday's challenge - this week is an open challenge

I Do What I Want

Isn't that what "mad scientists" do? Well those of the Dr. Frankenstein mould do. When I saw the latest batch of images from Tellen's Place that Marcus had produced.... yep Simply Sinister it had to be. Isn't it great when you get to see before others.
The challenge over on Haunted Design House this week was the inspiration for this. Barb this week says simply sinister... that's what I hope I have achieved here.




Dr Frankenstein - or that is who he reminds me of - I don't know his real name yet- with one of his creations.... both about to create another?? The images were coloured with my pencils for a change - I wanted a softer look. The embellishment kept to a minimum, just some torn fabric and some copper coils (fallen of his electrical equipment). Just 2 BP, both from Crafty Chaos, though ~I have mixed the sets (halloween howlers and gothic bruise). Some ink distressing went on here as you can see as well. The sentiment "I do what I want" is from the Grumpies set from Smeared Ink, stamped down the side.

I am entering this into the Haunted Design House challenge #60 - Simply Sinister
also One Stitch At A Time Challenge - use a digi stamp
Make it Crafty - Distressing

Pumpkinhead

I knew when I saw this new image from Tellen's Place, it would make the ideal halloween card for my grandson. The challenge over on StampitCrazy stirred me into making it earlier than maybe I would have. Ordinarily when entering a challenge I try to use that company's stamps, but crafting pennies being a bit tight at the mo ... you all know how that is. My apologies Barb.

So I have this little easel card to offer this week.



The front facing papers are from Crafty Chaos Designs.
The main image is Tellen's Place as is the big pumpkin in the group, taken from Sgt Pepper digi. All the other elements I'm afraid - the origin has been forgotten by me. I added some fibres hanging to give a spiders web feel to it.
Just right I think for a 4 yr old. Hope you like this as much as I enjoyed making it.

Trick or Treat us at Tellen's Place

OK you ladies (and gents) out there. Halloween is nearly upon us and over at Tellen's Place we want to see your Trick or Treat projects. To help you along, Terry has kindly provided a FREEBIE, so get on over there, make something that is trick or treat themed and post it to your blog or photo caching site and tell us about it. The rest of the divas have been slogging away over a hot craft table to bring you some great cards using some more of the great new releases drawn by our resident artist Marcus. They're fab.
For my project, Terry presented me with CATVAMP and DR.JEKYL to play with. Here's what appeared .....


CatVamp was decoupaged in 3 layers to help give some dimension over the haunted house. The main image was coloured using promarkers and the moon just painted with some silver paint, a light dusting of which was added to the cloud as well.
Dr.Jekyl was again coloured with PMs with a generous dollop of glossy accents on the blood to make it more realistic. The sentiment was computer generated by me onto cream textured card, given a little distress treatment with first black ink then orange with a final touch of red to the edges. The BP consists of some navy DCWV, distressed with black ink and 2 strips of hand made paper. All then stuck to some aubergine card stock.
Now you've seen this - get on over to Tellen's Place and take a look at the other Divas fantastic creations.

I am entering this into the Stamp Insanity challenge #30 - Trick or Treat challenge
and Stampin' for the Weekend challenge for their Halloween/Fall challenge
The Creative Cottage Challenge have Halloween as their choice of challenge as well
Stamp Something want Halloween Somethings for their challenge this week

New Release for Tellen's Place Designs - Halloween!

Tellen's Place Designs has another release for you today! This time, we are tickling your fancy with our Halloween images! ! This sale is fantastic, of course: Buy ONE, get ONE FREE!

For my part I was given "Sargeant Pepper " to play with. He so reminded me of the Late Great John whose birthday, by the way, would have been this week. In keeping with the album after which this image was named - he had to be in yellow for this release. Well I thought so.
My morbid mind went into overdrive but without wanting to sully the memory of him ...

I was lucky enough to be able to get my hands on these gorgeous little wooden coffins, one of which was used to give Sgt. Pepper a final resting place. Painted black, (like it could be any other colour! ) with some images of the Apple record label logo mod podged on the top, and a little sentiment stuck to the bottom that was first inked and then painted with flourescent paint.













Inside I stuck in some red fabric for the cushioning and with a small piece of ribbon acting as a (1) a stop for the lid and (2) a support for the piece of acetate that the Sgt(coloured using PM's) is stuck to so he can come out and greet you in person (so to speak).


Have a look at all the other works of art the Divas have dreamed up for you and if you leave a comment on the Tellen's Place Blog .....Guess what?! One of our commentators is going to get one of these images FREE!! That's right, just for making a comment!
There's still the challenge going on for using 2 patterned papers .... what are you waiting for?

I am entering this in for the challenge over on Inky Impressions for their Anything Goes challenge and in the Fussy and Fancy Friday challenge for their Halloween themed challenge.

2 Patterned papers

Morning all. To all those that frequent Tellen's Place, you'll know that this weeks challenge is to use 2 patterned papers to create ........ whatever you like. Well the Divas have been busy as usual and made some diverse projects again. Please go and check them all out. For my part, I have created this.............




A mobile.
You know That saying "Never work with animals and children"? Well add "moving paper projects" to the list.
The main support is made from 2 old coat hangers with some scrap copper electrical wire twisted round. So far I have used 10 of the dark images I adore. There's loads of room for more and this is going to be an ongoing project for a couple of weeks. Check back then for an update.
The main colouring agent I used was my promarkers but I have added touches of flourescent and glow in the dark paint as well to strategic places. Gives a great eerie look - especially in the run up to Halloween.
So far the 10 images used are Gorgon, Cobrena, Hades, Beezle, Zhenix, Devilen, Clawed, Hunchgore, Skullither and Murdra. I have concentrated on those that I haven't used in a while.

The prize for this challenge is three FREE images of our recently released Halloween images.
There's a freebie as well to get you started. What are you waiting for?

BOOOOOOOO at Tellen's Place

Some more new images are released today. Just right for those halloween projects you've got lined up. The Divas have created some marvelous projects. Go look here in a minute. Please stick around to the end of this post and have a look at this one I made first.



An ordinary Halloweeny card? From Croms?
Pull that little pumpkin at the bottom. What happens??





The image will shoot out of the top as you pull..... a double slider card. A bit of a surprise for the recipient? I added the letters G O T C H A at the bottom.

and here's that great Frankenboots image close up



All coloured in promarkers and distress inked around the image to make him standout.
There are many tutorials for double slider cards on youtube if you want to have a go yourself. All the papers and card stock from stash, as was that cute little pumpkin charm.


Don't forget there's a 50% SALE going on right now so get on over there


I'm entering this into the Haunted Design House challenge this week for Dastardly Delicious Digis - digi image as main focus

New Release for Tellen's Place Designs

I haven't had much time to do much crafting lately. Son still in plaster with a broken ankle!
But
I have tried to keep up with my new duties as a DT member over on Tellen's Place.

Today is the day! TPD has new images released at the store and guess what - if you buy ONE, you get ONE FREE! That's right! This buy one, get one free sale will continue until the October 2nd, so hurry and get 'em while they're HOT!!

Get on over and check out the rest of the Diva's crafty masterpieces. This one is mine..... WICKED GRETCHEN.
I had a blast when putting this together.
Coloured with promarkers with just a touch of fine liner in the hair and blood pool. I added glossy accents to the "blood" to add a freshness to it and to her boots. The effect of blood soaking into her dress was done by holding a PM onto the reverse of the image and letting it seep through
I made a shallow box shape to lift her out of the other "room" The papers are all from the Velvet Descent range from Crafty Chaos. The sentiment was computer generated by me and heat embossed then inked with distress ink.
I won't distress the cutesie lovers by detailing the other image but some will recognise it.



a close up of this great image .... had to scan it in the end as the camera kept going out of focus

Bling week for Tellen's Place

First I am going to apologise if this posts early.... going to try and schedule it for later today ... Having to go to work today. Long story, son broke his ankle 2 weeks ago and they were unsure if he would need it pinned. This means that all his chores are having to be done by me. He had been told to rest it or suffer the knife and surgery. Anyway, back to hossy again yesterday instead of work, managed to get a shift slide hence my week is turned upside down yet again. Good news - he's allowed to put weight on it now so he can hobble about a bit more **grin**.

OK back to business......

Bling week at Tellen's Place!!!!! (I am sure Terry is in cahoots with all the other challenge setters out there.....BLING!!!!)
This next project started off as a little joke and spiralled away. Plenty of glitter of all colours was used......
2 TPD images, Pukele and Skullflame were first printed onto acetate. Then bit by bit I glued glitter on in sections. Waiting for each bit to dry before going onto the next was the tedious bit.

While this was going on, I started on the box.....here's where the recycle bit comes in...... an aluminium box, originally used to house spot lights in ceilings has been sitting on hubby's workbench for ages, well there were 2 ...... the other has been earmarked by me as well, hehehehe......I made a cover with thinnish orange chipboard, cutting holes in 2 sides to take the 2 images. When the glue was all dry on the acetate and cleaned of all the excess glitter, these 2 panels were stuck in place. The sides were then finished off with loads of flame shaped pieces of red, orange and shiny holographic red cardstock and some paper from my DWCV Taj Mahal range which has glitter embedded in it. Then as a finishing touch, some sparkly gold ribbon that has been in my stash for ages.
Some pics here wouldn't go amiss ........
Pukele with and without candle light......




















and Skullflame......
























A rather long post I'm afraid and thank you for staying with me.
Now I hope you have either been or are going to look at all the other Divas' creations, I'm sure you will love what you see.

The reason this is a late entry into the Stamp It Crazy challenge this week is because I had to wait until today to post ... for obvious reasons. But the recycled challenge they have going over there seemed to fit this as it is an old lighting box used.

Tellen's Place colour challenge

Over on CDAC, Tellen's Place is hosting the colour challenge this week. Brown and yellow - not just a bit - LOADS. Well considering that I'm now on the DT team - although that doesn't start just yet - I felt I had to show my support. Not that it was a chore, I loved this one. Made a change from all the pink I had to do last week. There is a freebie supplied, but I chose to add another image.
Yes the majority have taken "Mandy" as running and enjoying herself; me, I saw a different side.....
so using "creepish" from the dark collection crouching in a tree....
I tore strips of 2 different brown papers and inked the edges in yellow and strips from 2 different yellow papers inking the edges in brown, layering onto yet more brown and yellow and mounting on brown cardstock.
The sentiment is computer generated by me.

Flutterings, foul or fearsome

Well Barb over on Haunted Design House wanted Foul Flutterings this week for HDH challenge #50. Well I don't know about foul ... because I like dragons ... but this lady would be definately fearsome. Nothing can be more fearsome or foul than a mother looking after her young under perceived threat. Auresha, from Tellen's Place Designs is blissfully unaware of her fate as she offers up a little snack for the draglets.
Using 4 different dragon stamps from Tanda stamps and a digi flower from Dew Drop Craftz as the additional images I put together this little project.
The orange paper that I'd printed the flower onto was layered onto textured orange cardstock (after a little roughing up round the edges). The mummy dragon coming out of the sun was stamped with green ink and heat embossed with both a red glittery powder and silver with other details water coloured. Auresha herself was coloured with promarkers, with just a touch of glossy accents on the eyes, horns and wings. The draglets were stamped in the same green ink as mum onto pearlised card and coloured the same. The reverse image was obtained by stamping onto acetate and rubbing the image onto the card with my ball tool.

Eat outside

Another Tellen's Place digi from the dark range..... done fairly tame this time. With a little twist. Over on QKD's Whimsical Ink Sorority there is a really simple sketchy to follow this week. I just HAD to use my new TPD stamps. I have slightly adapted the TLC creations sentiment to fit. The image is coloured with PM's and inked round the edge with stormy sky distress ink mounted onto brown card stock. The panel is torn vellum from stash as is everything else. Hehehe, even the little chicken bones ..... left over from the voodoo challenge over on HDH.

Challenge in Pink from the Duck Pond

What would you do for your best friend? Apart from the normal things like be there in a crisis, tell them they look a million dollars and mean it, ..... the list goes on........ make cards in PINK !!!!! She knew I would, only 'cos it's The Duck.
To cut a long story short.... my best friend Karen has started up on her own, filling a hole in the market, at least up here in Scotland. Making up a kit, which will be sent monthly, for making cards. Sourcing some gorgeous papers, card stock and various embellishments and the plastic sleeves to store in or for selling on. Each kit is all colour co-ordinated to take away that dilemma many have. "Make me some cards up please" says she. "Of course I will" says me. The package arrives .....luckily she'd had the forsight to put the contents in a plastic bag because the postie left it on the doorstep, and of course it rained, contents safe and dry. I open it up eagerly ....... PINK !!!! Well alot is. There are other colours of course but my brain only saw PINK at first. So the challenge was set. Link over on the left to see the kit supplied in full.
I've done 6 cards so far from the 9 blanks sent. Using only my trusty double sided tape and a bit of silicon glue I set to work. OK - I used some of my own brads and images as well but essentially the cards are made using only the supply sent. There's still loads left to do the other 3 but the camera is running short on battery power so they will have to wait. Some of the cards I am also entering into a couple of challenges.
The Tellen's Place, Skullflame, into Haunted Design House #048 - Wayward words
The Pink Kitty and birthday birds into CDAC challenges

Summer Fun (for some)

Here it is ... the last Tellen's Place Challenge before the summer break. On the normal blog that is. They have a site over on CADC - so don't forget to check out there as well. This time I have chosen a scene in the garden with dad burning the BBQ and the kids oblivious to all except doing their own thing and wondering when the food is going to be ready. The images are all Tellen's Place except the BBQ which was lifted from google (a copyright free clipart) with Pukele playing the fire imp.