Quirky? ... or just weird :D

This week at LOC the challenge is to make something "Quirky  or Weird"

While the August's challenge at Dream in Darkness is to get Steampunky.

These are two styles that work really well together, and on the theme of "togertheness"

I decided to blend physical crafting with digi crafting...just because I can :D

I started by stamping and stencilling a selection of cogs/clocks and whatnots onto a piece of craft card stock...

 I already knew the images I was going to add.

Jacob and Gwendolyn from Simply Betty Stamps.

(coloured with markers)

Again colouring around the image helps to soften the outline against the background.

 You can never have too many cogs on a steampunk project...

die cut card inked and highlighted with metallic ink...

 to add a bit of dimension.

 Don't you just love Gwendolyn's saucy attitude?

I then uploaded this photo into my graphics programme

(I use Serif Craftartist 2)

and added the frame/legend and gnome :D

*Staring at my Pumpkin is going to get your Mangle Wurzled*

I know....but I is just weird lol

Enjoy, and a Blessed Lammas to all XXX 

When getting messy isn't an option...

Try digital art!

That's what friends kept telling me, so I thought it was time to get stuck in :D

I have all the graphic programmes you could want, but had fits of technophobia everytime I tried to use them.

A couple of days ago my very talented friend June Mac of Dezinaworld

shared some amazing free images (all her images are free of charge), and I found she has been running a weekly Cheeky Challenge

 Now you know I'm not shy at jumping headlong and wellied up into a challenge, so being half a year behind, I thought it would be a great chance to work on my digi skills.

Rather than just join in from now, I am going to make a Cheeky Challenge art journal :D

I already have an out of date A5 desk diary to alter...

 and the full years challenge prompt courtesy of June,

so today I have made my first 2 pages which I am going to print off and stick in the diary.

 Week 01 Rags/poverty/homeless

Week 02 Wildflowers

I have used a mixture(cos that's what digi collage is about) of images from Dezinaworld, Daisy Trail(serif), Itkupili images and my own photos.

I'll try not to bombard you with my new project lol, but I'm sure some will find it refreshingly lighter than my other projects :D

Enjoy XXX

Smile!

This week saw the start of a new "Quoth the Raven Challenge"

Challenge #40 is "Snow Poe" ...create something Poesque using white + 1 other colour...

Had to go with black didn't I?

Quote from "The Raven"

 ("Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad face into smiling...")

 I had worked on this icon before so it needed several coats of gesso and paint to block the colours, but it did leave some yummy texture :D

 I already knew the images from Itkupilli I wanted to use.

 Printed out onto plain copy paper the images bond nicely to the wood and painted surface.
I typed out the quote and printed, before cutting up and edging the words with black distress ink.

Couldn't resist that smile :D

But it was just lacking a little something...

Black Diamond stickles!

and a bit of highlighting :D

Enjoy :D XXX