Include an Animal/Crazy Critter

 

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Challenge 155 - 

Theme - A/ G with an option of Include an Animal/Crazy Critter

 

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How adorable is this wee chappy using one of the images from Ike's Krazy Kritterz Set 2.  I coloured the image digitally using Procreate and then completed the end design using Illustrator.  I just love the colour combination of this card, hope you do too :) :) :) 

TIC- TAC- TOE

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Challenge 154 - 

Theme - A/ G with an option of TIC- TAC- TOE     

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Line followed for the challenge is Lace, Free, Sentiment

How adorable is this brand new image in Ike's store, just can't help but make you smile :) :) The image is Tongues Out Tuesday cat and I decided to colour him as a Siamese.  I coloured the image digitally using Procreate, easier on the eyes these days lol. 

Valentine’s Day/Love

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Challenge 153

      A/ G with an option of Valentine’s Day/Love 

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Ahhhhh how can anybody resist a four legged friend bringing you a heart full of love :) :) :) For this card I used Ike's image 'Puppy Love' and coloured digitally using Procreate.  Just a nice afternoon relaxing with my feet up and Ipad to do this bit of colouring lol.

152 AG with option Include a Sentiment

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Challenge 152

      Anything Goes with an option of Include a Sentiment

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For my DT creation for the IKEsWORLD challenge this month I have made a digitally coloured DL card to wish you all beautiful dreams this year, 2022.  I can't believe we are now in 2022, time is just flying by :)  

I created the card using Photoshop, adding an alcohol ink background image for the base and using Ike's Dreamcatcher image which I just love.  The image was coloured digitally and then I added the sentiment.  Simple I know but I hope you like it.

Anything Goes with an option of Fur or Feathers

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Challenge 151

      Anything Goes with an option of Fur or Feathers

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I do like making boxes using my laser and hubby is awesome as although I am pretty good at 2d designing my head gets lost when it comes to 3d stuff.  Hubby comes to my rescue and designs my wee boxes for me in the sizes I want.  This box is only 5cm so pretty small as I needed a wee design to cut which would use up some of my wood scraps - I hate waste and tend to hang onto bits I guess most other laser folks would throw away (had the same problem with paper ROFL).  I used Ike's Bluetit Rowan which I etched onto the lid of the box.  Next a bit of an experiment as I coloured the image with watercolour pencils then using a very fine paintbrush blended a bit with water - I have to be super careful with liquid based things I apply to wood (alcohol markers, water colour paint etc.) as there is a tendency to bleed into the grains of the wood.  For this small colouring the water colour pencils did their job perfectly.  A light coat of spray varnish to finish the project and all done - happy days :) :) :) 

Anything Goes with an option of Water

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Challenge 150

      Anything Goes with an option of Water

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I made this card using a combination of 2 painting programs, Photoshop and Procreate.  The fish and background were coloured on Procreate and then I brought my colouring into Photoshop where I have a card template made which I can manipulate to suit the coloured image and also add any text.  This lovely fish is from IKEsART Tropical Fish set.

Anything Goes with an option of Trick or Treat {cute} Halloween

 

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Challenge 149

      Anything Goes with an option of Trick or Treat {cute} Halloween

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Ahhh how could anybody resist giving this wee pup a treat at Halloween, just look at that face.  Do you think a beef and pumpkin flavoured biscuit would be acceptable lol.

For this card I used Ike's Howl-oween image and digitally coloured using Procreate and added the background too.  I then exported the image to Photoshop to finish off my digital card where I have a card template made up of several layers which I can manipulate with relative ease.  Really enjoying the digital colouring at the moment lol

Anything Goes with an option of Fall/Autumn

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Challenge 148

     Anything Goes with an option of Fall/Autumn

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I use Leaf 5 for this CAS style card and coloured it digitally using Procreate - it is rather relaxing being able to chill out in the recliner with the I-Pad and just colour :) :) Once I was happy with the image I sent it over to my laptop where I finished off the card design. I often feel I am cheating a bit colouring digitally but then I remind myself it is just another learning curve/skill and after all creating is about fun and that is what I am having lol :) xxxxx

Anything Goes with an option of Animals

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Challenge 147

    Anything Goes with an option of Animals

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Just a simple card from me this month :), I was playing around in Photoshop with pattern fills and loved how the manatee turned out with an ocean pattern filling so decided to use him for this challenge.  I kept the background really simple with just some quick splatters using a splatter brush and selecting colours that were from the manatee on a white textured background.  Yep really simple I know but sometimes simple does the trick.  I finished of with some simple text but it says everything, we all love somebody remembering us for no reason at all, just to say Hi :) :) Hope you all have a good day.

Anything Goes with an option of Christmas

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Challenge 146

   Anything Goes with an option of Christmas

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For this challenge I made a tea-light holder using Angel #4 Front and Back - I only used the front of the image.  I etched the Angle image onto plywood and offset the outer line to create a cutting line leaving an edge between the etching and the cut.  Next I stained the wood with Promarkers trying although not very successfully to have a shaded wood effect.  An electronic candle was placed in the candle holder section.  I really should have taken the pic in the evening when you can really see how the glow of the candle illuminates the angel.

Anything Goes with an option of Food + Drink

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Challenge 145

  Anything Goes with an option of Food + Drink

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Oh so much fun :) I used one of the coffee images from IKEsART I LUV COFFEE Set Set of 4 + 6 FREE Papers and added the sentiment.  I then used my laser to make this 30cm wood cut of the design.  Next I used a 30cm sq MDF board and lightly etched the coffee cup image so I could place the wood cut accurately once I had done the painting.  The painting was done using acrylic paints and the spots on the coffee cup were created by dipping the rubber on the end of a pencil into the paint and using that for stamping.  I just love this and will be putting it up in what used to be my dining room as coffee is the liquid that seems to keep me going these days ROFL.

Anything Goes with an option of Birds or Butterflies-Things With Wings

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Challenge 144
  Anything Goes with an option of Birds or Butterflies-Things With Wings

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Today I am sharing a card created digitally and using Quirky Parrot by Ike.  A fun bit of early morning colouring while hubby was sleeping ROFL.  I used Photoshop to colour the image and create the background using several layers.  This guy is so cute, I don't know why I have not coloured him before lol.

Anything Goes with an option of Springtime

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Challenge 143
 Anything Goes with an option of Springtime

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I thought I would give no line colouring a go digitally using Procreate and aim for a very loose watercolour effect.  Not sure I achieved any of that lol but it was a great learning exercise and super fun.  The image used is DAFFODIL FAIRY by IKEsART.  

Anything Goes with an option of Monochrome

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Challenge 142
Anything Goes with an option of Monochrome

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You know when you have a day that seems to come to a standstill, you can't get on with the things you were doing for one reason or another - well that is me today.  My craftroom is upside down, no space, I have things waiting for glues to dry and can't move them.  We have also stripped out our dining room waiting for the joiner to come which was meant to be today but is now tomorrow (I hope) so not only work space in the craft room taken up but so is half the floor.  I am at a standstill but Ike came to the rescue lol - instead of wasting time I decided to make this card all from my chair without having to move as it is all digital.  The background paper is from a gelli print I made, one of a batch of about 30 or 40 using up printer paper which had my daughters degree assignments on.  I loved the papers I made I decided to scan them all with the idea that I could use them for digital cards.  Oh how I love it when a plan comes together.  In my happy place too as I just love a monochrome challenge, a total favourite.  Although I normally head for purples or blues I pushed the boat out with this one and used green ROFL.  The image is "Wren' by IKEsART and the software used to create this card is Photoshop.

Anything Goes with an option of Tic Tac Toe

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Challenge 141
Anything Goes with an option of Tic Tac Toe

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For this months Tic Tac Toe challenge I followed the line - Embossing, Buttons, Stitching Faux or Real.  

Ike's digi called Fat Kat was the perfect image to etch on the top of this tiny wooded bayonet box which is only big enough to hold a few Dreamies and and also closes using a mechanism which is cat proof lol.  We have a couple of adorable furbabies, a brother and a sister.  Bree, the sister is a real junk food eater but she has a figure we would all want - eat what you want and not get fat lol, oh how she loves her treats.  Often Jeeves, her brother, leaves his treats, he would rather sleep than be eating all the time ROFL so a wee cat proof pot is going to be very handy to pop his spare treats into.

My box design is called a bayonet box and was cut using 3mm plywood on a laser.  I etched the Fat Kat image and also faux stitching on the lid and designed and cut a small cat to use as a button too.   

After the cutting and etching the lid I wood stained it and then embossed it with gold embossing powder.

This looked great but the embossing powder did not hold well so I peeled it away the background and really blasted the melting of the embossing powder left on the cat area until it bubbled nicely lol.  A real distressed outcome but looks cool.  Next I sorted the attaching of cat button which was also wood stained.  

And as you can see, this really is a wee box, only big enough for a few treats - the perfect Fat Cat gift for the cat that needs to diet :) :) 

Anything Goes with an option of Friends /Friendship

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Challenge 140
Anything Goes with an option of Friends /Friendship

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Happy New Year folks, let us hope 2021 is one to remember for all the right reasons :).  What a great theme to kick off the new year - ATG with the option of Friends/Friendship - friends are the greatest blessing in life and I just love chatting with my friends with a good cup of coffee.  For this challenge I used one of the coffee images from I LUV COFFEE set of 4 - choosing the take-away coffee holder. If it was real, I would be enjoying this coffee with my friend in a nice quiet place preferably surrounded by trees and maybe if I was lucky, a small brook bubbling close by.  Ahhhhh - I have just whisked myself off to heaven ROFL.

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Mother

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Challenge 139
Xmas

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WOW - December already, where has 2020 gone too.  It has certainly been a strange, hard and life changing year so fingers crossed 2021 is much calmer.  Anyway folks, wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.  This is the last Ike's World challenge for this year'

For my card I used the image 'Mother', an adorable realistic image of mother and baby that just seeps emotion.  The papers used are Gelli printed and perfect for working with this image on a digital level.  I spent a day a while ago using up lots of A4 paper that I had printed recipes on for attempting to make dinner. The ones that we suitable to be eaten were then transferred to my laptop and instead of throwing all the papers away I raked out the acrylic paint and had a ball lol.  I was so pleased with how they turned out I then scanned them all so I would have a digital version too.  I created the card in Photoshop using several overlay techniques to get the effect I wanted - the image to be clearly visible but at the same time be part of the background.  In the end I added an oil painting effect to the image to give it a different texture.

IKEsART is having a sale throughout December with a massive 60% off - time to grab some awesome digital images folks :) 

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White on White

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Challenge 138
White on White

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White on White is always an interesting challenge when working with digital images, mainly because we usually use digis for colouring.  For this challenge I chose a simple image BOTTLES Set of 4 (bottle 3) which I knew I could convert to a die cutting file.  Once I had converted the image and created the 'Beautiful Lady' text I sent the file to my die cutter and cut using white vinyl.  I then set to creating the background by stamping flowers and the Happy Birthday sentiment with white ink and then heat embossing with white embossing powder.  To finish off I added some White Lace Stickles over the cutting lines for a bit of extra texture and finally a few dots above the flowers.

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So A-Tractored to You

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Challenge 137
Vehicles

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I had so much fun colouring this image of the Massey Ferguson Tractor from TRACTORS Set of 3, looking at the image before colouring it was a bit daunting but once I got started it all came together brilliantly.  The sentiment and hearts were added digitally when I printed the image, image coloured with Copics and metallic markers for the silver bits in the engine and the hearts.  To finish off a few brad hearts and then simple layering linking up the colours in the tractor.  Such a fun card to make and perfect for Valentine's Day :) :) :) 

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Under the Weather

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Challenge 136
Under the Weather

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Every now and then the brain goes blank on what to do lol - today was one of those days.  In the end I decided to use a couple of different IKEsART images to create this rainbow get well soon card.  The main image for the rainbows I used was from 'Cute Unicorn' - the second image I used was 'Merry go Round' where I removed the roundabout and just used a couple of the clouds.  The rainbow was used several times with each one being resized and rotated a bit in Photoshop and then were coloured digitally, next I added a rain overlay.  I then resized the clouds and added text to them, these too had just a tiny bit of digital outlining and shadowing added to give a dimensional appearance.  I then brought the prepared image into Illustrator, created the scalloped border and added some digital brads.  An all digital creation, quite handy to have on the computer to send to friends as a digital card or to add to a comment in FB :) :) 

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