Half term colouring

So it's half term and I'm off work. Yippeeeeeeee! I'm working through lots of Tae kwon do image colouring, and although these are about the 40th I've done recently, I'm still kinda liking it.

They're Teddy Bo images and he is definitely a favourite. If you're wondering why he's not in a white dobok, the black and red are club colours.

Hope your half term is smashing, if you have one!

Saturday!

Good morning! It's Saturday and I've been up since stoopid o'clock again. Dratted insomnia! Ah well, at least I'm caught up on my TV viewing and I've done loads of the yukky housework..... time to blog and then some crafting to catch up on.

I have managed to sneak time for a couple of Fat Pages this week, this one is for an oriental themed swap. If you haven't tried making a Fat Page, give it a go. They're 4x4 inches square- it's a great size to create on.

The acetate panel is coloured on the reverse side with alcohol inks- the white splodges are silver and pearl mixatives. The image is stamped on the front of the acetate with Stazon ink. It's matted up onto a pale coloured card, so the coloured acetate shows up, then black for contrast.

Loving the koi carp!

I'm entering this into the following challenges: 

Crafts and Me- Anything goes challenge.

Papertake weekly- All creatures great and small.

Try it on Tuesday- Autumn colours.

Totally gorjuss- Anything goes.

Happy new home

A friend of mine is moving into a new home this week- a doodled card was in order!

I kept this one a bit simpler than usual- I quite like the spiky dotty bits, so I didn't want to add more and detract from them.

The house is a trusty Paperartsy squiggly ink favourite- stamped onto a page from an old mapbook.

I think I'll have to doodle more spikes this week!

Christmas cards.....yes I know I said I wouldn't but....

.....there is a good reason for them. The Tae Kwon Do club that Craig (the OH), and the squiddledoos go to have commissioned some from me. These are the samples that they chose from.

Lili of the Valley

 Mo Manning

Teddy Bea

Sugar Nellie

No idea!

Teddy Bo- this is my favourite- the dobok (suit) is in their club colours and it came out so well. I'm waiting for the list of hair and belt colours and then I can personalise them.

Ooh, and if anyone out there can point me toward any more martial arts stamps, I'd be really grateful, I've got quite a collection, but I could always use more!

Zombie ragdoll garden

This bookmark was inspired by a challenge blog a few weeks ago, but didn't get finished and blogged in time! Happens a lot that does.

I think this is my favourite Octopode image at the moment. She can be creepy-ed up or down, according to the recipient. This one went into a teenage girl's birthday card, so medium creepiness....

She's watercoloured (everything I do at the moment is watercoloured, it's so quick!), and the flowers etc. are hand drawn. Awww, she looks so sad.

Right, better go and get dressed, we're having a new meter fitted (gas or electric, I forget which) and the poor meter man will be scared off if I answer the door in my jammies!

Studio 12 at Polkadoodles- a Christmas project....

OK I'm not usually this organised,  I wanted to find ways to use the fab digi papers on the new Studio 12 Christmas CD.

Remember how banners were really "in" this summer for the Jubilee? Well I thought a Christmas banner might look kind cool too! I used a pre-cut template, but it's easy enough to cut your own.

The papers are downloaded from the Studio 12 Picknix Collection 2 Gingerbread Twist CD- I'm a sucker for polka dots, so they were first choice, and the other papers co-ordinated so well I was spoilt for choice. I just tore sections out and stuck them on- easy peasy!

The NOEL letters were roughly torn out and inked with Distress ink.

I added lots of gems and dew drops, glitter and ribbon to embellish and make it SPARKLE!!!

For more Studio 12 inspiration, head over to the blog!

Good luck George x

My baby boy is starting secondary school today....... cue a nervous wreck of a Mom all day.......

He's ready to go, he'll be fine, I'm not sure I'm ready for him to go though.....

Good luck my boy. Do us proud and learn something new...... x