I don't have enough words...

Thank you all so much for the words of condolences and comfort. Reading all your comments and emails has been wonderful. Nothing will take away the pain of losing my mother but it's amazing to feel that out there, in our beloved land of blogging and crafting, are so many friends who care and are there for me.

I apologize that I haven't been responding to all of the emails and comments - most of the days I'm just not up to much chatting.

I decided to express my feelings the best way I know. Here's the result.

The challenge at Make it Colourful was to colour on anything except white card kraft, vellum, fabric, tissue paper (candles), wood etc. I spent a long time colouring that image with Prismacolor and Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. It is a work of love. Although I know there are many mistakes there - I will learn from these in the future.

The fairy is from Crafts and Me and the swing is a contribution from Make It Crafty store towards Help For Katie campaign.

Katie was diagnosed with stage 4 Stomach Cancer before Christmas and is currently undergoing her only option which is Chemotherapy. The campaign is collecting money to help with her treatment and give some treat to her two lovely boys. A lot of wonderful artists have donated images toward it.

Jak Heath is also running a competition on her blog for the cards using the images from Help For Katie set, there are some lovely prizes so do check it out.
I am not going to be rambling about how I made this card. If you have any questions about the materials/techniques, just ask me in comments section and email me. I'll do my best to answer.

Again, thank you so much - your support and understanding has made my heart a lot lighter!

Hugs

OK, so maybe I'm NOT the most organized person in the world...

I've known for a month what the theme for Make It Crafty For Fun challenge is - and of course I made it pretty much last minute, panting. Well, maybe not last minute - the minute before last minute. Yeah. That's better. And I know that cause I'm going to show you another card later today and THAT was last minute.

I blame global warming. Gotta blame something. Totally won't admit that I've been mojoless and lazy. Nope.

Anyway, the theme for the challenge is to make Anything But A Card. Yeah. So I did.

I heard you! Yes you, laughing hysterically, pointing at me! I hope for your sake it's because my creation is hilarious, not that you failed to identify a SHADOW BOX and mistakenly took it for a card.

Tut-tut! Clearly a SHADOW BOX, see, thanks to my crappy photography skills it even has some pretty sharp shadows. No mistake can be made. It's not me, it's you.

Now that I have it off my chest, I thought I'll briefly mention some card...erm shadow box details too. Images are called Aussie Santa and Gingerbread House. The colouring is pure Copic job, nothing added. Except about a bucketful of Glamour Dust and some Viva Pearl pen. And no, I didn't write anything down, I was too late making it so just pushed myself to actually get it done, lol

Because there were two strong images I chose to have a very clean design - well, for me anyway. The felt frame is cut with Spellbinders and I just got those cool border dies from MFT so had to play, obviously. As a result - a lot of felt borders.

And it wouldn't have been my c...shadow box unless there was some baker's twine involved. Or twill tape. Or both.

So there, that's all the entertainment for now. I'd like to enter some challenges though!!
Bunny Zoe's Crafts (2nd monday) - christmas but no cards (stop laughing like a hyena)
Cards For Men (2 weeks) - MASCULINE and christmas
Stamps R Us (2 weeks, 2 entries) - sparkle and scallops
Die Cut Dreams - anything but a card
Gingerloft (2 weeks) - great outdoors 
Scrappy Frogs (3 weeks) - christmas
Catch The Bug (1 entry) - christmas crafts 
Our Creative Corner - anything but a card
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle - no flowers
Pals Paper Arts - ribbon or fabric 
Paper Play (2 entries) - let it snow 
Some Odd Girl (2 weeks) - window cards 

Thanks for looking...please come back again. I'll promise I'll be good next time!
Hugs

Just for fun challenge at Make It Crafty

Some time ago Zoe from Make It Crafty invited me to take part in Just For Fun part of the challenges at Make It Crafty Blog. I am smitten by the gorgeous background digis in her shop and since it's just once a month I happily said YES!! lol

This month the theme is Vintage or Distressed and there's also a lovely sketch to follow. The last part I totally forgot but somehow my card came together very close to the sketch all on it's own. :D

As you can see I took the FOR FUN part quite literally and went happily mad.

This time the image is purely a Copic job. No other mediums added.

I thought that this poor zombie (he's a freebie, btw, so snap him up) was more pathetic than scary, hence the idea for the sentiment.

I merged the zombie with the forlorn Aussie Outback background and added a sentiment in Photoshop. Then I had mad fun colouring it all up and lost the track of markers I used about 15 minutes in - I suspect I used every single brown I own and LOTS of other shades. It was a blissfully messy project.

I used plenty of different distressing techniques here - sanding, sponging, rouging up the edges with scissors, crimping the paper, metallic rubons...

The papers are from DCWV and I added dew drops, some pins and jute string as finishing touches.

So come on, play along - for the fun of it! And a prize ... of course, lol.

I'd like to enter these challenges
Oh la la - Scary Stuff
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Simon Says Stamp & Show Something Spooky 
Cards for Men - Anything Goes, as long as it is for a male
Flourishes - Anything goes but buttons and  bows
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Spooky  
Bunny Zoe's Crafts  - autumn love
Copic Creations - blender tricks (welll ... you can see!! lol)
Creative Inspirations Paint - inspired by nightmares
Crazy 4 Challenges - Halloween/Spooky
Crafty Cardmakers - Digital Plus
Haunted Design House - Smeared and Smudged

Thanks for visiting and a happy day for you!