A Little Gothic Magic

I'm honoured today to be joining Your Scrapbook Place as a guest designer.

The image I'm using for my inspiration is from their sponsor Moon Flower Digi Stamps.  The image is called La Bella Muerte

The image has been coloured monochromatic using Copics.

A single layered card with a little embossing enamel sprinkled for a touch of extra magic.  The edges of the card haver been distressed with a Tonic Solutions tool.

Thanks for popping for for a look today

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Crafter's Cafe - Monochrome

The Dream Factory - Stardust

A Perfect Time to Craft - October

Creatalicious - Anything Goes

Penny's Challenge - Anything Goes

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Art Divas - Anything Goes

Love to Craft - Anything Goes

 

A little old age tenderness

It's that time of year again where I create something special for my hubby.  This year I've gone with another of his favourites - skeletons!!

You can find Eternal Love in my Etsy shop here where you can get 10% off everything by quoting SKIANDREA10 at checkout.

There are two different versions of the image.  The one with just the skeletons I've sketched a heart.  All of the image was coloured with Copics.  I've added a little black polychromos pencil to add a little extra depth to the shading.

Finished off with layers of red and black card, I've added a Forever sentiment from Scrapiniec coloured with black Copic.

Happy Valentines hubby!!

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Dream in Darkness - Playing Cards

Craft Rocket - Love

Fabrika Fantasy - Love

Card Mania- Red and Hearts

Love to Scrap - I Love You

Pearly Sparkles - Love Love Love

Brown Sugar - Valentine Day

Try It On Tuesday's - Love Is In The Air

Create & Inspire - Anything Goes

My Time to Craft - Love Is All We Need

Vision turned reality

I'm sharing a very special creation with you tonight.  This one is a commission.  Ged who works with my hubby approached me with a commission in mind which I managed to turn into reality on a card for her.  We had quite a bit of communication so I could get this just perfect for her.

Her friend has a cat and she had this vision of a cats head (Suki) floating in the middle of a pumpkin vine with candy corn.  The rest was up to me to try come up with something spookily suitable.  Ged also didn't have any specific ideas about colours.  Although she started to go through some colour selections we could discuss, I showed her a pic of a first version of the card with the dark blue background.  She loved it so much she asked me to use it for the final card and then left all the colour choices up to me.

Suki being a pale ginger tabby is so adorably cute - I just hope I've done her justice.  She's actually paler in real life than I've coloured her here.  I'm still trying to get use to doing fine detail with Copics so I laid down some colour for the cats head and eyes then finished it off with polychromoc pencils.  The look I wanted was of fine soft fur and a glow in her eyes.

Everything else on the card has been coloured with Copics giving a vibrant look on the dark background.

Here you can see a close up of some of the pumpkin vine around the image.  I've added a few skulls into the mix, running some of the creepers through the skulls.

I the picture below you can see I've added a rata perfect addition to a dreamy cat's world.

The background, coloured with Copics have been given some texture.  An effect Faye showed Helen and I while on a recent Copics class with her.  I've used champagne (Faye will under stand that) and a sponge.  I've shown a particularly good section of it in the photo above.

To the top right of the cat is a crow, another perfect cat dream world addition.  I've achieved this look by adding the colour and then using a blender pen to bleach out some highlights on the feathers.

Cat's love the night and hunting so I decided to add in a glowing moon.  Across this I've added some wispy clouds and a few bats.  The glow of the moon if carried down towards the cat's face.

Finally here's the card as a whole.  Ged I'm very happy to say loves the card which will be passed onto her friend for Halloween.

This is only my second commission and I'm so happy with how it went.

Would love your feedback

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Do-Al(l) Kreatives - Halloween

Fabrika Fantasy - Pink or Halloween

Paradise of Stamps - Autumn / Halloween

World Wide Open Design Team - Challenge 27

Crafty Cardmakers - Spooky

The Sketchy Challenges - Halloween

Try It On Tuesday - Its Halloween Time

Create & Inspire - Anything Goes

Crafty Calendar Challenge - Halloween

QKR Stampede - Pumpkins or Anything Goes

Duplicity - skulls roses and butterflies

Yes I know it's not the normal glam / cutie / flowers etc. but if you look in my shop there are a couple of skulls around.  This image is called Duplicity and you can find it in my shop on Etsy.

As always you can get 10% off all my images by quoting SKIANDREA10

Today is my hubby's birthday.  It's been a while since I've drawn a skull for him.  I don't want to get too predictable and every time we (him and me) have an event to celebrate I do it with skulls.  That's why there's been JD & Coke and then Otters :D

So I thought he was overdue.  I'd seen some artwork where people had drawn skulls which were made up of other objects, hidden by objects or they form part of it - so...... I decided to see if I could draw something along those lines.  Drawing this I obviously HAD to be sneaky.  I'm not sure if he's caught glimpses of it but hopefully he's been too busy with work and his playstation LOL!!

I've coloured it mainly monochrom with only the rose in colour to add maximum impact.  A rose for my love on his birthday.  I've used Copics and polychromos pencils to do this with.

There are no sentiments with this I just wanted the art work to have maximum impact.  I've distressed the edges and mounted it onto some black card.

He is definitely going to love this one :D

Happy Birthday Allen!

Andrea xx

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Dream In Darkness - Anything Goes

Create & Inspire - Anything Goes optional add flowers

Skully Christmas

I've been dying to share this little guy on a finished card.

My hubby loves skulls so I thought drawing him a skull bauble would make the perfect card..  Once I'd finished him I thought others might like to have the opportunity to have him so I added him to my shop.

He's been coloured with ProMarkers and but out with a Spellbinders die.  The edges have been distressed with Antique Linen and Vintage Photo ink from Tim Holtz to make it look more grungy.

He's been mounted onto some black card stock cut out with a Spellbinders die.

The shaped card was covered with black crd stock before I added the design papers.  There were from Maja Design and have been distressed.

I've added some twisted looking vines which are wood chi elements from Scrapienic.  The HoHoHo sentiment is a stick on one from Hobby Craft, I thought went perfect with the image.

The only other things I've added is a glittery poinsettia and some black gems.

Happy Christmas Allen - I couldn't do all this without your support

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Anything Christmas Holidays

Creative Ladybirds - Anything Goes

Dream In Darkness

Passion For ProMarkers - Mega Christmas Challenge

Inky Chicks - Christmas In Traditional Colours

Scrapping4Fun - Christmas

Winter Wonderland - For Someone Special / New Year

CRAFT - Anything Goes

Eeeerie Christmas

Not only has Lizzy from Oddball Art created some cutie this month, but she's also created some creepy cuties my fave!!!   Shhhh... you didn't hear me say that LOL!

As mentioned in my previous post you can get all of Lizzy's image with 10% discount by quoting my code DTANDREA10 on Etsy this one is image 354.

I wanted to create an eeeeeerie scene for this one - I printed big to make a CAS card and used mostly grey Copics.  I've then used a combination of ProMarkers and Copics for the pops of pink.

Mounted onto some black card stock to frame the image I've just added a few rhine stones for sparkle and a black and white star sticker that I got in Paperchase

Don't forget to check out the Oddball Art blog and Facebook page for more inspiration

Andrea x

I'd like to enter tis card into the following challenges

Creative Lady Bird Challenges - Anything Goes

Dream In Darkness - Anything Dark

Digi Choosday - Anything Goes

Crafty Girlz - Anything Goes

Left of Centre - I've Gone LOC

Simply Papercraft - Anything Goes

Incy Wincy - Non Traditional image for Christmas

Poison

Comes in small bottles - well I've decided to do a small version with this Rick St Dennis image (Smilin Joe Skull with Roses) and make a tag :D

I've had this image coloured up for ages (using ProMarkers).  You might be able to tell because my colouring style has improved somewhat.  I'd cut the image out with a die originally but decided I'd not left enough white space.  So there it sat on my table waiting for some inspiration.

My hubby loves skulls and his birthday was coming up.  I'd bought some him some whiskey and decided it needed a tag -  fussy cutting the image I held it up to a tag and found it was the perfect size - yay!

Papers used are black card stock (distressed), Docrafts and Santoro, more card stock cut with a Tim Hotlz die.  there's also a piece of black lace, a wooden golden arrow, some black gems, letter beads to make up the poison sentiment and some mixed ribbon and thread in black, grey, pink and burgundy.

Here's the finished product - it came out fab.  GOT to do some more of these

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this tag into the following challenges

Dream In Darkness - May Challenge

The Dark Attic - Challenge 1

Dark n Daring - Anything Goes

Left of Centre - I've gone LOC

Birthday Skull

My hubby loves skulls so I decided to do him one for his birthday card.  Last year I did him death for his 50th birthday and he thought it was ace!!

You can find this image Skully Roses at SheepSki Designs

The image has been coloured with a combination of ProMarkers, Copics and polychromos pencils.

The back ground have been done with several grey Copics and a black polychromos pencil.

I've mounted the image onto some plain black card stock.  Both have been distressed.  The sentiment is black card stock cut out with a Spellbinders die.

The only embellishment are a few black gems in the corners

Now to keep it hidden for a week :D

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Dream In Darkness - May Challenge

The Dark Attic Challenges - Challenge 1

Dark n Daring - Anything Goes

A Little Creepmas for my Hubby

MY hubby love skulls - he has about a million t-shirts with them on :D

I decided to do him a skull Christmas card and used  an image I got a while ago from Smeared Ink called Creepmas Centrepiece.  Unfortunately Smeared Ink has now closed and I'm not sure where you can get this image now.

Now this was a bit of a rush because I made this Christmas Eve - nothing like leaving something to the last minute - but I just seemed to be running out of time fast.

The image is coloured with ProMarkers and the background with Copics.

Papers used are some black card stock and red papers from Maja Designs and UHK Gallery.

The Creepmas sentiment was made with some glitter letters.  I've also used some black gems and some red heart stickers which I got in Paperchase.

My hubby loved the card I'm glad to say - especially with the Gothis style writing I did inside :D

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Forever Dark - Anything Dark

Dream in Darkness - Happy Creepmas

Left of Centre - Bumper Christmas Challenge

Hubby's valentine

Now the day has arrived I can get this posted, my hubby sometimes sneaks onto my blog to have a look at what I'm doing - so I have to be careful what I post when :)

So an unusual and dark valentines?  Yes in both your assumptions.  He likes skulls and collects skull t-shirts (I've lost count of how many he has), he has pictures of the grim reaper as his background on various different gadgets!  So I know he's going to absolutely love this. 

The image is an Aurora wings one Momento Mori and I've used ProMarkers to colour it.  Originally I was going to leave it on the white background I'd coloured it on but then changed my mind and fussy cut it.  Here's a close up.

I've mounted the image onto plain black cardstock, then onto red card stock and left a white border.  My hubby doesn't like my overly fussy cards so I kept this simple for him.  I did a homemade sentiment and cut it out with a Spellbinders die.  The only other things I added were some black and red self adhesive gems and a couple of  enamelled hearts.

Happy valentines

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Aurora Wings - Valentine

Without Words - Je t'aime

Crafty Boots - Hearts and Valentines

Creative Moments - Anything Goes / Love

Wags n Whiskers - For Someone You Love

Robyn's Fetish - Valentines Cards

Passion for ProMarkers - To Someone I Love

A Step in the Dark -Anything Goes

Left of Centre - Lost Love

Eternal love

This amazing image from Aurora Wings, Dark Goth Mermaid with a Skull, inspired me to do a love/valentines card.  My hubby's comments "it's beautiful but a little creepy" - excellent just the feeling I was going for :)

The image is coloured with ProMarkers, cut with a Spellbinders die then edged with Antique Linen Distress ink from Tim Holtz.  I've used some biro to highlight her hair.  Here's a close up of the image so you can see the colouring in more detail.

Design papers are from Santoro's Gorjuss, Lili of the Valley and Craft Creations.

The leafy plants have been created using Sizzix Garden Greens die (Tim Holtz) with paper from Lili of the Valley.  They have been highlighted with a Sandstone ProMarker on the bottom edge to give them some depth.

The silver anchor bead is from The Ribbon Girl, the silver shell and fish beads I found on Amazon.

The eternal love sentiment is home made and cut out using a Spellbinders die.  This gas also been edged with Sandstone ProMarker.

The final touch some black and white pearl self adhesive gems.

Hope you like my beautiful creepy card :)

Andrea x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges

Aurora Wings - Valentine

Art by Miran - Anything Goes

Paper Shelter - Layers and Lots of Them

CRAFT - Valentines Day/Love

Winter Wonderland - Lots of Layers

A Gem of a Challenge - Lots of Layers

Sweet Stampin - Love

A Step in the Dark - Anything Goes

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

Ribbon Girl - Romance is in the Air