Haunted Design House - Steven King challenge

 Happy Monday folks, How is everyone keeping?
 Thank you for stopping by.
Today we start our new challenge over at Haunted Design House the theme being the Legend that is Stephen King, Now we do not mind what aspect of Stephen Kings career you focus on, His comic books, novels or movies, we want to see it all.
  I decided to go with one of his films, (also a Book) the one that scared the crap out of me as a kid and is probably the cause of a nation wide general fear of Clowns, thank you Stephen ;)
 Ive made another page for my little book of dark arts, a posh way of saying fat page.
I started by painting the page of the book with acrylic paints by Deco Art, mainly white but mixing in some subtle greens, Juniper and mint I think also a little bit of fawn, I mixed the colours on the page so they would blend together.I then flicked some red paint across the surface so it looks like some blood splatter.
 I then sourced the internet for a good picture of Pennywise and ran it through Photoscape to turn it into a threshold image (pure black an white, no grey) you can adjust the amount of black to white in the program.
 When I was happy with it I printed it out to the right size and then used a some Transfer paper from Deco Art (it's basically a carbon paper) You trace around the image and it leaves the marks on your painted surface.Once I had gone round the whole image, I painted the black parts black and Pennywise comes to life.To finish off I just painted the 'IT' in free hand. This technique was shown to me on an Andy Skinner live workshop.
 Head on over to Haunted Design House to see what else the awesome DT have created and remember to check back next Monday to see some more inspiration from the rest of the team.
As always we would love to see you join us by getting your freak on ;)

Thank you for stopping by x

De StempelWinkel - Pen Holder

A very quick post today, It's my turn over at De StempelWinkel to come up with something.

A few weekends ago I was at the big craft show at Ally Pally and I had my first encounter with the MDF man, I spent a small fortune and bought several of these really cool pen holders.

For more pics and a little more info on what I have done, head over to De StempelWinkel.

They have daily posts from their awesome DT show casing their stamps and productsThanks for stopping by, It's always appreciated xx

Fun With ATC's - Magic

Ok so I am not quite sure how I keep managing to have 3 posts in a row and then nothing for the rest of the week but it would be a shame to stop that pattern now ;)
 I have no idea where the time is going but we have started our new two week challenge over at Fun With ATC's the theme this time is Magic.
 I have cut my ATC from mount board and I used it to mop up a little bit of the red Dylusions spray, It looked like a blood splatter so I knew I had to keep it. I decided to go for a sinister looking advertising poster type look.
I left the Bg of the ATC white and stamped on the One eyed Gent, he is from DE StempelWinkel they have so many brilliant and different stamps. I also thought the playing card and the mystic hand from Tim Holtz fitted right in as well so I made a mask of the chap, over stamped the card with coffee archival ink, I did the same thing making a mask of the card and over stamping both images with the Hand stamp using pumice stone Distress Ink.To finish I swiped the edges with Black Soot Distress Ink.
 The Atc was then given 2 coats of clear Embossing powder. The letters for 'The Magician' are peel offs from Tim Holtz, to make sure they would not come off and to really make them part of the ATC I gave the whole thing a 3rd coating of embossing powder.

Of course we would all love to see you join us for this fortnights challenge,head on over to Fun With ATC's  to see what the rest of the DT have created for some inspiration. an ATC does not take that long does it? ;)

Thank you for stopping by x

Iron Man 3 Tags for the Octopode Factory

More tags from me today,thank you for stopping by, it is always great to have you here.
 Last week I was lucky enough to get an email from Lily over at the Octopode Factory asking if I would like to do something with the Iron Man Image she has created with the release of the new Iron Man 3 movie this week.Of course I jumped at the chance and made these two tags.If you head over to Lily's blog you can see some more Iron Man art and see what else the Ocopode Factory is all about.   The Iron Man image's were coloured with Copics fussy cut and clear embossed twice.The first one was coloured like the traditional Iron Man and for the second I thought I would have ago at using the colours of the character War Machine.
 For the Iron Man tag I used a technique from Andy Skinners Book Of Ruination to give a rocky steam punk look, the ribbon was coloured with Dylusion sprays.
For the War Machine tag I started with a mount board cut tag using the Tim Holtz tag die. It was given a coat of Gesso and then sprayed with blue Dylusions ink and a light spritz of the White Dylusion spray and blotted dry. I used a sun burst stencil and stippled some white acrylic paint through to give a ghost sun beam, the white paint drew up some of the blue spray.
I then over stamped in white ink some stars with a stamp from the Artistic Stamper, the black stars are from Tim Holtz.
The War Machine letters are from Tim Holtz and have been given a coat of a rub and buff in scarlet. The ribbon was coloured with Dylusions.
 I had great fun creating these tags. If you have never stopped by the Octopode Factory you really must, the images are great, If you have stopped by here before you will probably have seen I use them quite a bit.Lily has some amazing characters from things like The Wizard Of Oz, Alice In Wonderland,Charlie Chaplin, The Avengers even some David Bowie images.                          
Again thank you for stopping by. x

I would like to enter a couple of challenges.

Crafting When We Can are having an At the Movies theme.

Simon Says Stamp And Show are having a Colour challenge. They just want to see bright colours.
My post went up 1:30am Monday but the blogger clock is not set for uk times.

Anything But A Card - Rain

SO how is everyone doing?
First off a great big thank you for stopping by it's great to have you here.
 Ok we are half way through our latest challenge at Anything But A Card and our theme Is April Showers, we would love to see all your rain/water inspired makes, head on over to ABAC and see what the DT have created to get you in the mood.
 I have made another tag, I love making these and there are more to come tomorrow. For this one I gesso'd the tag and used some blue acrylic paint, I also sprayed with the white dylusion spray and the blue to get the mottled BG effect.
The Stamp is from De StempelWinkel I stamped him on to the tag directly but he looked lost so I stamped him onto a plain bit of craft card and fussy cut him, he has been coloured with distress markers.
The rainy swirl has been made using one of Andy Skinners new masks, I have used it with some Dream Weaver paste which has been given a coat of Treasure Golds Topaz rub n buff stuff.
To finish the I have gone around the edges with some black soot distress stain and the ribbon has been coloured with some distress stain and swiped with black soot to grunge it up a little.
The sentiment was first stamped in black and then over stamped with embossing ink and coated with white powder to give a shadow effect.

Again thank you for stopping by and as always we would love to see you over at Anything But A Card.

Dream - De StempelWinkel

Time for another De StempelWinkel Post from me, Just a teaser pic. To see the whole piece and more info on what it is and what I have done, follow the link to their blog.

There is a post on their blog pretty much everyday showcasing their stamps and other products available in the De StempelWinkel Store there is a link on my side bare or you can follow the link on the                                      De StempelWinkel DT blog.

Well worth checking out, I am like a kid in a sweet shop every time I stop by.

Paul                Neil           Me (Mark)

Here is a pic taken at Ally Pally on Saturday, It was my first time at the big craft event and I was not disappointed, although my bank balance maybe ;)

I travelled up with Neil of Neelz Expressionz and we met up with Paul of The Artsider.

Suzanne, Neils wife was also with us (but she is taking the pic)

I think we may have been the only 3 guys that were not there under duress ;)

It was a great day and was good to see some familiar faces and to meet some new faces as well.

Ill be looking forward to the Autumn show now.

As always a really big thank you for stopping by, leaving comments and or becoming a follower I can not tell you how much it means to me, It is very much appreciated.

xx