Angling for Some Love

Greetings!

Just popping in real quick with a fun little card 

I made for Valentine's day.

This handsome fella is from Hellgnome Death Digis.

I colored him using Copic markers.

I created the background using a stencil and some 

Nuvo Glimmer Paste in Black Diamond. 

I fussy cut the fish, added a lovely heart shaped jewel to his

dingly thing, and popped him up on foam dots.

That's it for now.

Pop by the Hellgnome digi shop and pick up some cool images.   

My soft underbelly is hanging out...

In keeping with my attempt to use previously unused

images from my stash, I have come to the slightly

embarrassing conclusion that I have amassed quite

a collection of cute and sweet images. It's no wonder I haven't

had a chance to play with them. What with my dark side

almost always in the creative driver's seat. 

Today's project uses a sweet, yet slightly maniacal image.

With Valentine's Day on the horizon I figured I'd play with

pinks and grays for a soft and girly Valentine look. 

Seemed like a good time to use some Martha Stewart punches.

The bat fence, and the skulls and crossbones are a couple of

my absolute favorite MS punches. I think I use the drippy goo

punch the most, though.

This image is called, "Buttons", from Make It Crafty.

She's super cute! I've had her for quite long time.

I'm glad I finally colored her up.

I kinda have a crap-ton of this sickly sweet sheer rose ribbon.

I chopped off a couple of buds, and then rubbed some gray ink

over the tops of them to grunge them up a bit. That pink was

just too bright for me in the beginning.

I'm on a frantage kick lately, and since I have some in pink that never

gets used, I figured, "why not?". I also dropped some color fragments in black, 

white, and gray into the frantage, but it barely shows. Well, actually it showed 

too much, so I added more frantage over the top to help it blend in a bit.

I also broke out my envelope punch board to make the tab that says, "loved".   

Hope I didn't lose any of my darker fiends who stop by to see my

creepier concoctions. Have no fear!

I'll be back next Monday with the antithesis of this card. 

What is the opposite of loved? 

I have a feeling you've guessed it already. 

Thank you to everyone who left me a message on my last post.

I didn't mean to sound quite so pathetic, like "No one ever stops

by to see me anymore! Boo hoo". It just seems that with the popularity

of face book and other social media sites, the traffic from blogger has really

slowed down quite a bit. I'm glad to to know you're still out there

like a silent stalker. Watching...

I'd love to enter this card in the following challenges:

Craft Hoarders Anonymous - Choose your challenge

*ink, ribbon, punching, heat embossing/ frantage, and bling* 

Monday Morning Challenge - Anything Goes

The Pink Elephant Monday Card Challenge - Anything Goes

Through the Purple Haze - Love is in the Air

That Craft Place - Love/Valentine

Kit and Clowder Ning Group - January Anything Goes 

Simon Says Wednesday challenge - Have a Heart

Anti-Valentine from Aurora Wings

So, I have some good news....

I have been asked to be a member of the design team for the new

Aurora Wings challenge blog!!! 

How cool is that?!

I love Mitzi's artwork, and her images are a dream to work with.

I am so honored to be invited to play alongside some incredibly

talented ladies. I mean, reeeeeeally talented.

Check out the new blog site and see who I'm talking about.

The challenges will fire up in March, so start practicing your coloring, now.

I got a chance to create a fun Anti-Valentine card, using one of Mitzi's

beautiful images called, "Anti-Valentine Girl with Nekomimi". 

She's a doll, isn't she? I just adore those rosebud lips!

And those eyes! Mitzi has such a way with eyes.

So feisty, and so gorgeous!!

And I got to use one of these cool girly skull brads I've been hoarding forever!

I used the Sweet and Toxic sentiment from the Greeting Farm set of the same name.

Thanks for dropping by! 

And remember: KEEP IT CREEPY!!!