Left of Center...New Challenge and 31 Days of Halloween...Day 16

Today's page is a design team make for the wonderful team over at Left of Center Creative Challenges. A new challenge has just begun and will run for the coming week. The theme for this weeks challenge is Halloween..so it's the perfect place to share all your Halloween creations. It was that thought that made it also perfect to join in with the wonderful 31 days challenge. I just loved this image of the witch and her cat. It came from our fabulous sponsor...Sami Stamps. I painted the image using my inktense pencils. I just love the way that the lines in the image just flow/

The sky is a perfect blue today here in the mountains today but I have to say it's really cold. I'm sat here with my winter blanket on my legs and a cat on top..lol. Milky has decided that she is having the prime spot today and because of that Raven is in the middle of a good sulk.With Milky on my legs..it's like having a living hot water bottle..she is radiating a lot of heat..lol. All the others are outside..no doubt causing chaos. When I got up this morning, all the cats were standing around in the parlour demanding their breakfasts. You can always tell when it's a little colder...their food intake increases with the decrease in temperature...lol. One of the Tesco delivery men absolutely loves my tribe and when he knows that he's bringing my delivery, he always brings them a bag of treats..bless him. The only trouble with that is that the rest of the delivery men get looked at in disgust.
Well the coffee is calling and I hope that it perks me up a bit. I seem so tired today for whatever reason. I'm not normally like this..perhaps it's just that Sunday feeling..lol. So until tomorrow..take care and happy crafting.

Left of Center....New Challenge

Today's canvas is a design team make for the wonderful Left of Center Creative Challenges. A new challenge is just about to begin. The theme for this weeks challenge is Spiders..hence the spiders lurking on my canvas. If you cannot bear spiders..and I have many friends who would hate this challenge...then you always have the option to go LOC. For all details of that, please read the guidelines on the LOC blog.

For this months challenge, we are so lucky to have been sponsored by the fabulous team over at Sami Stamps. There are so many wonderful images..it so hard to choose..but in the end I decided on this image of the two foxes.

For this canvas I began by painting the background with my acrylics. I first painted the dark blue sky and added the grasses in black. I then added a cut out moon which was covered with a light gold gilding wax. I then coloured the foxes with my promarkers, cut them out and added them to the canvas. I finally added the  'spiders'. I just loved the calm face on the fox..she is just not bothered..lol. How I wish I could be so calm..I'm just so pleased that my cats love nothing better than chasing and eating them. My bathroom has never been so spider free..lol..I think word has got out in spider communities and they have called a ban on my house.
The weather here in the mountains today just cannot make up it's mind whether to rain or to throw a little sunshine at us. I had the nurse today to take my blood. God bless her..she is so calm..surrounded by the cats who so want to know what she has in her bag, what she is doing and why hasn't she come just to fuss them..lol. Mind you she has managed to put up with me for quite a few years..so she is used to the chaos that reigns in this house.
My cleaner has just arrived..so I can feel virtuous later. He has come to put my rubbish out and to hoover my stairs. Of all the things that I can't do..hoovering the stairs is the worst..I can't balance on the stairs..let alone carry the hoover..so he pops along and it's done in a flash. It's strange when you aren't able to do things..the strangest things get so on your nerves..and with me it's the stairs. And they always need doing because of the animals running up and down all day. Simon the kitten doesn't help..he has a passion for cotton buds..and if he finds any.he will scatter them all over the house..not content with just the upstairs either..they end up everywhere. I keep hiding them in different places and he still manages to find them. All the kittens are now sat all around me because the hoover is on..it's the only time that they're quiet..it's grand..lol.
Well the coffee is calling and then I have some work to catch up on. I will be back later with another design team make. So until then..take care and happy crafting.

Left of Center...Spiders in my Fur

Todays creation is a design team for the wonderful team over at Left of Center Creative Challenges.

We are so lucky for this weeks challenge to be sponsored by the fantastic team at Sami Stamps.

The theme for this weeks challenge is Insects and Creepy Crawlies. I so enjoyed making this canvas. My cat Raven is the inspiration for my canvas. She is a very nosey cat and loves nothing better than getting into places where there are cobwebs and comes back looking as if she has been used as a feather duster..lol. One of her favourite areas is the loft..and always comes down covered in cobweb.
For my canvas I began by painting the canvas black and then added a torn piece of paper that was covered with spiders. I then added the actual image which I had coloured with my promarkers. The background of the image I painted with my H2O's. I coloured some braid and added it to the corners into the shape of a web. I finally added a couple of spider charms and added the words. This is now going to live in my bathroom as a reminder that we can all have bad hair days..lol.
I hope that you will pop over to the blog and take a look at all the other projects that have been created by the other members of the design team..they are fabulous. And why not join in the fun as well.
Well the coffee is calling and I'll be back later with another design team make. So until then..take care and happy crafting.