New Challenge #75 Left of Center Creative Challenges~Fun Frights

Happy Friday!

Today begins the newest challenge at Left of Center Creative Challenges. Our theme this week is Fun Frights! Our wonderful sponsor this week is the digital stamp company, A Day for Daisies. All of the images they have are so beautiful, I really hope you have time to hop over and see them :)

I was given the cutey monster, "Monster Joe" to play with this week.

Please click each image to see it bigger :)

This is my version of a fun fright for kids....

It is a birthday giftcard holder.  The awesome sentiment is from Create with TLC.

I cut the backgrounds from a Ritz cracker box using my Tim Holtz mini cabinet card die.
The paper I embossed with the Holtz spiderweb folder.

I was so happy when this sentiment came along in the newsletter from Create with TLC, it is so fun and worked out great!

I added some shiny ribbon to hold the giftcard. To add the texture and some color to the outside, I sponged some paint onto once side of the embossing folder then ran it thorough my embosser. Washed the folder right away :)

Thanks for looking and reading! I hope you enjoyed your visit and will hop over to Left of Center and join the fun, for Fun Frights this week.

~hugs~

~kim

Left of Center Challenge LOC #56~Babies

Happy Black Friday!

Hopefully you are not too worn out from shopping! Well it is ok if you are, pull up a chair and visit the creative darkness and sweetness for this current Challenge #56 using the theme Babies for Left of Center! Remember, it can be any sort of babies and you can always go over to the dark side:)

Our wonderful sponsor is A Day for Daisies. Please hop over to see some really awesome digital stamps, the drawings are so gorgeous and must be seen and enjoyed! Support our wonderful sponsors!

I purchased this image, it is so sweet! I love fairies and this is perfect! It is called Bundle of Fairy Love and you can see it HERE.

Here is my DT project, I hope you like it:)

I combined the Bundle of Fairy Love along with A Day for Daisies Christmas Flower image using Photoshop Elements. The stone angel background is a gorgeous digital paper by Smeared Ink. Once I was set with the layering and composition, I printed the digi onto Bristol paper with my inkjet printer. 

I wanted to keep the image of the fairies soft, so I used a water brush and Distress Inks for color. Once the coloring was done I layered the background with ripped paper edges stained with Distress Ink. 

The book pages are rescues from my son's Lit teacher who was trading a falling apart copy of the Odyssey for a new copy for extra credit, my son and I were pleased with the deal:) I tore up some pages and smeared some gesso onto the canvas. Before it was dry I pulled up the pages. Then I re-attached them with some gel medium.

I love the sentiment, I stamped it with  mini alphabet letters then framed it with more torn papers.

Thanks so much for visiting! I hope you have a chance to play along with us at LOC, Left of Center where you always have the option of playing along with the theme or just going Left Of Center!

Have a great day!

~kim