Challenge #24 Winners and Midway Reminder for Challenge #25

Can we believe its almost the end of February? I hope you all are safe and the weather is getting better wherever you are - here's hoping Spring comes soon!

Before you do anything else - why not come and join our new Facebook Group! Just click the link, request to join and we'd love to see your LOC creations in there!

Well, what a turn out for our Cute Vs Creepy Challenge sponsored by Meljen's Designs. We had such a hard time as a team deciding on the winners - if we could have everyone on the list we would have! So, by team vote, here are this fortnight's winner and top 5.

With the most votes entry #23 and entry #12 from Donna Mundinger - seems we couldn't decide on our favourite make from Donna - please get in touch at maureenjscott@googlemail.com and we can sort your prize, Well Done! 

 And our Top 5 is as follows - 

#25 - Crafting Vicky

#13 - Nikki

#27 - Paper Whims

#2 - Ellapu

 #10 - Jan R

 Thank you to all of you who entered, it really is a tough decision for the team!

And now onto our Current Challenge - 'Demon Lovers' - sponsored by the fabulous Rick St Dennis. Here are some more inspiration examples from Team B.

Jo

Kay

Lisa

Rachel

Susan

Eileen (using Julian Demon Lover from Eiglassing)

We hope you will join the challenge and show us your take on the Demon Lovers theme or show us your best Left of Center project! 

Mo and the LOC Crew

Challenge #25 Demon Lovers with Rick St Dennis

Wow! What a great 3 day Blog Hop with Smeared and Smudged! I hope you all enjoyed the Bloody Valentine hop as much as we did here at LOC! If you're not sure what I'm talking about, scroll down and check out the posts from the last three days!

Our new challenge this week, just in time for Valentine's day is love with a twist!! Demon Lovers is the theme for the next fortnight and our fabulous sponsor is none other than Rick St Dennis. He has allowed the design team here to play with some of his great images which you can find at his Zibbet or Etsy stores.

Before we show you some inspiration, I have another new member of the Design Team to introduce today! I dont know how she does it but this lovely lady is sitting today with a three week old baby and has made a fabulous first card for LOC! Congratulations on the new arrival from all of us at LOC!

Hi thought I would introduce myself. I am Cat and have been crafting for nearly two years now, although looking at my craft room you would think it had been longer lol. Myself and my husband have three children Shona-Rose who's 5, Katherine who's 4 and Thomas who is 3 weeks. The girls love to craft with me which makes it so much better, even when they pinch my stock. I love zombies and the gouls always been a bit of a nerd too when it comes to comic books, and when I pluck up the courage to snip a comic book I would love to craft with them too. Really looking forward to creating with you all and hope I can match your standards xxx

 Catherine has used the 'Newly Deads' image to create this fabulous card!

And now for the rest of Team A. 

Eileen has used Miss Razz Matazz

Pam has used the Newly Deads

PennyRae has also used Miss Razz Matazz

Keren has used Amulet

 and Steph has also used the Newly Deads image

Susan has used an image from Eiglas called Julian - Demon Lover

We also have some projects from Rick's own Designs Team! There will be a post on Airless Chambers later with their work, be sure to check it out!

Karen Christensen

Kristina Deyette

Susan Peck

We really hope you will join in with our fun Demonic Valentine's celebrations here at Left of Center! And remember if demons don't do it for you, an LOC/Alternative creation is more than welcome here too!

Thanks, Mo and the LOC Crew!

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Bloody Valentine Blog Hop with Smeared and Smudged Day 3

Welcome to the third and final day of the Bloody Valentine Blog Hop with Smeared and Smudged - More from Smeared Ink, We hope you have enjoyed it as much as we have here at LOC! And, just in time for the final day, we have good old Blogger Comments back - no more Google+ thankfully!

Our project for today comes from another new DT member, Susan Renshaw. Susan has created a fabulous card, I hope you will consider popping by her blog and leaving some love there too!

I printed both my images ( 'bleedinghearts300' from British Isles Artworks and 'bleeding hearts' by Rebecca Sinz ) on watercolour paper and then watercoloured them with Memento re-inkers. I tore out each image and then distressed with scattered straw. Each image was then mounted on lovely hand-made paper and then layered onto a beige cardbase. Finally I added a metal heart.

Thanks Susan!

If you have been hopping, the next stop is - Lisa. If you got here by random, why not jump back to the start and have great hop!

Here's the blog roll -

Shell
Sue The Nanny
Susan
Julia
Black Dragon
Kristy
Maureen
Fiona
Leigh
DominoART
Airless Chambers
Ike's World @ Quoth The Raven
Ike's World Challenges
Wendy
Shoni
Ike
Left Of Center Creative Challenges
Lisa
Violent Kitty
Lady Brayton
Samara Rebecca

Thanks for joining us for this event, we hope to be part of many more in the future!

And why not join us tomorrow for the launch of our new LOC Valentine Challenge - just a hint there, of course there may well be a twist!

Mo and the LOC Crew

Bloody Valentine Blog Hop with Smeared and Smudged Day 2

Welcome to Day 2 of the Bloody Valentine Blog Hop with Smeared and Smudged - More from Smeared Ink. Just to answer some queries, I'm working on getting Blogger Comments back on and removing the Google+ comments... will be as quick as we can! In the meantime, we appreciate the visits and I'm so sorry if you cant leave a comment - perhaps you would visit today's LOC Crew member Rachel and leave some love on her blog!

Rachel has created a card using a digi stamp called Demon Lover from one of our other LOC Crew members - Eiglas! You can find her fabulous Digi Store here.

For this piece, I chose Eiglas's demon lover . He was coloured in promarkers and for the background he is against I used part of a Gorjuss A4 paper , distressed , inked then matted on black coredinations.

Behind that is a piece of lace paper that was a free digital download, with blood splats and drips created by putting pink food colouring in a misting bottle, depressing the lever , removing tube and nozzle then letting go of the button. there are purple shimmers in the blood too, because the previous inhabitant of the bottle had been some purple mica . that paper is edged by self adhesive lace flowers coloured to a dark burgandy with one of my promarkers, two black heart die cut corners and another piece of black coredinations card.

A fabulous card Rachel - thank you!


If you have been hopping, the next stop is - Lisa. If you got here by random, why not jump back to the start and have great hop!

Here's the blog roll -


Shell
Sue The Nanny
Susan
Julia
Black Dragon
Kristy
Maureen
Fiona
Leigh
DominoART
Airless Chambers
Ike's World @ Quoth The Raven
Ike's World Challenges
Wendy
Shoni
Ike
Left Of Center Creative Challenges
Lisa
Violent Kitty
Lady Brayton
Samara Rebecca

Thanks for joining us! See you tomorrow!

Mo and the LOC Crew

Bloody Valentine Blog Hop with Smeared and Smudged Day 1

Morning LOC'ers! We are joining in our first Blog Hop as a Design Team with the ladies at Smeared and Smudged - More from Smeared Ink! I have gotten a few of the girls on board with some fabulous projects to share with you! The theme for the hop this next few days is 'Bloody Valentine'! I hope you will enjoy and hop along with us!

First up today, I have Lisa Tyrell who is fairly new to the team but has signed up for just about everything I've suggested since she started and has created this fabulous Nightmare Before Christmas themed Bloody Valentine Card.

Here it is and a wee bit about it!

I startd off with the two images. The skulls is a digi image and the main image was black and white with shading (I can't tell you who they are by as I have had thm for so long). I colourd both with colouring pencils and shaded around the edges with pencils and ink. The mounting card in kraft card, and the backing is made with lots of different disress inks and a heart stencil. I finisged by heat embossing areas and adding red heart gems and pearls.

Here's a card too from Maureen, that you might have seen earlier in the hop. Using Delicious Doodles La Rosa Muerta. Hop over to Maureen's blog for more info!

If you have been hopping, the next stop is - Lisa. If you got here by random, why not jump back to the start and have great hop!

Here's the blog roll -

Shell
Sue The Nanny
Susan
Julia
Black Dragon
Kristy
Maureen
Fiona
Leigh
DominoART
Airless Chambers
Ike's World @ Quoth The Raven
Ike's World Challenges
Wendy
Shoni
Ike
Left Of Center Creative Challenges
Lisa
Violent Kitty
Lady Brayton
Samara Rebecca

Thanks for joining us! See you tomorrow!

Mo and the LOC Crew

Challenge #23 Winners and Midway Reminder for Challenge #24

Oh, I think the 'Scary Stories' challenge definitely challenged our audience this week, we only had 9 entries, and only three individual entrants! Thank you so much for joining us this week ladies. The DT have enjoyed looking at your projects and by popular vote, we will reveal the winner and top 3!

Our winner this week is #8, Wendy at Paper Whims with this fabulous LOC Valentine Card! Our sponsor for the challenge is Ike's Art, please contact maureenjscott@googlemail.com we can get your prize sorted!

And our Top 3 are:

#7 - Lisa D

#6 - Paper Whims

#4 - Donna M

Well done ladies, thanks for playing along!

Now for our current challenge - Cute Vs Creepy, which is being sponsored by Meljen's Designs.. Today we have team B with some inspiration for you using some of Meljen's images. We also have another new designer to introduce - please meet Pam Hicks!

I have been crafting for a few years now Initially when i was ill and needed to occupy my mind & time, but now I do it because i love it, and my craft stash is now taking over the whole home lol

I love all things Ghouls, Goth & Horror, I have a huge love of anything skeletal and a collection of  horror/goth/Sci/fi Figures Including Chucky & Saw dolls and Predator, Alien figures plus many more types too, ( weird i know, and i worked for an undertakers for 5yrs too lol) my favourite job too,  I have always liked things that are a little bit different and quirky and i try to reflect that even when making cutie cards when ever i get the chance lol, I can do all cute & commercial as these seem to be the most popular, but try to slip a bit of comedy/quirk whenever possible, 

I have 2 grown up children 1 son Simon (30) and a daughter Kelly-Anne (31) and 3 Grandchildren ( 2 girls Grace 9 ,Shannon 12 and Callum aged 7, all beautiful and mean the world to me and these isn't anything i wouldn't do for them, I live in worthing right opposite the beach which is nice get a beach view every morning when i open my blinds fab in the summer when i can take a cuppa and sit on the beach in the morning freezing in winter but still lovely, and my house has a little turrett which is where i craft hence my Blog Name

Pam has used Meljen's Designs Sugar Skull image for her card

And now for the rest of the team this week:

Lisa has used Nibbles the Cat

Kay has used the Sugar Skull

Susan has used the North Pole Critters to create both a cute and creepy card!

Rachel has also used the Sugar Skull

As has Jo!

 

  And Maureen has used Nibbles the Cat for this creepy creation

Thank you to all of Team B for these wonderful inspiration pieces. We do hope you can join us with your own cute or creepy creation! Check out the Challenge post for the linky.

Thanks Mo and the LOC Crew!

Challenge #24 Cute/Creepy With Meljen's Designs

I think we may have had some of you stumped with the last challenge! Not so many entries but I'm sure it will still be incredibly difficult for the team to make a decision about winners! Join us next Friday for the winners announcement.

This week we are sponsored by Meljen's Designs.

 

Our theme this week is 'Cute versus Creepy'. You are free to interpret this as you wish, some of the dt have gone one way or the other, Lorraine has given us one of each! It is up to you but if it's not clear, please mention your choice in your post, thanks! Of course, you have the option of a Left of enter theme too!

Here is what Team A have done with the images gratefully received from our Sponsor.

Eiglas using 'Nibbles the Cat'

Lorraine using Sugar Skull 1 cute

and sugar skull 1 creepy 

PennyRae Using Miss Fancy Cat

Keren using Nibbles

Rocio using Nibbles

Steph - using sugar skull

We look forward to seeing your Cute and/or Creepy Designs!
Thanks, Mo and the LOC Crew

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Challenge #22 Winners and Midway Reminder for Challenge #23

It is well and truly into a New Year, January seems to be flying by and we have the winners of another LOC challenge to share with you today. Challenge 22 was themed 'New Beginnings' or, of course, Left of Center, and our sponsor was Delicious Doodles. The winner and top 5 were selected by the LOC Crew so without further ado...

The winner of 'New Beginnings/LOC' is #13 Laura Love with this beautiful baby shower treat box.

 Laura, if you can contact myself at maureenjscott@googlemail.com for the prize information.

The top 5 this week in numerical order are - 

#4 - Desire Fourie

#18 - Happy Crafter Shell

#20 - Pam (DS4J Sunday Release)

#23 - Bonnie Irvine

#24 - Monique

Thank you for all the fabulous entries! Now onto our current challenge which is 'Scary Stories' and is sponsored by Ike's Art. Today we have some projects by Team B to share with you for your inspiration.

We have two more new DT members to introduce you to today as well - let's meet Jo ...

So pleased to be here & looking forward to getting to know you all.....and bringing out my darker side, I kind of lost myself a bit along the way so it's lovely to have a place to come play! Anyway, as you've probably guessed, I can't half waffle.....I'm a stay at home Mum of 6, (5 boys & 1 girl) carer to my eldest (he had a stroke almost 6 years ago just before his 21st) and love crafting, coffee, my Kindle, loud heavy rock music, denim, & my Converse!

Thanks a million for having me......looking forward to the challenges!

hugs Jo x

Jo has used Lenore and the Raven background paper on her card

And Susan - 

Thank you so much for inviting me to join the LOC DT!! I am currently in Australia visiting my family...our 3 sons Tom, Dan and Matt live in Aus! Our daughter Sophie lives in the UK where we all lived until becoming expats 15 years ago. Kevin and I have just moved from Abu Dhabi to Mumbai in India. I have been a crafty lady all my life and love to do all sorts of handicrafts - however my main passion at the moment is papercrafts and card-making including ATCs. My blog is here and I am an avid facebooker if you want to find me there! 

Happy Crafting! Susan x

Susan has also used the Lenore image for her striking card

 

Next up for Team B we have Lisa who has used the Hatter image

Rachel has also gone with Poe's Lenore character

And finally myself, Maureen, with the Hatter image.

We look forward to seeing your 'Scary Stories' or LOC creations, you still have one full week to get those entries in here!

Thanks! Mo and the LOC Crew