Challenge #23 - Scary Stories!

Time for another Left of Center Challenge! Check out the top toolbar for a link to the rules - nothing major, but just a reminder that if you would like to enter our challenge, we would really like you to mention us on your post somewhere and link back to us or you may not be considered for a prize! thanks!

Our fabulous sponsor Ike's Art is up again this fortnight with an awesome theme - Scary Stories! The design team this week have outdone themselves with their scary designs and I cant wait to show you what we have for you to get you going! We are also introducing some more new Design Team members!

Say hello to Rocio De Alba -

I am Rocio! And I wanted to introduce myself to all the talent on this awesome site. I can't tell you how absolutely thrilled I am to be joining in the ranks of you gals. Everyone here is so ubber talented so I am just beyond excited to be a part of it all. I live in New York with my four kids and hubby. Things are quite busy and non-stop but we manage. I was originally from Central America but grew up in Los Angeles, CA. I've lived in New York for 10 years now! WHA?! Ten Years? Sheesh, it's flown by too quickly. am a total dork at heart and love me a good dessert! I got a chance to sell my crafts and photos at local flea markets this summer and had such a good time. Anyway, thanks again for having me on the team. I can't wait to get started on making some goodies.

Rocio has used Ike's Lenore, Tell Tale Heart and raven papers in her first LOC creation

 Next Up we have Eileen Nicholson, aka Eiglas -

hello from sunny (NOT!) Liverpool from me, Eiglas. I'm an elderly lady ( in my 60's) with four grown-up kids and two dogs but no-one reminded me and so despite being a Nanna three times over, I still like my denim, black leather and rock music! ;) I have my blog Eiglas and my digi site Eiglassing  but both have been a bit neglected until recently (.. although I used to run them properly when I was on DT's before...!). I'm not very 'girly' and I love moody Steampunky stuff but I also really like vintage 'white on white'. Not keen on the dysmorphic cartoony images although I love a challenge.
I draw stuff (hence my digi-site) and if anyone would like a particular image I will endeavour to draw one for you (just ask anytime and I will, for a small consideration, create one for you.).

Eiglas has used the Raven background paper 

 With the new design team members on board - a few more you haven't met yet - we have split the team into two! So this is Team A for today and you will meet Team B next week. Here are the rest of the team for this week!

Lorraine has used Wolf to create a 'Werewolf in London' scene for her scary story

Steph here has literally created a scary story using the Goblin image

Keren has also gone with a book, using the Poe Tell Tale Heart image

And we have PennyRae who has used Vaguely Goth with the Raven background paper on her creation.

As always, you can pop by the girls' blogs' for more details on each project and more inspiration from team B will be here next week with the winners of our last challenge.

Get your thinking caps on, pick your favourite scary story and join us this week for a challenge!

Mo and the LOC Crew!

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Challenge #21 Winners and Midway Reminder for Challenge #22

Well, with all the festivities over, it's all business as usual and getting back to normal over here. We're also planning some fabulous, exciting events for this year so keep your eyes on LOC for more information in the Spring!

Firstly today, we have the winner and top five from our Challenge #21 sponsored by Sassy Studio Designs.

The winner is #8 Ellapu with this fabulous altered canvas -
contact me on maureenjscott@googlemail.com regarding your prize.

And our top 5 in numerical order are - 

#14 - Amanda A
#16 - Ira's Crea Corner
#25 Desire Fourie
#34 Eemeli
#35 Jo L

Congratulations everyone, please take a badge from the sidebar.

Now on to our current challenge which is 'New Beginnings' and is sponsored by Delicious Doodles. We would like to introduce two of our new Design Team Members with their first projects for us - both are using the 'A Mother's Love' image from Delicious Doodles.

Lisa Tyrell

I am 33 and I live in a small village in the middle of nowhere near Peterborough.

I have always been a crafter in some form, starting with knitting as a child, and cross stitching Christmas cards for family members.

I love my crafts, especially my card making. I have a lot of crafty friends who I met on facebook, and as many of us as possible meet at least once a year.

I look forward to working with you all, and being part of this lovely DT.

Rachel Gillham

My name is Rachel, I am 26 and have always dabbled in craft of one form or another. I have only fairly recently got into paper crafting, I think I started in May last year,and have already learnt so much (I think anyway)
I have 2 small children of the ages 2 and 4 1/2 , a husband and a cat (perdi pops) and live in Rutland which stands for the middle of nowhere ;)
I love steampunk and the darker gothic side of things but can just as easily turn my hand to girly ... I think having a girly girl in the house helps with that!
This is my first real time DT ing, though I also do some work for Samaflora

I hope you will join me in welcoming the lovely Lisa and Rachel to the team, I can tell you that their work is fabulous, just check out their blogs for more info!

And dont forget, New Beginnings, Join in!
Mo and the LOC Crew

Challenge #22 New Beginnings with Delicious Doodles

Happy New Year to you all from everyone here at Left of Center! We hope that you have had a great time over the Christmas and New Year festivities and here's to a great year in 2014! Lots of challenges, lots of prizes, lots of inspiration and a few changes.... but more about those next week!

This fortnight's challenge is themed 'New Beginnings'. Our sponsor this week is the fabulous artist Teri of Delicious Doodles and she has given the team here the privelege of working with some amazing images to inspire you all. We would like to see your 'New' cards - New Year, New Baby, New Home, New Job.... maybe you got some New Crafty Stash for Christmas! Just make sure and tell us in your blog post what is New about your creation and you could win images from Delicious Doodles.

Here's what the team have for you today -

 Kay using Gothic Bride and Groom
                                                                               

Keren using Gothic Bride & Groom

Lorraine using Gothic Bride and Groom

PennyRae using Zebra and foal

Maureen using A Mother's Love

Steph using Zebra and Foal

We are looking forward to seeing your New Beginnings or Left of Center creations, please link up below and remember to tell us what's new!

Thanks, Mo and the LOC Crew

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Midway Reminder and Winner/Top 5 for Challenge #20

DT Call still open here!

Merry Christmas from Left of Center, I trust you all had a nice time over the festivities! I hope you haven't all overindulged in too much turkey and mince pies!... like me!

Well, our last challenge #20 was sponsored by Dilly Beans and the standard of entries is just so high, we always have a hard time deciding on winners!

Our first place winner this time round is #14 Jo who shared a beautiful card in white and pale blues.

Contact myself at Maureenjscott@googlemail.com to arrange your prize, thanks!

And in no particular order, we have a Top 5 this week again!

5. Mirella DK 2

 7. Joni52  

36.

Rocio De Alba

52. Valerie W. 

53. Bonnie Irvine

Remember to take your badges ladies! thanks for playing along with us and I hope to see more of your work soon!

Our Current challenge is 'Christmas' and is sponsored by Sassy Studio Designs and can be found here!

Our dt member Lorraine has this Christmas card to share with us, using a Delicious Doodles image, for more inspiration.

We look forward to seeing your entries for this challenge, best of luck!
Mo and the LOC Crew x

Challenge #21 Christmas!

If you are looking for the DT Call - please check here!

Welcome to the last Challenge of 2013! Can you believe it's almost Christmas? Not long to go now and my kids are super hyper waiting for the big beardy man! This fortnight we are delighted to be sponsored by Sassy Studio Designs and the theme, quite predictably, is 'Christmas'!

We would also like introduce our newest DT member - Kay Mowat! Kay answered our DT Call last month and it was unanimous, we had to have her here at LOC. I hope you will all join me in saying Hi and welcoming her to the LOC community. Here is a little bit about Kay and her first project for us -

Hello I am a Mum to one Son who is now nearly 19, and wife to wonderfully supportive Husband who has supported me and my obsession with my craft work for 20 years now. I also work full time as an Optical Dispenser in a small private Optometry Practice in the small country town in North East Victoria Australia. I am also a DT member on 2 other Challenge blogs and love every minute of it. My craft room is my haven it is where I go at the end of the day to unwind. I call it my mental health plan.  I think all I want to achieve with my craft is to make people smile if I achieve that then it is a good day. 

And now for some inspiration from the rest of the team!

Keren - Handmade Gifts - check out her blog for more info!

Steph

Maureen (Mo)

I hope you will agree, we have some fabulous inspiration here - both Christmassy and a bit LOC! So why not join the challenge and have a go for a chance to win a prize from our sponsor.

Also, please remember that the DT Call is still open and we'd love you to apply! Check out the post here.

Thanks from Mo and the LOC Crew!

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Left of Center Design Team Call - We want you!

DT CALL IS NOW CLOSED. thanks. 

Hi there LOC fans! Would you like to be part of the team?!

We are looking to add to our fabulously talented Design Team and are looking for people who would like to join us. Do you have an active blog? Are you a paper crafter? Do you like things just a little bit different? Quirky? Dark? Gothic? Steampunk? Do you make cards? Layouts? Altered Art? A bit of everything? Whatever your style and whatever your creations, you will be welcome here!

Your commitments -

• We have a new challenge every second Friday and you would be required to create a project by the Wednesday of that week. This would be uploaded to the Design Team blog ready for publication on the LOC Challenge Blog. 
• Your project would follow the theme and may not always be LOC.
• You will also be assigned a number of entries to visit during each challenge where you will leave a positive comment from the LOC team.
• You will be required to view each entry and make a shortlist of your favourite 5 at the end of each challenge - these are collated and the winners and runners up chosen by the team.

The perks -

• We have some fabulous sponsors on board including Delicious Doodles, Dilly Beans, Rick St Dennis and Ike's Art to name but a few.
• With each challenge, a digital image will be provided for you to use free of charge to create you creation - this is yours to use after the challenge.

 How to apply -

• Create a blog post showing us three of your favourite recent pieces of work - one of which should be LOC in nature.
• Tell us a bit about yourself and your style in that blog post and include a picture of yourself which we would use on the blog if you are chosen.
• Link up to the specific blog post on the linky tool below before the deadline of December 27th 5pm GMT
• Please ensure there is an email address where we can contact you in your blog post or send an email to myself - maureenjscott@googlemail.com to let me know your contact details if you do not want to publicise them on your page.

We look forward to hearing from you and cant wait to see your projects!
thanks
Mo and the LOC Crew

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Midway Reminder and Winners from Challenge 19

If you are looking for our Current Challenge #20 'Holidays' click here!

I would like to say a big Hello to all of you reading this. I'm Maureen Scott, also known as Mo, and I have been a DT member here for a few months now. Unfortunately, our fabulous Lorraine is having to step down as Challenge Co-ordinator to deal with family commitments and she has handed the reigns over to me. I would just like to wish Lorraine all the best for the future from all of us here at Left Of Centre. We will hopefully still be seeing Lorraine's work here from time to time as and when she can and you can see her inspiration piece for our current challenge further down the page.

Firstly though, our Challenge #19 'No People', attracted a great number of entries and it has been so difficult to choose the winners but we narrowed it down and here goes -

#59 - Kristen

What a beautiful Christmas ornament, different and elegant. Please contact myself at maureenjscott@googlemail.com for details on how to claim your prize Kristen!

And our Top 5

52. Scrappellen

 64. Donna Mundinger 

48. Glenda Atkins  

7. Laura Love  

55. Jackie C  

Well done everyone who entered! The standard is fabulous and really gives us a hard time trying to pick winners! Keep it up!

Well, our current challenge is sponsored by Dilly Beans and we have a couple of further inspiration projects to show you here, have a look and come join our 'Holiday' challenge or, if you prefer, show us your best Left of Centre creations! 

Lorraine using Three Penguins

Maureen using Skull Squares

We hope you will join us, there are seven days left to enter this challenge here!

Thanks!

CHALLENEG 20 LOC WINTER OR HOLIDAYS

Hey its that time again, our challenge this fortnight is sponsored by

Dilly Beans 

So are we getting excited for Christmas or wishing it was all over already. Are you the one who puts there tree up very early or waits until closer to the time. whatever your excitement levels are let them loose on making a winter/holiday themed card, that is if your not following the LOC theme.

Lets see what the DT team has done to inspire you.

KEREN

MO

PENNY-RAE

STEPH

well there you have it aren't they fabulous as usual, so why not give it a go.

DT CALL

DESIGN TEAM CALL IS NOW CLOSED, THANK YOU!

Have you got time to create a Left of center Piece or follow our fortnightly theme?
Do you like to stop by others blogs?
Do you like to get inspired or show inspiration?
Do you have an active blog that you post to atleast once a fortnight?
would you like to join a fun loving team and have the opportunity to work with great sponsors?

THEN ENTER BELOW ITS EASY JUST FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES.

do a blog post of your 3 favourite pieces one of which must follow the LOC theme, link your entry to my linky below and we will be stopping by to have a look.
 YES THATS IT THAT EASY.

We look forward to your entry

MIDWAY REMINDER AND WINNER/TOP3 FROM CHALLENGE 18

IF YOUR LOOKING FOR THE CURRENT CHALLENGE SCROLL DOWN

We have some sad new due to other commitments, Jackie and Julia are stepping down from the Design Team, we hope they get things sorted and hope the return in the near future.. good luck guys. so i will be posting for some new members to be joining us from January 2014.

Our last challenge was brought to you by Jackie, and it was to add twine or washi tape to your creations if you were not following the LOC theme. so without further ado here is your winner.

# 23 DONNA

WOW WHAT A CREATIONS JUST LOOK AT THE WORK THAT HA GONE INTO IT.

Well done contact me (lorraine) at creativecardcraft@gmail.com headed challenge 18 winner

we couldt decide on a top 3 so here you have it our top 5

in no particular order

#24 GRO TJELTVEIT

# 7 CISKA

#19 CARMEN

#13 SONIA

#11 CRAFTING VICKI

Well done dont forget to grab your blinky.

here is a little more inspiration for you from the DT Team 

Nadine

and one from me 

CHALLENGE 19 LOC OR NO PEOPLE

Hi crafter's hope everyone is well and hoping that the stream up to Christmas is not getting to much for anyone yet.. i can sigh with relief that all my shopping is now finished. just my family/special cards to make.

before we go onto this fortnights challenge and sponsor can i just give a gentle reminder that if you are not following the LOC theme (rules can be found on pg) you must follow the other set theme, also when posting to your blog, there must be some reference to LOC and linked back to the challenge you are entering.

our sponsor for the challenge NO PEOPLE  is Meljen designs 

so the challenge is no people.. so lets see what the DT TEAM have come up with 

Penny Rae

Mo

Steph

and lastly me (lorraine) 

Midway reminder and winner/top 3 for challenge 17

Here we are again with our midway reminder if your looking for mr linky for the current challenge please scroll down

before we move down to showing some more DT inspiration for the current challenge here is your winner for the Challenge 17 Halloween or Creepy.

The team have chosen 

# 10 Eva Scraproom

please contact me heading your e-mail winner of challenge 17 please creativecardcraft@gmail.com

we couldn't decided on a top 3 so we have a top 5 in no particular order they are 

#2 Mian Hahne

#18 Katherine C

#22 Teri Sherman

#56 Donna Mundinger

#43 Jessie L

well done all dont forget to grab your blinky.

and now we have some more DT inspirations for the current challenge of washi tape or twine

steph

Nadine

CHALLENGE 18 LOC/ Washi tape or Twine

WOW WOW AND WOW, what a fabulous bunch of entries in for our last challenge, we have a task ahead of us now in chosing the winner and top 5.

YES! Its challenge time again here at LOC, and this fortnights challenge is brought to you by Jacki, who has chosen the theme of WASHI TAPE OR TWINE, so if your not following the LOC theme of punks, goth and horror, make sure you add twine or washi tape to your creation. 

so lets see what the design team have been up to.

lorraine using witchy moo

PennyRae using Christmas Pixie

Maureen using Alice

Keren using Bauble Cat

now over to you, lets see what you have come up with. 

MIDWAY REMINDER AND WINNER/TOP3 FOR CHALLENGE 16

MIDWAY REMINDER FOR YOUR LOC/HALLOWEEN OR CREEPY CHALLENGE SCROLLED DOWN FOR MR LINKY.

Wow what a amazing bunch or talent we have here at LOC. our roll of choosing the winner and top 3 is increasingly hard, as we want you all to be winners, with your fabulous projects you share. with out further ado here is the WINNER for challenge 16. 

is 

ELLAPU

just look at the work that has been put into this amazing piece of art.

and in no particular order here is the top 4 as we couldn't just choose 3 

#34 TANJAI

#24 CRAFTY VICKY

#11 DENISE VR

#28 JO L

Well done everyone grab your self a top 3 badge.

and here is a little DT inspiration for the current challenge 

Jacki

Nadine