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

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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