Challenge #25 Winners and Midway Reminder for Challenge #26

Please check out our Anniversary ANYTHING GOES challenge - Launching here today!
And here's the link to our current Die Cuts challenge.

Wow! Our Demon Lovers Challenge produced some fabulous LOC creations this week! A big thank you to everyone who has joined in - we love to see your work and the team love arguing over the winners! Our sponsor this fortnight was Rick St Dennis and here is the winner and top 3!

#2 Crafting Vicky

And our Top 3 - 

#10 and #5 - Donna Mundinger (the team were split again!!)

#3 - Paper Whims

#9 - Ike

Congratulations ladies! There's a 'featured artist' badge on the sidebar for your blogs! We're in the process of getting shiny new badges which should be available soon! Vicky, please contact Mo for your prize!

And now onto our current challenge #26 Die Cuts. Our fabulous sponsors for this one are Ike's Art and The Stamping Chef and we're delighted to have such fantastic artists get involved at LOC. Here are Team B with their die cut creations for this week!

Lisa Tyrell using Bite Me (The Stamping Chef)

Lorraine using Speak No Evil - TSC

Eileen - Ike's Art - Great tit on a Pine Branch

Jo - Ike's Art.....Vaguely Goth

Rachel - Ike's art finch 

Kay using Grand Duchess The Stamping Chef

 

Susan using Poinsettia Fairy by Ike's Art

and using Mirror Mirror  - TSC

Maureen Using Sexy Steampunk from Ike's Art

Catherine using Bittersweet (TSC)

We really hope you can join us for our Die Cuts challenge! And we are launching our Anniversary Anything Goes Challenge today too - check out the top toolbar for links and rules!
Thanks!
Mo and the LOC Crew

Challenge #26 Die Cuts with Ike's Art and The Stamping Chef

Well we have some fabulous news for you today! Some amazing inspirational projects! And an amazing new sponsor! So here goes...

LOC is almost 1 year old!!! We are planning a huge Anniversary Event and would love you to join us! All will be revealed soon but if you hop over to our new Facebook LOC Group you will get an early invitation to join the celebrations!

You may have noticed the new design team members joining us over the last couple of months, well, at the same time, we have also recruited some new Sponsors and we will be introducing you to them over the coming months. Today we have a fabulous Challenge which is themed 'Die Cuts' - we want you to get out your dies/punches/cut files and layer them up or single them out and show us your creations and we will have two prize winners!

Our sponsors for this challenge are Ike's Art who you will know and love if you have played here before, why not pop over to her store or challenge blog for a look and some more inspiration.

Our second sponsor is The Stamping Chef who is artist Tamara van Wijk, and we are delighted to have her join us here at Left of Center.

So let's see what Team A have for you this week!

Eileen Using Ike's Art Poinsettia Fairy

PennyRae using Ike's Art Finch on a Branch

 

Jo Using The Stamping Chef Speak no Evil

 Keren Using The Stamping Chef Skull and Flowers

 Rachel Using The Stamping Chef Bite Me

 Rocio Using The Stamping Chef Bittersweet

 Steph Using The Stamping Chef Bittersweet

Pam using Soapbox (TSC)

and Susan using Skull and Flowers (TSC)

Thanks for joining us today, we look forward to seeing your Die Cut projects! And remember, if you don't die cut, go LOC and you can still join us! Check out the rules if you're not sure!
Mo and the LOC Crew xxx

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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!