Left of Center Creative Challenges

Friday, 19 December 2014

Challenge #59 Black Christmas with Delicious Doodles and Smeared Ink

Welcome to the final challenge at Left of Center for 2014 and we are celebrating Creepmas or a Dark Black Scary Christmas if you prefer!!! Get your alternative side out and go all LOC for this last challenge. We are running this over two weeks for the holidays and the closing date will be January 2nd. We will be taking a short break and the first challenge of 2015 will start on January 9th. We hope you will enjoy this last one of the year and look forward to seeing you all again in the New Year!

Our sponsors for this are Delicious Doodles and Smeared Ink. We are very thankful to Teri at Delicious Doodles for her support of LOC and sponsorship of our challenges and are saddened to know that the DD Store will close it's doors on Dec 31st due to new horrific tax laws coming into force. We are thankful, however, that you will still be able to get some of her darker images at Smeared Ink! It is sheer coincidence that we have both stores sponsoring this fortnight - get ready for lots of inspirational projects! Enjoy!!

An English Lady using Evil Snowman from DD

and Steampunk Reindeer from SI

Kim using Wistful French Fairy from SI

Maureen using Evil Snowman from DD

and Watchful Eye from SI

Nan using Elvira Elf Skull Keeper from DD

and Skully Santa from DD

and Drinking Buddy Elfette from SI

Pam using Drinking Buddy Elfette from SI

PennyRae using Skully Santa from DD

Rebecca from The Weird Scissors using Evil Snowman from DD

and Skully Santa from DD

Sarah using Steampunk Reindeer

Sari using Evil Snowman from DD

and Steampunk Reindeer from SI

Steph using Watchful Eye from SI

Susan using Star Tree French Fairy from SI

and an alternative version

Susan also has a Fat Page using another image from SI

Teresa using Ivy Fairy from DD

and Creepmas Stocking Hanger from SI

Have a Very Wicked Creepmas and Freaky New Year!

An InLinkz Link-up

Challenge #57 Winners

Thank you to the ladies who joined us for our last challenge - 'Face Your Fears' with Ike's Art. There were only 5 entries so this week the LOC Crew have chosen a Winner and Runner Up.

#1 - Crafting Vicky

#3 - Claire C

thanks for playing!

Friday, 12 December 2014

Challenge #58 Anything Goes Dark Themed with Dilly Beans

This week's challenge is a wee easy one for you, we know how busy you will be with the festivities and we wanted to ease the pressure this week! Anything Goes Dark Themed is the challenge! So make it LOC/Dark/goth/fantasy/alternative/etc and it will fit just fine!

Our fabulous sponsor this week is Dilly Beans and the team have been playing with some of their wonderful images!

Sari

PennyRae

Maureen

Susan

Kim

Alison

Nan

Louise from The Weird Scissors

What fabulous creations ladies! I hope you will join us this week and we will be still be here as normal over the holidays! Best Wishes!

An InLinkz Link-up

Challenge #56 Winners

Good morning! Our 'Babies' Challenge #56, sponsored by A Day for Daisies, went down a treat! We had a great combination of cute baby stuff and pretty freaky loc babies! And some others in between! The LOC Crew have been voting and deliberating and here are your Winner and Top3 for this week!

#3 - Susan Says Stupid Stuff

Well done Susan! Email maureen for your prize info

#2 - Paperwhims

#9 - Avril - Crafting in the Bedroom

#10 - Susan Says Stupid Stuff

Congratulations ladies! I look forward to seeing your badges on your blogs and hope you will play again soon!

Friday, 5 December 2014

Challenge #57 - Face your Fears with Ike's Art

Good morning and welcome to a new challenge at Left of Center! We have lots to show you today so let's get started!

This week's challenge is sponsored by Ike's Art and as always you can go LOC or follow the theme.

This week's theme could be a little LOC though! 'Fears' is your word for this week and you can interpret any way you wish - if it's not evident from the project, please mention in your post how it connects to Fear.

We have a few new DT members to introduce to you today!

First up we have 'An English Lady'! She has joined in several of our challenges and is a past LOC winner and we're thrilled that she has joined the Crew. You can see more of her work on Instagram. Here she has used Ike's 'Wolf 4' for this project in her signature 3D style.

Next up we have Sarah Bales Strom, no stranger to the dark side of crafting, a regular at Smeared and Smudged - some of you may recognise her name and work from the 31 Days of Halloween hop. We're delighted she has joined us and here is her first project using Girl Pin-Up and teaching us a new fear!

Next we'd like to introduce Nan Bordeau. Nan was also spotted on the 31 Days of Halloween hop and is currently blogging for the 12 Days of Creepmas. Here is her 3rd Day of Creepmas LOC project to introduce you all to her. We're so glad Nan could join us and here she has used Ike's Poe Candle.

And here are the rest of this week's inspirational projects!

Rebecca from The Weird Scissors

Pam

Thank you to all of the LOC Crew for these fabulous creations. We look forward to seeing your interpretation of this week's theme or indeed your fabulous LOC projects too!

An InLinkz Link-up

Challenge #55 Winners

Well, the Gremlin's theme for Challenge #55 has stumped some folks! Thanks to those who played along and remember that if you'd rather not follow the theme any given week - anything Alternative/gothic/emo/fantasy/etc, that is, anything LOC, will always be allowed here. Without further ado, here are the winner and top 3 for Gremlins sponsored by Rick St Dennis.