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ARTS, BELLYDANCING, CRAFTS
BELLYDANCING, ARTS, CRAFTS
CRAFTS, BELLYDANCING, ARTS

whichever order I put them in, these are my passion!

... all from my little home studio in Durban, on the east coast of sunny South Africa!

"I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird." -- Paul McCartney









Showing posts with label Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

MIDNIGHT MDNESS SKETCH CHALLENGE #121




There is a HUGE GIVE AWAY coming!!!
ONLY COUPLE OF DAYS AWAY!!!
Not only to the Midnight Madness blog but to CDAC too..It will be here in just a few days!! You don't want to miss out on any of these prizes, so get a head start and make sure you are a member of CDAC and a public follower of this blog. Here is a sneak peak at just ONE of the items you could have a chance at winning!!! WOO HOOO!!!
While you are over at CDAC, why not join one of the CDAC SWAPS 
They were just posted, so come check out all the fun and beautiful projects.
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This weeks sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.
"YOUR CHOICE"
Enter one style or both this week.
Just have fun and come play with us :)
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Our MMSC120 Weekly Bonus Sponsor is..
Petaloo
Petaloo International, your source for floral & specialty embellishments. With exclusive factories in China, India & Thailand, along with over 20 years experience in floral & craft products, we offer our customers fun & innovative products at factory direct pricing.   See our all new Petaloo Premier line of beautiful flowers; our Flora doodles Value pack embellishments, our Color-me-crazy Coloring surfaces or our Dazzler’s Glittered embellishments. 
 We are sooooo luck to have one of the largest floral manufacturing companies in the crafting world sponsoring us this week. The MMSC121 Bonus weekly winner will get some of the fantastic products new products from the Petaloos Halloween “Peel N Stick” Dazzlers Line that was just released.
Let your Imagination Bloom with Petaloo..
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Our September Monthly sponsor is....
http://priscillastyles-store.blogspot.com/ 
The Sept Monthly Bonus winner will win a "Surprise Gift Package" FILLED with stamps, craft supplies, papers, tools, embellishments as well as some digi downloads and specialty items.
Surprise Craft Gift package worth well over $100
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Here is this week's Sketch and our my creation, using a Priscillastyles image:

I coloured the image using Copics and a white gel pen, and used crystal glitter glue on the ice skates, and silver metallic pen on the skate blades.

To follow the sketch, the background paper was cut to the required shapes and embossed, and adored with crystal flatback, self-adhesive gems. The flower bases are Petaloo's "Colour me Crazy" which I coloured using fabric dye, food colouring and water-based fibre tip markers. The white roses also got the crystal glitter glue treatment. The border on the right hand side is a Marianne's Creatable, and I wove a silver ribbon through the slots.

I interpreted the elements on the sketch to have stickpins, so I made a couple of my own by threading some leftover beads I had in my stash (left over from belly dance costume makes) onto two pearl tipped hatpins.

That's about it! This is such a lovely sketch to play around with! - There are so many elements that can be interpreted really creatively - why don't yo have a go and enter your project for a chance at those fabby prizes?

I will look out for your project in the inlinkz ........................

Love and huggz
Jen

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

MIDNIGHT MADNESS SKETCH CHALLENGE#115 ... and some more EXCITING NEWS!!!!

Big big news!!
The NEW Progressive Challenges are starting this week over on CDAC !
Not only do you get all of the images for Free,
Look at what the Prize for the first Challenge Series will be!!
Copic Sketch Markers!!! WOWZA!!
Stop by and check them out!!
This week’s sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following week’s sketch each Friday.
"YOUR CHOICE"

Enter one style or both this week.

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Our MMSC115 Weekly Bonus Sponsor is..
http://priscillastyles-store.blogspot.com/ 
The MMSC115 Weekly Bonus winner will win a 
$10 Gift Voucher redeemable for any digi images in the "priscillastyles" Store
Stop by and check out all the new images!!
GC redeemable for digis only
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Our August Monthly sponsor is....
At AnnaBelles we have an exclusive range of clear photopolymer stamps, a great range of embellishments including our popular Sprinkles, as well as twines, buttons and ribbons!  With our twice monthly hops and weekly challenges there is always something for everyone!  We hope you'll visit us soon :)
The Prize :

1 x 6" x 4" set Flowers With Love

1 x 6" x 4" set Floral Stems

1 x 6" x 4" set I can Fly

1 x AnnaBelle Buttons pack

2 x AnnaBelle 6mm Sprinkles

7 x 1m Ribbons

1 x Institchz by Bazzill
 Thank you so much for your Wonderful Month end Prize
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Here is this week's Sketch and my creations:

My PRISCILLASTYLES image of the boy and his bug was coloured using Copics. I printed the image a second time, coloured only the bug, cut it out using a die, and then heat embossed using clear UTEE and a heat gun. It was attached to the base image using two black brads.

My embellishments for this creation consist of some strands taken off sacking fabric, acrylic old gold coloured butterflies and a metal brass flower.

You really need to hop on over to the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge blog to check out my fellow D Teamies' creations! They are awesome!

And if you would like a chance to win those fabulous prizes, you must enter!

YOU HAVE TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT!

luv n huggz
jen


PS DONT FORGET THOSE PROGRESSIVE CHALLENGES ON CDAC - FREE IMAGES UP FOR GRABS, AS WELL AS A CHANCE TO WIN THAT PRIZE, AND WHO WOULDN'T!!!

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

MIDNIGHT MADNESS SKETCH CHALLENGE #111

 We are so very happy to announce today that we have two New DT members joining the Midnight Madness DT.. Please help me in welcoming......
  Darlene


Linda S.

This weeks sketch...it's "YOUR PICK" Make it fancy, clean and simple, or somewhere in-between. Remember to click on the sneak peek button on the side bar for the following weeks sketch each Friday.
"YOUR CHOICE"
 Enter one style or both this week.
Just have fun and come play with us :)
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Our MMSC111 Weekly Bonus Sponsor is...
http://priscillastyles-store.blogspot.com/ 
The MMSC106 Weekly Bonus winner will win a 
$10 Gift Voucher redeemable for any digi images in the "priscillastyles" Store
Stop by and check out all the new images!!
GC redeemable for digis only
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Our July Monthly sponsors are....
Petaloo
Petaloo International, your source for floral & specialty embellishments. With exclusive factories in China, India & Thailand, along with over 20 years experience in floral & craft products, we offer our customers fun & innovative products at factory direct pricing.   See our all new Petaloo Premier line of beautiful flowers; our Flora doodles Value pack embellishments, our Color-me-crazy Coloring surfaces or our Dazzler’s Glittered embellishments. Let your Imagination Bloom with Petaloo..
We are sooooo lucky to have one of the largest floral manufacturing companies in the crafting world sponsoring us for the month of July!! Their grand prize will be awarded at the end of the month to one very lucky person who will receive floral products worth over $100..Wow how awesome is that? Check out all the wonderful creation the Midnight Madness Team has created using products from the Color Me Crazy line from Petaloo this month. Petaloo is also having a challenge of their on and the deadline to enter is July 15th. Thank you Petaloo for your generosity to our team and through yours sponsorship this month.
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Here is this week's Sketch and my creations:


For my card, I used a Priscillastyles image, coloured using Copics, and fussy cut before attaching it to a Cuttlebug embossing folder. The sprig of flowers by Petaloo is coloured using blue food colouring and dried using a heat gun so that it started to scorch somewhat, creating an antique look to match the image.

For my 3D project, I crocheted a cellphone pouch in white cotton thread to which I added two Petaloo crocheted flowers which I left the original white to match the crochet cotton.

What wonderful products the Petaloo Color me Crazy flowers are - as you can see, you can colour them or leave them as is!

Now it's your turn to create something! While you're busy with your MMSC project, create something for the Petaloo Challenge too - there are AWESOME prizes to be won for both challenges!

luv n huggz
Jen - on a chilly wintery day in Durban, South Africa