Dec. 20th Final Day of Tis the Season Blog Hop!

 What will I do to make my lazy self limp out of bed and craft now that it is the last day of the Tis the Season Blog Hop with LeighSBDesigns!!😱  Well, here we go with saving the bestest image for the lastest!

Merry Craftmas Sandy Oddleigh Wreath digital image by LeighSBDesigns!  I took the elements of the wreath and used them for the sketch elements for the Outlawz Wednesday Sketch Challenge.  The beautiful Val is hosting the challenge that ends Dec.  22 and is hosted by our totally fabulous Leigh at LeighSBDesigns!  I am horrible I tell you at sketch challenges!  I can go no farther than seeing each little component just as it is presented in the sketch!  Other talented folks can make out of the box, over the top from that same sketch and it amazes me!  But I had to play this one even if I knew it was gonna be simplistic I knew Sandy Oddleigh would make it sparkle!   I used the three paint tubes for the right hand embellishment and the Oddleigh Ink and ink blender for the left hand embellishment.  I colored everything with Prismacolor pencils and added some white gel pen highlights and some Golden high gloss varnish on the eyes, lips and metal pieces of the crafting tools.  This is one for Leigh's Tis the Season Blog Hop and the Outlawz Wednesday Sketch Challenge.

Dec. 19th Tis the Season Blog Hop

 

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I forgot to link this one up when it published for Ike’s World Challenges so here it is now!  Ike’s Christmas/Anything Goes Challenge is still open so make sure you link up all these fabulous Christmas projects there, too!   LeighSBDesigns Tis the Season Blog Hop closes tomorrow so still time for a last minute play!  Check out all the fabulous designs available at LeighSBDesigns and Ike’s Art!  Both wonderful people have sales going on right now and you know you want more of their images!   I used Xmas Poinsettia and colored it with Prismacolor pencils.  The background started out kinda muted and I inked with Distress ink around the edges and blended it toward the yellow ocher pencils.  Somehow it went pop out yellow on me again!  So I apologize for any eye strain!  Still catching up on commenting.  Sitting at the computer is killing my back so trying to do it from my iPad which means lotsa mistakes! 

Dec. 15th Tis the Season Blog Hop!

 

Susan has had so many lovely watercolor projects that have inspired me during this event!    So this is me tipping my hat to Susan🧑🏻‍🎄!  Nianiani did a gorgeous tutorial on these trees; her picture is totally fabulous! Nature really is not my strong point in painting but I had a go at it!  I am entering this in  LeighSBDesigns Holiday-tastic Tis the Season Blog Hop!  This is a play as little or much as you want blog hop and the rules, details, and kinky are HERE🥰. I am writing this blog on my iPad cause my reoccurring back problems have occurred lol and I can’t sit at my computer.  Please excuse the linking errors that might /probably are happening!

Ike's World Challenges December, 2020 Midway Post!

 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!  It's time for the midway post for Ike's World Challenges #139 X is for Christmas/Anything Goes!  That's right you can go for some Christmas or anything your heart desires!  Just make sure you do play and give us a chance to visit your blog!  Here is my offering for this month with the image  Xmas Poinsettia!

Want to hear some good news?  You can have this image or any of the images at Ike's Art for super low prices right NOW at the seasonal SALE at Ike's ART! I know many of you are through with shopping but you really don't want to miss these awesome prices on Ike's totally wonderful images!  I have shopped and plan on another shopping spree so that I will have tons of images to color during the winter months to come!

Now get those crafty things out and go over to Ike's World Challenges and enter for a prize and grab the FREEBIE It Wasn't Me that Ike  is so generously giving us!  Please leave some love for this cute image in the comments on the blog!

SALE GOING ON NOW!

Dec. 14th Tis the Season Blog Hop with LeighSBDesigns!

 I picked this cute little Mama Elephant stamp and die cut set up Saturday at Tuesday Morning.  It was super cheap (4.99) and I really loved it!  I made a tag using some papers and some mistletoe which much to my surprise I had not mistletoe stamp!   I "borrowed" some foliage from another stamp set I had and with some mowed lawn Distress Ink, shimmer spray, and some confetti I made up a sprig and attached a silver tie ribbon to it.  So now they are happily kissing under the mistletoe!

I am entering this at the Outlawz Monday Greetings Challenge "Red, Green and Silver" and at Leigh's Tis the Season Blog Hop!

 LeighSBDesigns 'Tis the Season Blog Hop 2020

To play in the hop & qualify for the prizes please follow the BLOG HOP RULES found HERE with the linky party, too!

The Blog Hop closes at 5 til midnight pacific on Dec 2

December 13th Tis the Season Blog Hop

Today is my late parent's 61st wedding anniversary 💖💕 and I just wanted to mark the day here on my blog.  I always asked them why the 13th!!! for a wedding and they simply said Daddy could get off of work on that day so the 13th and a Friday no less it was!  That has always taught me the lesson of not believing in superstition...but I will create using that theme cause it is fun!  I bought a Christmas cactus for their anniversary because we always had one or two or three in both our houses and sadly, I had neglected all of them and had none.  So now we have these little beauty!  

The cute trio flying through the snow was on my clipboard (real one, I don't know how to use a computer one 😋) since the summer and I cannot remember who the artist is!!  If you know would you leave that info in the comments below?  Just some simple colored pencil coloring and some papers from a mini set I bought years ago and all done!  And those gardening friends out there may notice I haven't repotted the plant yet...that is cause I wanted to see it bloom one time before I subject it to my green??? thumb!

And last of all, I painted this painting in acrylics in 2017 in memory of my parents, who both passed away in 2016.  It is from a tutorial by the awesome artist Ginger Cook on  Youtube.  I personalized it with the sign "P & J's Store" for my Daddy and Mama, Pat and Joe.  I won't apologize for being as old as I am and saying mama and daddy cause I am a southern belle and that's how we do it.  I added my name on another sign.  It was really a part of my healing process and though not perfect at all I do treasure it!  We used to travel little backroads enjoying the sights like little stores and antique or junk shops!

Way toooooo long a post so I am off to link up at Leigh's Tis the Season Blog Hop!

 LeighSBDesigns 'Tis the Season Blog Hop 2020

To play in the hop & qualify for the prizes please follow the BLOG HOP RULES found HERE with the linky party, too!

The Blog Hop closes at 5 til midnight pacific on Dec 2

 

Dec. 12 Tis the Season Blog Hop with LeighSBDesigns!

 

Noel has a completely white Husky dog named Luka and he spends most of his time begging his Nana (me) for treats and lolling about for pets with his tongue looking just like the picture above!  This was a watercolor tutorial by Nianiani and I did my best to alter him to be Luka.  I totally tore the right hand corner of the paper when taking the masking tape off!  Did I let that stop me?  Nope, so I am linking this to Leigh's Tis the Season Blog Hop!  (I mean what is glue for but to fix life's little mishaps?)

 LeighSBDesigns 'Tis the Season Blog Hop 2020

To play in the hop & qualify for the prizes please follow the BLOG HOP RULES!  Click HERE for the details and linky party!  The Blog Hop closes at 5 til midnight pacific on Dec 20!

Dec. 10th Tis the Season Blog Hop with LeighSBDesigns!

 I have been coloring a bunch of Ike's images (that's Ike's Art and she is having a super duper fantastic sale right now!) and sending lots of love to this marvelous artist who has a heart of gold and is one of the most steadfast friends I have ever known in "real" life or in this reality we call blog world!  This is not one of Ike's images...I didn't quiet get the finishing touches on those today but soon...!  But to "Believe" at this time of the year or anytime in family, friends, love, peace, happiness, faith or whatever brings you comfort is what makes Christmas for me.  So super simple die cut, a sentiment from that fab kit Gwyneth sent me, and some paper....that's it!

And I am playing at another wonderful friend's Tis the Season Blog Hop!  Yup, Leigh!  Much love to these two lovely ladies and you lovely blog hoppers, Susan and Lyneen! 💖

 LeighSBDesigns 'Tis the Season Blog Hop 2020

To play in the hop & qualify for the prizes please follow the BLOG HOP RULES!  Click HERE for the details and linky party!  The Blog Hop closes at 5 til midnight pacific on Dec 20!

Don't forget the HUGE sale going on NOW at Ike's Art

Dec. 8th Tis the Season Blog Hop with LeighSBDesigns!

 

Here is another one of the Kit and Clowder Monthly Coloring Classes from 2019 that I worked on last week then promptly lost the fully colored image for 4 days!  Sounds a lot like me, doesn't it???  I used my Prismacolor pencils and made a sentiment in Photoshop and sprinkled some confetti for some quick road snow!   This is another one for Leigh's Tis the Season Blog Hop!

 

  LeighSBDesigns 'Tis the Season Blog Hop 2020

To play in the hop & qualify for the prizes please follow the BLOG HOP RULES!  Click HERE for the details and linky party!  The Blog Hop closes at 5 til midnight pacific on Dec 20!

Dec. 7th Tis the Season Blog Hop with LeighSBDesigns

 

Winter Yeti by LeighSBDesigns has dropped into the nearest village to await the arrival of Santa Clause!  He is dressed up with the Very Yeti Christmas Festive Add-On Pack also by LeighSBDesigns!  The background scene is from a Kit and Clowder Monthly Coloring Class.  Everything is colored up with Spectrum Noir markers and layered on some doodle lines cardstock and snowflake embossed cardstock with chipped sapphire Distress Ink inked over the embossing.

  LeighSBDesigns 'Tis the Season Blog Hop 2020

To play in the hop & qualify for the prizes please follow the BLOG HOP RULES!  Click HERE for the details and linky party!  The Blog Hop closes at 5 til midnight pacific on Dec 20!

December 3rd Tis the Season Blog Hop with LeighSBDesigns!

This is another vintage postcard freebie from Stampington and I made this one for the Outlawz Sunday Songs and Rhymes Challenge.  The prompt is the poem Winter! (author unknown) and this postcard had the skating couple (It's skating on lakes) and it just looks soooo cold (Winter is cold.)!  I used some more papers from the kit Gwyneth sent me gluing the layers down then using washi tape on the corners.  I inked the edges with Wendy Vecchi's Make Art Watering Can.

I am linking this up at LeighSBDesigns 'Tis the Season Blog Hop 2020 😊  and the Outlawz Sunday Songs and Rhymes Challenge.

To play in the hop & qualify for the prizes please follow the BLOG HOP RULES!  Click HERE for the details and linky party!  The Blog Hop closes at 5 til midnight pacific on Dec 20!

 

December 2nd Tis the Season Blog Hop with Leigh!

 A wonderful friend from Dragons Lair Designs (there is still a Facebook fan page I think and you can buy Janette's digital stamps and papers at Crafty Bob's) , Gwyneth, sent me a wonderful set of Christmas papers with adorable pets all the way from Wales a long time ago!  This precious little kitty all snuggled down for a winter nap just had to be used on a project!  I had a small notepad about 3 x 5 so I covered it with the papers and cut trim from the set to add to it.  I used a Concord and 9th round die to cut the kitty and used the tiny circle border the cut left to glue in the center of the book.  The sentiment I die cut and layered under a piece of kraft colored cardboard die cut and finished with some gold bling that looks really orange in the photo!  I am entering this in Ike's Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge #61 Meowy Christmas/ Furrything Goes 😸!  And, of course, the lovely Leigh's blog hop below!

                                       LeighSBDesigns 'Tis the Season Blog Hop 2020

To play in the hop & qualify for the prizes please follow the BLOG HOP RULES!  Click HERE for the details and linky party!  The Blog Hop closes at 5 til midnight pacific on Dec 20!

December 1st Tis the Season Blog Hop with LeighSBDesigns!

 Today's card features a vintage postcard image that I am pretty sure was a freebie from Stampington (that is what I think my abbreviations in the file folder stand for 😋) .  I just layered some Christmas papers and white heat embossed the sentiment from Lost Coast Designs Party Words.  Susan. Lyneen, Val and Leigh have been giving heaps of inspiration on their blogs for this festive hop!  Do go by and have a look see and leave some love!  

Welcome one and all to our fun 'Tis the Season "stay crafty @ home" Blog Hop to help keep your spirits high, creatively inspired and busy while celebrating the season safe at home during this terrible pandemic!  This is a 2 month long hop to celebrate Fall/Autumn, Winter, Christmas and Craftmas and the hop ends December 20 at 11:55pm pacific!  Click HERE for all the details and the linky party!