Monday Greetings Challenge for January!

Happy Happy New Year!  At the Outlawz Monday Greetings Challenge we are starting the new year off nice and easy with an Anything Goes Greeting and Anything Goes Optional Twist!  I had an AI image from Google (free version) using the prompts Christmas village, trees and train left over from some playing around a did in November.  And as my Christmas tree lights are still blazing nightly and Christmas movies and music can be heard from my house still!) I thought this cheery little winter scene was still absolutely valid for January!

I used the lighted trees for my back layer that came from Pixabay.  I will add the artist's link when I remember which notebook I added it to!  😱  I added the kitty at the window watching the train and the sentie is from Xmas Cat Tree Senties from the Festive Felines Loveleigh Kitties 2024 Christmas Collection by LeighSBDesigns!   Using Procreate on my iPad made it easy to add some snow flurries to the scene!  I hope you will all join us at the Outlawz Monday Greetings and help start our new year off the right way with lots of wonderful projects to comment on!

 

Creative Inspiration Challenges with All Dressed Up Stamps!

Happy New Year!   We are ready for a crafty new year at Creative Inspiration Challenges for January with our sponsor All Dressed Up Stamps!  Thanks so much to them for sponsoring us and their continued support of our challenge!  Please check out their shop at Etsy and see all the awesome images!  I had a play with Bushy Tail and and Birthday Monkey!  I love squirrels and have dozens jumping through the oak trees on my property all year round!  I spend hours just sitting on the front porch watching them be so industrious and calm at the same time!

I colored Bushy Tail with markers first then gave some texture and defining with my colored pencils.  I added some white gel pen for some highlights.  I made a hexagon pop up card following a tutorial at Beccy’s Place A - Z Cards.  This was such a fun fold card to do and I only had one mistake worth mentioning but I am remaining silent! 😉

Next up was Birthday Monkey!  What a hilarious little guy!  Still following Beccy’s Place card tutorials but this time a spring fold card!  I colored him the same way as the 🐿️ but encountered a problem when I decided to add green glitter tempura paint to my green panels after gluing them down!  I knew as I did it there was going to be some warping and bubbling but I kept right on going!  There is a moral to that story!  I still love the spring up element of the card and this adorable little monkey makes it fun!    

                   Now I am going to sit back and visit your blogs as you enter your FAB-tastic projects!  Join us at Creative Inspiration Challenges for January!

Christmas at LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog 🎄😻

 It’s a Celebrate the Season Challenge + Hop at LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog until December 28th!  I have two of the brand new Festive Felines Loveleigh Kittiesfrom the Christmas 2024 Collection to show you that I totally forgot to add to the Hop 😱  First up Sugar Plum Fairy Cat  along with a sentiment from Sugar Plum Fairy Senties on stage performing her kitty heart out!

The next Festive Feline Loveleigh Kitty is Xmas Cat Tree  Kitty along with a sentiment from Xmas Cat Tree  Kitty Senties!   He is standing by the window NOT interested in the poisonous poinsettia in the greenhouse!  (Yup, didn’t really dawn on me till assembled and photographed!)

Don’t you forget to link up your festive season creation at the Celebrate the Season Challenge +Hop at LeighSBDesigns!

And go adopt a few or all of these Ho Ho Ho Purrfect Festive Felines at LeighSBDesigns!

Creative Inspiration Challenges with LeighSBDesigns!

Another cheery Christmas greeting to all from Creative Inspiration Challenges for December!  We have the extreme joy of being sponsored by our favorite holiday hostess with the mostess awesome designs....LeighSBDesigns!!  Thank you so much for sponsoring us, Leigh!  No coal in your stocking this year I have been assured by Santa! 😉   Leigh has her brand new Festive Felines Loveleigh Kitties 2024 Christmas Collection in her store right now!

No running now....walk and be polite but get over there for some PURRfect Christmas happy times!  I had a very, very enjoyable cold day snuggled up yesterday and today creating with Sugar Plum Fairy Cat!

I colored her dainty sweet self up with colored pencils and markers highlighting with a white gel pen and a shimmer pen!  I know I go crazy with shimmer and had limited myself to her tutu and wings but the candy then needed to be frosted and her pearls needed shimmer and I just went wild!  No excuses just lots of gorgeous fairy frostiness!  I painted a 6 x 9 canvas sheet with acrylic paints for her stage to dance across adding some Dr. Suess-esque taffy snow trees with stars on top!  At the bottom of the trees I added some types of candy that Sugar Plum Fairy Cat adorns herself with but with one small problem:  I cannot draw so we'll just call them Dr. Suess-wannabe candies!  Before attaching her and the sentie (Sugar Plum Fairy Senties) to the canvas I did pink and white acrylic paint flicks for a frosty atmosphere!  She really is the cutest little ballerina kitty in the whole wide world!  I hope you will grab your crafty bits and come join us for Creative Inspiration Challenges for December where the theme is always Anything Goes! 💖

 

December 2nd Monday Greetings with LeighSBDesigns!

Merry Christmas and a Happy Happy New Year!  At Monday Greetings at the Outlawz our required greeting is Anything Christmas/Holidays and the optional twist is use a hint of red (or a whole lot 😊 !)  Our sponsor this month is LeighSBDesigns who is one of our great friends and designer magnificent!  We really love her and want to send a great big ole' Santa hug to her for all of her support!  This month Leigh released her Festive Felines Loveleigh Kitties 2024 Collection and we were honored to have some festive fun with  Xmas Cat Tree - Slimline Digi Stamp!

I colored up this oh so adorable kitty with colored pencils and used one of the Xmas Cat Tree Senties!  I had some pretty poinsettia digital paper printed out and went with it as my background for my kitty BUT NOTE:  the kitty and very harmful to pets, poinsettia are separated by a large sliding glass door!!  So this kitty is purrfectly safe climbing and conquering the gorgeous tree!  I used mirror cardstock for that shine I am addicted to!   We hope to see you at the Outlawz Monday Greetings Challenge for December and please check out Leigh's new Christmas collection to thank her for her support!

September 10th Sunday Song and Rhyme Challenge

Our  inspiration poem for this challenge is "From a Railway Carriage" and I have such fond memories of riding trains each time we visited Japan!  My second fondness year round is of Thanksgiving and Christmas so my digital card is the combination of those things!

I have had my yearly breaking of copiers, scanners and backup devices so I'm operating on a limited tools period here but Procreate prevailed.  I used Pixabay for both of my images.  The Christmas tree background is by Ylanite Koppens and the adorable little Christmas elf and festive train came from Goggle AI free version using prompts Christmas, train, scene and fairy.  The sentie is from

LeighSBDesigns : A Charming Christmas Compendium of Festive Sayings!  
We want to see how you are inspired by our poem and please make sure you tell us to be able to be chosen as our winner!  I was inspired by the title of the poem and the first line "Faster than fairies."  Look forward to your entries at The Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme Challenge!

 

Creative Inspiration Challenges with Sheepski Designs!

 It's November and we are so happy to share our projects using our fantastic sponsor SheepSki Designs for this month!   A big thank you to SheepSki Designs and please go have a look on their awesome designs!  I am using the images Mini Tree and  Stack and what delightful designs they are!

I colored both images with Copics and Spectrum Noir markers backing the top layer with red glitter cardstock on green!  Merry Christmas colors!  The sentiments are by LeighSBDesigns' A Charming Christmas Compendium of Festive Sayings!

We hope to see you at Creative Inspiration Challenges for November where it is always Anything Goes!

So grab some papers and relax, color and fussy cut your way through this wonderful holiday season!