Happy New Year! 🎊🎆🥳 This month’s sponsor for our challenge is Sherry West Arts and we want to give a big thank you for our delightful image! I fell in love with this little piggie immediately!
My Oz....
Friday, January 10, 2025
The Outlawz Progressive/Freebie Challenge
Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone at The Outlawz!
Time for our first challenge of 2025 and it is Anything Goes with a theme of Try Something New. You have to follow the theme in order to qualify for any prizes and remember no cards! My something new was to make a booklet out of some of my acrylic paintings. The paintings aren’t new but binding my pages for a booklet this way was new for me! This booklet is very special to me as I followed The Art Sherpa on YouTube for all of the paintings and Cinnamon Cooney, The Art Sherpa, passed away suddenly in the early part of this month. My thoughts, prayers and love are for her husband, three children and her mother, Ginger Cook. I had never painted a painting in any medium before I found Cinnamon’s YouTube videos sometime around 2016. I know I would have never had the love I now have for acrylic painting if I had not found her! She was an absolute joy as a teacher and cheerleader for everyone that followed her! This little booklet is dedicated to her.
Here at the Outlawz Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone we hope you will join us and play along!
Monday, January 6, 2025
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!
Thursday, January 2, 2025
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!
Monday, December 16, 2024
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!
Thursday, December 5, 2024
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!
Monday, December 2, 2024
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!