The Outlawz Progressive/Freebie Challenge

 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!  

I colored the little pig with colored pencils and added white gel pen accents.  I then added him to my background layers in Procreate.  I had fun adding some fireworks and the sentiment to brighten my digital card!  Now we would like to see how you had fun with this delightful image so drop off your projects at 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.

Each canvas is a little bigger than ATC size.  I originally painted these small versions of these paintings for zine I was planning on making.  The original paintings I had done on 8 x 10 canvases for the most part.

I plan on adding the original air dates of the tutorials on the opposite pages with any other information I want to include.

Here at the Outlawz Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone we hope you will join us and play along!

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!