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Sunday, May 30, 2021

May 30th Leigh's Blog Hop!

 Gosh and Gee!  I have been reclaiming my pool after about 5 years and it is whipping me and my good intentions and keeping me from participating as much as I wanted to in the blog hop!  Hopefully when I am able to cool off during what promises to be another hot one down here it will have been worth it!  I grabbed a delightful image from The Paper Shelter, Halloween Rules and used the colored version and the background that was included.  I don't do this very often but I wanted to play these last two days!


I printed both layers out and fussy cut the crow and pumpkin adding some Glossy Accents on the eyes, flame, and tongue!  I also added a touch to the spooky windows on the background layer.  I glued the background layer to some cereal cardboard and popped the top layer on with some foam tape strips.  These guys really believe like we do that Halloween Rules!  This goes into the Cherry Blossom Mer-Ween Blog Hop hosted by LeighSBDesigns!

Cherry Blossom Mer-Ween in May Blog Hop 2021
May 4-31
Hosted by LeighSBDesigns Art Stamps
Please read the 
Hop Rules above and then play in our "3 themes" May Hop.
Cherry Blossom, MerMay & Halfway to Halloween makes welcome using any products!
Happy Hopping!

 


Tuesday, May 18, 2021

May 18th Cherry Blossom Mer-Ween Blog Hop with LeighSBDesigns!

 Time to bring the Mer with a touch of Ween to my blog hop play list!  I put together an underwater scene with Merwich, the Ocean Scenery and the Oddleigh Raven.  I colored the scene up with markers and scanned into Procreate to add some underwater magic!  Oddleigh Raven has taken a potion to help him breathe as he stays close to Merwich!

I will be linking this up at Leigh's Cherry Blossom Mer-Ween Blog Hop!
Please read the Hop Rules above and then play in our "3 themes" May Hop.
Cherry Blossom, MerMay & Halfway to Halloween makes welcome using any products!


 


Birds or Butterflies or Anything Goes at Ike' s World Challenges, May

 Yep! Another month has flown past my window and it is time for my midway post for Ike's World Challenges #144 Anything Goes/Birds or Butterlies!  You decide what you wanna do and drop it off for us to have a look see!  My pick this month went to this adorable little bird sitting atop a stack of books!  I love birds and I love real, hold in your hands books (and my daughter is a librarian 😄).  You can find this happy bird at Ike's Art.....Bird Books!  And on a side note:  Ike's Art has some of the best images at really low prices!

This is a mash up of watercolors, acrylics, alcohol markers and stuff!  I hope your mind is humming with ideas be it birds, butterflies, humming birds 😅, or anything at all you want to create!  We just want a chance to visit you blog and see all the goodies!







Monday, May 17, 2021

Postcard from the Creepy Side!

A quick postcard from a very spooky, batty forest!  The image is by Oddball Art from the Creepy Cute Chronicles #67.  I glued them to a piece of photo paper with Decosse's Dynamite Doodles Eerie Forest paper printed on it.   This was a freebie and it is so cool!  I didn't use a fixative on it before handling and I smudged it a bit but hey, it's a creepy forest lots can happen!
All the details are HERE including the linky party!




 

Thursday, May 6, 2021

More Blog Hop Fun!

 Do you know what happens when you unscrew the barrel of a Nuvo shimmer pen instead of popping the top off?  Well, a few tears as you watch your colored pencil Kitty Geisha Doll begin to drip because of course! this happened right over the project :(   Thank goodness Leigh's cutie pie image is sooo sweet I felt like I could just roll with it!  

Even when I botched editing the pic (lost her skin tone entirely) she still makes me smile as she adores her kitties under the gorgeous cherry blossom branch!  The sentiment is included with Kitty Geisha Doll.  I added Cherry Blossom Branch in Photoshop and used the wonderful Japanese Clouds as the background.  All these lovelies are found at LeighSBDesigns!  I will be giving this another go for sure with maybe a little more time to go slowly?? :)
Please read the Hop Rules above and then play in our "3 themes" May Hop.
Cherry Blossom, MerMay & Halfway to Halloween makes welcome using any products!
Happy Hopping!






Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Cherry Blossom Mer-Ween Blog Hop with LeighSBDesigns!

 Remember I said I wasn't afraid of my Cricut?? Well, I tempted the high Cricut ruler and was slapped back down to reality! :)  Nothing really that dramatic I just got a couple of layers mixed up when I was cutting them out and my cherry blossom medallion still turned out really great!  (My humble opinion, of course!)  I used Leigh's SVG Lace Cutz Medallion Set and it is a beautiful set!

In a time crunch as always, I printed out the Kitty Geisha Doll and cut out the bottom kitties and added a touch of color before gluing atop the wonderful medallion.  I printed the sentiment from the same set and popped on foam.  The pearls on the medallion are covering up a tiny booboo I made! ;)
This is a stress free month long progressive hop which means new makes featuring any of the 3 themes, Cherry Blossom, Mermaids and Halloween, can be linked up daily but players are free to play when and as much as they want throughout the month following the participation rule.  On the day(s) you decide to play please make sure to visit all the makes linked up on the same day(s) and leave lots of love, including on this post too please, as you hop along and enjoy all the fabulous creativity! 




Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Time for a Special New Blog Hop with LeighSBDesigns!

 What a trifecta of blog hop goodness!  The Cherry Blossom Mer-Ween Hop by our favorite designer, Leigh!  My offering tonight was created in Procreate on my iPad and can I say what a wonderful program Procreate is for a very reasonable price!  I love it lots!  I do still prefer to create something I can hold in my gluey hands at the end of the day but there are times when health issues prevent me from sitting at the craft table.  Knowing I am not the only one with this issue, I am quiet happy to show some creations made digitally with Leigh's gorgeous New Releases, too!

I bought the Cherry Blossom Digi Stamp Collection Bundle which comes with 2 fantastic little geisha dolls with sentiments, cherry blossom branch (which I used on the project above) and three cherry blossom frames PLUS a free Japanese clouds digital stamp (also used above!)! 😻  I used one of the sentiments from Parasol Geisha Doll and these were all included in the collection!  I colored and layered each layer, trying to get some shadows behind the cherry blossom branch and the sentiment.  I added rain with the gorgeous cherry blossoms falling as a final touch!

That is my day one entry to the slendifirous blog hop!  All the links to the details and linky party are below!  Come join the fun! 
P.S.  There is also a a Cherry Blossom SVG Mega Bundle out with the New Releases!  This includes all the above items PLUS gorgeous Print and Cutz sets that are amazing!  Next on my wish list for sure!  All of these are also available in individual sets, too, so have a look around in the shop!

This is a stress free month long progressive hop which means new makes featuring any of the 3 themes, Cherry Blossom, Mermaids and Halloween, can be linked up daily but players are free to play when and as much as they want throughout the month following the participation rule.  On the day(s) you decide to play please make sure to visit all the makes linked up on the same day(s) and leave lots of love, including on this post too please, as you hop along and enjoy all the fabulous creativity!