Ike's World Challenges August Mid-Way Post!

Is anyone else pinning for fall weather?  At my age I hate to rush the seasons but this summer heat has me beat!  Here we are at the mid-way point of Ike's World Challenges #147 Anything Goes with an option of Animals!  So to match the heat I am taking a safari trek to watch some giraffes!   These are from the Animal Silhouette Set by Ike's Art.  Ike is having to deal with a change in the Zibbett platform so we temporarily cannot link up to the images.  We hope the platform will be back operational soon!

I made the super cute giraffes a beautiful sunset sky with Distress Oxide Sprays and some Lindy's Stamp Gang Sprays.  The tree and leaves at the bottom are freebies from a papercrafting magazine.  I fussy cut the animals and the tree inking them with Distress Inks before gluing the tree to the background paper and using foam tape for the animals.  The sentiment is a stamp included in another papercrafting magazing layered on some patterned paper.  I hope you enjoyed our journey and can feel the wind sweeping across the grasses!  But now it is time for you to grab some crafty goodies and join in the challenge for August!  It beats cutting the grass, weeding the garden, any of those awfully hot and sweaty jobs outside!  Hope to visit your blog after you join the linky party at Ike's World Challenges!

 

Day 2 of the Gothic Valentine Blog Hop by LeighSBDesigns!

 I wanted a gothic window so I tried to make one to cut out on the Cricut.  The fleur de lis design at the top is in honor of my beloved New Orleans Saints who just missed their second Super Bowl when they lost to Brady and Tampa Bay!  I won't even get started on all the reasons that is wrong since this is a Valentine Blog Hop!😓  Anyhoo, managed to cut out about the right thing with the Cricut so I would have a home for the gorgeous Gothic Rose by LeighSBDesigns!  I colored everything up with Prisma colored pencils and gave most of the rest of the card a spritz with Distress Oxide and another mystic spray that the name escapes me at the moment.

I printed the rose out of the Scratch Hearts Background also by our Leigh!  I am entering the 4th Annual Gothic Valentine Blog Hop hosted by LeighSBDesigns and you can click HERE to be carried away to the linky party and all the details of the blog hop!

September 24th Leigh's Blog Hop

This is a 2 month long "Anything Goes" hop that ends September 25th at 11:55pm pacific!  Leigh's blog hops are stress free...you play when you want and how much you want!  All the details are HERE at LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog!  The linky party is there, too! 😉  Between hurricanes and allergies I have been a tad overwhelmed the last couple of weeks but time to sniffle on!  A quick journal page(s) tonight celebrating the fall(ish) weather we are having right now!  It may be gone tomorrow but I am enjoying it today!  These pages were all just papers and some elements from a patterned paper pad.  I did add some sticky foam leaves for some fun!

I cut some of the strips in half and used like washi tape and cut some photo corners out of some cardstock.  I sprayed the background with some Lindy's Stamp Gang Mystic Malachite Vintage Spray before starting.  I love the magical color of this!

I used up bits and pieces of things on my desk like the die cut oval that I had sprayed with Distress Oxide Sprays for another project that went awry!  This was really just plain ole fun for me!  So... Happy Fall, Ya'll!

 

August 22nd Stay Crafty@Home Blog Hop by LeighSBDesigns

  

This is a 2 month long "Anything Goes" hop that ends September 25th at 11:55pm pacific!

Leigh's blog hops are stress free...you play when you want and how much you want!  All the details are HERE at LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog!  The linky party is there, too! 😉  I totally love Leigh's Winter Solstice Fairy and I love coloring her for winter and snow but I decided to try and hurry fall up a bit!  So here is my wish upon an autumn fairy!

I used Prisma colored pencils, spice marmalade Distress Oxide Spray and the Nuvo shimmer pen to color her up.  I layered her on a snowflake die cut but to keep her in the fall theme used a fall paper.  The orange paper is from a Halloween pack from ages ago and I used some found burlap ribbon to go across the bottom.  The sentiment is stamped with carved pumpkin Distress ink and is from Mrs. Sparkle & Co.   I layered it all atop some kraft colored paper and stamped the sentiment on the same paper.  Hope everyone is safe from all of the storms and fires! 

August 12th SC@H Blog Hop!

  

This is a 2 month long "Anything Goes" hop that ends September 25th at 11:55pm pacific!

Leigh's blog hops are stress free...you play when you want and how much you want!  All the details are HERE at LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog!  The linky party is there, too! 😉 More fun with Oddball Art's Exclusive for Members August Collection!

This was hilarious to me!  This friend? is just checking! 😋  I printed the image on cardstock and colored with my Arteza watercolors.  I am loving the vibrant, non-chalky colors...all 60 of them!  I used a reverse mask to splatter the "box" with blue watercolor and white acrylic paint.  I added some highlights with a white gel pen.  I cut the inside of the box out of a piece of watercolor paper that I had played around with ages ago and added a bit of Distress Oxide wilted violet spray.  The background patterned paper I stenciled a bit with Distress Ink in the same color and I used the Stamplorations "Oh My Stars" mini stencil around the image. I used the spray on my matt to color around the question and fussy cut it out.  I folded a narrow piece of cereal box accordion style to make a simple jiggly base for the sentiment.  So much fun and inky goodness!  I look forward to visiting your blog soon on this fabulous Stay Crafty@Home Blog Hop hosted by LeighSBDesigns!  

I am entering this at Ike's Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge #57 

August 11th Stay Crafty @Home Blog Hop!

                                    

This is a 2 month long "Anything Goes" hop that ends September 25th at 11:55pm pacific!

Leigh's blog hops are stress free...you play when you want and how much you want!  All the details are HERE at LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog!  The linky party is there, too! 😉  Today, a tiny kitty ready for Trick or Treat fun!           

I found these two little stamps sold together at Michael's still in the store wrapper!  So I made a watercolor paper background about the size of an ATC and used some Lindy's Stamp Gang Mystic Malachite spray,  salty ocean Distress Oxide Spray, and some mopped up watercolor from my craft mat.  I stamped the kitty and sentiment on a manila folder and used some watercolor markers to color them up.  I fussy cut the kitty and glued on the ATC adding a little hill for him to sit on! 😸  I just opened my package of Arteza premium watercolors when they arrived at noon so I added the super bright colors to the kitty to spruce him up.  The sentiment is Distress Oxide spray, too.  I popped everything on a piece of black cardstock and added the paper clippy thing to finish!  Please take the time for yourself to craft, read, or do whatever you enjoy!  It is important for our health and well being during stressful times! See ya tomorrow!

I am adding this to Ike's Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge Blog #57 (Check out the wonderful freebie and leave a comment!)