Sunday Song and Rhyme July 21st

 Our poem this time is Summer's Splendor by the Sea by Patricia L. Cisco.   I chose to be inspired by the line "Hushing rhythm of the waves."

I used the freebie image sheet "Seashell Ladies ATC" from the Gecko Galz for their ATC Challenge for July!  This is a quick digital version I whipped up in Procreate for our challenge this month.  I love the colors of this lovely sea scene with the wonderful seashell lady smiling!  I had to type out the sentiment but the set includes some wonderful ocean senties!  Hope to see you at the Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme Challenge!

January 7th Sunday Songs and Rhymes Challenge with The Outlawz!

 Our inspiration poem is New Beginnings by Christoper Westra at Sunday Songs and Rhymes this time! 

I was inspired by the line “Fresh start everyday” and found the most perfect image to make a digital postcard with!

This amazing rooster is from the Gecko Galz “Southwest Style” free page on their blog under the FREE PAGES section!  I absolutely love this fellow and he reminds me of new mornings, fresh starts and new beginnings!  I made my postcard in Procreate and used this awesome quote from Dr. Suess decorating the background of it with a matching purple and popping some pink mountain-y shapes from my brush sets.  I can’t wait to print these out on some postcard blanks I have because I really do love these!  Make sure you tell us what inspired you from the poem when you show us your creations!  Happy  New Year 🎊🎈🎆 

 

June 25th Sunday Song & Rhyme Challenge!

Our inspiration poem at The Outlawz Sunday Song & Rhyme Challenge is  

 I took my cue from "Christmas tree" in the most adorable little image from Gecko Galz! 

This little guy knows he is the cutest Christmas tree in the whole forest!   He is the June Christmas Challenge freebie!   I added some snowflake paper from Free Pretty Things for You and it was a freebie, too!  The senti was created in Photoshop and is, of course, the first line from the wonderful song!  So Christmas tree inspiration all around!  Grab your goodies and come play with us at The Outlawz Sunday Song & Rhyme Challenge!

This is also my make for the Gecko Galz Monthly Christmas Challenge!  Thanks so much to them for this super awesome image!

Cat Lovers Blog Hop Day 2

I missed the party start yesterday but I am here today with a cute postcard ATC!

The faboolous kitty who has control of the broom is by Gecko Galz!  I use at least one from the set Black Cats Collage Sheet!  It just keeps going as one of my favorites each year!  I added some enamel dots and added a cheese cloth bow after layering the image on some pumpkin orange paper!  

This is a very special time of year for cat lovers as we celebrate this awesome blog hop!  The Cat Lovers Hop is in full swing and all the details are here!

 

https://herpeacefulgarden.blogspot.com/2022/09/2022-cat-lovers-hop-main-hop-page.html

October 17th The 31 Days of Halloween with LeighSBDesigns!

About 30 minutes into a fresh pan of paint in the kitchen and the back gremlin dug in again!  So early night and off to set up an injection by limping to the doctor and him telling me yup need another shot!  Come back whenever we can work you in for it! What's a body to do?  Nuff whining and onto some witching!

Using Gecko Galz freebies from the monthly ATC Challenge, I thought this one fit us all a bit this month!  The background is Witch Wisdom ATC Set and the witchy poo is on the witches freebie sheet!  I inked with Distress Ink carved pumpkin and added enamel dots from Altenew!  She is stirring this one off to The 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop presented by LeighSBDesigns!  Deets and linky party are here!  I am also a crypt keeper at the Countdown to Halloween, 2022!

 

October 15th The 31 Days of Halloween with LeighSBDesigns 🎃

 Almost halfway through which is good and bad!  It means we’re getting there but it also means another 31 Days of Halloween will be over!  I do miss it when we wrap up…tired but still miss it!👻. 

I used a background by Gecko Galz which is free on HERE and is called Witch Wisdom ATC Set!   The creeptastic image is No Rest for the Wicked by LeighSBDesigns!  I used the png version colored and added in Procreate🧙   I always forget to do ATC’s and thanks to Susan’s linky to Gecko Galz and their monthly ATC challenge I was reminded to make some!  This goes to The 31 Days of Halloween Blog Hop presented by LeighSBDesigns!  Deets and linky party here! 🥳. I am also a crypt keeper at the Countdown to Halloween!

Sunday Songs and Rhymes We're Going to Be Friends!

It's my turn to host The Outlawz Sunday Songs and Rhymes and we are going to be using a song by The White Stripes!  I watched some documentary type shows about this group with Noah and while a lot of their music wasn't my type this one song replayed in my head for weeks!  I bought the children's book when I found it to add to the family's music room!  The song is "We're Going to be Friends".

Fall is here, hear the yell
Back to school, ring the bell
Brand new shoes, walking blues
Climb the fence, books and pens
I can tell that we are going to be friends
I can tell that we are going to be friends

[Verse 2]
Walk with me, Suzy Lee
Through the park and by the tree
We will rest upon the ground
And look at all the bugs we found
Safely walk to school without a sound
Safely walk to school without a sound

By: The White Stripes

That is the first two verses; it goes on a bit but you can look it up or the whole thing will probably be on the challenge blog!  Our sponsor is the wonderful and amazing Gecko Galz!  I am addicted to their products!  I love having the option to work digitally when my back is acting up or things or going crazy around here like new roof and fixing wet, yucky ceilings like now!  These products are also fabulous to print out and work with physically!  I went with a digital project made in Procreate on my iPad.

I used elements from the "School Days Digital Collage Set" and using the blackboard added some colorized items and wrote the sentiment in Chalkduster font.  I really love it!  The little boy and girl going to school are definitely going to be friends!  I hope you join us at The Outlawz Sunday Songs and Rhymes Challenge on the new blog!  It is easy peasey to add your projects and the folks at The Outlawz worked really hard to bring the challenges to blog format!  Check us out!  Make sure you tell us in your blog what inspired you from the song!  My inspiration was literally the title of the song!

Gecko Galz Etsy

Cat Lovers Hop 2021 & The 31 Days of Halloween 🎃

I read on on a blog yesterday and remembered Noel telling me when she adopted Rosie, her black cat, this year that black cats are the least adoptable kitties at shelters.  Apparently people take the bad luck thing seriously which I do find hard to believe!  So tonight’s card is for all the black kitties in the world who I know for a fact party the hardest!!😽

The party 🎈 cat is from the Black Cats Collage Sheet by Gecko Galz! I used the words “Black Cats” from the title on the collage sheet and tried to match the font in Procreate to finish the sentiment!

This card is for the Cat Lovers Hop hosted by Janis at Her Peaceful Garden!  All the details are HERE!

It is also going for a catch up project at the 31 Days of Halloween Hop + Challenge hosted by LeighSBDesigns!  The linky party and details are HERE! 

LeighSBDesigns is a sponsor again at the Cat Lovers Hop!  Leigh has so many cute kitty images at her Etsy boutique!

I have had fun being a crypt keeper at the Countdown to Halloween again this year!

Cat Lover's Hop & Oct. 7th Catch Up!

Today I wrote down a journal page dictated by Ichigo, my cat!  Was I surprised to hear what he was up to last night!!

I used a journal page for the background from the Frightfully Delightful Digital Junk Journal Kit by Gecko Galz!   The not so frightful but utterly delightful cat image is from the Black Cat Collage Set by Gecko Galz!  I have an old dictionary that has fallen apart and I used strips from moon-based definitions and inked with tea dye Distress Ink.  I inked both parts of the journal page with vintage photo and chipped sapphire Distress Inks before wrapping the bottom page with twine. I wrote the dictated part of the page with a black marker.  I am entering this at the 31 Days of Halloween Hop + Challenge hosted by LeighSBDesigns!  All the details and linky party are HERE!

I am also entering this at the Cat Lovers Hop hosted by Janis at Her Peaceful Garden!   All those details are HERE!

This one also goes to Ike's SUYP Cat Lovers' Challenge #71!

Check out the Countdown to Halloween, 2021!

 

August 28 Steampunk Serengeti Blog Hop and Hurricane Ida

 We are in the track of Hurricane Ida today sixteen years after Katrina destroyed so much of our area.  We are not evacuating because of the horse and the rest of our zoo.  Frankly I would love to be heading away from this one but things just won't allow it.  Flooding is not an issue for us just the wind.  My house is surrounded by trees that I practically chained myself to them to keep my husband from clearing the whole two acres!  Note to self: maybe not so good an idea?  So I have done really all I can do to get ready now it is just sit and wait time.  I am baking a ton of biscuits and tea cakes cause I get the munchies when I am stressed!  While stuff is in the oven I wanted to post this one from yesterday.

I framed it up just to see how the pair could go together.

I am entranced with the way the font of the sentiment from Leigh's Grunge Essential Sentiments Steampunk Serengeti Digi Stamp Set works with the gorgeous watercolor gazelle from Gecko Galz 's Safari Jewels It Collection!  I think a large framed set of the gazelle and giraffe will look amazing! Stay safe out there and I hope to be able to join you all after this broohaha is over.  I am linking this at the Steampunk Serengeti Blog Hop hosted by LeighSBDesigns!  All the details and linky party are HERE!

August 26 Steampunk Serengeti Blog Hop!

This lovely watercolor giraffe is from Gecko Galz's Safari Jewel It Collection.  I wanted to make some small pieces but couldn't resist using the giraffe with the sentiment from Leigh's Stay Wild Steampunk Serengeti Grunge Sentiment Digi Set.  I think it would look lovely as a wall print!  I printed it out on cardstock but my printer just doesn't do a top notch print so I am just adding it from the computer here so the colors stay true.

This is going to the Steampunk Serengeti Blog Hop presented by LeighSBDesigns!  All the details and linky party can be found HERE!

 

ExPosed for the Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers

 This one is for the Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers #189 X is for X-posed!  I always have a fun time playing here so I don't know how it slips my mind for months on end!  I took the whole exposing a medium as a fake for my take on this one!   The senti is coming from my own weight experience during the last couple of years! 😛  So here is to anyone who doesn't like my weight right now!

I enlarged the sentiment because I tried two different pairs of glasses and the top one was staying fuzzy!

The image is from Gecko Galz Fortune Has It digital collage sheet.  The rest was just some papers, glue and some bling with a touch of Distress Oxide Spray for some orbs on the sentiment!

And here just cause it makes me laugh is Edna on the badge for this challenge!

Gecko Galz Monthly Christmas Challenge

 Gecko Galz Monthly Christmas Challenge is so much fun to play with!  They give you a gorgeous vintage image to play along with and I love them!   This month's image reminded me so much of a photo I have of my Mama when she was around 5 years old and part of the writing at the top of the image included the word "Noel", the name of my lovely daughter!  
So I had to create something now didn't I?

I used Procreate to add the vintage image onto a background by Pexels on Pixabay.  I used different brushes to create some lights and a star on the tree and to flare out the ribbon a bit.  Some washi tape effects and confetti sprinkled lights added to the beautiful bokeh effect the background had originally.  The final touch was adding Noel on a strip of washi tape.  This was really relaxing and calming working on this...kind of quiet reflection time.

I am adding this to the Gecko Galz Monthly Christmas Challenge:

I am also entering this in the Christmas in July Blog Hop presented by LeighSBDesigns! Stay cool inside with the A/C on dreaming of snowflakes this month and get a jump on your Christmas makes! 

July 5 - 25th with LeighSBDesigns Christmas in July Blog Hop!  Details and linky party are HERE!

Far East Beauty Gecko Galz January Challenge

 

This is my project for the Gecko Galz January Challenge.   This is one of the many challenges and blogs that slip my memory!  I was really glad I found it today!  I used the Smitten Digital paper pack and the Japanese Traditions Digital Collage Set to make this card using a free template from Stampington & Company.  Totally didn't take a photo of the inside but I added a freebie sentiment "Follow Your Dreams".  I used three of the images from the collage set and one of the papers from the paper pack.  I cut out the panels and the card base (orangeish cardstock) with my Cricut.  I added the images to a panel and attached to the front and gold embossed around each window.

I am entering this in the Gecko Galz Far East Beauty January Challenge.