March Ike’s World Challenges #154

March is here but what happened to December???  Onwards and upwards we go anyway with Ike’s World Challenges #154 Anything Goes with an Option of Tic-Tac-Toe!

I was really going to follow the tic-tac-toe board until I rediscovered the ultra wonderful Tortoise image by our fabulous Ike’s Art!  I so admire those who can color animals realistically with markers or pencils but sadly I am not one of them!  But my mind was a blur with the idea of using acrylics to paint this guy and I did!  I just printed him on plain cardstock because my printer refused to print on anything else!  This presented some problems with buckling after the acrylics and then watercolors were added for the background.  I did give the back of the paper a good ironing to reduce some of the buckles.  Google has so many different images of all the different kinds of tortoises and I kinda picked colors and patterns from a bunch of photos with the addition of the colors the tortoises around here have.  They are called gopher turtles down here.  I added a watercolor background with my version of a bush/tree so he would have a ready food source.

I added some line work with thin line markers.  The papers were from a pack I grabbed when Michael’s had a good sale.  I hope you will come play along with us at Ike’s World Challenges this month!  All the details and linky party are HERE!

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Some Cheeky Cats!

 I pulled out all of my acrylic painting stuff and got it kinda set up by the recliner so I could or would start painting again.  The back is gone again!  I had an MRI Tuesday and have my follow up with my neurosurgeon Thursday.  Long and short of it, I am not very mobile right now.  So painting I have been doing!  This little 5 x 7 canvas is the result of The Art Sherpa’s wonderful teaching and it seems perfect for Ike’s SUYP Cat Lovers’ Challenge!

Their personality conflict makes them totally perfect for each other!  Even the little flying bugs are feeling their love!  Nothing but canvas and acrylic paints on this one and off it goes!

February at Ike’s World Challenges!

It’s time for Ike’s World Challenges #153 Anything Goes with an Option of Valentine’s Day!  I worked with Ike’s Art’s Stitchy Cats!  My mom had a ceramic shop for years and the craze for a few years was ceramic stuffed animals just like these two kitties!  It made me so happy having a play with this delightful image!

I made my sentiment in Procreate and used some papers from a travel paper pad.  I colored up the kitties with Copics and fussy cut them out.  A few foam dots, a box and some shiny hearts and it was done!  I hope you can play with us this month at Ike’s World Challenges!  We can’t wait to visit your blogs and leave you some Valentine’s love!

I am also entering this card in the Outlawz Wednesday Sketch Challenge!

A Charming Christmas and Winter Fantasy!

 I had the pleasure t.A Charming Christmas Hop + Challenge presented by LeighSBDesigns and all the details and linky party are here!  Ito work with Ike’s Art’s Snow Deer last weekend and was going to blog it for Leigh’s A Charming Christmas Hop + Challenge and the Outlawz Festive Friday Challenge Tuesday when it was scheduled for Ike’s World Challenges!!!  What a lot of talk to say I totally forgot to schedule this blog!  So here goes!

I had such fun frosting up this lovely scene with tons of snow glitter!  This one goes to A Charming Christmas Hop + Challenge presented by LeighSBDesigns and all the details and linky party are here!  It also goes to the Outlawz Festive Friday Challenge in the Winter Fantasy category!

Dec. 3rd A Charming Christmas Hop + Challenge with LeighSBDesigns!

After an extended no crafting break imposed by my back, I am literally limping into the first day of the December Hop and Challenge hosted by the lovely Leigh!  Today’s project was my last attempt at crafting in November and it is simplistic but sweet!

Ingredients:  Santa Whiskers and a spare snowflake and little shape that looked like a heart to me from my pile of negative cuts from the Slimline Elegant Snowflake Lace Cutz all by LeighSBDesigns! Wonky tag cut from cardstock, Nuvo Shimmer Pen, Copics, gold twine.  The sentiment is one I made in Procreate and I only had to do that because I lost the Meowy Christmas ATCoin with Leigh’s swap label in the computer disaster!  It is ready to print out with the sentiment with no sizing and playing around in Procreate which really only took a few minutes!  But there you go! You can do it either way!

I will be playing in A Charming Christmas Hop + Challenge this month at LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog!  😱 When I went to grab the link to the hop I realized it started on the 1st!!  I am already two days late….sigh!  Leigh has a sale going on at her Etsy Boutique so check it out at LeighSBDesigns!

Two fabulous sponsors for the hop!

It’s Val’s birthday!!!  Happy Birthday 🎈🎂🎁🎉 

 

Falling into Winter Hop with LeighSBDesigns!

 I made this faux letter to Santa using the super cute Donkey Mail + Text by Ike’s Art!  I could have used several different addresses like Amazon, Etsy, EBay…..you get the point! :)

You can find lots of great images at Ike’s Art HERE!

This “letter” is off to one of my favorite Santas who has lots of goodies and you can get them when you want to with no waiting!  I am talking about Leigh of course!  The Falling into Winter Hop + Challenge is going on now!  Details and linky party are HERE! 

SUYP CHALLENGE

 I have been playing with Procreate on my iPad since before Christmas when my kids gave me the whole bundle.  I don’t think this qualifies as an entry for Ike’s Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge but I thought I would share it.   The image is a furr-bie  (freebie) on the challenge blog this month.  It is Cat Smiles and he is so darn cute!   The very simple .gif occurred after a few hours lost in Youtube watching really talented folks do amazing things 😼.

This is my first attempt to .gif anything and it came out pretty good😊.  Come enter this month’s challenge with your kitty related project!  And check out Ike’s Art and Ike’s World Challenges blog, too!