February Festive Fridays at The Outlawz Challenges!

 `Our themes to choose from this time at The Outlawz Festive Fridays are:

Christmas, Love is in the Air, Fun in the Snow and Something New! 

I love Christmas year round so of course I am not tired of Christmas the first week of January!  After a November visit to Japan back in 2016 I discovered a brand new Christmas tradition for my family!  Christmas Cakes start appearing in late November in Japan and are a kinda shortcake layers with delicious cream icing in top and in between the layers with gorgeous red strawberries as big as a plums sliced and layered.  The top is decorated with whole strawberries and often a Santa pick decoration!  In Japan they taste so good and mine, well, not nearly as good but kinda tasty!  

I found this delightful pack with images of desserts and pretty papers that were free from Cardmaking and Paper Crafting magazine (when I tried to link these I kept getting that the site was not there but they do still have a site that has some free images and papers)  So with some Procreate magic I added my Merry Christmas sentiment to the cake and layered the image on to two of the papers then added the Christmas in Japan sentie to finish it.  I am still working on my digital scrapbook of our trips to Japan and this will work perfectly with photos of me and Noah stuffing our faces with delicious treats and this type of cake (more than once or twice!).  So pick the theme you want to create around and come see us at The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge for January!

Festive Fridays for October!

 Thank you to Anne’s Digital Art for sponsoring us this month and allowing me to play with this adorable image!  I love fall so much even though it stays pretty hot or really hot here for most of it but the leaves do fall and are so pretty!

I colored this cutie with Copics and cut with pinking shears.  The paper is from a Recollections and I made  the sentiment in Procreate!  Come join us for Festive Fridays at The Outlawz Challenges!

January 20th The Outlawz Festive Fridays with Pattie's Creations!

Here we go with the themes:

Christmas and Anything Goes!

Our sponsor this time is Pattie's Creations!  Please give their shop a visit and leave some love! 💖 

Here is my watercolor oversized postcard using the oh so cute Hootie by Pattie's Creations!

I had a snowscape in mind until I saw the gorgeous weather we had today!  It has been simply beautiful here the past two days!  Zero humidity (I don't know the actual number higher than zero I imagine but lower by far than it usually is here!)  So a clear blue sky and some little wildflowers became the watercolor background for this adorable little owl!  I colored him up with Copics, used Koi watercolors and stamped a sentiment from Crafter's Square.  Do come play with us at The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge!  Easey Peasey themes of Christmas and Anything Goes this time!

January 6th The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge with Patties Creations!

Thanks so much to Pattie's  Creations for sponsoring us this time at The Outlawz Festive Friday Challenge where the themes are:

Christmas, Dragonflies, Use Green and Birthday!  You choose which to use or combine them all!

I almost used them all on my journal page!  Just missed some birthday fun :)  I used Snow Covered Lamp Post, Dragonfly 1 and a dragonfly from Dragonflies Fly!  I had an abundant crop of dragonflies this year from tiny, tiny to huge, huge!  Although the recent freezing weather has probably done them in, I decided I wanted my Christmas season to have them anyway!  I used Gelatos for my background after priming the page with white acrylic paint.  I added the images and my sentiment (I think I made that up but I could have read it somewhere!  Who knows???); I added white snow and lines with white acrylic paint.  I added the glow with a Gelato and some flecks on the senti, too.  Come along and play with us at The Outlawz Festive Friday Challenge!

 

December 9th The Outlawz Festive Fridays with All Dressed Up!

 Time for a Festive Fridays Challenge at The Outlawz and the themes are Christmas and Anything Goes!  You pick!  Our fabulous sponsor is All Dressed Up Stamps!  Please visit them and show them some love!

I had some fun with the super sweet image Christmas Deer!  I colored with Copics and highlighted with white and gold gel pens.  I made a vertical easel card following a tutorial by Iced Images YouTube.  I had the sentiment stamp in my stash.  We look forward to seeing your amazing projects for this challenge!  So come join us at The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge!

November 25th The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge with Kate Hadfield Designs!

 Here we go again and Happy Thanksgiving a day late to all!  Our fantastic sponsor for this challenge is Kate Hadfield Designs and we want to say thanks!  Our themes this challenge are:

Christmas, Flowers, Butterflies and Shades of Blue!  Pick the one or ones you like!

I was so happy to play with images from the Bundled Up Stamp set!  These little guys just stole my heart!

I had a blast just coloring up with colored pencils and fussy cutting these cuties out!  Some snowy papers and a sentiment from the paper pack and these friends can share some cocoa!  We do hope you will come play with us at The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge!

November 11th Festive Fridays with Kate Hadfield Designs!

Time for some fun at The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge with our fantastic sponsor Kate Hadfield Designs!  Our themes are:

                                                                            Christmas

                                                                            Animals

                                                                            Food/Drink

                                                                            Birthday

I created a calendar for November with the happy friends from the Pumpkin Patch Stamps!  I used Procreate and my iPad to have so much fun coloring these stamps and making my digital calendar!  The background paper is from a freebie by Kate Hadfield Designs!  I hope you will visit the shop and have a look see for yourself and come play along with us at The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge!

October 28th The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge with Sheepski Designs!

It's time for The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge sponsored by the fabulous Sheepski Designs!  Our themes are:  Christmas, Cute Halloween, Spooktastic Halloween and Fall!

I had the delightful opportunity to create with Christmas Stocking Image #231!  I colored the image up with Copics and highlighted some parts with a white gel pen.  I made a modified version of a spanner card and the panel with the little rabbit image pulls out to stand up.  I added some fussy cut presents from a paper pad because Santa has just flown away!  We hope to see you at The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge!

The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge Oct. 15 with Sheepskin Designs!

Time for the The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge sponsored by the fabulous Sheepski Designs!  Give them a visit and shop for a bit!

 

I had the chance to work with the super sweet Christmas Bells - Image 201 this week!  I colored with Copics adding a bit of golden glitter paint and inking with Distress Ink.  A bit of ribbon, some sparkles and patterned paper and my card is ready for Christmas!

Our themes for this challenge round are:

Christmas

                                                                      Cute Halloween

                                                               Spooktastic Halloween

                                                                                Fall

 We hope to see you at The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge soon!

The Outlawz Festive Friday Challenge with Sheepski Designs!

Festive Friday to you and Happy Fall!👻  The Outlawz Festive Friday Challenge is sponsored by the faBOOlous Sheepski Designs!  Thanks so much to them for their support!  I worked with the uber cutie "Trick or Treat" image!  Prepare yourself for the utterly frighteningly sweet below!!😍

Colored up with Copics and sentiments from Tim Holtz, this was so much fun to play with!  I used some enamel dots by Altenew!  We hope you will grab your crafty goodies and come play along with us and the themes are:

Christmas

Spooktastic Halloween

Cute Halloween 

Fall

See you soon at The Outlawz Festive Friday Challenge!

The Outlawz Festive Friday Challenge September 16th

Time for the Festive Friday Challenge at The Outlawz in our still brand new blog!  This time our amazing sponsor is LeighSBDesigns!  YAY!  Let's make some noise!

Our themes for this challenge are Christmas and Anything Goes!  I got to play with one of the cute MerMonsters Leigh released in the FantaSea Collection earlier this year!  I had some serious fun with Coral Balleigh MerMonster and Senti Set!  

I colored her and her treasured pearl up with Copics.  For the background I went with watercolors (regular and metallic) hoping for an effect I had gotten using acrylics.  Not as happy as I was with the acrylic one but absolutely love the water splashes on the top of the water that I accidentally ended up with~ :)  Just some gold gel pen accents around the wording and it was ready to swim!  We hope you will come enter your Christmas or ANYTHING GOES projects so we can visit your blogs!                                                                                                                                    The Outlawz Festive Friday Challenge

I am also entering this at LeighSBDesigns Challenge #9 Anything Goes in Shades of Blue!

 

The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge Sept. 2 - 15

 

 Festive Friday is here at The Outlawz Challenges and our themes are:

Christmas

Nature

Ocean Life

Fantasy

Our fantastic sponsor for September is LeighSBDesigns!

No secret what a huge fan I am on Leigh's and her always amazing digi stamps and SVG Cutz!  I am so excited to have a play with one of my all time favorite Christmas images "Christmas Chorus Frog" and yes, my favorites list is very, very long!

I colored the image with Copics and used watercolor paint around the image and Distress Ink around the edges of that.  Layered on some glitter paper and kraft paper (I am still obsessed with it) and using a sentiment from "A Charming Christmas Compendium of Festive Sayings"!  This little froggie croaks Christmas songs all year long!  We hope you will come play with us this two weeks at The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge!

Celebrating Cats, Cherry Blossoms and Japan!

 I love this month's challenge theme at LeighSBDesigns!   It is all about Celebrations and I am always ready and happy to celebrate every single thing about most of my days!  Todays project has a basic cherry blossom theme and in Japan, cherry blossom season is celebrated with picnics under the falling blossoms with family and friends!  The next theme of my card is all things Japan!  I love the people, the sights and sounds of trains, Mt. Fuji and the food but the people of Japan have always made my trips there so pleasant and memorable!  Then we come to the cats and we know how many cat lovers there are out there!

This little card contains the following absolutely PURRfect images by LeighSBDesigns:

Cherry Blossom Rectangle Frame

Japanese Clouds

Kitty Geisha Doll & Senti

Cherry Blossom Branch

I layered everything up on the gorgeous clouds with foam squares and inked the edges of the frame and senti with worn lipstick Distress Ink.  If you enjoy these digital images please check out Leigh's SVG and Silhouette Cutz designs!  The Cherry Blossom Branch is stunning when cut with one of these files!    So off this goes to LeighSBDesigns Challenge #4 Celebrations with all details and linky party HERE!

Check out the fantastic Birthday Day Sale going on now HERE!

I am also entering this at Ike's SUYP Cat Lovers' Challenge #77 Furrything Goes!

Also entering at The Outlawz Festive Fridays Challenge!