Day 4 Poe Appreciation!

It's day 4 of the 5th Annual Poe Appreciation Blog Hop!  Hop Here for all the deets at LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog where our fabulous host Leigh is waiting for all your POE-nominal projects!
Here is all little snap shot of a day in the life of Fortunato in the world of The Cask of Amontillado provided by the wonderful Ike's Art!

I used the image The Cask of Amontillado and fussy cut up a storm!  Markers, some scraps of paper and quote layered under the Poe Signature by LeighSBDesigns and I was through🤭
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Day 3 Poe Appreciation Day :)

Ok, I have another question for you today.  Do you ever wonder what your bust of Poe looks like the morning after his birthday celebration?  I did, of course, and since the old chap probably never had a really cheery drunken birthday celebration; I hoped the scene would be something kin to my below project. Involving one of more drunken crows, some party hats, and our Poe ending the night with one of the said drunken crows on his head!  This situation occurring after Poe had asked the crow to fetch him a party hat 😊.

But first! we are celebrating the 5th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Blog Hop hosted by LeighSBDesigns on the Inspiration Blog!  All the details to play, hop, linky...it is all found HERE.

I played with images from Ike's Art: Poe Bust and Poe Paper Background (a Freebie!)  and from LeighSBDesigns: Party Hats

Some coloring with colored pencils and markers after a bit of layering of the images and let the party rock and roll!

Still time to play so get moving and visit the bloggers who have been creating with Poe inspired dreams and thoughts and make your own POE-tastic project!  Link up at the bottom of the post HERE

January and Ike's World Challenges!

I am so happy to start off the new year working with the amazing digital stamps of Ike's Art!  This month's theme for Ike's World Challenges is M for Male/Anything Goes.  Make sure you grab the freebie image "The Doctor" HERE and also share you project with us in the Linky at the same time!

The image I used this for this month's challenge is the "Book of Dreams" and I saw it in Ike's Art and I had to create with it!  It is one of those images that spark the inspiration and imagination!

I wanted a galaxy background and I have painted galaxies in acrylic paint but markers were a whole new ball game 😏.  I did have the wonderful resource of my Kit and Clowder Monthly Classes and Alyce has many lessons on galaxy backgrounds.  I have Spectrum Noir Markers and the color blends are hard for me with markers AND my Prismacolor pencils had disappeared soooo not a perfect galaxy but the image still is the star in this sky!

All the things a boy can dream about dancing out of the wonders of books!

I used Spectrum Noir Markers with some Soucolor markers and popped it on black cardstock.

All done!

Now it is your turn to inspire us!  Drop your project off HERE!

Poe Appreciation Blog Hop Day 2

Honestly thought today was the 19th but here it is the 20th so I am running a day behind.  What a surprise!   Yesterday began the 5th Annual Poe Appreciation Blog Hop at LeighSBDesigns!   Already there are some fabulous projects up and I was inspired by them all!

All the details for the Blog Hop are HERE at LeighSBDesigns Inspiration Blog!   Please read through the very few list of things we need to observe to make this a fun and stress free hop!

What do you call something that is bigger than an inchie but smaller than an ATC?  I haven't a clue but here is one of the species. ☺

Inspired by Leigh's layering of the verse from The Winter Raven over Master Poe, I gave it a whirl and tried a collage of Leigh's images.  Those digital art stamps are: Ode to Poe,  Distressed Raven Nevermore,  Distressed Splatter Heart,  and  Poe Signature with Quill.  I put in some background color with my colored pencils and gave Poe a little color for his birthday!  I layered the collage on to some fabulously texture little paper cards I bought in Japan at a 100 yen shop.  It was not standard ATC size but then neither was my collage so tiny we went.  I used some black watercolor on some watercolor paper for the next layer and that went on some black cardstock.

So we are off and running for the 5th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Appreciation Blog Hop!

I am also sharing my project in my FB group Edgar Allan Poe Creations Challenge.  Please join the group if you would like to play in a monthly challenge there :)

Dreaming of Snow with Oddleight Elf

Baby, it's hot outside!  It is humid and just plain uncomfortable calling for shorts that are at the bottom of the closet!  So with that feeling I decided to create some cold air and perhaps a  few snowflakes!  Oddleigh Elf with Snowflakes digital art stamp by LeighSBDesigns was just the image to print out and color up and use on my small mixed media canvas!

I got all painty and messy with a mixed media small canvas  and the following supplies:

Oddleigh Elf with Snowflakes by LeighSBDesigns

Canvas paper from leftover palette acrylic colors

Prismacolor pencils

Rectangle die 

Utee powder

Clear stamp pad

"S" stamp from stash

Gesso

Liquitex rough texture paste

Pink seed beads

White acrylic paint

Bubble wrap scrap

White paint pen

Glue

Coloring up this little elf and her snowflakes was such a pleasure!  Thanks to Alyce at Kit and Clowder for her Monthly Coloring classes!  I am just now catching up on a lot of pencil classes and practicing was fun!  I die cut her with the rectangle die and got on with the messy part!  The background canvas paper has been laying around in a drawer with a lovely shade of purple from a leftover palette thrown on it.  Next was a paper from my stash that I used texture paste on through the waste paper of a Holt's die cut from ages ago.  I save way too much!  When that was dry I finger painted white acrylic paint and gesso on the paper and the texture. The snowflakes were embossed with Utee powder after fussy cutting as best I could.  My eyesight is not very clear so I guessed as the smaller details.  Embossing first did help on the tiny snowflake.  I glued the image on top and added some tiny pink seed beads. Still needed something so a "S" from my stamp stash with some of the purple tones was added to stand for "snow" of course!  I put a touch of the white paint pen on the eye highlights and touched up the snowflakes a bit before drawing some snowflakes and lines around the canvas paper.

I am entering the following challenges:

Polkadoodles Challenge Anything Goes
Art Impressions Challenge #274 Shades of Pink
As You Like It Challenge Anything Goes
Sweet Stampers Challenge #40 Winter/Snow

Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge #50

Starting off the new year right with some play at Ike's Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge Blog with Furrything Goes/ Happy Meuw Year!

I had some fun with a crazy kitty from Wonderland from the Alice Kats (set of three).

I have been working on my Monthly Coloring Classes from Kit and Clowder and saw a cool watercolor effect using colored pencils.   My next must have item is some proper paper for colored pencils but I gave it a try on my cheap ole cardstock 😺.  It was an enjoyable process and I can't wait to try again!

Some paper from my stash and a purr-fect sentiment from a Kit and Clowder lesson with a bit of glue and he is ready to have a mad new year!

I am entering him, of course, in the SUYP Challenge for January!

Challenge #126 at Ike's World Challenges

November is time for the theme "Kindness" and always Anything Goes!  We hope you join us in sharing thoughts of kindness or just plain anything you want to share!  

I have one of Ike's kitties who is definitely kind but I am not too sure if he is thinking of sharing this particular dinner!  I used "Turkey Dinner" for a quick card colored up with Prismacolor pencils. Some fall themed paper from Ms. Sparkles and Co. made a nice table for the feast to unfold!

 Check out all of the amazing digital stamps at Ike's Art!

Enter our challenge this week by clicking HERE!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I am also sharing this at Ike's Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge Blog for November!