Night Creatures Part 2: Summer Buzz Blog Hop

 LeighSBDesigns “The Summer BUZZ Blog Hop”

Click on the link above or HERE to see all the details on the blog hop and then just follow a few simple rules and drop your project off so you can be in the running for some fab prizes from LeighSBDesigns!  I bet you thought I just had one rambling post about the beautiful, summer night creatures where I live and just stopped at the fireflies!  I again don't blame you cause it does sound like something I would do!  But here comes the other side of gorgeous flying creatures and they ain't so gorgeous in my book!  Part 2:  The Mosquitos! 

These guys are made a whole lot cuter by Scribbles Designs!  As they bite and fest on my blood, they look pretty gruesome to me!  I felt driven to express this in art form and where better than a Summer Buzz Blog Hop😆 !   I used two freebies from Scribbles Designs, the Mosquito and Moon and Stars. This piece of cardstock was just lying in a drawer all painted and splattered up nicely!  I glued it to a Dylusions journal page.  The mosquitos are colored with Spectrum Noir markers with the red in their tummies added with candied apple Distress Ink on a qtip.  I used a makeup foam to add fossilized amber Distress Ink on the moon and stars.  The sentiment might look familiar....it appeared on the Oddball Art skull cocktail and the little liquid drops on it reminded me of blood so here it is! Glued them all on the party night sky for a good time!  Have a fabulous, bite-free evening and click HERE!

  

Another Day?? Summer Buzz Blog Hop

 LeighSBDesigns “The Summer BUZZ Blog Hop”

Click on the link above or HERE to see all the details on the blog hop and then just follow a few simple rules and drop your project off so you can be in the running for some fab prizes from LeighSBDesigns!   Posting another quick one before my bedtime!   Bugaboo Stamps has this darling image, Flamingo Sand? in their freebie section!  That's right ...freebie!  

The sentiment is from the Plumeria Lei Marci digi stamp set by La-La Land Crafts, I had it waiting to be colored up so I grabbed it! Either my camera is getting wonky late at night or I am 😜 with the scissors!  Colored with Spectrum Noir markers and popped onto an embossed piece of paper and the sentiment popped up on foam dots!  Done and dusted!  I am really not sure what date this should be so I am not even guessing :)   Click HERE to join in the blog hop!

Flying Monkeys and Witches, Oh My!

Lost Coast Designs Portal to Creativity is nearing the end of its Background Forward Challenge.  I immediately went to the Flying Monkeys at Carmen's Veranda and the flying Witches Background stamp at Lost Coast Designs Rubber Stamps.  Two of my all time favorites!   They really need nothing added to them to make me laugh and still be a bit afraid as I remember the scenes in the movie!

All I needed were my stamps and speaking of stamps, I used the Old Typewriter Alphabet set for the sentiment!  Some glue and foam dots and it was ready to fly away!  Now I must fly and drop this is the challenge before the night fades away!

Entering:  Lost Coast Designs Portal to Creativity Challenge #101 Background Forward

Day 28th Summer Buzz Blog Hop

 LeighSBDesigns “The Summer BUZZ Blog Hop”

Click on the link above or HERE to see all the details on the blog hop and then just follow a few simple rules and drop your project off so you can be in the running for some fab prizes from LeighSBDesigns!   I have been so inspired this blog hop by my fellow hoppers!  I am visiting ATC's again and having a blast!

The images are by LeighSBDesigns and are in the Busy Bees Collage and Sentiment set!  The cool sale is on till the 30th so go grab a few at a great price!  I printed the busy bees background twice and die cut into rectangles.  I wanted a color combo I don't usually use and the color wheel suggested aqua, pink. and yellow.  I colored all of the bees and flowers on the bottom rectangle with three shades of aqua's with the Prismacolor colored pencils.  The next rectangle I colored in pinks and the solo bee in yellows.  I colored the backgrounds in both layers yellow.  I inked a white piece of cardboard with mermaid lagoon Distress Ink and glued the bottom rectangle to it.  I lined up the images on the top layer of pink to match that.  I added the bee and the sentiment (also inked with Distress Ink) with foam dots.  A bit of white gel pen on  the eyes and easey peasey all ready to swarm!  You really will be inspired by visiting the blogs represented in this hop and might want to enter for the last two days.....who knows???  Just click HERE and be transported to blog central headquarters 😎

Also entering: Week 25 - Anything Goes Colouring Challenge The Color Crazy Craft Challenge

Day ?? Extra Post for Summer Buzz Blog Hop

 LeighSBDesigns “The Summer BUZZ Blog Hop”

Click on the link above or HERE to see all the details on the blog hop and then just follow a few simple rules and drop your project off so you can be in the running for some fab prizes from LeighSBDesigns!   Bet you thought for sure I wouldn't be back tonight! 😉  To tell the truth I wasn't too sure if I would make it!  This image by Oddball Art reminded me of the fantastic piratey drinks we always got at Margaritaville Casino now no casino but a really awesome resort hotel in Biloxi right on the beach!  Ahh, nice and summery!  This is about an hour and a half from my home :)

  Huge Jimmy Buffett fan and who doesn't like a fruity, fun cocktail?  Of course, the virus stopped our trips to the resort and game arcade where we loved to play and I am still not risking going out so this cocktail is the closest I can get to Margaritaville fun!

This was the MEMBERS EXCLUSIVE JUNE 2020 Creepy Cute Chronicles "Hello Summer" at Oddball Art..  Again I colored on kraft paper with the Prismacolor colored pencils, fussy cut the elements and glued onto some patterned paper and popped the sentiment on some more paper and attached with foam.  I added the first panel to the same patterned paper and was all done!   I am off to bed!  Sweet dreams of the Summer Buzz Blog Hop!

June 27th Summer Buzz Blog Hop and Outlawz Progressive Challenge

 LeighSBDesigns “The Summer BUZZ Blog Hop”

Click on the link above or HERE to see all the details on the blog hop and then just follow a few simple rules and drop your project off so you can be in the running for some fab prizes from LeighSBDesigns!   Another double duty post for tonight with a beautiful freebie by Hetty Clare at the Outlawz Freebie/Progressive Challenge for June that I will also be adding to the Summer Buzz Blog Hop hosted by the fantastic, awesome LeighSBDesigns!!  This image is Pony Plait and I do love it!  I have a 25 year old mare named Asia so this image just spoke to me!  I really was going to do two different posts (and I still might add another project to the hop tonight) but this image goes with the summer theme quiet well I think!  

I colored these little darlings with my Prismacolor colored pencils, adding a bit of a flower garden below them and cut out the sentiment with a Tim Holtz's die.  I ran the kraft paper and a strip of patterned paper through an embossing folder before gluing the image backed with another designer paper on top.  This was a fun image to color!  Thanks to Jacqui at the Outlawz for helping me get back into the swing of things there!  Come on.....three days left for both the Summer Buzz Blog Hop and the Outlawz Freebie/Progressive Challenge!  P.S.  I was looking through some links to Hetty Clare Art and found this wonderful challenge, Creative Knockouts, that is being sponsored by Hetty Clare also!  As I used my one of my favorite color combinations: Peach, tan, and burgundy; I decided to pop this in that challenge, too!

Entering:  Outlawz Freebie/Progressive Challenge for June

Summer Buzz Blog Hop

Creative Knockouts #356 Favorite Color Combo - Hetty Clare Sponsor

June 26th Just Chillin'

 LeighSBDesigns “The Summer BUZZ Blog Hop”

Click on the link above or HERE to see all the details on the blog hop and then just follow a few simple rules and drop your project off so you can be in the running for some fab prizes from LeighSBDesigns!  I caught the ATC fever from my blog hop friends who have made such wonderful ATC's!  I also wanted to enter the Clever Dexter Challenge and wanted to use an image by Oddball Art, who happens to be sponsoring at Clever Dexter!  Looking for a beach bum kinda image, imagine my squeal of delight when I saw the super kawaii, Chubs the panda 🤭! 

I rushed him to the photo editing program and drew the sand right beneath his cute little self!  I added the clouds and sun and typed up the sentiment.  I colored with Spectrum Noir markers and instead of picking up a True Blue 2, I started coloring away with an IB 2 (you can see how that may have happened I am sure! :)  So the sky is actually showing how hot it is in my little plot of the world....yep, a slightly greenish tint means hot as heck!  I used a white acrylic paint pen to fluff up my clouds and add a little fluffy to Chubs!  Then I glued onto some black cardstock and used pop dots for the sentiment.  A beach bum panda bear seems to fit the Summer Buzz Blog Hop theme so I am adding him to Leigh's blog, too!

    Summer Buzz Blog Hop hosted by LeighSBDesigns:  Enter Here

Entering:  Clever Dexter Challenge #6 Beach Bum