Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog #54: Garden Stocking

 Hello and Happy New Year!!!  May you have a beautiful and blessed 2024 !!

This post is for Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog, Anything Christmas is welcomed.

    It's no secret that I love Power Poppy images for their details. I fell in love with this Garden Stocking, that I colored with my prismacolor pencils.  This old fashion background paper was perfect.  I know many don't think brown is a Christmas color, but I really love the way this turned out.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

·         stamps: Power Poppy: Garden Stocking, Unity: (sentiment from an Unity grab bag)

·         paper:  Bazzill, Recollections, Carta Bella: Christmas Day

·         die-cuts: MFT, Craftin Desert Divas

·         embellishments: Recollections: Pearl Stickers

Mix It Up Challenge Blog #68: Secret Flower Garden

Hello and Happy New Year Crafty Friends!!  Wishing you a blessed and crafty 2024.

This post is from Mix It Up Challenge Blog, for this challenge, we would like to see some mixed media creations.  

This is my inspiration project of mixed media, which I really love getting messy.  Mixed media can be fun and a good stress reliever.

The image is from Alyce at Kit and Clowder, Enchanted Fairy House Door.  This is a monthly pencil class from September 2023.  Colored by me with prismacolor pencils.

I painted the canvas with some gesso white paint, like a primer to get things started.  Using spray inks to achieve the background colors, which I match to the image's background.  Then I used two different stencil with modeling paste to get some added details, which the paste soaks up the ink and blends in nicely (you see in the finished project).

Going through some Tim Holtz embellishments, I found this address label.  Distressed with some inks and placed it surrounded by the moss.

Just some of the added details and sparkle that is needed.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

·         stamps:   Kit and Clowder: Enchanted Fairy House Door

·         embellishments: Range: Distress Oxide Spray Ink, Tim Holtz: Distress Spray Stain, Number Strips, Gothic Stencil  Recollections: Wooden birds, Wooden Keys, Glitter balls,  Ashland: Moss, Balzer Designs: Mini Believe Script Stencil…Flowers: Prima Flowers, the Paper Studio, Wild Orchid

Love to Craft! Challenge Blog #78: Heaven Cardinals Visiting

 Hello and Happy New Year Crafty Friends!!!  

This post is for Love to Craft Challenge Blog, Anything crafty goes.  Please check out all the sisters blog for some great inspiration.

Sometimes people ask you to craft things they have seen and it's up to the "crafty" person to craft up something they see in the head, make it come to life.  This is a wooden 3" circle with 2 stamps the I colored with my color pencils.  

I stamped the cardinal first.  Then use a masked stamp to cover it up to overlay the second stamp.

The second stamp was a branch for him to sit on.  

On the back, I hand painted the sentiment that she wanted.  Leather cord was used to finish it off.

When I was looking through the internet for a cardinal stamp, I found the company that she saw this inspiration project.  (kendrick home)

 thank for looking and reading :o)

·         stamps: Simon Says: Winter Birds

·         embellishments: SVG File Willie Bees: Wish Heaven Had Visiting Hours, leather cord, 3” wooden circles

Love to Scrap Challenge Blog #165: Cabin in the Lights

 Hello Crafty Friends and Happy New Year!!!   Hopefully everyone will have a great 2024.

This post is for Love to Scrap! Challenge Blog, Anything Goes.   Please also check out the sister blogs that go alive today for more inspiration.

Using the Kit and Clowder class of the month for color pencil for my project this month. Learned about Northern Lights, I would like to do this one again with some different colors.  Image was drawn by Alyce of Kit and Clowder.

It makes the perfect bookmark due to how long the image is and I laminated it for wear and tear. 

Added a sentiment on the back ... a friend thought of the sentiment and it seemed perfect for this.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

• ·   stamps: Kit and Clowder: Northern Lights

  ·   embellishments: ribbon