Santa

I've been in a funk. First I took a class which was fabulously taught.  I learned that my watercolor skills are in need of not just practice, but some intense therapy.  It was so frustrating for me.  I am not giving up, I am giving it some time to percolate before I try yet again.   Then I needed to hop on the Valentine train, they need to be mailed Monday.  I made a few designs and made multiples, they'll be posted on Valentine's day.  I had a crafty day Tuesday with my regular ladies group and I did quite a bit of coloring, but those images are not card ready (no design mojo).

I hoped a challenge would help with the mojo.

On to Merry Monday #190 - Santa.  I have 2 Santa Images, this one was closest at hand and had a mask in the storage sleeve (yea!).   I did some masking, and copic coloring added some snowflake sequins because it was too bare without them. Then I added glitter tape, and some embossed dots since my ink blending took smudged the bottom of the card.   Baby steps...on the mojo thing.

What do you do when all mojo deserts you?

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Card Set

Sent these off to a girlfriend. She is a person who still writes notes.

Stamps-Clearly Besotted and Hero Arts, Die MFT, coloring Inktense Pencils, paper Strathmore and Wplus9.

Christmas Greetings

This darling girl is Holiday Anya 3 by The Greeting Farm.

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My Deer

The last of my cards for the night, its about to strike midnight and my bed beckons.  Merry Monday's theme is to use a reindeer. 

 

I recently acquired the adorable Winter Friends set by Clearly Besotted and there is a darling deer with a big nose included.

He makes me smile.  I hope you smile too!  Thanks for stopping by.

Thanks

Over last weekend I found out I was one of the lucky randomly drawn winners of a blog hop.  The prize I won was donated by Darnell, and I wanted to send her a thank you for donating the prize which ended up in my happy hands.

I spent most of last weekend playing with Clearly Besotted's Giving Thanks stamp set, and I loved the sunflower option.

I started with the wheelbarrow, added the flowers and masked that all off. I used the Hero Arts Large Lotus stencil with some scattered straw distress ink across the whole panel in a light to dark inking. The image was colored with copic makers.  The sentiment was stamped with versfine vintage sepia ink.  The card base is from Stampin up and the sequins are from A Muse -- each of the 4 mm sequins packets is a mix of light medium and dark shades of the color chosen.  I liked that that matched my inking.

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More Apples

I bought this stamp set for the apples. Yes I know it is not cost effective to buy a set for one stamp only. Turns out I have already made several cards with the set and it has year round possibilities. Yea!

The set is Clearly Besotted's Giving Thanks.  This is my second card with the apples.

 

The main panel is mostly one layer, with the sentiment strip added.  The apples are covered with some pico embellisher in clear so there is a nice tactile feel to the card. The "leaves" are stenciled with multiple colors of distress inks. The clouds were created using distress ink over a hand cut mask.

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A different Vehicle

This week the prompt at CASology is vehicle.  I wanted to do something different so I looked up the definition of vehicle and found this:

ve·hi·cle 

/ˈvēək(ə)l/

noun

1. a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, truck, or cart

 

 I have a new stamp set and I have been playing with it all weekend.  The main portion of the set is a wheelbarrow.  I am calling it my vehicle for a pile of gifts this week and am entering it to CASology.

Stamp Set : Clearly Besotted - Giving Thanks 

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Freshly Made Sketches 211

I always want to play the Freshly Made Sketches challenge and it often gets away from me.  This week I am sliding in, but I do have a card made.  Here is Karren's sketch:

 

Her narrative indicates that the flower shape and the leaves are guidelines only.  I think my wheelbarrow and apples satisfy that guideline. This image is from Clearly Besotted  and is called Giving Thanks.  Images were stamped with versafine and colored with Zig clean color pens.  I created masks for the image and the circle negative.  The background of the circle is sponged distress ink in Broken China.   My sentiment is produced on my laptop as I had nothing that fit! The card  looked a bit plain(yes I have white-space issues), so I literally tossed a few sequins around the circle, loved the places they ended up and glued them down.

I am sending this to a friend I have lost a bit of touch with this summer, and so will be entering it to Jennifer McGuire's Share Handmade Kindness challenge for family and friends this week.

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