MLCCB #66: HO HO NO

 Happy New Year Crafty Friends !!! 

This post is for MLCCB, Anything Christmas Goes.

It's another Pissy Kitty from Unity Stamps colored with my prismacolor pencils. Sometimes it feels like Christmas take 5 years off our lives, because it's just a whirlwind for the whole month for 1-2 days of exhausting celebration. It's a fun image to have for your Christmas collection.

Here's the inside.  Thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamp: Unity: Ho Ho No Pissy Kitty

paper: Recollections, the Paper Studio: Christmas Sheet Music, Tartan Plaid

die-cut: MFT; square stax

MIUCB #81: Baby Elephant

Happy New Year Crafty Friends!!!  Wishing everyone a peaceful and happy new year.

This is my post for MIUCB, Anything Goes with optional Use Ribbon.

A new baby is always wonderful and happy time for families.  This is for a neighbor becoming grandparents for the first time. The image is from Kit and Clowder bonus class from December 2023, was colored with my prismacolor pencils. I have some classes done and many more to do...never enough time.

Here's the inside.  Thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamp: Kit n Clowder: Dec 2023 Class Image, Unity: KOM Apr'11 (sentiment), SU: God's Blessings (inside sentiment)

paper: Recollections: lt blue, grey, the Paper Studio: Baby Boy with Stars

die-cuts: MFT: Circle Stax

embellishments: 3Girl Jam: grey-gray ribbon. Recollections: Spare Parts brads

LTCCB #90: Holy Hot Flash 60th

 Happy New Year Crafty Fiends!!  Wishing all a wonderful happy, healthy and relaxed new year. 

Here's my post for LTCCB, Anything crafty goes.

If you haven't looked at Unity Stamps for awhile, maybe you should.  I'm in love with this new line of Pissy Kitty, this stamp is Fan Club Pissy Kitty colored with my prismacolor pencils. Us older women have a built in heater that even a fan can't handle .... making this card was fun for a dear one.  

Here's the inside.  Thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamp: Unity: Fan Club Pissy Kitty

paper: Brazill, Recollections: Meadow Floral

die-cut: MFT: square stax

embellishments: the Paper Studio: poppies, gems

LTSCB #177: Sunflower Moments

 Happy New Year!!!  I'm really hoping 2026 is much kinder. Wishing all you crafty friends a blessed, happy, and healthy 2026 Year.

This is my post for LTSCB, Anything Goes.

Winter just started, but I'm already dreaming of the warmer weather and the flowers.  This image is from Lacy Sunshine called Rorys Sunflower.  I colored it with my prismacolor pencils and used distressed inked the background sky.

Here's the inside.  Thank you looking and reading :o)

stamps: Lacy Sunshine (Heather Valentine): Rorys Sunflower

paper: Cardstock Warehouse: kraft, The Paper Studios: Sunflower on Wood, Clear Path Paper: Cherry Veneer

die-cut: Craftin Desert Divas: Fancy Frames

LTCCB#88: Hello Sunflowers

 Hello Crafty Friends,

As summer comes to end, it's time for some Fall flowers.

This is from the 2019 Kit and Clowder coloring class (yes, I'm that behind with doing some of my classes, but I will get there....some day).  Alyce drew the image herself and teaching how to color it, which was done with prismacolor pencils.  Just add bees ... it's ready to go.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

* stamps: Kit and Clowder: sunflowers (Feb-Mar'19), TLC Designs: Celebrate (sentiment)

* paper:  Cardstock Warehouse: paper bag, Brazill: 

* die-cuts: MFT: Oval Stax 1&2

* embellishments: Recollections: brads, K&Company: Tim Coffey Blossomwood

LTSCB #175: Sibling Whatever Birthday

 Hello Crafty Friends, 

It's hard to believe Fall is almost here, this year has flown by.  

I know I have already used this stamped, but I couldn't help myself to make another card for my brother.  His birthday is 2 days after mine and we are the same age for 2 days, this stamp set was too fitting.

I stamped the image on cardstock and colored with my colored pencils.  The background was done with a watercolored pencil. Kept it simple and made sure the kitty had a twine to play with, but I don't think he is having it.

Here's the inside.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

stamps: Unity Stamps: Pissy Party

paper: Coredinations: deep lagoon, the Paper Studio: woodfence turquoise, Cardstock Warehouse:paper bag

die-cuts: MFT: oval and fishtail stax

embellishments: twine, Recolletions: brads

MLCCB #63: Felt Knitting Christmas Land

 Hello Crafty Friends :o)

Christmas in July it is ..... This is my post for MLCCB, anything Christmas.

My boys got me an advent calendar for felt knitting and I LOVED it!!!  Taking the wool and sculpting it into little magical pieces was very mindful. 

Lots of presents and some trees.

The sleigh was presents.  Some of the finer details could be difficult, but I was learning with each piece how to take small pieces of wool to make the details.

Santa was fun.  I made his hat differently and the white really fluffy.  His beard is just rolling the wool.

Just small pieces of tiny wool to make the POST letters.

Baby deer in a stocking... how cute

The house, which was the hardest part, because each wall had to be precise.

The needles are very sharp doing this felt knitting, so wear the little leather finger covers they give you in the kit and buy a few extra to protect a few more fingers.  Most kits come with 1-3 needles, but a few more, because they will break sometimes doing the simplest detail work.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

MIUCB #78: Mixed Media Garden

 Hello Crafty Friends!  

This post is for MIUCB, Mixed Media or anything crafty goes.  I love doing mixed media crafts, just because it's fun getting messy and just letting the mind be creative.

This is the finish project.

I started with painting the canvas with some different types of paints and then fixing tissue paper over the top.

The butterfly was a wooden embellishment that had been embossed and heavy glitter stones.  The flowers are metal, just make sure put a base coat of gesso paint down, then drop some ink to fill them.

Part of the thinking process ....

The finally project once again.

⦁ paper:  Tim Holtz: collage paper serendipity, entomology

⦁ stencils: Artplorations: Bloom Silhouttes, Tim Holtz: bubble

⦁ embellishments: Tim Holtz: metal floral,distress inks,  K&Company: Blossomwood, wooden butterfly, moss, lace, gems,  Recollections: glitter beads

LTCCB #87: Hello New Neighbor

Hello Crafty Friends!  July is here like a lion breathing hot fire on us .... It is HOT!  Hopefully you are staying cool by crafting a little.

This is my post for LTCCB, Anything Crafty Goes. 

Remember the days when you had to score out your paper just right to create these foldable box cards?  MFT has made it so simple now with using die-cuts. Best way to use up some scrap papers too. The houses are from another die-cut company.

I made this card for our new neighbors.

thanks for looking and reading :o)

⦁ stamps: Stampin Up: Chic Boutique (sentiment) 

⦁ paper:  lots of scraps

⦁ die-cuts: MFT: Outside the Box Level Up, Grass Hills, Cloud Trio, Recollections: houses

LTSCB #174: Pissy Party

Hello Crafty Friends!!   Can't believe we are already halfway through with the year and the summer is HOT!!

I'm here with my post for LTSCB, Anything Goes.  Please join us.

I know I have a lot of stamps, but we crafters never talk about our hoarding issues. These new stamps from Unity have been catching my eyes for awhile and I finally broke down and bought me a few in the new Pissy collection.  Knowing my chiropractor has a great sense of humor, I colored up this stamp (Pissy Party) with my Prismacolor pencils.

Here's the inside ... which he laughed and thought it was perfect.

Thanks for looking and reading :o)

⦁ stamps: Unity Stamp Company: Pissy Party

⦁ paper:  Recollections, Unity: Suns Out, Sass Out

⦁ die-cuts: MFT: circle stax, 

⦁ embellishments: brad