Angels / Anything with Wings

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well and keeping busy (crafting!) during this period of self isolation.  I hope our new challenge at Winter Wonderland will motivate you to create something new!

Our challenge this month is "Angels / Things with Wings".  Our sponsor for this challenge is Sherry West Art and the winner of this challenge will receive a special surprise from Sherry!

This image is Merry Christmouse.  So pure, innocent and peaceful.  I colored her up with Copic markers.  The paper is part of the Winter Wonderland Collection by Doodlebug.

I have to share a funny story about this image.  After I printed it off, it sat on my desk for a few days before I started coloring.  While coloring I was looking at the space between her hands and was trying to figure out if it was part of the dress or maybe a heart...I wasn't sure so I colored it as part of her dress.  I finished the coloring and the name of the image came to mind and I thought hmmm, why is it called Christmouse then it hit me - she's holding a mouse!  So, out came the colorless blender and lightened the blue and recolored the tiny mouse grey.  I really need some fresh air!

Challenges
Christmas 24 - Sketch
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes

Sherry West who is the owner-designer of Sherry West Art is a digital and rubber stamp artist, colouring book artist and the author-illustrator of a very silly new children's book title "It's Raining Cats!  It's Raining Dogs!  It's Raining Bats! And Pollywogs!" (Morgan James Publishing) which is available now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and more.

She is a member of the Society of Children's book Writers and Illustrators, an ESL teacher, a published educational curriculum writer, award winning poet and semi-pro photographer who work has been accepted by Getty Images.

Married for 20 years to a very patient guy with 3 really funny kids, 2 fluffy dust bunny chinchillas, 1 huge hairy dog and 13 random cats.

Her art is being sold as rubber stamps by Stamp Addicts in the UK and
 has appeared on Hochanda twice.

Etsy shop

Sherry West Art Blog

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Facebook Colouring and Crafts Group

Men or Mice Challenge

Mmmmmm, time for our "M" challenge of Men or Mice at ABC Christmas Challenge!

We have two fab sponsors for this challenge, Shape EZ (2 templates of your choice) and Sweet Stamp Store ($10 gift certificate), please take a look at what they have offered at the end of this post!

I have to admit that I had to do a bit of searching for a mouse image....I'm glad I did as I found this cute fella by Digi Web Studio.  It comes with 6 adorable Christmas mouse digis.

I used Dad's Tie Flip Card template by Shape EZ and cut it out with my Silhouette and used my banner nesties to add a "tie pin" at the top.  The sentiment "Happy Christmouse" and the inside sentiment are both by Paper Smooches and wish I had used some embossing powder to make the sentiment pop .. unfortunately I didn't have any of the paper left to redo it but I took a close up pic to give you a better look.  The paper is Sugar Plum from the Saint Nick collection by Fancy Pants Designs.

Make sure you head over to ABC Christmas Challenge to check out the creations from our very talented Design Team!

Shape EZ

Prize offered to 1 lucky winner is : 2 Shape EZ templates or your choice.

Shape EZ is a product originating from the desire to be different.  The templates were inspired by one unforgettable template and has become an opportunity to share specialty shaped cards with everyone.   Every template is offered in 300 dpi in SVG,JPEG,PNG and PDF files so no matter your preference, they are perfect for everyone.  No cutter needed, instructions included and are only limited by your imagination. 

Sweet Stamp Store

Prize - a $10.00 Gift Certificate for Sweet Stamp Store

SweetStamps.com manufactures artistic rubber stamps on cling cushion for use with acrylic blocks. We carry a variety of stamping and paper crafting goodies like our own Shades dye inks, metal embossing plates, embossing folders, cutting & embossing dies (Cheery Lynn, Marianne, Joy! and Nellie's), fine detail embossing powders, specialty cardstock and vellum along with supplies for parchment crafting.

Animals at Cards for Men

Holy Cow, I don't know where  my brain is lately.  I had this post ready a couple of weeks ago and set the publish date and time but forgot to finish the post information ... aaahhhh!

So, here is the info - It's time for a new challenge at Cards for Men!  Our theme is "Animals".  Our sponsor is Paper Pretties and the winner will receive 6, yes SIX digis of their choice!

This image (I LOVE it!) is S'mores by Paper Pretties.  I colored him up with my Copic markers and used papers from the Boy Crazy collection by My Mind's Eye.  Added some twine and there you go!

Pretties is an online crafting store, and home to Zac, Lily, Sophia and Cooper - the cutest kid stamps around! (At least we think so). We have many exclusive stamp lines, from elegant to whimsical, sweet to clever; there is something for every stamper in our Pretties' Boutique.

Along with our full line of high quality clear stamps, we also have a large selection of digital images.

Challenges:
Digi Makeover Challenge - Celebration
 Kaboodle Doodles Challenge - Use brown or tan
Lexi's Creations - Happy  Birthday
Card Crafter's Circle - Boys to Men
CAS-ual Fridays - Birthday
Creative Corner Challenges - Clean and Simple

Mom's don't have time to be sick

This I can soooo relate to! I was off "recovering" but having a housefull of boys, I didn't find time for the recovery part ... I had to find time for the laundry, lunches, dinners, homework, pets ...heaven forbid I should lay on the couch and rest...besides, it was taken up by my husband and his "man cold!" - I had to go back to work to get some R & R!

This is my second entry for Bugaboo "Caught a Bug" Challenge and Midnight Madness Challenge #92

http://catchthebugblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/caught-bug.html

http://priscillastyles.blogspot.com/2011/02/midnight-madness-sketch-challenge-92.html