Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #607 Anything goes (just let us know if digital)

 Hello everyone!  Time for my installment for Penny's challenge.  Here are the sponsors.

Polkadoodles

Mirtillamente

Great sponsors and great images.  Go leave some love and maybe say thanks?  On we go.

My image is from Polkadoodles and it is titled Lantern Friends.  Here is my creation.

This was a fun one to make.  I started with light green card as 
a base.  Next I decided that pink could be a Christmas color.
I colored the gingerbread kids using my Castle Arts Oil based 
colored pencils.  I paper pieced the dress, shirt and pants.  Also
the scarf.  I also used my new tools.  Lanquo Gel Pens and Metallic
Gel Pens.  I love these pens.  Smooth to color with.  So the hats
stripes and hair are all metallic and shimmer.  Last year before
the great broken arm, I had luck at St. vinnies with rub on's.
They were all Christmas themed.  So the branches, stars
and ornaments are stickers. 

Oh the joy of embossing tinsel.  The stamp does say Seasons
Greeting.  I will get the hand of this someday.

Here is the envelope I created.  I really like decorating 
envelopes.  Just something a little special.  

Well that is it for this challenge.  Hope to see you the first of the month of November if not sooner.  So from my heart to yours,

Stay Safe, Stay Healthy and know you are blessed!

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #606 Anything Goes (just let us know if digital)

 Hello everyone!  Have a change of plans for Penny's Challenge.  I will only be posting for 1 challenge each month.  My significant other has Frontotemporal Dementia.  The is year 3 and I just do not have the time to complete challenges right now.  So just one challenge each month for me.  Here are this months sponsors.

Dr. Digi's House of Stamps

The Paper Shelter

Here are a couple of the nicest sponsors I have the pleasure to work with.  Love all the images.  Please go show some love and leave a thank you if possible.

I am working with Dr. Digi's this challenge.  The image is called Stuck Santa.  This was a lot of fun!  Here we go.

I have colored the image with alcohol markers from Shuttle Arts.
I paper pieced the chimney.  The snow is glitter and shiny white
heavy card stock.  The Background is snow flakes from my scraps
and the base is deep red.

I found this poem by searching bing.  I printed it out and 
made sure to credit the maker.

The bottom

The back

Well that is my project for the Month of September.  I will be back at the end of next month.  But for now,

Stay Healthy, Stay safe and know you are blessed!

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge #604 Anything goes using paper.

 Hello and welcome to a melting Jana.  The heat is extremely high for Oregon.  Right as I type this the heat outside at 2:35 pm pst is 95.6.  My comfort zone is 68-78.  Thank goodness for A/C.  Due to climate change in the pacific northwest it will probably continue to rise.  Here are the sponsors for challenge #604.  Please note in your post if you are all digital.

LeAnn's World 101

Patties Creations

I love and appreciate these sponsors.  I am happy to get the word out about the wonderful images.  Please go show some love and give a thanks for sponsoring the challenge.

On to my project.  I am using an image from Patties Creations called Christmas Cactus Trio.  Here we go!

The base of the card is cream and a layer of peach.  I wanted
to match the background.  It's a picture of Quartzsite, Arizona.
I colored the cactus using my Prismacolor Color Pencils.  Next
Cut the image out leaving a small shadow layer.  I used my new
Langou markers to outline the pots and color in the Christmas
lights on the bottom of the cactus's.  

The inside.

The Envelope.  I have really gotten into decorating envelopes
if possible.

Well that is it for challenge #604.  Be back in a fortnight with another project that I hope will inspire you.  Feel free to take my idea and do something different.  Until then,

Stay Healthy, Stay Safe and know you are blessed.