More Christmas Procreate fun

NOEL

10x10 digital painting

I created this tonight while watching TV. I used my newest love, Procreate on my iPad.
Awesome.
Intuitive.
Smart.
Fun. 
The perfect app if you ask me.  What I love is that I can watercolor, draw and design all in one...with out opening up my 'real' watercolors.  There are times when I just don't feel like getting out my paints. I have wanted a digital sketching journal for the longest time and this app with my iPad is the perfect solution for me. 

Look closely at the NOEL... (pull it up close) I made it look like a letterpress piece...like an old fashioned press. How cool is that to make the vintage look on a modern digital piece.  Happy, happy, happy....

happy painting!

Procreate coolness

Winter Sweaters

Procreate - Digital

I am in love with the app Procreate. Using my iPad with my apple pencil is so convenient. This is an illustration I've done for a background for a Christmas Card. I am learning to do this on Skillshare with Liz Kohler Brown classes. Her lessons are clear, short and full of info. I can't recommend them enough. 

Purple for Christmas

5x7

I have a friend that loves the color purple. I made this Christmas card for her. I painted cardstock with Jaquard halo purple gold paint. Then I embossed it. Then I used an old Stampin' Up die set (retired) for the ornaments. I layered dark purple, gold and the paper I made. The angles are from Anna Griffin Christmas Angels.  I am not a huge fan of purple, but I do love how this card turned out.

Happy Crafting!

More Christmas fun...

I made the background using Distress Oxide inks in blues, drops of water added.  Then used the Tim Holtz star die and his Santa die. I used a black glitter paper for Santa. The "Believe" is from Crafter's Companion.  I used a mat silver behind the cut out stars for a subtle shine. Love this card!

Happy Crafting!

Christmas Cards and my new Cricut

Having fun with my new Cricut. I cut out the word SNOW with the holes in it (for snow). First I used distress inks in blues on watercolor paper to make the blue paper, then cut out SNOW. I added an embossed snowy background (Stampin' Up), punched snowflakes and NUVO drops and sequins to finish the card. I also heat embossed the "Let it snow" in silver. I am happy at how it turned out.  I think that makes 13 Christmas cards so far this season. Not bad!

Happy Crafting!

Christmas cards

This year I may not get to make too many Christmas cards. Between travel and a cold, I just don't have the energy this year. Last night I did a few small watercolor paintings that may turn into a card or two. The large tree has glitter on it that you cannot see in this picture. Happy Creating! 

Christmas Cloche # 3

This mini cloche # 3 is another deer scene. I used a tiny tree and a brown deer. To me these are magical. I think it is my inner little girl that delights in these. It stands 3" tall.  This is best seen if you look at it up close, to see all the details. 

Christmas Cloche # 2

Here is another tiny cloche I made. It is 3.5" tall.  I will be selling these at a local craft fair (yes Dianne!). This one is a snowman and winter baubles. I added a glittered paper background behind the snowman. If you pull this up close you can see all the little details. I love the magic and whimsy of Christmas! 

Christmas Cloche

How stinkin' cute is this? I love how it turned out! I bought these tiny cloches online. They stand 3" tall. This one is all silver and white. A tiny silver deer...love it! I added vintage rhinestone chain all around the base to add sparkle. I am having a lot of fun making these.  More to come...

Log Cabin Putz glitter house

I am fairly obsessed with these little houses! The process is fun and I love decorating them once the houses are together. I am now thinking BEACH...how cute would that be? More to come!

Christmas Village

I started this village  three years ago and have added to it each year. This year I made the new die series from Tim Holtz and really love them. I plan on making more. Each house has a fake tea light inside it and so they glow in the evening and I added fairy lights around them. It looks magical! Enjoy!

First glitter house complete. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Glitter House

I have always loved glitter houses and churches. I used the Tim Holtz village BigZ die for this house.  He always seems to be so on trend.  I used chip board for this one and painted it with acrylic paints. I am making another one now out of paper. I plan on putting battery tea lights in them and adding them to my Christmas decorations I made last year. 

Santa came to my house!

I made this Christmas card for a crafty friend. Every year she sends me the most amazing card that she hand makes and personalizes. I wanted to send her back a card worthy of hers!

First I made the bricks using molding paste and a stencil. Once that dried, I used Tim Holtz vintage photo on the bricks to color them. I added the mica snow on top using clear drying glue. I made the wreath using a Martha Stewart punch and added the red boot and holly leaves. I also added a touch of stickles to the wreath. The "BELIEVE" is a Tim Holtz stamp. I cut out the Santa hat and mittens and glued them into place. I added the memory box die cut of the swirling snow under the believe stamp to balance the piece. I then mounted the whole thing onto green cardstock.

Christmas village

This is my new Christmas center of my table decoration.

It's a little village of sorts, using my ATC houses I've been making. I made them different heights to give them more variety. Each one is unique. I then placed a sting of tiny LED lights and some fake candles around to light at night.

I am happy with the results!

 

 

 

more Christmas ATC's

In my last post I mentioned that I am obsessed with making these wonderful ATC Christmas trees...
here are a few more pictures. They make me happy. They fill me with the Christmas spirit. They take me back to that little girl who couldn't wait for Christmas!!

Christmas tags

Christmas in Paris

Each year I like to make tags for gifts. The Eiffel Tower one is most likely for my

oldest daughter who loves all things French. (She also rarely looks at this blog)

I make a mess if glitter, die cuts and glue. I also make cards, but that's for another day.



It's beginning to look a bit like Christmas!

The tree is trimmed, **most** packages are wrapped, stockings are hung by the fireplace...will be making butter spritz cookies today or tomorrow...yum...wishing you all a Blessed and Merry Christmas!

Can you feel it?

Remember that EXCITED feeling you had as a kid when it was almost Christmas?

Butterflies in your stomach...the slight fear that just maybe Santa might put coal in your stocking because you were naughty...pouring through the Sears catalog making insane lists of all the toys you wanted...seeing how pretty the house started to look as a tree marched into the living room and the fire place mantle was decorated with beautiful smelling evergreens and just like the story says...our stocking were hung by the chimney with care...trying to imagine just what was inside that wrapped present under the tree with your name on it...the smell of the special bayberry candles that my mother bought just for Christmas time...watching Rudolf the Red nosed reindeer and Frosty the Snowman on TV...hearing the wonderful Christmas songs...can you feel it?

Images of Christmas

This is one of my oldest Christmas ornaments. It was my grandmothers and hung on her tree. I remember loving it as a child. When I started my own family, my grandmother gave me several of her special ornaments, this being one of them. I love this ornament for the memories it brings me. My grandmother was a Southern Baptist, yet she did delight in Santa, along with the baby Jesus. As a child I loved this one and it was my favorite.

Do You See What I See?

a star, a star, dancing in the night...I've been humming this all day...so I made a journal page about it. Christmas is a wonderful time of the year. I am feeling this year like I would like to keep it very simple. Sort of 'The reason for the season' and not all of the hoopla.

This journal page- I was reading last night about the artist Bruegel. I cut out the wise man from the painting in my book I was reading and used him as the starting point for this page. I just loved how he looked- loved his boots and outfit.