Junk Journal: Grinchy

 

Page in my junk journal created with handmade bubble print paper, printed scrapbook paper, images, hand drawn Cindy Lou Who, doodles in pen, marker, colored pencils, glitter gel ink, with paper flowers and buttons added.

Merry Christmas!

Art-a-thon Fun

 Art I made during the ATCsForAll.com December Art-a-thon: 

I made string art wreath cards with sequins this year.

Collaged snowman ATC with bubble printed background, punched snowflakes, and acrylic painted border.

HD ATC of a colorful Xmas stocking.  Drawn with markers and colored pencils.

ATCoin with alcohol marker background, collaged text, sequin angels and stars, and gold enamel painted border.

Christmas Kitties ATCs

Just a couple of ATCs with a Christmas Kitty theme.  Drawn with Indian ink pens, colored with alcohol ink markers, colored pencils and sparkly gel pens.

Happy Christmas

Made a quick animated gif from some public domain clip art.  Hope you enjoy this holiday snow globe.

Post-Christmas/New Year ATART

Poinsettia ATC

There is another "Art-a-thon" happening right now through January 6th.
You do need to be a member of ATCsForAll.com (free for all) in order to post in the forum and play in the art-a-thon.  This is a group of friendly folks, so no worries - and it is lots of fun to be able to make art around the clock with everyone!

Chilly Night - Owl ATC

I have only made a couple of ATCs so far ... but plan to play a bit more before it is over.

Santa Helps Out

Stick to what you know, Santa!  

Just a quick little cartoon in my composition notebook. 
Drawn with various Indian ink pens, colored with watercolor paint using a waterbrush pen.

Scribble Doodles: Holiday Wreath

Oh yes, I am still playing with my Scribble Doodles! books.  This is a page from my Scribble Doodles Christmas book. 

I have been working so much lately, it felt good to just take an hour off and make something goofy.  

To see more pages from my Scribble Doodles! books, just click the "scribble doodles" tag below.

ICAD - Index Card A Day Challenge: Days 45 through 48

ICAD Day 45: Word Play - PITT pens.

ICAD Day 46: Lighthouse - PITT pens.

ICAD Day 47: Monochromatic - Collage of printed papers and clippings, with punches, doodling, paint pen and glitter glue.

ICAD Day 48: (off-theme) Christmas in July - Collage of printed papers and clippings, with punches, doodling, and fibers.

More info about ICAD can be found here: http://daisyyellowart.com/icad-base/
Be sure to visit the Flickr ICAD group to see what others have created! 

Gift Tags : Free Download and Print

One year I ran out of gift tags, and whipped up a few for my gifts.  I was looking through some old files ... and here they are!

  

this one is great for a sweater, hat, mittens, socks, etc...:

 

this one makes a good tag for a pet gift:

and here are a couple general purpose tags:

 

Anyhow, feel free to print these tags to use on your gifts. They look great printed on brightly colored paper.

Here is a PDF file with all of the free gift tags to download and print:
http://hobbyloco.com/graphics/CASgift_tags.pdf

Merry Christmas!

Christmas MailArt: Sent & Received

Here is one of the handmade Holiday postcards I sent out this year: (made from printed scrapbook papers, flower shaped punches and glitter glue)

I received lovely handmade postcards!
from Terry:

and Bonnie:

From Sue I received gifties of Christmas slide-mount art:

Merry Christmas!

Scribble Doodles : Snowman

I am having a lot of fun with my Doodle books!   When I flip through them, I am filled with so many ideas.

This is another page from my Scribble Doodles Christmas book.

The thought bubble was blank with the prompt "What is this person thinking right now?"

PS. It may be to small to see here, but I drew the carrot with a bite taken out. (oh no!)

Scribble Doodles : Christmas Candy Cane

This is a page from my Christmas Scribble Doodles book.

Doodled with Staedtler Triplus fineliner pens ...
I gotta say, this took FOREVER!

Anyhow, I like how it turned out. Kinda' busy and crazy. Just like this holiday season has been so far.

Hope you have a happy, busy, crazy kind of Christmas!