Category Archives: Christmas

Carve December Day 6

I don’t know why it never occurred to me to draw a partridge in a pear tree. While I was growing up, we had these partridges and pears that we put on the Christmas tree every year. My mom had picked them up from Sears “on the Boulevard,” which was the flagship store in Philadelphia.Continue reading “Carve December Day 6”

Carve December Day 4

Day 4’s prompt is “little.” I decided to make a little kitty based on one of my Kringle Kitty designs. I winged it, drawing the image directly on the Speedy Carve. The nice thing about these small carvings is they don’t take a lot of time. The hardest part of the whole process is gettingContinue reading “Carve December Day 4”

Carve December Day 2

Here is my Day 2 Carve December stamp. The prompt is “metal” and my husband thought a chain shape would be cool. I sketched my shape first in pencil. The speedy carve was a weird shape that I utilized and incorporated into my design. I realized, after I finished carving it, that I could “linkContinue reading “Carve December Day 2”

Carve December

It’s December 1 and it’s the beginning of a new month long challenge. I like this challenge because I get to carve stamps and use them to create some fun patterns. Last year I made random Christmas cards out of bits and pieces of my patterns and stamps. Everyone received their own “one of aContinue reading “Carve December”

Happy New Year!

The last sketch of the holiday season and the last stamp carving for the Carve December Challenge. Stamps also seem to be ‘on the menu.” The full pile created this month… I used the stamp in the sketch.

Fireworks

A little early celebration….. And today’s stamp carving…yesterday’s stamp became a “roof” for today’s stamp.

Sleigh

What’s better than a sleigh with 8 reindeer? A sleigh with 8 cats! Santa’s annual run was over. He’s looking forward to a long rest. This year was stressful. The reindeer went AWOL so Santa had to use the barn cats. The elves all got sick. There was a blizzard over most of North America.Continue reading “Sleigh”

Piñata

The prompt for today is piñata. I chose to do this one in my sketchbook instead of the iPad. I winged this one with materials that I had on hand and used what I had in my sketch bag. Sometimes having your options limited is a good thing. Today’s stamp carving is also an exerciseContinue reading “Piñata”

Cookies

I didn’t bake butter cookies yet this year. I say yet because I still may bake them this week. We’ll see. In the meantime, enjoy my visual version. Also, I was at at loss of what to carve as a stamp today, so I flipped open Julie Balzer’s “Carve, Stamp, Play.” I can always useContinue reading “Cookies”

Mug

There is nothing like a nice hot mug of coffee, tea or cocoa or a cold winter evening. And today’s carved stamp….I am really excited about this stamp that I can use as a border!