Category Archives: Stamp making

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!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas! The day is finally here. Just when you think you won’t get everything finished on time, it all falls in place. Played with the brush markers this morning and decided to do a tree. It feels good to play with the materials for the fun of it. It’s not perfect, but trees areContinue reading “Merry Christmas”

Simple Wreath

Today I made two loaves of cranberry bread, a holiday cake, carved my stamp, did chores, and made a lasagna for tomorrow evening. John made his sauce, I added the ground sausage after it was finished for the lasagna. I finally sat down to do my holiday sketch and with a tad of holiday stress,Continue reading “Simple Wreath”

Festive

I started this today but I have holiday chores to do. This is still a draft. I started to add color and didn’t like it. I am going to stop working on it for now come back to it with fresh eyes another day.

Paper Lanterns

We went to Animal Kingdom last week. One of the streets in the back near Asia had colorful lanterns/flags and lights hanging over the ‘village.’ It looked so pretty that I knew I would have to work it into one of my posts. Disney can truly make magic out of something so simple. And today’sContinue reading “Paper Lanterns”