Prismacolor Pencils on Kraft paper with Maria Castro

 

I was invited to a coloring challenge on New Years Eve. I accepted the challenge at the 2022 Countdown - Color My Moods Coloring Calendar event on Facebook.

 Every hour she would tell us what color to color the next flower so by the end of the night we would have a finished calendar colored up. I had been wanting to try my pencils on Kraft paper. Since I have been mesmerized by the latest art of Dot Painting Mandalas onto Christmas ornaments that I seen posted on Facebook by a friend I have known 35 years. I also searched this craft all over Pinterest I decided to make the center of my flower a mandala pattern. I am very pleased with the turn out of my calendar. 

I entered this calendar in the “Anything Goes” challenge at

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Challenge Ends January 20th

Winners Announced

Happy New Year from Paper Nest Dolls!

 

Happy New Year!

It seems like a better year already for some reason. I hope it is!

 This adorable little New Years baby is from the Paper Nest Dolls. It was given as a New Years gift. Thank you so much for the adorable image! 

I colored him in copic markers, and I added my own little squiggles for confetti. 

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Top 3 Pick Winner at House Mouse & Friends!

 

#28 Angel B

I won this stamp! 

1.  Cure All Tea 

New Years at Sunday’s Songs & Rhymes Challenge

 

I already had this little image stamped onto a card, so I cut it into an oval shape, dabbled a bit of ink around the edges. Colored with Copic markers. Embossed celebrate onto the front and embossed champagne glasses onto a die cut tag. Added two more tags, and some music notes. I also embossed the banner on the mint and the white pieces. Tied the tags together with a gold bow and dropped some sparkly sequins for confetti onto the page. 

The fun theme this week at Sundays Songs  and Rhymes has to do with the New Year so it inspired me to make a New Years themed card. 

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Happy New Year!

My daughter is going out tonight for New Years so I whipped her up a pair of New Years Eve glasses to take with her! 

Okay, for all you cutting machine users out there; I decided I would tell you how I made these. First off, I searched for New Years 2016 glasses on internet, I found this photo below

Using this photo, I imported into my Silhouette Cameo software; which is what I use most for my cutting machine projects these days. Once I had this picture in my library,I pulled it up on screen and using the trace feature, uncheck high pass filter box and click the trace option. Okay, so you will have a red outlined image similar to the one you have traced. I had to use my erase feature to remove the image of the stick protruding off the side, after it is removed you add in connecting lines to fill the space. At the top tool bar there is a option to offset, be sure you have clicked on image and then click Offset. Two options come up offset and internal offset, click offset. You will now have double red lines around your  image. Click the images and drag one away making sure that it is the original picture that you offset and delete it. You will now be left with your glasses to send to the cutting machine! Woot! 

I used a thick glitter paper and on first try the card stock option did not work, so I cut mine with the chip board setting and adjusted my blade to 5. Cut like a charm, I added the stick and there you have your first pair of New Years glasses for the festivities! Have Fun! 

HM Calendar Jan 2013

House Mouse stamps are some of my very favorite! Over at Paper Craft Planet they are challenging us in the HM & Friends Group to use our HM (House Mouse) stamps to make a calendar to be finished by the end of year to give as a gift next holiday season. In my calendar I added photo corners to a piece of scrap paper so that the months can be changed out using the one page.

Tall Glass of New Years

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