Sketches with Snowy and Hedgy

 I’m back with some more Christmas cards…..

there were some challenges I liked the look of, 

and it was a chance to get some of my old wooden Penny Black stamps out.

Penny Black Saturday challenge is for pastels or anything goes.(AG)

Christmas Kickstart #109 wants “brimming with style” ,

Jingle Bells “vintage” (my vintage stamps)

so out came snowy and Hedgy……Snowy has his hat on.

For a long time I’ve wanted to try some sketches that I’ve admired from Jules, Always with a heart.

I expect it will get easier with practice, I’m not sure I have anywhere near Jules talent!

(She even stitches hers together, and they are so pretty)

It was nice to have a plan though, rather than just adhere the image to a plain background.

(Sketch 24)

I used retired SU papers, and an old hunkydory sentiment, coloured with blend pens.

I did flip the sketches from portrait to landscape, to fit with my images.

Next up, the same stamp with some more old SU papers and an old SU card blank.

I did faux stitching with a fine tip pen.

(Sketch 22) (again flipped to landscape)

ABC Christmas challenge has ‘H’ for Hats, ‘I’ for image only

Peace on Earth #109 has a mood board, I focused on the red scarf.

I used lots of snippets of papers and white card scraps, so I’ll also visit the

Snippets Playground #530 !

I have a few more wooden stamps, all with hats, so watch this space 😂

Thanks for taking the time to visit, and I really appreciate your comments

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Snowy and Hedgy

 I’m back with yet another old wooden stamp, gifted from a friend,

and again two cards, one on white, one on crumb cake.

I really like this one, I did make a mask, then blended some ink for the background, 

and stamped some old SU snowflakes.

Next, I used a white pen for snow, and underlined the sentiment using the same pencil I used on the image.

I’m taking these to ….

Penny Black Saturday challenge  (AG Christmas)

Moving along with the times (winter animals)

Four Seasons ( AG, Winter mood board)

Peace on earth #53 (AG Christmas)

NBUS challenge (never before used schtuff……it’s an old stamp again, but new to me)

I’m really enjoying using these stamps, that have been in a friend’s cupboard for some time,

and I’m going to share them with some more of our friends, so they’ll be more loved than ever 😍

Have a great day 

Lesley

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