myasperations 10-14-23

Early in my career I taught drug prevention lessons at an elementary school in South Dakota. I loved my pre-K through 5th grade students (26 classrooms a week…  or nearly 600 students!) And they loved the few dozen Christmas sweaters that I wore from the day after Thanksgiving to the last day of school before the Christmas holidays. Since I was in my 30’s at the time, my hubby often teased that he felt like he lived with a retirement home escapee! So I had fun using this sweater digi from Alex Siberia. So fun! I used one of my favorite tutorials from artist Anabel Haines (HERE) to add knitted texture to the sweater with just markers and a white gel pen. Easy Peasy!  

Supplies: 

·   Digi- Alex Siberia Design (Christmas Sweaters Set)

·   Colored with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen

·   Tutorial for creating knitted texture (by Anabel Haines) can be found HERE

·   Front Sentiment- TLC Creations Freebie (Merry Little Christmas)

·   Inside Sentiment - We Are 3 Christmas Sentiments can be found HERE.

·   Sparkly Santa Hat Stickers- Hobby Lobby

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends- #215 Alex Syberia Designs

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge- Christmas!

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Friday (Christmas)

Outlawz Challenge- October 2023 Linky

Speaking of texture, a spool of some fun fiber twine that I found at a thrift store years ago was so fun to use for hair on this witchy digi, which is a freebie from Beccy’s Place. Googly eyes add another texture, plus depth, to the card. I used an exacto blade to trim the eye holes, then picked out the right size of googly eyes to fit into the holes… popping up from her face.  Eek!

   I’m entering this card into several challenges including Inspiration Station: Inspiration photo (both the photo and my card features a witch, although the only thing they have in common is that they are wearing pointy hats!

Supplies: 

·   Witch Digi and Patterned Paper- Freebies from Beccy’s Place (Screech)

·   Colored with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen

·   Front Sentiment “Boo” created with scrapbook letters

·   Inside Sentiment- from my scrapbook stash

·   Digi and sentiments are from a Beccy’s Place Digi Set (Gnomes in My Garden)

·   Twine, goggly eyes and all other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Outlawz Sunday Challenge- The Hag  

The Four Seasons Challenge- Fall (Oct)   

Inspiration Station- Challenge #54 Oct  Family Halloween Party

Outlawz Challenges- Monday Greeting Challenge-Fall/Halloween Greeting  

Allsorts Challenge- Week 750 AG (Add some texture)

Park Hopping-My Happy Place (Oct)    Valley Fair’s Tricks and Treats

Beccy’s Place Challenge- Oct   Since I’m a Contributor for Beccy’s Place, I’m entering just for fun!

My final item in this post is a set of bookmarks that I will be giving to a few Bible Study friends. They are precious to me… and I think they’ll enjoy this sentiment (which I’ve had in my craft files for a few decades, so I don’t know the source. If you recognize it and know the source, please let me know so that I can give proper credit.)

     I’m entering these tags into the Path Of Positivity Challenge: Anything Goes (the requirement is that the card is AG… as long as it’s positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging. I feel like the sentiments on these bookmarks fit all of these adjectives. )

Supplies: 

·   Free Gift Tag Templates available on Pinterest. You can find the one I used HERE.

·   Sentiment- Computer Generated and printed on pale blue vellum

·   Assorted snowflake dies, stickers, stamps and patterned papers from my stash.

Entered into:  Monochrome-snowflake tags

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #617-618 Anything Goes   

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog: ATG #263

Path Of Positivity Challenge- Challenge #116 (Anything Goes- Positive)