November 17th Weekly Post

 Happy Sunday!

I'm posting a little early to match London time.

We've had some gloriously cooler weather this past week and next week we'll get 2 cool fronts promising lows in the 40's (F) !!!

For this gal, anything under 70 means long sleeves or a sweater, so I'll be pulling out a few winter items to wear.

The more important thing is that hopefully some of the vegetation, bugs and critters will get the message to hibernate, if only for a little while.

I'm the guest host this week for Sunday Post Art and our theme is Stylish.

I took the opportunity to use one of my Crafters Companion Scruffy Little Cat stamps that I'd not yet inked up. This one's named Jessica and she comes with the cactus scene.

The sentiment stamps are Autumn Leaves and Pink By Design.

I colored everything with Promarkers.

I stamped another one (appropriately named Chanel as she comes with the perfume bottle).

The sentiment is from an Artistic Outpost Vintage Fashion stamp set.

But as I was finishing coloring her with Promarkers, my neighbor friend came over and just had to have her, begging me to give her those big red cheeks.

I should have taken a photo before doing that instead of after, because I hate those cheeks!

Later, however, when I was processing the photo, I realized that it perfectly illustrated the quote!

Makeup (and jewelry) fashion trends will fade, but the classic black dress (and great perfume) remains the same.

Then again, it was the week before Day of the Dead and my friend is half Mexican. I remembered this 4X6 art I made way back in 2009 (probably for SPA!) using a Gecko Galz digital head image that had those same red cheeks:

So, all's well that ends well, I guess. She's happy, so I'm happy.

😊

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Next, another nephew card to share. I used a Beccy's digital stamp of the horse riders layered on a We Are 3 digital background in PSE that I'd done previously to make some 4X6 art. For this card, I added the text before printing out and cropping to fit the cardfront, then I added the Paper Roses chunky barbed wire die cuts. Simple and masculine. He attends Texas Tech University out in West Texas, so I figured he'd like the scene.

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And last but not least, a birthday card for an online art friend. She likes steampunk, so I used this Gecko Galz digital image and added DCWV Industrial Chic embossed glossy card stock papers, a CAS-ual Friday die cut sentiment and a circle cluster made with Clear Dollar and Avery Elle die cuts and a Wild Rose Studio stamped sentiment.

 

And here are the Splitcoaststampers sketches I used for the greeting cards.

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Well, that is all from me.

I hope you have good weather and lots of fun art time this coming week.

Thanks so much as always for visiting.

XOX