week 3 Kasia's adventcalendar

Hello and welcome,

here are my interpretations of the final prompts from Kasia's adventcalendar.

The prompt for day 16 was to remind ourselves of our chosen colour palette.

I went for bright colours to counter the dark and gloomy days:

as this is an adventcalendar so something Christmassy couldn't be forgotten,

day 17

Also at the end of the year it is tradition to stand still at your accomplishments 

as well as the things you are grateful for,

this was our prompt on day 18

I am grateful for my family, my health, my home, my passions, the possibilities I have, to be born here and my job.

on day 19 the prompt was presents that cannot be bought with money,

time immediately sprong to my mind

and with time the rabbit out Alice in Wonderland sprong to mind,

finished off with the appropriate quote

there is no time like the present

and no present like time.

As Christmas was approaching, Christmas baubles was our prompt on day 20

day 21 = home

home is where you paint your own reality

Altough I did miss a few prompts I really enjoyed it, 

there are also quite some pages left in this journal,

so I will be focussing on filling them in next😉

that way I will have a finished book.

ice queen

I had a day off today to cheer on my son who had his first fieldrun today, the rest of the day I had some me time in the studio, which is something rare. So I sat down and created this

When I read this week 's instructions for the Craft Barn challenge here I immediately knew I wanted to use my Julie Nutting princess stamp. She would become an ice queen or perhaps the wife of Santa Claus. I stamped her twice, once on a piece of scap paper with skin tones and once on patterned paper  (with snowflakes) which would become her dress. I used posca paintmarkers to color her hair, crown and gloves. 

The background is colored with blue gel sticks, some stamping with purple and pink brilliance ink and some spattering with white acrylic paint. 
I stamped a balloon sled in one corner and in the other heat embossed the words vintage christmas time.
Thank you for taking the time to stop bye.

Christmas journal page

Just a quick post before we head out for the year end celebration.

This is a page in my journal which had smears of paint from cleaning of my brush. I added some scrap pieces of patterned tissue paper (leftover from decorating some wooden Christmas ornaments).

The tree is cut out of a collage from leftovers from my christmas cards.
I cut the tree in pieces and distressed the edges with DI walnut stain ink.
I hung the tree upside down after seeing Carolyne Dube's tree , maybe next year I will be brave enough to attempt this in real life.
I had a leftover ornament (I didn't have enough tissuepaper to do the back) which I turned into this little snowman.

And just added this quote that fitted with my upside down tree:
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

I hope everyone has a nice, festive evening.