My Animal

Recently discovered the Show Us Your Pussies challenge blog. This kills me - cats won. They beat porn in the number of Youtube views on the internet.
I am no different, I have the cat disease.

I made an anniversary card for my parents:

And a matching ATC, which I am entering into:

• Wicked Wednesday You Animal
• ATC's Mit Herz Diecuts & Stamps
• ATC Around the World Anything Goes

Here is the set that I am entering into Show us Your Pussies Furrything Goes:

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And, having only just found out about more challenges containing animals, I am also entering this duet into:

• Dragonfly Journeys Soft Kitty, Warm Kitty
• City Crafter For the love of pets! Of course it's all for the love of pets - why else would I make up a crazy anniversary card like this?
• And, since I have an anniversary card, I am entering C.R.A.F.T. Love/Valentines/Anniversary

And here is something else that's cute - I made a little 3-D envelope (envelobox) for the ATC:

ATC cat going into the envelope

ATC cat inside envelope

Hearts ATC

A new challenge topic on Wicked Wednesday - Hearts. I have an ace of anatomical hearts:

First for the Year

Happy New Leap Year to all!

I'm starting a new collection this year - 52 ATC's and 52 tags. I play along on TagTuesday, so check it out for some nice art.

My first ATC for the year is for Wicked Wednesday ATC, where the theme is Make it Sparkle:

As the Hamsa base is die-cut, I am also entering it into an ATC blog I just discovered - ATC's mit Herz, where the month's theme is Die-cuts & Stamps.
And taking part in ATC Around the World's theme Anything Goes with Option Owl. If I misunderstood, and an owl must be present, please delete my entry.



I have recently discovered The Male Room challenge blog. Joining in the Anything Goes theme with a quilled piece I made for my dad's birthday next week. The symbols represent health and longevity.

Last and Next

And so we've come a full circle again. Where to from now? Every Inchie Monday says Next.

And here are the 52 weeks of inchies throughout 2015:

As I am saying goodbye to 2015, I am saying a temporary "see you later" to my beloved inchie blog. Trillion, crafter mates, thank you for our awesome time together.

It's a "see you later" because I want to go for a bigger format next year. I will concentrate on ATC's and tags. As nothing is permanent, after a year, I might come back. Nothing, however, is keeping us from staying in touch. See you soon.

Moo Mania & More, as their last theme for the year, have Anything Goes. 2015 started off with 'anything goes'. We come full circle. So my final Moo is a withered version of my very first Moo, which you can see here. Seeing out the old 2015. See you later, Moo mates. I may make the occasional comeback, as I know you welcome other formats.
Here are the 26 Moo's. These are also my paydays :) I see money in the bank in the morning a a new Moo theme in the afternoon. May money appear in my bank account every time Moo Mania & More publish a post  :)

Here's the detail:

See you in the leap year.

Happy 2016!

And so it goes........

The second last EIM word for the year is Evolution. I am on the verge of the last phase of this evolutionary scale  :)

Moo Mania & More have Christmas as the theme this fortnight. Being Jewish, this is how I celebrate this holiday:

And some more practice on my iPad:

Oil paint effect

Another attempt at gem effect

And, again, gem effect

Zentagle

The drawing is completely mine. Materials used:  Smooth drawing paper, inking pen, gel pen graphite and colour pencils, markers, stump and tortillion, oil paints & brushes, palette for colour mixing. eraser. None of these materials used specifically here exist in the physical world, only on my iPad.

Locomotive and a chain of other stuff

Locomotive is the keyword on EIM this week. Here is a locomotive road sign.

I am joining Wicked Wednesday ATC challenge this week. Their topic is "Add Antlers". Mine is a Hannukah deer, with 9 candles.

As per the last Diva challenge for the year, here is a gift of zentangle to myself - my iPad Pro with the magic Apple pencil. All drawing is completely electronic, done on my new iPad using the Apple pencil.
Doesn't matter that the lines are awkward and wonky. I am learning how to hold this pencil, how the art program operates.

And an attempt at a water drop on the iPad:

And my first attempt at gem effects........   all still on the iPad. Everything below the deer is done completely electronically.

My second gem attempt:

I'm in Love!

Not so pretty, a bit awkward and totally, completely electronic.
I got the iPad Pro together with the Apple pencil. This is my very first attempt - for the Diva challenge 247.

Here are some more attempts:

I'm off to get the pro version of this art app.