Twiddlebugs are a species of colorful insects who live in Ernie's window box. While the species was established in Season 2, the main Twiddlebug family was introduced in Season 5. The Twiddlebugs seen most frequently on Sesame Street are a family of four. These Twiddlebugs often find themselves facing difficult challenges, such as taking their car to the zoo or hanging a postage stamp on the wall. Presented with such daunting situations, it would an easy thing for them to simply give up, and ind
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I'm a bit late posting my latest project, for our current challenge. It's my first art journal page of 2019 so in itself a pretty good achievement for me... I'm just taking a little break from packing to share a few more pictures and hope it inspires you too.... I started with a rough plan which I like to just doodle on copy paper, means I can adjust parts that will or will not fit on my pages. I also test colours on this page too. I drew the girl first, stamped and painted her face in watercolours, to keep a softness to her. I was pleased how the background came out, I simply stamped the leaf images in grey distress oxide ink randomly over the page, I had to try very hard not to make a repeat pattern or have the leaves in an orderly design. I then filled in the gaps with dots from the birthday wishes set, I love how you can take elements from other designs, so all your stamp sets can be given a little love. here I wanted to show how versatile the hair templates can be, by simply turning the curly trails in a different direction you can create endless possible styles. I flipped the template over to draw the curl in the gap, and also moved in down slightly too. I also used the fringe from the wavy bunches template. I started with the portrait face but wanted her body slightly angled so use the profile torso and drew her arm forward to create a different shoulder look. I finished off with some doodling on the pink painted background with a metallic posca pen, and hand drew the sentiment which fitted with our theme of new (being a beginner)and fresh starts(first art journal page of 2019). I used a white posca pen to add sparkle to her clothing. Click pics for links Thank you so much for stopping by, I hope you enjoy a wonderfully creative New Year. HuGs Kim x
Oh my, my first tutorial! I’ve been drawing these little Gods and Goddesses for a while now, and my circle sisters kept asking me how I do it. So, yesterday I gave them a little class on how …
Happy paper clay duo, hand sculpted and painted... poised upon a harlequin painted wooden box. Next in the Storybook collection for PFATT.
Margo in Margate. Margo McDaid, is an artist whose simple, graphic paintings and drawings are inspired by colour, vintage shirts, illustrations in children’s books, folk art and outsider art.
A page in my Vintage Time Journal. See more here: www.thekathrynwheel.blogspot.com Made for the Stampotique Designers Challenge here: stampotiquedesignerschallenge.blogspot.com/
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What a wonderful day of teaching at Whimzy in beautiful Tustin, California. And the group of wonderful women that took the class did an excellent job at creating their lovely bluebird boxes (pictures coming soon!). After a fun day of teaching and long night of catching up on overdue sleep, I got up early to spend the day doing a little flea market shopping at the world famous Rose Bowl Market. When I go flea marketing, I am always on the prowl for old books (my inner librarian must have her way). Amongst the many delightful finds, I came across this coincidentally cute book created in 1914 by Thorton Burgess: Jerry Muskrat Wins Respect. I say coincidently, because just a few days before, I put the finishing touches on this friendly frog fellow.... (based upon the old folk tale, a Frog He Would a Wooing Go). Do you see a sort of resemblance? I think these guys look related (even down to the red shoes)! Mr. Froggy was listed on PFATT earlier this month and soon will be happily hopping his way across the country to live with a lovely customer. But in honor of day, I will have two other Valentine's inspired creations, beginning January 13th on Spookytime Jingles. Dish and Spoon in Love Spooky Love I'll be back in a couple of days and have lots more to share about my classes, my flea market frenzy as well as some recent favorite finds :-)
Did you enjoy the sneak peeks yesterday? Today I'm introducing a new old stamp set lol, also with coordinating mixed media templates... Profile Face Mini I designed this set to expand the doll face collection, it is the same as it's larger counterpart just smaller and the set has both direction of faces. It includes all you should need to build a profile face, four eye shapes, three lip shapes with solid stamp too, two variations of iris' and pupils. The idea is, I've tried to be as anatomically correct with the pupil placement in the eyes facing forward, but on the occasion where you may need the eye to look the other way, the ovals pupils and iris are for that. It includes two ear types, tell me you don't need them? Then the usual nostrils, eyebrow and some pretty stars... all that twice!!! The Details: Profile Face Mini Stamp set will be available for purchase on Sat 19th December. The set will retail for £9.00 Profile Face Mini contains over of 70 images, there are iris', pupils', open eyes, closed eye, ears, lips, pairs of ears, stars and even freckles. The images are all separate for more stamping variations. Now you can create smaller profile portraits for card fronts, mixed media use them alongside their larger counterparts for so many more arty possibilities. Next are the Mini Profile Mixed Media Templates These work the same as the larger Profile mixed media templates each hairstyle is broken into steps to make creating portraits easier. They coordinate with the Profile Face stamp set, they are printed or pre-cut from Mylar for durability and ease of use. The advantages of mylar is that you can see through enough if you wanted a specific piece of pattern from patterned paper to use in paper piecing, they are tear resistant and ink resistant. They are also very useful as masks when stamping the face. The Details: Profile Mixed Media Templates will be available for purchase on Sat 19th December. They will sell individually, as well as sets, they will retail from £1.50 up. There are five templates in this collection: a head and torso, Four Hairstyles to choose from... Pony & Fringe, Long & Fringe, Curly Fringe, Wavy Hair. Each hairstyle coordinates with the Mini Profile Face stamp set looking either direction. So, I'm guessing you're really here for the samples... Ok so this is pretty dramatic but I had lots of fun, I was probably inspired by a wonderfully talented artist Caia Koopman, she uses very bold colours and I thought I would give it a try, isn't that what art is all about? Mmmm I heat embossed my art quote, just love that finishing touch. Although if I had another day I could well see lots of extra additions lol! So, I didn't quite create a video this time so much to do for all the festivities round here my time is pretty coveted... But I did manage a slideshow showing a few step when I remembered to take a picture or two. Next is a wood block piece of art, using the mini profile templates alongside the mini portrait templates and face stamps, I just love that these can all work together... not that that was my plan or anything lol! She is inspired by the Goddess Minerva, wise and crafty and I've painted her here with her trusty sidekick Owly. I even managed to paint a little hand for Owly to perch upon, I've used flick & fringe hairstyle, with the thinner Head from Head & Torso, the body from Profile Head & Torso, gosh got all that? Her face was stamped using the Mini Doll Face, still an old favourite. Now if you get a moment do stop by the talented Design team to see the templates and stamps in their hands... Kim Chris Delphine Terri Alicia Thank you very much for indulging me and I hope you will return tomorrow to see our other introductions!!! Enjoy a wonderfully creative day! only nine more sleeps eeek!!! HuGs Kim & the Team x
