Monday, November 3, 2008

Second post for today! HHC6, Blog Candy!!


If I knew how to add two or more photos and put the text under each one, I would rather do that than post twice. But when I tried once, I could get two photos but they were one after another, even when I wrote the text between them in the Posting section. If anyone knows how post several photos and have the text remain beneath each one, let me know.
But anyhoo, there is another challenge going on at the High Hopes Blog and I am the one who chose the theme. I decided it would be fun to get us all making Christmas cards that used non-traditional colors. I told the Divas they could use red and green but only sparingly, like for a Santa hat, a candy cane, or green for a tree or holly. But other than that, you have to make a Christmas card without red or green predominating. I thought of this fish right away and wanted to make a card using mostly orange and blue. I think he's pretty funny with a fuzzy turquoise Santa hat on!
I used Copics to color the fish and hat, and I borrowed Jeanne's ideas on how to sponge ink on the background for sky, or in this case, water. Thanks Jeanne!
The great news is, if you want to play along, you can join the High Hopes Challenge 6 and have a chance to be selected randomly to win two free stamps from High Hopes! AND the High Hopes Hop is also on again this afternoon! To play that and have ANOTHER chance to win a whole new set of stamps, get hopping through the links of Divas' BLOGS (not SCS galleries) that I have on my right side bar until you find out who it is today (but not til later this aft!). EDIT: The Diva doing the HH Blog Hop got delayed in posting, but it will be up by evening sometime... sorry about that! Life happens to all of us!
Thanks for dropping by!

14 comments:

  1. crissy someone told me this tip a few weeks ago..just click and drag your photos to place them where you want them to be! Easy peasy...when you know how!!!!
    Judy x

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  2. You can do it by editing the html too - just add the photo as per usual, then move the tags to where you want it in the text.

    Love the Dragon+Bird special tweet, btw. :D

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  3. This is so cute, Crissy! I love the fish as a Christmas card! Beautiful coloring as always!

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  4. Thanks guys! I will try what you said and I'm sure one of those ideas should work. Thanks! And thanks for the compliments too.

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  5. Love the 2 xmas cards Criisy, nice and different. Beautiful colouring :0)
    **Hugs** Heather x

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  6. Beautiful card Crissy, The fish looks so cute wearing his hat. You did an amazing job with the background, Hugs, Nikki x

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  7. SOOOO adorable, Crissy. I just love that little fish!! Beautiful painting and I like the way you sewed around the edge. Great challenge this week.
    Take care
    Karen

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  8. Wow I so thrilled you commented on my site.. You have no clue what that means.. You artwork is just amazing! Thanks so much for making my day..

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  9. This xmas fish is just Super Cute!! I love the way you colored him and the background looks Wonderful!!

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  10. This is adorable! I love the turquoise Santa hat!

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  11. Such a fun card Crissy!!!! I love it, puts a great big smile on my face!!!

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  12. Love your non-traditional xmas card. Great embellies/lacing!

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