More Christmas Doors - From the Lost and Found, er draft not posted file

Holey, moley.  Well, what a surprise was this that I found unpublished.  Six of the 25 Doors of Christmas that were in draft status.  I know I managed to get them on Instagram, but forgot to write them up here.  Oh well.  Better late than never.

I have all the fixings to make that snowman wreath but didn't get to it..... yet.  Snowmen can stick around for the most of the cold months, not just December, right?

I think I would love to drive through a little town like this.

The little gnome is waiting for an invitation into the owl house for the Christmas party.

I will be on the lookout for an old clock with a door to make a little scene like this one.

This was the precursor to the dancing gingerbread.

This seems like fantasy, but I actually got the idea from a real "goat shed" I saw on Pinterest.  Figured the reindeer would be a little more appropriate for this time of year.

All but one of the door drawings was done in a circle.  I was thinking that a few of them might be done as ornaments in felt, or little paintings.  One more thing to add to my To Do list for 2021.

The Last of the 25 Doors of Christmas

So I was able to complete 20 of the 25 doors of Christmas - 21 if you count the door on the gingerbread bird house we made.

I used this as my Christmas blog greeting.

The box part of these 3-D ornaments had been sitting on my work table for the longest time.  I found the little stamp set that went with it and the dies.  The problem I had was that the dies, or it could have been the stamps, were backwards.  I wound up fussy cutting the figures.  

Thanks to Alexandra and Michael for a fun challenge that provided a little bit of creative relaxation and a lot of creative thinking.  

Five More Christmas Doors

 I've missed a couple of door days here and there, but I still have some to share.

There's a little magic going on in the oven here.  The gnome is checking on those gingerbread cookies that were on the counter the last time.  They are coming alive in the oven and dancing away.

 

So I posted this for the door of the day but it was actually something that I had done in the past.  I meant to put it on paper to share it, but didn't get the chance.  It was designed and hand painted by me.  It's meant to be our house.  We have a few less trees in the yard now since this was painted.

This was inspired by a picture of a tree (house) that is somewhere in Lithuania.  I used gel pens on this to try to make it sparkly which was hard to capture in the photo. 

And this was inspired by a gingerbread house I saw. I opted for white houses with white and green trim.

A cake I saw inspired this one.  In the inspiration photo, those little houses are made from gingerbread.

We'll have to see what comes this week.  I'm running out of ideas.

25 Doors of Christmas 2020

Some time ago, I participated in a weekly challenge called Scribble Picnic facilitated by Michael McVean.  He and his wife Alexandra moved on to use Instagram as their platform of choice and last year around this time I tried to keep up with their 25 Doors of Christmas challenge for the month of December.  I didn't get very far with it then, but hope to do more of it this year.  Here you will see the first 5 days of doors.  I haven't put pencil to paper for a few months - the desire was there and it wasn't.  I think I've been in the art doldrums.  Hopefully, this will help get me out of them and back into using up these art supplies that I've been accumulating all these years.  I am continuing doing them in an off brand 5 x 7 sketch book with Prismacolor pencils.  Most of them have been inspired by doors/scenes I've seen on Pinterest with changes in details, colors, etc.  The last one with the cardinal is an original design.  

If you have an Instagram account you can check out the other daily entries by using #the25doorsofchristmas and can see other original artworks by Alexandra @alexandrasillos and Michael @itsrainingmarmalade.