Something About Nothing

Day 21- Steampunk-ish? Day 22 - A Tulip from Above  Day 23 - Tulip wreath Day 24 -  A Couple Murders of Crows Day 25 - A day of Peace Day 26 - Roses Day 27 - A Diamond Repeat Day 28 - Random Circle Day 29 - Hexagon Tulip Day 30 - Leafy Hexagon  Day 31- The End   And here are all the stamps I created for Carve December 2018

The theme for Day 15 was "Dicey." Yikes, what does dicey mean? Of course my first thoughts went literal to a pair of dice. Next I started thinking about different dangerous things. I was chatting with my friend, Judy Tucker , while trying to figure out what to create. I doodled a goose, as approaching a goose can be dicey, but her feet were weird. Judy asked if she did ballet, and so I gave her some point shoes! Day 16 was "Fruit." All I had was a black stamp pad so I wrote the name of my fruit on the fruit, just so there was no doubt. I really like this whispy font. When I got home I stamped the lemon out with yellow, and a mix of yellow and orange. Day 17 was Miss Goose staying fit dancing. I think I may need to make more dancing geese. Day 18 was what I am calling a "Moon Flower" because it was created using a moon shape. Amazingly it made it all the way around! Day 19 - Shockingly, the ey...

Sometimes the best plans just don’t work out.  I wasn’t a fan of how this stamp printed for Day 11, so it was put aside and another created. Better. The berries aren't as neat as I had hoped but it was acceptable. Day 12 was a simple weirdo circle garbage stamp. Day 13 was time to add a few more lower case letters to my alphabet. Day 14 found me on a trip to visit my children and grandchildren. I remembered the rubber and carving tools but forgot to bring a ruler and circle stencil. I use these a lot to help me line things up on my pattern stencils. Without them I had to eyeball the design and hope it lined up. Sometimes I surprise myself! Are you following Carve December on Instagram? Lots of great creations!

Woohoo! The alphabet is done! Individually the letters are pretty cool, but the real test is in how they work together. Okay, that is better than I thought they would be, but I do feel the need to create a few more letters. I think I need a few more lower case vowels. But can I say how much I love the word "zombie." And maybe some other letters in lower case. I'm loving everything with that tangled "b." I need an entire alphabet like that. But maybe I wouldn't love it as much? Hmmm  I think I need a break from letters for a minute.  Time to carve a pattern or something. Any suggestions?

I have a big mess of rubber scraps building up from this months challenge. It will get cleaned up eventually. In the meantime, more letters! If you have an Instagram account, you really should be following #carvedecember. There are so many great carvings being done! Did you know you can follow hashtags on Instagram. I think it's a great feature being able to follow people AND hashtags. 

My friend, Anneliese , gave me a sweet little gift to help with my font challenge. It's over 400 pages of font yumminess! And it's egged on my challenge - very tough to stop, especially when I should be cleaning my studio! At this rate, I better come up some words to carve to complete Carve December. Any suggestions? Anyone? *tap tap* Bueller?

Eleven down, only Fifteen to go! Did I mention I am impatient? Maybe I need to do more than three a day? Speaking of impatience, I wanted to see what the letters looked like in words.  Fun sentence, huh? I think I need to do more lowercase letters. Hmmm. . .