Christmas Angel Digital Stamp

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around my house. I've been crafting Christmas themed goodies all week long.

I made an awesome advent calendar for my little guy. 

Each drawer contains a hot wheel. Every night he covers his eyes and peeks through his fingers while I pull out that days drawer. It's so adorable, and so much fun.

And Christmas has been inspiring my drawing too. I've made one holiday themed illustration after another this week.

I decided to go with a beautiful angel to post first. Last year I drew and angel and it was one of my favorite pictures all year long. So this year I decided that we need to make it a tradition and have at least one angel every Christmas.

Angel 2013 Cuddlebug Cuties

Angel 2013 Cuddlebug Cuties

Enjoy coloring and crafting with Angel 2013 but please give me, Anna Stillwell at Cuddlebug Cuties, credit for drawing her.

Have a wonderful day everyone.

 

Hugs,

Anna

Humble Beginnings

While holding my breath and with trimbling hands I hit publish on my first blog post on July 6th 2012. Putting your work out there for the world to see can be a very intimidating experience.

I had been collecting illustrations in a tiny little drawing journal.

My first digital stamp, Hannah, was actually drawn to be a little under 3 inches.

I treasure this little book, as it has many great memories kept between it's pages.

 

The following digital stamps are a handful of my first. I truly hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

 

The last image, of a beautiful angel, is a brand new picture.  It was something that I was toying with then put away for later and was completely forgotten about. It resurfaced while I was searching through the pages of my book and I felt that now was a great time to share it.

 

These digital stamps will be avabile through Sunday the 24th, then they will go back into the vault until the holiday season. Then, I will reopen my Etsy store to collect donations for this years book drive.

 

 

 

Angel Bella

 

Angel Bella Cuddlebug Cuties

 

 

Enjoy coloring and crafting with these digis but please give me, Anna Stillwell at Cuddlebug Cuties, credit for drawing them.

 

Hugs,

Anna

Angel

Hi everyone,

I have all kinds of stuff for this post;

we'll have a Nov. candy winner

new Dec. goodies

and

a new digi

But first I want to welcome all of our new members.

I'm so happy each and every one of you stopped by and joined.

Feel free to stop in anytime and say hi.

Big hugs to all.

Now the moment you've all been waiting for.

November's Winner

#31 Chris from My Inspirational Journey

Congratulations!!!!!!

You are the winner!!! Send me an email with your address and I'll get your new goodies shipped off to you.

cuddlebugcuties@gmail.com

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Now for Decembers blog candy. 

I went out shopping for some goodies. I kept thinking that I wanted something big, a nice assortment of toys to celebrate my 6 month blog anniversary. I found a great set of Basic Grey items and bought one of each and then a few other items that I thought would look great with the collection. 

Completely ecstatic over my find; I went home, sat at my art desk, glanced up at my wall calendar and realized something

It's my 5 month anniversary, not 6. Whoops...

I don't really want to wait until next month to start this giveaway, so instead of celebrating my half a year of blogging we'll have to pick something else.

How 'bout this: 200 members

Yay!!!!

Cuddlebug Cuties December Candy

Here's what's included:

• 1 paper pad (6X6, 36 sheets)
• 1 set of layered trims
• 1 package fabric and button stickers
• 1 package felt cupcake stickers
• 1 package layered stickers
• 1 package journaling cards
• 1 package rhinestone accents
• 1 rickrack ribbon 

If you want to be entered in the December Candy Drawing all you have to do is be a follower and add your name to the link below.

I'd love it and would be very grateful if you post a pic of it on your sidebar, but it is not required to enter.

 Good luck everyone.

 And now for the new digi.

Five months ago when I started my little art blog, one of the first thoughts that I had was; oh I can't wait to draw an angel. Christmas will be prefect and it'll give me time to decide exactly what I want her to look like.

I knew I wanted lots of flowing hair. Something that looked like it defied gravity.
And then the wings. So many possibilities. Lots of feathers, bubbly, tucked in, huge and fanned out, my list goes on and on.

Angel Cuddlebug Cuties

In the end I chose lightly feathered and curved. I love the dimension of them.

Angel Cuddlebug Cuties

Enjoy coloring and crafting with Angel but please give me, Anna Stillwell at Cuddlebug Cuties, credit for drawing her.

 

Here's my marker list:

Copic

Skin: E50, E21, E51, R00, R01

Wings: BG70, B41, B93

Hair: E41, E42, E43, E44

Dress: BG70, BG10, BG72

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

Hugs,

Anna