Letterboxing with AdventurousAcorn

We are two weeks into the Instagram Carving Challenge, #Carve December! For this past week, the prompts have been Energy, Thorny, Smelly, Drifting, Rough, Thoughtful, and Baroque. Check out the final results below! For day 8, the prompt was Energy. I immediately thought of our new puppy that we picked up this past week, Freya. She has so much energy, and we love it (and her). For this stamp, I decided to carve a golden retriever head and stamp it in Gold. It's a simple image, with deep meaning. For day 9, the prompt was Thorny. Perhaps it was a lack of creativity to carve thorns for the prompt thorny, but it's what ended up happening regardless. This image was supposed to be way more complex than it ended up being. We were traveling this day, and I didn't have my ring light to help me see, so I simplified it enough to get the image I wanted, but it's still complex enough that I'm proud of it. For day 10, the prompt was Smelly. I ended up carving a dragon-breathing f...

Carve December, the Instagram carving challenge hosted by Julie Balzer, began this month, and we're already a week in! the prompts this year, are pretty good. They give a lot of opportunities for different types of carves, and I find myself carving things that I wouldn't normally carve. Some people don't like the prompts, but I do because it's more fun to see what everyone creates when we're all making art from the same prompt. For day 1, the prompt was "Gentle." The hardest part of this prompt was the first things that came to my mind were things that weren't gentle, then I got in my own head and couldn't come up with something gentle. That is until I decided I'd do something that fell gently and came up with a feather. Once I carved a feather, I was going through my box of inks and came across my Distress Ink pad, Peacock Feather, and decided to use that. For day 2, the prompt was "Metal." Honestly, when I read this prompt, I couldn...