It’s the start of a holiday weekend in my country….though with so many states closing back down because of the rampant virus spread and fireworks canceled so people will stay home, I’m not sure just how much of a celebration it’ll be! So I’m making my OWN party right here!
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For Hummingbird Delight I looked up hummingbirds on Google and followed the colors in one of the photos. I’d love to see ones that you make so be sure to tag me so I can see which bird you picked! The no-line ink in the background did a great job of making a subtle background that lets the bird shine through.
Hey Florida! I know you love your Tickled Pink Flamingo birds, and this one is the easier one to color of the three due to the simplicity of the bird’s structure itself.
Hope Sings Peacock – wearing a monacle! ha! Oh the thoughts I had while coloring it. Is that a handle or a chain drawn in the stamp? How is it held in place? Is the bird holding it on with feather pressure around the glass? Or does this bird have opposable thumbs to hold onto a handle!? A girl needs to know!
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I thought I would like the hummer the best, but the peacock has such attitude with his monocle!
We are working tomorrow, so we will probably just grill a little something in the backyard for dinner and then try to keep the dogs from freaking out if there are any firecrackers in the neighborhood- all the fireworks have been cancelled
Hi Sandy, I love all three so I’ll pick the hummingbird because I love hummingbirds. For Canada day all our neighbours went to the edge of our properties and had a drink. At 10pm in the field beside us (where properties are for sale, so no trees) our neighbours let go of some fireworks because in Canada everything was cancelled.
I love the flamingo. I have a yard flamingo in my house that is wearing Mickey ears.
Our town’s fireworks can be seen from most residents yards so no social distancing issues. They are also showing them live on local cable.
Happy 4th everybody.
I love birds, and picking my favorite is hard. I will pick the Hummingbird just because I feed them every day.
I will be celebrating the 4th working one my latest project during this stay at home time. I have the supplies and why not? Love the birds.
Hi Sandy! My favorite of yours is the peacock — I love the monocle! Our fourth will be spent at home, I hope to watch A Capitol Fourth, which is our hometown celebration — so we will be naturally socially distanced this year (beloved spouse and I). We have been quarantining for two weeks so we can see our brand-new grandson next week — Monday!
My favorite is the hummingbird. This weekend”s plan is to golf with my grandson . Golfing is an easy way to be together but stay apart. This is the first time he has been able to come home since the quarantine started back in March so it will be so good to see him.
Love the Peacock as it brought back super memories from living in Savannah, Georgia. They are everywhere and they are conceited lol Many people believe they fan their tails for strutting, but it is a way to show their anger. You are sooo talented and I love watching you create.
I think the best social distancing for this holiday is to do an intimate picnic either as a family or close friend or a few friends and wear your mask except when taking a drink of the wine! Blessings to you and your family for health and safety.
I love the peacock, the “eye” got me, otherwise the humming bird. We are having a Birthday party–for just 4 of us. Our son’s Birthday is the 2nd, his fiance was June 26 and my spouse back in April, when we were afraid to go anywhere and failed to celebrate his day. We will sit at opposite ends of the table, have a BBQ, eat cake and celebrate being alive. If I were to be “creative”, I think a fun thing would be to have a “stamping in July” party, move the furniture out of the way, have everyone bring their own basic supplies and put out Christmas stamps, serve Christmas treats for food. Now if only I had some stamping friends who lived nearby!
Beautiful coloring! The hummingbird is my favorite. In my area we have the ruby-throated hummingbird which I feed. I love the big and bold series from 3C. I only have one right now but think I’ll get the hummingbird.
my favorite is the hummingbird. I love to photograph birds and these little feisty birds are amazing to observe. I will probably enjoy some bird watching on the 4th. great activity and easy to social distance. Hope you have a great holiday!
Lucky us to have your art in our house. I love all of these cards especially the flamingo…so beautiful! I struggle alot being new to alcohol markers and I love watching the videos you make. I love everything you do as a fellow crafter you are so inspiring and funny! You say like it is and share your experiences with us. We appreciate that! Keep up the good work!
Fab cards! The hummingbird is my favorite!
Spending the weekend at home is what I’ll be doing. Too many yahoos in town celebrating the holiday, many who came from out of the area. I do have a very nice local park to go to, so a walk would be a nice way to spend some time and still observe social distancing. I’ll also take some time to tend to the container plants and spruce up my front deck.
Love the peacock. We had birthday parties for the 1 and 3 year old grandkids this spring. A few people visited through the front door. We had lots of fun with the bounce house my daughter rented.
They are all so beautiful..but the flamingo caught my eye. I’m perfectly happy with staying home..lol
Hi Sandy!! I love everything you color, I’m going with the peacock because it’s just so regal and unexpected. We are very low key, will probably see the grandkids and watch other people’s fireworks. Thanks for sharing your fabulous art and how you do it!
Wow I love all three of those? And how sweet of you to choose people to send them to. I adore the hummingbird and love the way that you did the texture with the feathers to make colors that normally “don’t blend” actually blend with the texture. I put don’t blend in quotes, because I saw someone maybe you just put all different inks in a glass of water and they Blended. Made total sense. I’m also a water baby never happier than when I’m at the ocean or some form of water of course I love the flamingo. But if I absolutely had to choose I think it would be the peacock. Yeah there is no pattern a reason behind my logic oh, so don’t even try, you’ll get a headache! I really love the no longer ink background. It just really sort of finished the cards even though you did that first. LOL. Even before covid I’ve hated licking envelopes oh, so I use my water brush to seal them. I’ve been trying to think of a great activity for staying apart while I’ve babbled on. How about Dancing you know a really spaced out conga line. Anyways if I happen to win one it’ll be a wonderful tad bit early birthday card, and if not I hope it brings tons of pleasure to whoever does win them. And I wish you and everyone else the very best Fourth of July possible. Focusing on our freedom even if it’s been somewhat diminished lately still can bring us a ton of joy. God bless!
Almost forgot to answer your second question!!!!! Not doing anything this weekend but I have a family reunion coming up…our 70th reunion!!!!! Fortunately for us it is always held at the beach so hopefully there will be plenty of room for us to social distance and yell at each other!!!!!
Sandy these birds are gorgeous! I love both the Peacock and the Hummingbird…I love their saturation of color! I also love Colorado Craft Co. for their big bold designs! Thank you so much for the give-away!!!
1. I like the peacock simply because the monocle gives her an air of fancy pants and she was a delight to see come alive with your expert colouring skills 🙂
2. reading the bible and journaling! duh or painting and drawing in your studio with a hot cup of coffee and blueberry pancakes!
awww….I’d love a card made by you. So beautiful.
If. Had to choose, it would be the hummingbird. I watch them from my paint table everyday; even though I love them all. Our neighborhood is going to have a golf cart parade with all vehicles decorated with fireworks after. All distance safely. Love all your videos
My mother would say: « give me, give me, never gets! », but I do so want the BEAUTYful hummingbird… it reminds me of a trip we took to Nicaragua, with our dog Brandy (golden-lab-husky mix), we drove from Montreal, Canada.
When we got there it was so hot he was shedding like crazy and all the birds in the yard were fighting for those tuff of fur. But the most ferocious was this hummingbird… it would fit them all off , and they were much bigger then her. And it did that so it could build it’s nest, right there in a mango tree, we watched it for a few days, picking up discarded fur and even fresh greenery… so this card is bringing back that very beautifully and special memory.
I. Ross my finger to win it, wishing good luck to all and congratulations to whom it may be sent,
Sandy, you are precious to all of us! I laughed when I saw the peacock and monocle! And the sentiment! Your sense of humor tickles me! Thank you for all the sunshine you share with everyone. I do not like the sounds of all the fireworks so I’m in the group that dreads the 4th and New Year’s Eve for PTSD sufferers and all the birds and animals that get traumatized from the explosions. I could see those giant squirt gun thingeys that would be lots of fun for people of all ages to socially distant soak each other for some cooling fun on a long, hot weekend. I hope you and G and V have a beautiful time running and playing near a creek somewhere! ♀️♂️
My doggy emojis turned into Male female icons. What up with emojis today? I’ll try smiley
My favorite is the flamingo! I am happy sitting under a shade tree with my feet in my wading pool! They say when you get old you revert to childish things. I’m embracing that theory in my 65th year and fully intend to go deep in the years ahead!
My favorite is the hummingbird. I always love watching how you color and shade your projects. I find it tough to ad that bold contrast in. Since I live in Florida the the peacocks and flamingos are quite common. This 4th we do our social distancing in a neighbor’s driveway. Everyone brings their own chairs, snacks, and drinks. Fun to be able to still visit from a safe distance!
I live in rural Indiana on a farm, so I see peacocks and hummingbirds everyday; flamingos for me! Great job on all of them! As for fun on the fourth we are going for a moonlit walk!
Sandy, I like the hummingbird best. As far as good activities for the holiday. We have a tradition of playing a board game with the kids after the parade. Obviously no parade this year but the kids have already gotten out two board games .
It’s hard to pick a favorite they are all beautiful, but I’m going with the hummingbird. The safe way to celebrate is to have a bar b que with people in your circle that your safe and watch fireworks from your car.
Thank you Sandy for showing us how to color birds! Always love your videos! I am a hummingbird gal❤️ Wishing you well and safe!
Hi!
My favorite is definitely the hummingbird. I love those little guys.
The best way to celebrate safely would be a zoom party but if you wanted to gather then I vote for a park. Like a state park. You can cook out and visit while keeping your distance and wear fun masks.
My favorite of the 3 is the peacock but I like them all! Your videos are excellent. My idea of a fun 4th of July is a cookout with everyone wearing patriotic masks.
My Favorite is the Hummingbird, I love them. Just refilled the feeder…lol. As for social distancing & celebrating I like the drive by parades. You get to make noise and still show up for a quick minute. Thank you for your goodness.
Great coloring of the trio of birds. Since I am currently housed in the middle of a spruce tree forest of Colorado, I will choose the hummingbird as my favorite. (I see them outside everyday; I would love to see one inside my house everyday. )
I would love a card. I made the peacock comment on the video you might google it to see if I’m right , I think I seen a doc on it at some time in my life. I would love to be a paintrent so I’m a go over there to ck it out since I love your classes. Have a great day be safe Anna
That hummingbird…..WOW!!!!! I didn’t really understand what you were saying about the lines….however I watched closely (and will watch again! And again!) and will jump in and give it a try!!! Something that you have taught me is to try and shake off the hesitancy and GO FOR IT! Thanks, Sandy!
Love all of them but the peacock is my favorite! Will be spending the 4th with my family at a picnic, small group so no worries.
I love all 3, but if I had to choose, I would go with the hummingbird! Of this holiday, we will be working in our yard and having a cookout for ourselves, definitely social distancing!
Oh my goodness, Sandy! I absolutely appreciate birds and the way you color so beautifully! I’m having a hard time picking my favorite, but leaning towards the peacock.
We are going to take time to invite some neighbors over for a meal on the patio, turn off all media and focus on all we are grateful for this weekend! Thank you for making such a lovely difference in our world!!
The tickled pink flamingo is my favorite. I say we run naked through the yard sprinkler!!!
I love the peacock. The fourth of july is not a holiday celebrated in the Netherlands, but we did have our national holiday: Kingsday on april 27th. So that celebration was kind of different. Usually lots of people are about celebrating and visiting sort of fleamarkets where everybody clears their attics to sell stuff to other people to put in their attics for next years… this year all celebration were from peoples own homes (even the fleamarkets, but then online), and people showed and shared in the celebrations online, even the King and his family. I thought that was very special.
Sandy, your cards are all beautiful, as usual! If I have to pick a fav, which is hard deciding, I guess I’ll go with the peacock. The monacle and your comments are my deciding factors because the coloring of the hummingbird and peacock are just beautiful, and I love them both so it’s hard to pick a favorite.
For social distancing, I think we need to stick to our family members and not mingle at all this year unless by virtual means. I’m in Texas so staying alive and safe is more important, just saying! Family members are who I’d want to be with anyway. We can grill and look up to the skies (or on TV), and try to keep the doggies calm. It will be close to usual.
Take care and stay safe!
Oh my you did a beautiful job on all I’d have to say I am very fond of blues so hummingbird and peacock get the nod. I love the whimsy of that monocle.
Today is a great day to stay cool inside and watch movies, probably Independence Day with Will Smith doing in aliens and later watch the fireworks from my car we’re we can Social distance in our own cars. Safe but strange is better this year.
I love the Hummingbird!!!! And our answer to this weekend is staying home for a big house project and taking a quieter weekend coming up to head to the lake!!! Bonfire later in evening and smores for our social distancing!!!
My favorite is the hummingbird! I love them so much I even have a tattoo of one!
We don’t celebrate the 4th of july here, but we somtijds play a boardgame with our friends via the laptop webcam. We own the same game and just walk the pieces on the board like they do
Love that colors of the peacock. Such beauty.
We’ll get together on my Aunt’s yard to watch the fireworks. We’ll be sitting at a distance but the ooo-s and ahhh-s will still be the same!!
Have a great 4th!!
Love the peacock. I saw them up close in Haiti, very interesting birds.
For the 4th, we are planning a family picnic.
Wow…they are all Fantastic! Hard to pick a favorite but I am fascinated by the Hummingbirds. They are such small creatures but are so amazingly uplifting & beautiful to see. Just like people, you can be a small speck in our universe but uplifting & beautiful in sharing your talent which is what you do Sandy! I love, love to see all your videos! Continue to social distance as best we can!
Hummingbirds are my favorite. The first time I saw one I thought it was a large bee! We had the sprinkler going on a hot day and the hummingbird was taking a bath in it – oscillating back and forth as the water moved! As for fun activity, I’m hoping the restaurant across the water from me will do some fireworks again this year. I only have to drive to the end of my road to watch, no traffic and I can watch from my car. Heard lots of fireworks in the neighborhood last night already. Have a wonderful weekend
Are boy peacocks more colorful than the girls? Ha – anyway that one is my favorite, because – hey, all my favorite colors! I love the way you worked all that feather textures in with the coloring. Lots of work, but definitely worth the effort. Colorado Craft Co. is getting to be my “go-to” stamp company if I want to get lots of comments from my cards… Those big images are amazing. I’m glad you had fun doing this – I sure had fun watching! Thank you.
Oh my gracious I get so excited when I see BIG stamps and when it is animals of any kind I’m overjoyed!!! The hummy bird is my fave but I love them all!! And the most adorable thing I’ve been a part of was a drive by birthday parade for a 7 year old! Everyone decorated their cars and the music was pumping from his house and all the neighbors were out! It was a delightful new celebration ❣️❣️❣️
Hello Sandy. Your birds are all so beautiful. I really love all of them, but my favorite is the flamingo, because it reminds me of my grandmother. Flamingos where her favorites.
Btw: a monocle is pinched between the cheek and eyebrow. The chain is usually worn around the neck or is fastened to a pocket of the jacket that in case the monocle falls it will not break. Have a lovley day. Caroline
Flamingos are fun to color and you did a great job with this one. So that would be my pick. It’s going to be very hot here in VA so running through a sprinkler is my suggestion for a fun activity!