God Save The King! And his kingdom! ~ * ~  Coloring pages 2023  ~ * ~

^_^ Yay, I was able to get my oldie laptop to connect to a wi-fi. I won't be able to do it again (it was super slow and took a lonnnng time), but at least I can get you these fun Christmas pages. ^_^ They're a little late for Christmas itself, but most youths are still on winter break and might enjoy having these to do. I also adjusted some of the heart ones for use with Valentine's Day. ^_^

Printable page 241 ~*~ all lion ~*~ all hyena	This is the Christmas craft I promised way back when I posted the 3D heart craft for Valentine's Day and realized it would also make great Christmas tree ornaments. ^_^ I've done these in three different styles: a mix of lion, hyena and snow leopard ; a page with all lions ; and a page with all hyenas. Another way to hang 3D crafts: I was forgetting about pipe cleaners! ^_^ They're especially great for these ornaments. Just place an inch of the straight end of your chosen length inside, like you would for ribbon or yarn. I used metallic pipe cleaners, which might not glue as well as the soft ones, and so put a piece of doubled-sided tape over mine. ~ I don't recommend putting a hole in the paper ornaments to use a regular ornament hook, unless you reinforce that area. When using the pieces individually, another option is to glue a piece of wrapping paper to the back, in lieu of just a plain colored paper, to make the back of the ornament decorative, too. It's also a good way to preserve a piece of wrapping paper that you like. ^_^ It's easiest to glue the picture piece back to back with a larger piece of wrapping paper, let dry, and then trim the wrapping paper to the shape. Remember: Regular glue tends to be too wet for gluing printer/copier paper (makes it wrinkle and may even make marker colors run). Tacky glue is less wet, if lightly applied with a finger or brush, but I usually use stick glue for affixing thinner papers to things - put some of it on both pieces you're putting together, for a better hold.
While drawing the ornaments with the candycane borders, I was inspired to also make this page - and other versions, too, like this "sweet heart" one. (Cookies and candycanes are "sweets", get it? hm, I guess they're all "sweet hearts" then... ^_~) I also made another bonus page by enlarging one of the ornament pictures. ^_^ I have always loved that you can make a heart from two candy canes. Spread some love this holiday season. ^_^ Printable page 242 lion ~*~ bonus pg 67 "sweet heart" ~*~ bonus pg 66 cubs ~*~ Here are links to Christmas pages from previous years: ~*~  2017  ~*~  2018  ~*~  2019  ~*~ ~*~  2020  ~*~  2021  ~*~ ~*~  as well as Christmas cards you can use.  ~*~	printable page 242 - lion
Printable bonus page 67	Printable bonus page 66

Printable page 251	Valentine's Day is right around the corner, so I also created these Valentine's Day pages by adjusting some of the Christmas ones. I needed to get this upload done, and don't know if I will be able to do it again, so couldn't take time to create unique Valentine's from scratch right now. I think these are still cute and fun, though. ^_^ Seems like a good way to use up any candycanes you have left over from Christmas. ^_~ Attach candycanes in a heart shape on a card. Don't put those in the mail, though. ^,^ If they're not protected, they'll be crushed by the time they're delivered... Printable page 251 ~*~ "sweet heart" ~*~ lion ~*~ cubs ~*~
Printable page 251	Printable page 251
I enlarged some of the hearts used in the Christmas craft for a bigger heart pendant, and you can also use them individually on Valentine's Day cards. There are lots of heart cards you can use for Valentine's Day in the GSTK Cards section, even fun pop-outs. There are also links there to Valentine's coloring pages from other years. Printable page 252

Printable bonus page 69

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[I'm not a professional and have limited resources/access; so the image quality isn't very 'clean' on some, but they print/copy fine. I make the printable images to be around 8x11 inches to fill a sheet of regular letter-size paper.]