Let it SNOW

A wonderful December to everyone and welcome to another Scrapy Land Challenge #31. Scrapy Land challenge is Bi-Weekly and ends Dec 15, 2015. Only requirement is that you use any die that Scrapy Land sells in the store, and it would also be extremely helpful if you would list the brands of dies used in your project. The winner will get a $15.00 gift card from Scrapy Land. The theme for this challenge is “Anything Goes”. The sentiment on the front is from Stampin up set Heard from the Heart.

The mini snowmen are so much fun. I added the scarfs and the arms. But some black ink and orange ink in for the coal and carrots. Found a couple of snowflakes I had punch out.

                  

          Cardinals DIE333-H                  Memory Box Mini Snowman

Town Scene from Impression Obsession DIE082-N

This is what the inside turned out to be.

Sparkle paper used to cut out the Christmas lights. The card stock on the inside I found in with the scraps.

Colored the letters with Wink a Stella inks yellow, red, black, green, clear and orange. A little BG10 Copic marker for the snowman head.

This is how I made my card. I really like using Brilliance inks because they have a softness about them and they do blend together nicely.

These are the Brilliance inks I used Coral, Sky Blue, Yellow, Orange, Mediterranean Blue, Graphite Black and Beige.

Impression Obsession, Fern DIE215-E.
Impression Obsession, Cardinals DIE333-H.
Memory Box, Mini Snowman

Impression Obsession Town Scene DIE082-N.
Impression Obsession Christmas lights DIE099-K.
Impression Obsession Santa in his Slide DIE081-O.

Aleene’s True Snow you can pick that up at Michael’s stores or Joann’s Stores. The Twinkle's Diamond Dust to add more sparkle. Cut out several of the dies with sparkle paper.

The size of my card is 5” by 7”. So my work surface on the card stock I made 5 1/2” by 8 1/2”, you always want to make that area bigger them your card area. What I did here is made a line. I do not want to go below the line with my ink.

Always start with your lightest color. So I add the yellow first. Whatever way you decide the raises to go make sure you ALWAYS go in the same direction throughout your card.

Now add more of the other colors in different areas but going in the same ANGLE. I could of done my raises on more of an ANGLE, but was not thinking. How deep your colors are will decide how bright the raises are. Remember you do not want to make mud! Your fingers can get pretty messy when you do a lot of sponging.

Sorry I cut off the edges before I took the picture, so I placed them on the sides so I could let you see what it looked like. You will see how nice this will turn out.

I cut the sides off and you can work some of the lighter colors, that will help blend the colors nicely. You might want to add some of the dark (Black) to the edges but be careful not to do too much as you will loose more of the pretty colors and you want to work from off the paper (outer edge) in word on that Angle.   

Take a strip of scrap paper an place it on the lower bottom. The Stampin up stamp is called Lovely as a Tree and stamped it several times going across the card stock.

Now I have removed the scrap paper. Used to make some stars was Gelly Roll white star.

Adding the snow on the bottom

and then the Town Scene with the other embellishments the card starts to take shape.

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and it is something you can do. If you need any help let me know or have any questions please ask. The scenes are unlimited and they make wonderful masculine cards. Thanks for stopping by.

Halloween past

I want to wish all my followers and friends a wonderful Thanksgiving. I hope your day is full of joy and happiness. God bless everyone!

I know Halloween is over and what was I thinking??? The Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge has started and the twist for this week is Anything Goes. Our sponsor for this month is Ppinkygirls so this is a good time is use the image I choose to use and the name of the image is “Moongirl and Owl”.

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The papers used are from my scraps. The Spellbinders die is called majestic labels twenty five. The bat is from Martha Steward punch. The Happy Halloween sentiment is from Fimolas.

Pumpkins are a Fiskars punch. The cat is one punch from Carl.

This is the inside of the card and I love the sentiment it is from Kenny K. Sponged some distress ink color dusty concord on the edges.

These are the copic marker used to color the image.

Here is a close up of the image. I did the background with chalks and dotted some white on the back to kind of look like stars.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope your day is wonderful full of family and friends.

Touched with wonder and filled with love

Welcome everyone it is time for The Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge and for this week the twist is to make a card with something that has “WINGS”. For the month of November our sponsor is Ppinkydolls and the image I choose to use is called “Christmas Angel”.

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The paper is from my scraps.

The tiny snowflakes are made from Fiskars mini lever punch. The die cut used to cut out the image is called spellbinders gold labels four.

The die for the Trees is from Memory Box called Sketch Tree. Added some red stickles and mini snowflakes.

The flowers are made using Fiskars small and medium flower punch. I used some blue sparkle paper I had in my stash. The greenery is made from Martha Steward branch punch. Added Stickles xmas red for the centers od the flowers. Behind the flowers is the Spellbinders shapeabilities sparkle.

Added some pearl swirls to the bottom. The inside of the card. The ribbon is from Joann’s store. I embossed the blue card stock with the cutterblug folder snowflakes. The sentiment is from Penny Black clear set called Believe.

These are the copic markers used to color the image.

Here is the close up of the image. I added some red beads size 11 to the tree.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a great week end.

My Beautiful Life

Welcome everyone to my blog, it is time for Scrapy Land Challenge #30. The theme for this challenge is Monochromatic using any brand of die Scrapy Land sells. Scrapy Land has over 40 brands of dies. You can see them here. Please link your project back to Scrapy Land Challenge blog. We have a bi-weekly challenge so it ends on Dec 1, 2015. You have a chance to win a $15.00 gift card from Scrapy Land. We are on Facebook so if you would like to join us.

 

I love the paper I used it is from Die Cuts with a View and the stack is called Gilded paper. Love all the gold the paper has in it. The sentiment on the outside came with the paper stack.

The die used on the inside and out:
Creative Expression Sue Wilson French Collection, corners, tag and border.
Creative Expression Sue Wilson Petite Vinery.

Closer look at the top area.

Used some delicata golden glitz ink on some of the leaves. The flowers came from my stash. had several of them.

Added one of the flowers to the inside. The sentiment came from The Angel Company. The delicata gold looks a little yellow here but I think it is the lighting.

I just love this corner die it is so beautiful. Had a couple of the petite vinery left over so added them to the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Want to share with you a small tutorial that one of the guest designers posted on her blog, great idea in getting off all the small pieces of paper that stays on the dies.