Ornament 2015

We are going for a record today our temp right now are 58 degrees and in Wisconsin this does not happen so far this has been the warmest December on record. Welcome everyone it is time for The Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge and the twist for this week is to make a Christmas card/project. I decided to make my ornament as I make one every year for the grandkids and I have never made them a shaker ornament. I do have to tell you I had more glitter on me and all over my craft room but everything sparkled. Our Sponsor for this month is Besties and the image I choose to use is Holiday Fun  Image 029.
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Spellbinder 2011 Heirloom ornament is what I used as the base for the pattern. I cut out several scrap sample to work with.

I used Suze Weinberg’s Beadazzles Disco Ball (silver) and the Christmas mix for the ornament area.

This is Impression Obsession Holly die DIE098-A and I added size 11 red seed beads for the berries.

Adding the snow, stampendous fan-tage crushed glass silver and gold. Then putting on the transparency.  I had this Christmas trim in my stash and thought it would make a nice frame.

Cut out the shape of the ornament using a strong designer paper to give it a strong backing. I traced the shape of the ornament on flat Styrofoam and cut it out with an craft knife and the left about 1/4” edge around the ornament to make the frame.

Here is a side view. I added some snow to the edges with glue so you could not see the Styrofoam. I also did that on the inside by adding glue and them adding some snow. The snow I used was from the Christmas department at Michaels.

These are the copic markers I used to color my image. Here is the close up of the Holiday Fun  Image 029.

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S is for SNOW

We are starting a new month can not believe it is December already and almost the end of 2015. We are staring The Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge and the twisted for this week is “winter” and for the month of December we have a new sponsor and it is My Besties and the image I choose to use is called Image 179.
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The designer paper I used is from Die Cuts with a View and it is the Winter Solstice stack. The snow is from Aleene’s True Snow, but you can get it at Michaels or Joann’s stores. Added Twinklets dianond dust to add some sparkle. Used Spellbinder Nestabilites labels 40 to cut the image out. Impression Obsession Pine Tress DIE 084-V, Impression Obsession Mini Pine tress DIE217-E, Memory Box Blissful Bundle and the Holly Flourish. The snow flakes are from Martha Stewards punch called snowflake, 

Stop by and see the other designers cards everyone did a wonderful job.

Love the way the snow and the diamond dust looks. Adds a nice touch.

Used some Stampendous stickers to add to the snowman. The snowman picked up at Hobby Lobby in the ribbon department.

The sentiment is from TLC Creations. This is the way the inside turned out.

These are the copic markers I used to color the image.

I know this look a little different but I did not like the way the eyes looked when I took the close up of here head but her eyes looked good from the side view. I did use some glossy accents on them so the one eye looked shinny and I did not like that so I split the head and the body.

The body looked fine when I took the picture straight on. So hope you do not mind.

Thanks for stopping by. Love for you to join us and see what you can come up with. Have a nice week end.
Sherri Baldy's My Besties Challenge Christmas

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.