A Snowy Layout

This layout features a photo that I took last January when the sun came out after a raging snowstorm!  We had so much snow then!  It could easily be a photo from this January!  We have a lot of snow again!

For the 12 x 12" background I laid die cut snowflakes on the paper and sprayed Glimmer Mist over the top.  You can see the faint shape near the journaling tab.  All the "glimmer" gave my camera a hard time for photographing! 

The snowflakes are covered with crystal glitter.  So pretty in reality! They don't show well either.

I hid my journaling behind the photo.  The photo is fastened to the page so that there's a pocket for the journal card to slide into, leaving just the tab showing.  A little tug on the tab and a journaling card slides out.

I thought this an appropriate post considering we're getting more snow here tonight, with more predicted for the next 2-3 days.  If we get winds, I'll be snowed in or out depending on when they hit.  The cuts between the snow banks are getting very deep.   We've already spent 2 nights at my parents home because our road was drifted shut.  We've been snowed in several weekends, too.  We didn't mind that! 

Check out these Designer's blogs for the Spellbinders "To Die For!!" Winter Release Blog Frenzy which started today:

Thinking Inking - Debbie Olsen

Color Outside the Lines - Donna Salazar

Be sure to enter the contest to win each day's new Spellbinders die templates!

Learn How to Fly

I just created this card for Artistic Outpost using stamps from the Happiness set. I started with the "learn how to fly" image knowing I wanted to stamp & cut out another butterfly to create dimension. Since I wanted to color the butterfly with my Copic markers, I used the Memento Danube Blue for stamping because it's water based & won't react to the Copics. Once I had the main image created, I couldn't find a paper that I liked for the card front......I only have about 3 Iris containers of DP. You'd think I could find something to coordinate!

That led me to create my designer paper. I sprayed white paper with Lemon Meringue Glimmer Mist, then added Patina & more Lemon Meringue. I stamped the small butterflies with Memento Summer Sky, Dandelion, & Bahama Blue. I added the dots & speckles along the edges using Danube Blue, sometimes stamped off first. Voila! a paper with shimmer that looks great with my butterfly!

Across the bottom, I added a strip of the yellow Bazzill Bling under the ribbon. Otherwise the ribbon color washed out over the blue of the paper. The punched edge was created with MS Lattice Arc border punch. The Hero Arts Pearls were colored with Copic B05.

....some of the supplies that I used.

I also used Spica markers, Copic YR04 and Glossy Accents on the butterfly.

I hope you're inspired to "learn how to fly" when you create! Get outside your box & try something new. It's so uplifting to try something different.

Enjoy the beauty of this day!

-judy

Bird on a Branch

I worked with Tim Holtz' Urban Tapestry stamp set for the Fond Memories workshop. This is the card I created. The background color was created with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists Riptide & Tattered Leather. The bird & branch, flowers & spatters are all stamped with StazOn Timber Brown ink. The verse is from Cornish Heritage Farms Motivational Centers set. I matted it with Bazzill Java, added some brown twine and mounted it on a kraft card which was stamped with the spatter stamp around the edges.




In the process of working with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists for that project, I created numerous other backgrounds. Here's another card I created with the same stamps from Urban Tapestry only a totally different background. I used these Glimmer Mists: Hydrangea, Lemon Meringue, Garden Fairy, Lime Twist. The flowers were stamped with various Distress Inks. The branch with the bird and the verse (CHF Scripture Essentials I) are stamped using StazOn Timber Brown.

Neither of these photos really show the beauty of the Glimmer mist.

Enjoy a glorious day!

Create art!
-judy

Time Enough

The butterfly.............

.....has time enough!

I was inspired by the Tattered Angels butterfly frame to create this card along with the Artistic Outpost Happiness stamps.

The frame was first sprayed with Dreamsicle Glimmer Mist. Then I rubbed Memento Rich Cocoa ink over it to add color to the embossed areas.

The background was created by stamping the Happiness scrolly butterfly multiple times using Adirondack Stonewashed ink (I have the original pad which didn't have a name). I started with off-white paper.

I stamped one layer of butterflies without overlapping them.

Then I stamped them again filling in the open space by over stamping.

I rubbed Distress Broken China over the entire paper working on a Ranger craft mat.

The girl is stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa on white paper.

I colored her with Copic markers: B00, E00, E37, R20 YR07

The verse is stamped in Rich Cocoa also. I embossed it with clear. I added a sheer coppery brown ribbon, a brown mat to frame the background and mounted it on a light peach card. The card is Bazzill but I don't know the color name.

Such a fun color combination!

Enjoy!

-judy

A Scrap Card

I created this card one day on my lunch break. I call it a "scrap card" because I dug through scrap papers until I found pieces & colors that I liked. It's been very popular at Fond Memories (my LSS). The background was created with Tattered Angels sprays: Terra Cotta & Forest Green. I couldn't capture the beauty of it in my photo. It has a nice sheen. Japanese Maple is a new stamp from Penny Black. The verse is also one of their new stamps which has "happy birthday" at the bottom of the verse. I chose to stamp that inside. This was one of my quicker cards.......less than 20 minutes start to finish.

Enjoy!

Penny Black Stamps: Japanese Maple, 365 Days
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists: Forest Green, Terra Cotta