Over at Creative Carte Blanche, the design team is thinking "COLD"! To paraphrase Susan Mostek, we are to celebrate the cold (but look forward to milder temperatures), Think of Winter landscapes or Winter fun ...
Since we have been sitting in a pocket of Arctic cold --- with the occcasional snow flurry from Lake effect snow (coming from Lake Michigan, yet --- MILES away), I find it hard to "celebrate" cold of any kind. I am no fan of ice on the sidewalks and roads which is what happens arund here when we get these Alberta Clippers passing through. But I have to admit, it can be pretty - for a white - when it snows. Not so nice when it thaws and certainly not so nice when it startes getting that slushy, grey icy look --- but when it first snows...
Yes, it does look like a winter wonderland around here at times:
Since we have been sitting in a pocket of Arctic cold --- with the occcasional snow flurry from Lake effect snow (coming from Lake Michigan, yet --- MILES away), I find it hard to "celebrate" cold of any kind. I am no fan of ice on the sidewalks and roads which is what happens arund here when we get these Alberta Clippers passing through. But I have to admit, it can be pretty - for a white - when it snows. Not so nice when it thaws and certainly not so nice when it startes getting that slushy, grey icy look --- but when it first snows...
Yes, it does look like a winter wonderland around here at times:
but it often doesn't last and, luckily, we don't often see deer in our garden (my husband would have a heart attack becasue they love love love to eat hostas and daylilies!) Still...
I opted for a winter landscape. First, I stamped a snowy frame around the edges of a scrap of blue card using Versamark, and heat embossed with white embossing powder to create the look of a frosted "window" view (I much prefer winter from indoors!):
I opted for a winter landscape. First, I stamped a snowy frame around the edges of a scrap of blue card using Versamark, and heat embossed with white embossing powder to create the look of a frosted "window" view (I much prefer winter from indoors!):
The stamp was roughly 1/4 the size of the card scrap so I had to do this in sections, stamping, adding powder, brushing off the unwanted spots, heating and repeating...and repeating... and repeating. finally got to where it looked like the card was framed in snowy drifts... Next step was to stamp some snowy pines ( we don't have many of those around here unless they were planted as a landscape feature --- the Great Black Swamp is a deciduous woodland and conifers are rare) and a deer (them we DO have) from the same stamp set as the frame, die cut them, and dry fit them to the card front:
The blue looked a little stark so out came my uniball sigmo pen and the snow started to fall again!
Needed somethig more so out came a new die set, some white-on-white glossy card scraps and my Xyron 500 sticker maker to make a banner for the top of the card. The card front was then mounted on a top-folded white note card, trimmed to fit and:
Products used in making this card were:
I'm also entering this in the challenges at: Simon Says Stamp Monday "Start Afresh", Simon Says Stamp Wednesday "New Something" and Simon Says Stamp Work-It Wednesday "December 2016", all of which want something made with something "new" and for this card, both the stamp set, the die sets and the Archival "Potting Soil" Ink were freshly opened just for making this card.
- Stamps: Hero Arts snowy frame, trees and deer from "Vintage Christmas Wishes: (CM101)
- Dies: Hero Arts "VIntage Christmas Wishes" (DI 313); Thinlits "Holiday Words" (661600)
- Inks: Versamark; Archival "Potting Soil"; Sigmo Uniball Pen "white" (UM-153)
- Embossing Powder: Top Boss "White Regular"
- Papers: Scraps of blue, three shades of green, brown and glossy white-on-white card; Paper Studio Value Pack note cards in white
- Adhesives: Tombow tape runner, Viva Las Vegas "Miracle Tape" and Xyron 500 Sticker Maker
I'm also entering this in the challenges at: Simon Says Stamp Monday "Start Afresh", Simon Says Stamp Wednesday "New Something" and Simon Says Stamp Work-It Wednesday "December 2016", all of which want something made with something "new" and for this card, both the stamp set, the die sets and the Archival "Potting Soil" Ink were freshly opened just for making this card.
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