Challenge: Whatever the Weather

3/9/2018

"Whatever the weather!" That's what they are saying over at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog on March 5, 2018.

Well, that's what everyone hereabouts has been saying as well. More or less along the lines of "wait fifteen minutes and it will ..."! So I made a card that reflects what happened in my neck of the woods weather-wise on March 5:

It started out rainy,
The sun came out and shone brightly around 3 PM.
After sunset, it started to snow!

First, I made a basic card base using masking tape and blended Distress Oxides; I basically made three background stripes - a dusky dark rainy day, a bright sunshine day, and a grey snowy night. I sealed the background with Distress Micro Glaze. I added sun rays using scribble sticks, snowflakes using a white gel pen, and rain using a black Fude-ball pen, scribble sticks and a little Wink of Stella. I stamped a row of trees using a Memory Box wood-mounted stamp and some Archival "Jet Black" Ink.

I hand-lettered the challenge title on a strip of black card to finish this piece:

By the way, this weather pattern repeated on the 6th, the 7th and the 8th, and this morning, when I got up, it was snowing again!

Products used in the making of this card were:

Stamps: Memory Box "Linden Allee" (D1318)
Inks: Distress Oxides "Faded Jeans", "Fossilized Amber" and "Hickory Smoke"; Archival "Jet Black"; scribble Sticks "Sky", "Lemon", "Tangerine" and "Turquoise"; Signo Uniball "white"; Fudeball 1.5 "black"; Wink of Stella "Clear" (GL 999)
Papers: Paper Studio "White" (225359); scrap of black
Adhesives: RedLine 1/8" embossing Tap
media: Distress Micro Glaze

1 Comment

Emma link

3/10/2018 06:45:49 am

Very pretty card and thank you so much for sharing and for playing along with us over on the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog... x

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Born in New Jersey, I grew up in Southeastern Ohio. Attended university at Bowling Green State University (B.Sci in biological science, 1964), University of Southern California (M. Sci in biological science, 1967) and University of Florida (Ph. D in zoology, 1971).
Worked in environmental consulting for a little more than a decade and then seven years as an instructor in biological science at various community colleges in California and Texas. Moved to London in 1992, then Beijing (1996) and Saudi Arabia (1998), before returning to NW Ohio in 2002. I am currently living in NW Ohio with my husband and three Bombay cats. I love to read (mystery, science fiction, history) and stitch (have done crewel, currently experimenting with free embroidery and needlepoint but blackwork and cross stitch are my main genres); have been known to knit; and now I'm heavily into papercrafting!
Retired upon the return to the US so lots of time for our hobbies...