A Little Edgy...Angels Landing

Hope you're warm and toasty where you are today. We've got rain and winds up to 60 mph...UGH! Then it's supposed to drop temps drastically and snow!! Windchill should be around zero tonight! WoW, I guess Winter has finally arrived!!

Today's Angels Landing DT challenge theme is to Get Edgy using punches or decorative scissors. I chose to be lazy and just punch a border...teehee.

Season's Tweetings was printed on Georgia Pacific white and colored with Copics.

I added snow with my white gel pen then took Stickles over the top. The ornaments have Ranger Glossy Accents over them... Designer Tip: If you're impatient like me and can't wait for this stuff to dry, carefully use your heat tool. It'll bubble up and add texture! (I learned this quite by accident one time, made a lovely looking vase!)

I used my Cloud Template and airbrushed the sky, adding falling snow with my Elmer's Painty Pen. And the border punched with Martha Stewart's Deep Edger Flowerbed. Merry Christmas is from Christmas Verses by Our Daily Bread designs.

Be sure to stop by Angels Landing and see how the rest of the DT got edgy!

Stay warm and safe...and as always, thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Best Made Plans of Mice and Men Often go Awry...

or woman, as this case may be!

Yesterday just didn't turn into the card making frenzy day that I'd planned! Oh well! I have a few more days....right?

Here are a couple I whipped up this morning...yes, whipped.. actually quick to put together. It takes longer to write about them!! LOL

An ordinary shipping tag. I smeared Gesso over it with my finger for a white background. While it was drying, I made my snowflakes.

Stamped in versamark, holographic embossing powder, heat set and sponged with tattered rose distress ink. Then, armed with my trusty craft knife, I cut them out!

Back to the tag...I put a couple drops of tattered rose reinker on my craft mat, spritzed with water and drug the tag through it several times until I got the desired color splotches. Which actually didn't turn out like I'd pictured in my head! So... *lightbulb*...I stamped the little snowflakes and sentiment (Peace & Joy) with versamark, sprinkled with holographic glitter ep and white ep (carefully)...and the heat tool. *lightbulb shatters*... if you remember, distress inks stay wet a long time... makes it nice if you want to emboss something...OR gives you a totally different look than you were trying to achieve! Yes, the white ep stuck to parts of the tag where the snowflakes weren't! But, hey! NO mistakes in stamping! I just sponged some more ink around the edges! Looks like a snow storm.

So, Hobby Lobby had Spellbinders 50% off this week... I HAD to go! I picked up several Pendant dies and an Impressability.

It's kind of hard to pick up on camera, but the base has the Snowflake Impressability embossed on it, then while it was in place I used it like a stencil and Glimmer Misted with Pearl.

The Contemporary Heart Pendant and the Scalloped oval are GM'd too. The snowflake and sentiment are embossed with Enchanted Gold ep.

So, what are your plans for today? Leave room for change cause the day might not go how you think! LOL!

It's beautiful sunny here today! We'll see what I get accomplished!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Windchill 33...Good Day for Stamping!

And getting my Christmas

cards done!

Yesterday's sketch on Splitcoast and this darling Sarah Kay Noel Shepherd. It's colored with Copics, sponged with Distress inks. The layers and Lattice pieces are fauxed...I colored white cardstock with the same Copic as the image.

prism kraft, georgia pacific white, heidi grace dp,
tuxedo black, old paper, frayed burlap
copics, cuttlebug embossing folder, spellbinders lattice pendant, stickles, dauber

I just love these beautiful snowflakes, Peace & Joy, from Our Daily Bread designs. (wish we had snow rather than the rain last night!)

I stamped both snowflakes with Versamark, sprinkled with silver embossing powder and heat set. And cutting out wasn't too bad, using my craft knife...I love my craft knife.

The Lattice Pendant and each snowflake are popped up on dimensionals.

prism nautical blue, iced mint, sei dp, black
versamark
silver embossing powder, heat tool, spellbinders lattice pendant, cuttlebug embossing folders, foam dimensionals, craft knife

Hope your day is wonderful...filled with Christmas music, the smell of cookies baking, twinkling lights and things you NEED to get done! (that last part is for me!)

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Angels Landing Gift Theme

The Angels Landing DT challenge today is gift giving....gift bags, totes, pouches, or envelopes. Be sure to see what the other DT did.

I made an envelope pouch out of a business size envelope. I cut the envelope at 6 inches, and ran it through the Cuttlebug with a snowflake folder. The layers are a Top Note die cut out of DCWV Winter stack then I used it as a template to cut the Prism Blush Red light layer. The purple layer is embossed with another snowflake folder and cut with Spellbinders Labels 9.

For the top, I cut the remaining piece to 1 1/2 inches, and using my white Elmer's Painty pen, painted the edges so the band would stand out. The band is the remaining piece, punched with the MS Snowflake border punch and embossed with Winter Borders.

These cute bears are from the new set, Polar Bear Cubs, colored with Copics. Then I carefully cut them apart so I could pop each of the sitting bears.

I left part of the pom-pom on the standing bear's paw so when it was popped up it would give it more dimension.

Open, it holds a packet of cocoa or anything that size that you'd like to tuck inside! I think I'll give this to our mail carrier.

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Our Daily Bread Blog Hop Release!

Our last blog hop of the

year!!

Can you believe it?!

If you came here from Sandee's blog then you're in the right place, but if you just happened here, no problem! Just start at the ODBD blog.... all the rules are there. You'll want to go in order because there is a special message from us to you, plus you need that message to email Grace (gnywening@yahoo.com) to be eligible for a free stamp set!

Christmas...such a beautiful time of year (I hope we get snow!) Let's remember the real reason we celebrate this holiday... God through his servant Mary, birthed a son, Jesus Christ that we might be saved and live with Him for eternity! And making my Christmas cards this year was so much fun because of these beautiful sets from Our Daily Bread designs! With each one I can send the perfect message!

Today I'm sharing both new sets,
His Gift and Peace & Joy.

I embossed one of the verses from His Gift is silver, layered over this beautiful Dust of Snow SEI designer paper. All the little snowflakes are leftover from the inside, and spritzed with Pearl Glimmer Mist.

This is a tunnel card. You can see a tutorial here. I embossed the large snowflake from Peace & Joy on Prism Cranberry dark, in silver twice, cut them out and put them together. It's suspended on silver embroidery floss and a bead.

The floss is glued down on both sides but not in the fold.

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Now, that one might be a little intimidating for the newer stampers, so here is a really quick, yet "looks like you took all day to make" card.

All I did was emboss the sentiment on Prism Smooth White (Distress ink stays wet enough to emboss), mask it with a sticky note cut in the Spellbinders labels 8 and stamp the snowflakes with Versamark and sprinkle on white embossing powder and heat set. Sponge with Distress inks (Broken China & Faded Jeans), remove the sticky note mask and sponge a little around the edges... emboss with the die... give it a couple of shots of Pearl Glimmer Mist...........and.......Voila! It's ready to slap some ribbon on it and layer it on the card base!

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OooooWeeee, are you in for a treat! I've seen some of what the DT has to show you and let me tell you....IT'S OVER THE TOP FABULOUS!

Before you go, my word is "the",
and you need to hop over to Grace's blog and see her awesome creations!! WoW!

 

As always, thanks for stopping!

Dawn

One More Down...How Many to Go?

I love the challenges on Splitcoast for several reasons, it's an ever learning process and it helps me get my Christmas cards done!

This is another sneak peek at one of the new sets from Our Daily Bread designs, His Gift, being released tomorrow. Be sure to stop by tomorrow so you can see the beautiful DT creations!

This card was done for yesterday's Featured Stamper , Mrs. Boz, and this is the card I cased. (I had to flip it in order to accommodate my image)

This is a gatefold card. It's entirely airbrushed with Copics. I stamped 2 of the image, masking to do the background, cutting one poinsettia out and popping it up over the other. I cut around some of the petals too, shaped them and popped them up a little higher than some of the others.

I put a thin line of Zip Dry glue around the edges and dipped them in Sugar Dust.

Here is the inside...

Card Recipe:
Stamps: His Gift Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Distress Shabby Shutters Paper: Prism Blush Red dark, Spring Willow med, Simply Smooth White Other: Copics, Copic Air Brush System, Spellbinders labels 8, Zip Dry glue, Sugar Dust, Cuttlebug Holly Ribbons embossing folder

Have a wonderful day...thanks for stopping!

Dawn

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like... Winter!

The temps are changing and YES! we have snow forecast for Friday! (ok so it's only a 20% chance with rain before and after..but it's still snow! LOL)

Now that I have my card made for the day (who am I kidding... think I'll just make one? LOL), I can start my pies...mmmm, apple and pumpkin and the rest of my Thanksgiving preparations. I'm sure many of you are doing the same!!

This is today's Sketch Challenge on Splitcoast using Peace and Joy, release date Dec 1, from Our Daily Bread designs.

This is emboss resist. I really hated to cover up the base because it was so pretty! (ok, so you know I'm going to have to do another one! lol)
I started by stamping the snowflakes with Versamark randomly over white cardstock, then sprinkled with white embossing powder and heat set.
Then I took Broken China and Faded Jeans Distress ink and sponged the entire piece. The embossing resists the ink and makes your image POP! (I wiped the piece just to make sure no ink residue was left on the snowflakes)

I traced the sketch over my light table and cut out the curvy strip, randomly stamped the sentiment from the same set, with Versamark and repeated the embossing powder/heat set step.

My layered pieces are plain white using a Copic marker that matched the DCWV pattern paper, the curvy strip was cut with scallop scissors.

I embossed several pieces of cs using Spellbinders Snowflake Wonder and layered them.

I love the challenges...everyone is going to have unique Christmas cards this year...rather than the make 10 of this layout, 10 of that and so on.................boring! LOL

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Okay...so here's one I did yesterday for the Color Challenge. I'm letting you peek again! This is ODBD His Gift, the other set being released Dec 1.

Watercolored with Twinkling H2O's, sponged with Broken China distress ink.

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Wishing you and yours a
Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

It's Sneak Peek Time!

Snow is forecast for my area this week!! If you're a follower of my blog, you'll know I LOVE snow!! And swirling snowflakes is what I want to share!

These embossed snowflakes are from the new set being released Dec 1, Peace and Joy, from Our Daily Bread designs AND, see that cool paper?! That's SEI and it's on sale thru Saturday..yeah! 20% off!!

Okay, back to my stocking. This was yesterday's Technique Challenge  (you'll find the template there) on Splitcoast...it's a gift card holder! Cute huh! (yup, I stitched around the toe and heel with variegated yarn)

And here's the inside...

 

I think you're really going to love this upcoming release! I sure do...sheesh, I say that every time!! That Kelley just keeps coming up with awesome stuff!

Ok...here's a peek from the other set, His Gift. You'll have to wait till Dec 1st to see the entire card.

I'll tell ya, the DT has been making some fabulous samples for you! And we're gearing up for another funtastic blog hop give away too!!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

And We Have A Winner!!!

Congratulations!

Winner of our Angels Landing Blog Hop!

 

jan farnworth said...

i love the polar bears so cute.

November Sunrise

This beautiful sunrise this morning...
the fog laying low in the field

Enjoy your day....GO BUCKS!!!!