Good Bye 2009

Time is truly blending into eternity! Where has the year gone?!

The Ways To Use It challenge today on Splitcoast was to use "time" in some way. I thought this scripture from the new Noah's Ark set (being released tomorrow!), by Our Daily Bread designs was perfect!

I used the sketch from yesterday as it allowed me to showcase this gorgeous paper!! It's SEI Juliette Sweet Perfume and the Prism Blush Red light matched it perfectly!

While still in the Spellbinders Labels 8 die, I lightly sponged with Ranger's Tattered Rose Distress ink. The butterfly is a Martha Stewart punch with some Mark Richards pearls.

This gave me another chance to use this gorgeous double-sided paper! Gosh, it's so hard to cut into and cover up!

The Breadsticks will be having a big blog hop tomorrow..be sure to stop by...LOTS of news!!!

Have a safe New Year's Eve and wishing you the best for 2010!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

A Little Zva Bling!

Zva Creative is the product feature this week on the Jacksonbelle Embellishments blog. Lucky for me I got some gorgeous bling in my starter box and could play along!

I made this simple card using Basic Grey Origins and Basic Grey Delta Series, Friend.

I just cut the 6x6 piece in half and trimmed it down a bit, then traced it on a piece of matching solid cs, cut it to fit and put it together. The darling birds are colored with Copics.

Have a wonderful day!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Jacksonbelle Tuesday Challenge

What fun! My first challenge with the Jbelle team, be sure to stop by to see what the other girls did!
The challenge is to use ribbon in any way. Well, wouldn't you know...I don't have any ribbon that Lindsey carries in the store! *GASP*... I hear you all out there!

So, I did the next best thing! Made a paper bow from this cute, double-sided October Afternoon Hometown, Woolsworth.

The image is from Mo's Digital Pencil and the sentiment is from Basic Grey's Delta Series, Friend!

Colored with Copics, highlights with white gel pen, MS border punch and a Prism layer under the Georgia Pacific white. The card measures 4.5x4.5.

Hope you're staying toasty warm! We got SNOW Sunday evening... over 3 inches! Woot! Monday was bitter cold! It's pretty though!

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Noah's Ark Sneak Peek- Our Daily Bread

Hope everyone had a wonderful
Christmas with family and friends!

How fortunate for me that the Inspiration Challenge on Splitcoast today had this adorable wall art!  I had this card done with one of the new sets coming Jan 1 (whoa! JANUARY 1!) from Our Daily Bread designs.

I stamped the image twice so I could cut out the animals and waves and pop them up.Cuttlebug Victoria embossing folder on the Prism Kraft. The Top Note die on DCWV patterned paper and Spellbinder's Labels Four.

It's colored with Copics, airbrushed background, white gel pen accents.

One of the verses from the set, Cuttlebug Iron Works border.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

and Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Merry Christmas Friends

A Little Excited!

Yeah, just a little excited!
(and no, I don't know what I'm getting for Christmas! a laptop? yeah, that would make me excited!! )

I'll be joining the super talented Jacksonbelle team!!
I could have participated in their Tuesday Challenge 

but...can you believe I didn't have anything
in my hoarded stash that Lindsey carries in the store!

Hope this post finds you safe and warm, with ALL your presents wrapped, goodies made...and you relaxing until Friday. YEAH RIGHT!!! giggle!

Thanks for stopping!

Pure Insanity!

I think I've been suspicious of Mel's sanity for some time...today I came to the conclusion... that insanity doesn't run in her family, it GALLOPS! And I realized her insanity is also the type that is contagious!

Day after day she posts these labor intense projects, plus blog posts. She puts more work into ONE thing than I do in 3 months! But, today... yes, today I had to try her box.

I'm not going into detail because you can see every little cotton picking thing here. Why should I go to all that work when she's done it for me! MuhahahaHAha (as she would say!)

Several challenges in one... the LSC on SCS today was... incorporate some sort of silver and/or gold decorations/ornaments into your projects. This does NOT mean it has to be an ornament OR look like an ornament … it just has to be some sort of holiday decoration AND it has to be silver and/or gold!! You can use any embellishments you like, and you can use any other colors.

And for Mo's blog challenge (yes, again!), Just White.

Remember the Penguin Boxes I did earlier in the week...well, another table got added as more people are coming to the party, so I figured this could go on that table!

Colored with Copics, hightlights with a white gel pen and Zig silver pen. The ice is silver embossing powder, snowdrift edges coated with Sugar Dust....and lots of seed beads on silver thread (insane I tell you!!). Crochet thread for the stitching, Martha Stewart border punch.

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Thanks for stopping!

Dawn...a little crazier after today

A Challenge? Sure...I'll Do It!

Especially if it's a stamping one! And this one comes from Mo's Digital Challenge. You saw in my Check It Out post that she has a LLAMA!... Well, I'm hooked!

I've loved her stuff from day one...now just to add to my collection!

The challenge is "Just White". The image can be color but everything else is white.

It's called "Girl & Dog". Inside says, Happiness is an unexpected hug.(from Inky Antics) It's colored with Copics and sponged around the edges with whatever distress ink was left on my dauber.

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Here's one I did yesterday for the Sketch Challenge on SCS

This one is called "Skating". Again colored with Copics and sponged with Distress ink.

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And...another challenge? My good friend Tosh, asked if I could knit up a hat and scarf for a dear friend of hers with cancer. Bonnie lives in a part of the country where it gets snowy and cold, so a set made from llama would be just perfect!

Her favorite colors? Well, Tosh said they are yellow, orange, red... but maybe a red set would be nice.

Here's where the challenge starts!

Did I listen? No! I thought I'd dye my yarn in Bonnie's favorite colors!

Here is how it started... I had to spin the fiber on my wheel and ply it. That odd contraption is called a niddy noddy and makes a 2yd skein or hank of yarn.

Then I had to dye it...I used 3 flavors of Kool Aid and popped it in the oven.

This is called a Swift... it takes the place of someone holding their arms apart, holding the yarn on their hands while I wind it into a ball!

  And the ball of yarn.

Ok, here is how it knitted up. I like how it turned out... BUT... wasn't happy with it as a set that was going to a complete stranger!

So after talking it over with Tosh... she said Bonnie's hubby wanted red... so back to dying!

Absolutely LOVE the finished result!! Cherry, a little Black Cherry and a little Strawberry over-dyed the previous colors!

It's a "tucked" scarf, the ends tuck through that little section.

Thanks Tosh for being patient! Hugs to Bonnie, may Lady (the llama fiber donor!) keep you warm!

 

Thanks for stopping

Dawn

A Christmas Party Needs Table Decorations-Angels Landing

My last post as part of the Angels Landing DT...it's been great working with Judi's wonderful digital images, Judi, and the rest of the team!

We're going to a Christmas party on Saturday so I thought I'd help with the table decor and make these tag boxes.

I just love these cute penguins!

Start by cutting a piece of cardstock 4x7 and score as shown.
Cut notches as shown. Set aside.

It's very easy to "clone" your images if you need to have a number of them printed at once. (at least in Photoshop Elements 7)

Make a new document 8.5 x 11 and pull your image onto it and size it. With your cursor over the image, hold down the Alt key while dragging the image over. Keep doing this until you have the desired number. Easy!

On these I used DCWV Christmas 12x12 stack, cut 3x6. The shipping tags are just over 3 x 6.25 inches, so I just added some white acrylic paint by Ranger.
Since I cut the paper at 6 inches (was easy to make the most out of the 12x12), it leaves just a little tag showing, so I tore white cardstock to resemble snowdrifts and added them to the bottom of the tag.

   Can you see the shimmer?!
Each was given a spritz of Pearl Glimmer Mist

  and the colors used

Cut some more patterned paper 2x4 and apply as shown. I used red liner tape here so you could see where to apply your tape, glue or whatever adhesive you use.

You're going to attach your tags like this.

 This is how the inside will go together.

10 inches of ribbon is all you need to tie up this sweet treat box!

Hope you've enjoyed this little tutorial, I enjoyed putting it together for you! Be sure to see what the rest of the Design Team did.

Thanks for stopping!

Dawn

Check It Out!!!

I have resisted

Mo's Digital Pencil...

until now!

Mo drew a LLAMA!! I had to have it right?!

I blame it all on Mel! If I hadn't gone to her blog this morning, hadn't seen her adorable card made with...Mo's image...Yup, it's her fault!! Oh, and Mo's too! She's so dang talented!!! I wanted so many more, but settled on 3 this time around. wink 

thanks for stopping by!

Dawn

Just Some Odds and Ends

Christmas cards

&  gifts

I'm almost done with my cards...are you? The last of them will be sent out this week (a tad late for my liking, but oh well!). Don't ask about being done with gifts!

This one was done for the Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge, to BLING it up!

and bling it up I did! It has sparkly paper, SEI Gold and Tisnov Foil Paper, Prism Cyrogen white, rhinestones... AND... Pearl Glimmer Mist!

Our Daily Bread designs Luke 2:11 is stamped in Adirondack Red Pepper. Spellbinder's Labels 9 for the frame, and Create a Flake 1.

Winter Borders Cuttlebug embossing folder was used a the bottom. It's going to Germany...Merry Christmas Caitlin.

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This one, at the suggestion of a friend, just silver, black, elegant!

The silver cardstock I got from Hollo's a long time ago, it's wonderful for embossing! I used the Winter Borders again. Spellbinder's Contemporary Hearts Pendant out of more Hollo's black cardstock and Our Daily Bread designs Peace & Joy snowflakes stamped, embossed with silver, cut with a craft knife and popped up on top!

The inside...more dry embossing. And I wish I'd used my stamp positioner for Merry Christmas!

Grrrr, hate when that happens!

ODB Peace & Joy and Christmas Verses.

 

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Then I was at Hobby Lobby the other day and saw this glass jar. It just called to be etched with snowflakes!

I used the acrylic sheet that comes with the unmounted stamps as my "block" to stamp these snowflakes with Versamark onto the glass, sprinkled clear embossing powder over and heat set. (using the piece of acrylic helped to hold the stamp while pressing it against the curved shape of the jar)

Then using Amour Etching Cream, I painted the jar...left it on for about 10 minutes and washed it off.

And this from the dollar store....
This is what it looks like before etching.

and after

Thanks for letting me share these with you...stay safe and warm.

Dawn