Sunshine Makes Diamonds

The computer room faces south,
the sun is shining brightly on this cold, cold Winter day!
The bushes just outside the window, covered with snow, look like diamonds have been sprinkled over them…ahhhh, beautiful!

Several cards to share
with you today, I hope you enjoy them!

This is Blessings, Full of Grace collection, Our Daily Bread designs.

This Basic Grey Curio is beautiful paper, but it is darkly distressed around the edges…so if you cut it up you lose that beautiful look. Using several shades of Copics, Walnut Stain and Black Soot Distress inks I was able to recreate it!!

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This next card was done for a dear friend, who along with his now deceased wife, helped get me started in llamas. Kurt is now in a nursing home. I try to send a card from time to time, keeping him up to date on my llamas, 4h club etc.

Using A Walk In The Woods from Mark’s Finest Papers, I started with a torn sheet of copy paper as a mask and randomly stamped the trees. Then using the same piece of paper, I sponged distress inks to create my winter wonderland. I also sponged the trees and using a small dauber (dedicated to “blue”) with whatever residual ink was left in it, sponged the shadows. Elmer’s Painty pen was used for the snow on the trees.

Hope you’re staying warm, cozy and safe where ever you are! And don’t forget to count your blessings…

thanks for stopping!

Dawn