Christmas Angel

Iowa had it's first meaningful snowfall last Friday. Sioux City got about 6", but today the sun is shining and I'm enjoying the upper 40's temperatures.

This beautiful Mo Manning image seems not to mind the snow flurries.

I cut the frame with my Silhouette Cameo and sandwiched a piece of acetate between layers.

The image was colored with Copic Markers.  I mounted it with a Spellbinder oval and Spellbinder's Oval Regalia die. I added some liquid pearls for the snow.

I hope everyone has a beautiful holiday. Be safe!

Winter Scene

Here in northwest Iowa we have enjoyed a beautiful Fall.  It seems we can be in Winter denial until that first accumulation of snow.  I do not like snow.  When it falls, it is beautiful for a day or two, then it gets dirty and ugly.  Still, some of my favorite cards are of Winter scenes.

If anyone has every seen Northwoods cards on display at a craft store, you will see them covered with glitter.  They are really stunning.  I made one feeble attempt to use the glue and glitter. I would really love to attend a workshop. Just the same, this stamp is also beautiful without the glitter.

I used an umber cardstock and a Spellbinder die frame the image. Then I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut that luscious leafy dark brown frame. Cheery Lynn die cuts embellish the corners using the same cream colored cardstock as the card base.  The image was colored with Copics and a Wink of Stella highlights the icy brook.

This one goes to the Christmas Card Challenge blog and challenge-49-anything goes.

Stay warm and cozy my friends.

Sweetness

A Day for Daisies has the sweetest images.  I posted this a couple months ago at Splitcoast Stampers. 

For some reason cards posted on Splitcoast don't make it to my blog and vise versa. There must be some hidden meaning in this? 

I colored the image with Copics and used (2) Spellbinder dies and (1) oval Die-namics die.

Happy Monday!

Pumpkin Love

I love Fall and pumpkin pie.

I used my Silhouette Cameo to print and cut this pretty pumpkin.. With my Copic markers, I colored the QKR image using the no line technique.  The dark gray corrugated paper makes a striking backdrop for the pretty fall colors. I used cream colored card stock for the base of the card and gave the leaves on the bottom a touch of Wink of Stella.

I am entering this in qkr-stampede-challenge-163-harvest. and I can see already the competition is entering some awesome cards. 

Record Breaking

Yup another Halloween card!   This makes a whopping grand total of 2.

I cut the QKR image out with my Silhouette Cameo.  I cut the pumpkin separately and popped it up with some dimensional dots.  The corn stalks are also cut from my Silhouette .Those crystal looking domes were in my stash of stickers.  I used one to cover up some extra glue, thought it was pretty cool, so I scattered them around.

This is for QKR Stampede challenge-162-halloween.

Sweet Witch

Halloween is not my thing, but this digital stamp was too sweet to resist.

I found her on Etsy, Molly Harrison Art.  She was colored with Copics and cut with a Memory Box stitched die.  I then mounted the image on some Basic Grey paper that I've had forever.  The little pumpkin in the lower right is a dimensional sticker and the branch on the left is a another Memory Box Die.

I'll enter this in QKR's 162-halloween Challenge.

Happy Haunting!

October Blessings

Iowa has been blessed with an awesome October.  The weather has been fabulous! What's even better is that I get to enjoy it.  I am retired and although I had really nice office, I did not have a window. I can't tell you how many times I went to work the dark and came home in the dark.  Sometimes I would be happily working along all day only to be surprised to find several inches of snow I had been clueless about.  No more scraping windows in freezing cold and 30 mi. hr. winds.

Well, I got off topic a bit. Here is my card.

The Memory Box frame was cut with a dark brown cardstock, but I could not get it to photo anything but black.  This is the first time I've ever shopped at From the Heart. I found a lot of really nice digital stamps and even purchased a few more.

I'll enter my card in From The Heart's  free-stamp-of-the-month-october-2015 challenge.

Stamp:  harvest-thanksgiving-and-fall (sentiment Included)

Coloring Medium:  Copics

Dies:  Memory Box, and Spellbinder