Multicolored patterns

OMG, Guess what happened at my house last night? IT SNOWED!!! I woke up this morning with an inch of snow covering my yard and car. I am very excited about snow, it is one of my favorite parts of winter. I dont really like the cold so much, but the snow makes everything look pretty. At least until the snow plows muck it all up. The weather people in Indiana are saying that this could be a record snow year for us, based on historic trends. Now I am not saying I want a blizzard or anything, but a nice continual snow through Christmas would be wonderful.


I am posting these two cards together even though one is christmas and the other is a birthday card. They both are made with the same technique and concept. When I first say the birthday card I thought it was made with printed paper but its NOT!! The pattern come out when you use the different colors using the same stamps. I know this might be old hat for some of you but I was totally blown away. I love how you can take color in the same hughes on opposite sides of the color wheel to make great patterns.
The Card shown below has a birthday seal at the bottom but you could do so much with this idea.


Now this card I love! It uses the same idea but it looks totally different. The snowflakes bring in the texture to the paper and because I am the queen of all things shiny (lol) I added glitter to the differnt snowflakes. I really wish picture could show how spectacular the glitter looks.


Okay, I know I am giving you a lot to look at but I know I have been remiss in my blogging duties. I hope you enjoy them.

Christmas candle

I thought I would show you all a new technique that I learned. This Christmas candle card was made at card crop with Monica Fiedler. The first picture shows the entire card so that you can see the finished product. We used versamark to stamp the image creating a background and layered the mattes to give it dimension. We did two different cards using the same technique, the other card had the mattes square with the brads set further out.

The really cool part of this card is how the candle was colored. The picture does not give it justice. The image was stamped on acetate using stazon. Here comes the cool part are you ready for it?? The acetate was run through a sticker machine putting glue all over the back like a sticker!! After we stamped the image on the front we flipped it over and used chalk to color in certain parts of the image. The glue held the chalk and when we mounted it to the green cardstock the image really popped.


I know this image is a little blurred but I thought you'd still be able to see how I colored only parts of the image.
I hope you liked this technique. It took me a while to get over the coolness factor. I made a couple more using different stamps.

I hope you all had a great thanksgiving and I will blog with you soon.

Fall Trees

I know it has been a long time since my last post and I apologise. I could say that I have been busy but its mostly laziness. I have been producing cards and a couple of projects, just haven't been posting. So I give you a card that I sent to TAC for catalog design.
The tree was stamped using versa magic and then heat embossed with holographic powder. It is a very simple and straight forward design but the little pops of color pull everything together for me.


Supplies used
Chocolate bazzil cardstock
willoughby paper (TAC)
Love and Laughter (TAC)
Red Flower with velvet button (TAC)

Cows

I have so many Fabulous ideas to share with you guys. Unfortunately, I left my camera in Florida. LOL Don't worry I found a way to take pictures with my cell phone and forward them to my email. So this week I have a flying cow for your enjoyment. I learned the coloring technique while in Florida and I wanted to color so bad, that I rummaged through my stamps to find something worth coloring. Wouldn't you know, I found a stamp set that I had never used. I had seen this cow used at conference in cute pastels. As I am not the average gal, I didn't want to cutesy it up I wanted something a bit darker. I mean really, the cow is hanging out on the moon. It should be dark right. Any way, this was my finished project. I didn't get the entire look I wanted but I think I'm getting the hang of it.

I apologise, I know the light is a bit off. My cell phone as a great camera but its flash it outrageous. In the second view you should be able to see my coloring has improved and I even masked the image and sponged in the background, and since I cant seem to make a card with out some glitter I used just a touch of stickles on the hooves. (Hoof polish)

Learning to color

This week has been a whirlwind of cutting and typing out direction. We started off the week with ten projects in mind and we succeeded. In the midst of all the creative flow I learned how to color pretty. Most of my coloring looks good but it never had that professional flair. Well, let me tell you, I have found my flair!! Of course after Suzanne rushed out to get the special pencils and mineral oil we stayed up until 2 am coloring. I am not sure we needed special pencils but it always makes you feel good when you try something new. So this is what happens when you find inspiration and you stay up into the wee hours color with friends.

You can't really tell from the picture, but I cut the witch out and lifted her with a pop dot.

Recipe: Trick or Treater T-2795
Colored pencil with mineral oil blending
Juliette v-839
If you have any comments or questions please let me know, they are always welcome.

This is my very first posting, I am so excited. I am in Florida visiting my cousin and fellow Angel Suzanne. She is hosting an all Christmas crop this week. While down here on vacation as part of my room and board I will be helping her get ready for her crop. So far we are off to the races. We put together 7 make and takes, the goal is to have 10 for the crop. I am so excited for her she is building her business and is hosting a few events each month. I am sure that I will have pictures of all the projects at the crop for you later. Until then I leave you with my sad sad blank page.