Freezin' Season

 Happy Monday everyone. Hope you are staying warm where ever you are. We are having our coldest temperatures so far and may even get our first proper snow. We've had a mild winter so far and only have had minimal snow. My husband may have to get the snow blower out tomorrow morning! We'll see. So in honor of this bout of cold weather I have a couple of snowman cards to share with you.

This first card features the new silhouette skating snowman and the fun Freezin" season greeting. I started by stamping the snowman, as well as the greeting onto some watercolor CS with VersaMark ink and then heat embossing them with Hero Arts detailed white EP.. A Fawn Lawn border die was used to cut a hilly border to use as a mask. I sponged the sky in with a few TH Distress Oxides inks in blues. I used the lightest blue ink I had and sponged a little color onto the snow at the bottom. Some gesso mixed with water was used to splatter some snow onto the sky. After I completed this I kept looking at the card and thinking something was wrong. That's when I realized he was skating on snow and not ice! So I die cut an oval mask and sponged on some more of the lightest blue ink, making it darker for the ice. Some Nuvo Aqua Flow clear shimmer was added to the frozen pond.

This card uses the same greeting but this time it's paired with the Skating Snowman image. The snowman was stamped onto white CS with Memento Black ink, colored with Copics and die cut with a oval die. The greeting was stamped with Versafine Blue ink, heat embossed with clear EP and die cut. The blue panel was splatter with the same gesso mix I used on the first card. Didn't want it to go to waste. After I got this card put together I noticed a blue ink smudge on the greeting, so I added a die cut snowflake with a navy pearl to hide it.

Thanks for stopping by today. You can see all the new images, including the ones I used today, here.

blessings,

shelia

  Happy Monday everyone. Hope you had a great weekend and found some time to get creative. DRS Designs has some new images that I think you are going to like. My card today features the new Wild about You greeting. I paired the greeting with the cute lion from the Jimbo and the gang image.

I stamped the Jimbo and the Gang image onto white CS, colored just the lion and the ground underneath him. Next I die cut the image with a heart die and then fussy cut the lion. I sponged on some blue DO inks using a MFT mini cloud stencil and then die cut a heart using the same heart die. The cranberry panel was die cut with a FL stitched rectangle die and the same heart die. The new greeting was stamped with VersaMark ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. The lion heart was added to the panel after attaching it to the white card base. I think this will be the Valentine for my youngest grandson. I better get busy and create Valentines for my other grandkids. Thankfully DRS Designs has some great images to choose from. You can see all the new images here. And all the other Valentine images here.

Thanks for stopping by today.

blessings,

shelia