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  • Let it Snowflakes

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    Today’s Ways to Use It Challenge (WT567) is about how cold it is! It’s definitely been on the chilly side here…we had sleet most of the the afternoon & we’re supposed to have snow tomorrow afternoon & on into Sat. morning. Maybe it’s just me, but when it’s already that cold, just go ahead and snow. It’s much preferable to the frozen rain, sleet & ice. Those are just accidents waiting to happen! And besides…I would much rather see lacy, pretty snowflakes like these than frozen pellets of ice. 
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    To make my wintry blue card, I first die cut the largest layer, then die cut the smaller inset w/ a stitched rectangle.  Then I heat embossed the large & smaller snowflakes w/ white powder onto the smaller inset then sponged on the blue inks from the Kaleidacolor ink pad. I also sponged the larger frame but reversed the colors w/ the dark on top & light at the bottom. 

    The greeting took a bit of finagling. I used a stamp positioner & masking to rearrange the vertical SNOW into a horizontal direction & colored it w/ a few blue & blue-violet Copics. I added a couple of die cut shapes that reminded me of snowflakes, a few punched snowflakes & some stickles for a little sparkle.

     

    Here’s a look at the inside..just some simple stamping.
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    Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t, please head on over and check out the DRS Thursday Challenge..this week it’s a color challenge. DRS images are not required & there’s a nice prize up for grabs!
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    Supplies:

    Stamps: DRS Designs – Med. Filigree Snowflake, Lg. Filigree Snowflake,Vertical Let it Snow,  (Warm Thoughts-inside)
    Paper:  Neenah white
    Ink:   Kaleidacolor blue breeze, Colorbox frost white pigment
    Accessories:  Spellbinders pierced A2 matting basics A , Persian Accents dies, Lil’ Inkers Stitched Rectangles, stickles, Copic markers, snowflake punches

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  • Snowflake Birthday

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    This is for a couple of Splitcoast challenges..Color (CC564) & Sketch (SC574). Love these colors & looking through my stash, I found I have a whole bunch of backgrounds made with the blue/green combo…really one of my favorite combos. So I took one I made on a lg tag & cut it down & added some of the sand color in the bg for the color challenge. For the sketch, the only thing different is mine is the mirror image & it’s only that because the card front was upside down when I attached the vertical panel, so I had to reverse everything. Go ahead & laugh…like you’ve never glued anything upside down, lol. 
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    The med & lg snowflakes were stamped onto white, die cut & added to larger circle layers. For the sand bg, I stamped the snowflake bg all over using the sand ink then just a few flakes here & there w/ the white ink. The tag that I used for the vertical panel was done w/ a kind of modified Wrinkle Free Distress technique & I added just a bit of the Brilliance on top for a little shimmer.

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    Thanks so much for stopping by!
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    Supplies:

    Stamps: DRS Designs – Interlocking Snow Bg, Snow Doubt Birthday, Med. Filigree Snowflake, Lg. Filigree Snowflake, (Birthday Wishes -inside)
    Paper:  Neenah white, cucumber crush, Pacific Point & Sahara sand clones, manilla tag
    Ink:   Kaleidacolor fresh greens, Distress inks mermaid lagoon, tumbled glass, twisted citron, Brilliance platinum planet, Memento tuxedo black & desert sand, Colorbox frost white pigment
    Accessories:  Spellbinders pierced A2 matting basics A & B, circles & pennant dies, ODBD flourished star pattern die, kraft sheet, fine mister

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  • Green Snowman

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    This is for 3 Splitcoast Challenges…the sketch (SC570), the Technique (TLC563) & the CAS (CAS354). It’s been a long time since I combined more than 2 challenges. Green Snowman 07990
    For the CAS, it was to use Christmas greens. I used only greens…5 shades of green from a Kaleidacolor ink pad. And since I really didn’t color anything & it’s all die cuts, it really was easy. For the Technique, we were to use small stamps to create something. I used 3 small images to make the large circle & a small greeting to make the border. I just eyeballed the placement & it worked out pretty good. For the sketch, I did a little finagling….I rotated it counterclockwise, my panel 5 is a bit larger to accommodate the snowman & my greeting is also round.

    Everything was stamped w/ the fresh greens rainbow pad onto water color paper (that’s why it isn’t bright white). For the snowman, I used a water brush to drag the color in for shadows then dried it & over stamped w/ the same ink to sharpen the details again. The panels were all die cut & I used the same inks & water brush to add color to the edges. A little stickles was added along w/ a glittery round embellishment I colored green w/ a Copic (it was clear).

    Here’s a look at the simple inside.
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    Thanks so much for stopping by!
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    Supplies:

    Stamps: DRS Designs – Simply Snowman, Small Merry Christmas, Interlocking Snow Bg,  4 in 1 Accessories, Snow Background
    Paper:  water color
    Ink:   Kaleidacolor fresh greens
    Accessories:  Spellbinders pierced rectangles, circles & pierced circles dies, stickles, water brush, glitter gem

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