{"id":8636,"date":"2011-12-30T01:07:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T06:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=8636"},"modified":"2019-04-14T17:36:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T22:36:52","slug":"snowflake-penguin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=8636","title":{"rendered":"Skating Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Skating-Away-cu8678.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31014\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Skating-Away-cu8678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Skating-Away-cu8678.jpg 1304w, https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Skating-Away-cu8678-175x133.jpg 175w, https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Skating-Away-cu8678-400x303.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Skating-Away-cu8678-768x582.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Skating-Away-cu8678-600x455.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Weekly-Favorite.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9523\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Weekly-Favorite.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splitcoaststampers.com\/forums\/general-stamping-talk-f17\/favorites-best-2011-a-t545040-4.html#post19047252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #8effff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Best of 2011<\/span><\/span><\/a> Happy Friday before Christmas!\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Are you ready? I always plan to be ready ahead of time. Best laid plans, right! Like this happy little fellow, my best plans are skating away, but at least the happy thought is there!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For my skating scene, everything except the cut out and added penguin was done on the one layer. I started by stamping the tree line then masking the snow and sponging the sky. There&#8217;s just something about a pink winter sky that I really like so I tend to use this color for winter skies. I flipped the mask to cover the sky and sponged in some snow w\/ a lt blue ink. All except the pond. I penciled in where I wanted it and left it white. A little shading was added around the trees w\/ markers.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Skating-Away-8675.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31013\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Skating-Away-8675.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Skating-Away-8675.jpg 2038w, https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Skating-Away-8675-175x140.jpg 175w, https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Skating-Away-8675-400x319.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Skating-Away-8675-768x613.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Skating-Away-8675-600x479.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After I determined where my skater would go, I stamped him again on the plastic sheet of my SAMJ (stamp-a-ma-jig), lined up the foot under where his right foot is, masked the edge of the pond, and stamped the reflection using the image on the SAMJ sheet as the stamp. It&#8217;s really harder to describe than it is to do. It&#8217;s just a simple reflection technique. After that, I covered the pond using a VersaMark pen and embossed w\/ clear powder twice. Then I added a few scribbles w\/ a white Permapaque marker and embossed w\/ another coat of clear ep. We used to call this super embossing. It really makes it look like an icy pond.<br \/>\nThanks so much for stopping by!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Julie2-sig.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12715\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Julie2-sig.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Supplies:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">stamps: I<a href=\"http:\/\/drsdesigns.com\/products\/Interlocking-Snow-Background.html\">nterlocking Snow Bg<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/drsdesigns.com\/products\/Snow-Background.html\">Snow Background<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/drsdesigns.com\/products\/Tree-Line-Border.html\"> Tree Line Border,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/drsdesigns.com\/products\/One-Line-Happy-Thoughts-Greeting.html\">One Line Happy Thoughts greeting<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/drsdesigns.com\/products\/Skating-Penguin.html\">Skating Penguin<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">paper: white, pink<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">ink: VersaFine onyx, Memento angel pink &amp; summer sky, Archival library green (for the tree line)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">accessories: VersaMark pen, SAMJ, clear embossing powder, Tombow markers, Cuttlebug snowflake die, rhinestones<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best of 2011 Happy Friday before Christmas!\u00a0 Are you ready? I always plan to be ready ahead of time. Best laid plans, right! Like this happy little fellow, my best plans are skating away, but at least the happy thought is there! For my skating scene, everything except the cut out and added penguin was done on the one layer. I started by stamping the tree line then masking the snow and sponging the sky. There&#8217;s just something about a pink winter sky that I really like so I tend to use this color for winter skies. I flipped the mask to cover the sky and sponged in some snow w\/ a lt blue ink. All except the pond. I penciled in where I wanted it and left it white. A little shading was added around the trees w\/ markers. After I determined where my skater would go, I stamped him again on the plastic sheet of my SAMJ (stamp-a-ma-jig), lined up the foot under where his right foot is, masked the edge of the pond, and stamped the reflection using the image on the SAMJ sheet as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[353,551,35,82,33,34,14,446,44,12],"tags":[594,576,162,114,115,448,578,191],"class_list":["post-8636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animalspets","category-best-of-2011","category-christmasholiday","category-drs","category-embossing","category-nestabilities","category-scs-challenges","category-scs-weekly-favorite","category-sponging","category-watercolor","tag-drs","tag-embossing","tag-snowflakes","tag-spellbinders","tag-scs","tag-splitcoast-weekly-favorite","tag-sponging","tag-winter"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}