More Snow

 We had a long weekend last weekend and I did start painting a whole bunch of snowmen ( most I think will morph into tags) but, I did finish one into another card today after work.

 Seriously, I am thinking maybe happy winter? ( most of my Christmas paper is red or poinsettias but a lot of red and or red & green haha) so, It's kind of funny how much I like to color snowmen... 

 Before I did all the stamped ones, I tried doing the dies from the PTI giftcard snowman dies, and I just do not see how this becomes a gift card holder. ( that sentiment is from the set that matches the dies) and the dies just make two sizes of snowmen.. So, I inked some of the diecuts and added some chunky snowflake glitter mix to the edges of them. I am still debating about how these become gift card holders so, they are works in progress.

 I decided for the heck of it to try "handmade" watercolors, I have not actually done this before but, these colors caught my eye in this shop in ETSY. And so, they arrived yesterday and I decided to give them a whirl. 

 What they look like dry. I think the Cerulean Grey is my favorite of this batch and I thought ( of course) it will work so well for snowmen.

 And so it did, that color is on their bodies. The hats are some DS moonglow. I did add some Stickles glitter glue to the base line of snow and some white gouache to the falling snow then add-libbed some extra falling snow on the bodies. This is an old Buttermilk Basin stamp by Inky Antics which has a # on the block as P4-9081-3L. Stamped with Versafine morning mist on Arches cold press paper.

 I cut that panel with a Tim Holtz deckle die and then inked the edges with some Iced Spruce Distress Oxide ink and wrapped on some SU pool party sheer ribbon that has a pretty shine to it. Found this Anna White tree printed paper in the pack from her Sweet Miss Daisy Etsy store called let it snowman. ( its not flimsy paper more like printed thin cardstock or coversheet rather than paper) the base here is some PTI oceantides finished out at A6 and that's about it from me, I will probably be gluing snowman tags together for sometime to come hahaha. hope you are doing well & thanks for stopping by. 

 

Watercolorings a Pumpkin Still life

 This week Brenda is sharing this video from Jenna Rainey called how to paint watercolor pumpkins with Eucalyptus & Berries Seen here on YouTube.  My first thought about it as I was watching it was I do not think I even own a size 16 brush hahaha... So, this paper was cut in an A6 ish size and I used maybe an size 8? ( something like that) and I my favorite part was the little curly vines out of the stems so, I got those a little close to the top edge of the paper and I thought, its OK I can counter sink it.

I ended up add-libbing in some splatters and shadows as well. 

 So, I had the bright idea to use these deckle dies from Honeybee stamps and after the fact I decided I probably should have gone with straight edge dies as after I cut a hole into the front of the sage shadow cardbase I decided if I wanted those curly vines I had to you know edge it a little off set and So I just started cutting up various pieces with those dies, cutting windows trying to layer them and hide the hole and such. ( the frame is actually pretty thick on the finished card as a result) 

 The brown texture on the top was also cut with the largest dies and then the third down in size to cover up how goofy all the layers under it looked. but, it allowed some of those colors to peek out, which was OK but, still off set. and then I seen this sentiment I had previously cut (twice ) and added some paint to thinking it was going to work with some snowman tags also under construction and I thought OK the colors look OK but, in real life, its probably a little bit too matchy- matchy as its hard to see unless you tilt the card. I did end up cutting the first cardbase in half and then putting foam tape under that layer and trimming it down a smidge so it could go onto a slightly darker cardbase that was 6" square. That sentiment is one from Sue Wilson and that's about it from me, if you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.