It's only 12 months until Christmas is here again. I don't know about you, but I seem to run out of time every year. So, here's a fun challenge. Make 5 Christmas gift tags per month. By December, you'll have plenty to use and maybe even give away...Hope you'll play along. These are my tags for January
Here's offering #1 for this awesome color challenge. I had to wrestle it away from my 15-yr-old to get a picture LOL. She really likes it! Hope you do too!
Start by stamping a solid image on black (or other dark) cardstock with White Daisy Pigment Ink.
Stamp desired pattern onto cardstock.
Use heat tool to heat-set image.
Choose 3 colors of watercolor pencils from the same color family to color image. I chose greens and blues to go with Magnifique papers.
Begin with the lightest shade in the center of the image.
Continue with all the images that will be in that color family.
Use the next darker shade around the center color, overlapping in places. Press hard with the pencils.
Finally, use darkest shade around the edges of image, then finish the same steps with other colors.
If you have a white gel pen, that will work for the next step. Since I didn't, I improvised with a blending pen and White Daisy ink. It worked really well.
Add interesting dots around images, randomly or in a pattern you like.
Complete colored images with white dots.
Attach piece to card base and embellish as desired. Have fun trying Black Magic, and show me what you come up with!
This is one of my first attempts at this fun and beautiful techniques, thanks to Sheila Bennett's segment on Creative University online sponsored by Tresa Black
This is my first attempt at embossed flowers, and I really like this technique. I look forward to trying it again.
I adore snowmen, and thought this would be a really fun Thank You note for Christmas gifts, or just for any winter event needing a Thank You!
I had fun adding lots of glitter and pearls to this girly girl card! I'm covered in glitter now, so I must've had fun :)
I found this darling baby onesie template at PaperScrapz and just had to give it a try.
Thank you for this particular challenge...I took this fabulous picture last fall at one of our local parks. It was the first day me oldest daughter had been well enough to leave the house in weeks due to complications from the swine flu. It's not a great quality photo taken from my cell phone, but I love the composition, even including our doggy! I've been wanting to get it done for ages, so this was just the push I needed to complete it! Hope you all love it as much as I do LOL
Thankfully, this challenge came as I was finishing a tag album for my friend's baby shower. Her It's a jungle theme that was so fun to make. My main computer died, so I'm having trouble uploading more pics...hope this is okay!
Here's my offering for the color challenge using Blush, Vineyard Berry and Creme Brulee...two out of the three colors of which I have very little LOL...Did what I could with what I had :)
I made this album to send to my niece Jessica who just spent two weeks in Idaho. We had a blast while she was here playing in our neighborhood pool, lighting off fireworks, cooling off at the water park and picnicking in the mountains. She is second-home sick, so I think this will help her remember the fun we had :)
