I managed to squeeze in a Friday Mashup card this week – joining in with my SIL Judy, though she got hers posted up well before me. There are several ways this challenge can be interpreted into our own creation – you truly should visit Friday Mashup to see some of the beautiful versions the design team has posted to give you a feel of how you might use this theme. I am using the “Winter Theme” choice for this challenge.
For myself, I decided to play with some distress inks. Distress inks are very new to me and I literally had to isolate myself to them mostly to get a feel with how they work. Here is what I made:
As you can see, I chose to go with the title as well as a palette of cool colors.
The finishing touch was a two layered punched snowflake.
Supplies:
Snowflake Punch – Martha Stewart
Stamp – Holiday Trendz
Tim Holtz Distress Inks
Guache paint (for the snow flurry)
Today was the ideal day to post this card being as it’s a very gloomy, brrrrr day here – like this:
You know the sort of day – the kind of day you just want to snuggle your toes down into your nest and take a day out from the world. Fortunately for me I have an unexpected day off from work so I will take full advantage of this. Today is a day to take time out realize the blessings that surround me.
Thank you for taking time to stop in on me today!
awesome job with the distress inks ....beautiful card Barb. It was nice to have some time together.
ReplyDeleteWonderful card Sis, I love these pretty colours and that fabulous snowflake.
ReplyDeleteI love the big sentiment across those colors, it looks fabulous! You did a great job using the distress inks!
ReplyDeleteLove the picture, looks like my kind of day there :)
Thanks so much for playing along with us at The Friday Mashup, and thank you for the kind comment you left on my blog, I appreciate it!
What a gorgeous background!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card Barbara.
ReplyDeleteBlessings Jocelan
Oh, how fun is this card?! I love the snowflake spots, of course, but the sweep to represent some wind is fabulous! Thanks for joining the Friday Mashup this week.
ReplyDeleteWOW! the background coloring is gorgeous! Thank you for joining us over at Friday Mashup.
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Norma