Sunday, January 20, 2019

Season's Greetings

Hello, happy Sunday! It's been snowing here in southeast Missouri so I've only left the house today to shovel my front porch and walkway. I've spent the rest of the day holed up in my warm fuzzy lounge pants watching True Blood episodes and creating fun things with ink. Today's card was created for the latest The Paper Players challenge and is pretty clean and simple, which if you follow my blog you will know doesn't come easily for me. I like a lot of layers and complexity with colors and patterned papers. But this one was fun and easy to create. I started with a plain piece of white cardstock that I treated with my anti-static tool by EK Success and then stamped the snow from Altenew's Snowing mini-stamp set using Versamark clear ink. I then heat embossed it using Recollections fine detailed embossing powder in Snow. I then stamped Altenew's Winter Cottage image below using Versafine onyx black ink. Once that was dry I went over the trees and the roofline with my Zig two way glue pen and sprinkled some detailed clear sparkling glitter by Wow over the images and knocked the excess off. I then die cut the panel using a stitched edge rectangle die by Gina Marie Designs and inked the top of the panel using my Tim Holtz distress inks. I love how this card turned out. I hope you do too! 


10 comments:

Claire Broadwater said...

Celeste, this is just gorgeous! I love the serene scene you created. The little winter cottage is just perfect and the snowy sky is amazing! I love this card! So happy you joined my challenge at The Paper Players this week! XX

Darnell said...

I sure do, Celeste! You should do more clean and simple, because you have a terrific touch with it! Everything is crisp and clean and that misty blue snowy sky is everything!! Hugs, Darnell

Maria Giselle B. said...

Nicely done! Love the transition from the blended part to the clean, white part.

Lisa Elton said...

Sounds like a great weekend! Ours was like that too, over a foot of snow! Your card make me feel warm and cozy, it's lovely!

lichazul said...

gorgeous card Celeste
congrats
thank for your comment in my blog
have a great day

Joanne James - The Crafty Owl said...

Celeste your beautiful winter scene is perfectly CAS - I'm glad you managed to put your own snow day to good use. Thanks for sharing with us over at The Paper Players this week!

LeAnne said...

This is a perfect image to use for this challenge...I have this one too and forgot all about it! Just so sweet and serene! So glad you played with the Players this week!

laurie said...

How beautiful...love the sky. Thanks for joining us at The Paper Players this week!

donna mikasa said...

Love this, Celeste! Now I'll be going through my Altenew stamps looking for this cute little number and CASE-ing your card!

Jaydee said...

Celeste, what a lovely use of this stamp. Your background is perfectly blended. Beautifully CAS. Thanks for playing along at the Paper Players this week
Jaydee