Winter is Coming

This week at The Paper Players they have a Clean and Simple challenge with a theme of "snowy day". I am a winter girl through and through, the more snow I have and the colder it is  the happier I am so I definitely had to play along!

I knew right away that I wanted to use a digital stamp from Mo's Digital Pencil called Winter is Coming. This image cracks me up because its someone shoveling with just their hat and the shovel peeking up over the snow. I've had many a winter like that here in Alaska (although this winter we've barely had snow, boo!!) and shoveling snow is one of my very favorite things to do, I find it very peaceful and relaxing.

I used my cool gray copics to color along the snow line and added a pop of color to match the sentiment, with a bit of yellow added for the shovel. To finish it off I used a SU embossing folder to add some falling snow.

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Let it Snow for LMMS

It's Inspiration Week over at Little Miss Muffet Stamps and this week I'm using a brand new image, Polka Dot Pals Wyleen. I was SO happy to see a winter image being released since winter is my favorite season! Pretty soon I'll be able to look out my craft room window at a snow covered yard, I can't wait!

I printed the image out and then die cut it with a circle. I then pulled out the patterned paper I wanted to use and pulled the colors from that to color the image with. I then cut all my papers and assembled them on the card base, embossing one layer with a snowfall background, and I also used that same embossing folder on my image. You have to have snow falling if you're making snow angels, it makes it that much more fun :)

If you head on over to the Little Miss Muffet Stamps blog you can see how LMMS customers used the images as part as Customer Appreciation Day! More great news....over at the Little Miss Muffet Stamps store a big sale starts today and goes until Saturday! Head over to the store and stock up! 

Don't forget, the Anything Goes challenge is still open over at the Little Miss Muffet Stamps blog so head on over and play along with us!

Silent Night

I sat down this afternoon to play along with a certain sketch challenge blog and when I actually started working on my card I went way off from the sketch and came up with this card instead. Sometimes things just come together like that :)

One of my favorite things to do in the winter is sit outside in the yard when it's snowing and just watch the snow blanket the trees. There is such a peace and beauty about it that really speaks to my soul, and that is what inspired this card.

Stamps: Wonderland

Paper: Always Artichoke, Whisper White Thick CS

Ink: Always Artichoke, Real Red

Accessories: Big Shot, Softly Falling TIEF, dimensionals

Baby its cold outside for Friday Mashup

Ok, well, it seems to be cold everywhere BUT Alaska. The stupid jet stream sent the cold weather soaring to the Lower 48 and left Alaska with record high temps and in my area we're still waiting for our first snowfall! If this holds out until the end of the month this would be the least-snowy November for Anchorage, and the first November in recorded history that we have never seen measurable snowfall. That just depresses me!

My snow fixation was perfect for this weeks Friday Mashup brought to us by Avery.....a card inspired by weather and include a metal embellishment. I started daydreaming about our beautiful winter nights when everything is covered in snow and the light from the moon illuminates everything and it's just so magical and still. I'm really hoping we get some snow soon so I can enjoy those type of nights again!

Now, I think I stretched the metal embellishment a bit by using silver sequins....it kin of looks like metal right? :0)

Head over to The Friday Mashup and check out all the great weather inspired cards by the rest of the DT and then play along with us!

This week's Mashup Challenge is:

• Create a project using "a Metal Embellishment (Staple, Brad, Grommet etc.)". 
• Create a project using "Weather as your Inspiration" think Storms, Winter, Clouds, Rain, Sun, Warm Sandy Beaches. 
• or Mash it Up! and create a "Weather inspired project with a Metal Embellishment".

Stamps: White Christmas

Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White

Ink: Whisper White Craft Ink, Memento Tuxedo Black, Daffodil Delight, Real Red, Garden Green

Accessories: Big Shot, Window Framelits, CB Swiss Dots EF, White Gel Pen, Frosted Sequins, Dazzling Diamonds