Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a safe and satisfying New Year's Eve! It was really cold here and we just stayed in - crab legs and a movie. My idea of a perfect way to see out the old year and ring in the new.

I got up and got busy this morning and in spite of the lack of any good sunlight, managed to get some photos of a couple of cards. The first I will share with you today is for the "Cold and Snowy" challenge over on the Meljen's Designs blog.


This is one of Melissa's new images and I am in love with her series of mailboxes. This one is called Cozy Winter Mailbox and I colored it using re-inkers and an aqua-painter and also my colored pencils and oms. I added some stickles to the snow to add some sparkle too! The snowflakes on the card base were stamped with Whisper White craft ink (SU) and then I added some heat and stick powder mixed with dazzling diamonds and hit it with a heat gun. You can't really see any of the sparkle on this card because of the poor lighting today, but the snow and the snowflakes are very sparkly. I sponged the edges with some more WW craft ink too. The contrast colors are Pacific Point and Old Olive. My watercoloring bled a little bit, but I ended up liking the effect. If the sun shows it's face today, I may try to get a better shot of this as I really like the sparkles!

Well, tomorrow will bring a new challenge on the Sentimental Sundays blog and this week we have a sponsor - Deedee's Digis - so be sure to stop by and check it out. Monday will bring a new challenge on Kaboodle Doodles too sponsored by Chi Chi Memories. Lots of fun, new and exciting things happening so be sure to pay us a visit!

Thanks for visiting!

~chris

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