Snow Friends Card 3

Here's the third one! I like this one - clean and simple. This little guy has a birdy friend to talk to while the snow falls. He's just sweet. Again, he is colored with my CTMH markers in the colors of Twilight, orange, and the bird is a combination of Holiday Red and Cranberry (just hard to see the shading in the pic.) I added prismaglitter to this one, too. All along his shaded side, the ground and the snowflakes. He is matted on Twilight cardstock and the sentiment is stamped in Twilight ink.

Let it snow!! (At least, according to my daughter...I could do without, but...)

Snow Friends Card 2

Joy to the World! Doesn't it look like he's singing?? Yet another
little Snow Friends pal. He is stamped in Black Staz-On (I haven't
used this for just cards. But discovered that I really liked the clear
crisp image it gave, and the fact that my markers didn't smear the
black at all. Very nice.) He is colored with Amethyst and Petal,
Heavenly Blue, and Orange Markers. I also added Prismaglitter
to the snowflakes, and the shaded edges of the snowman. The
cardstock is Twilight, Petal, and White Daisy. The snowflakes on
the back ground of the card are stamped in second generation
Twilight. A few of them also have the solid portion stamped in
second generation Petal.

The sentiment comes from the Christmas Scripts set.

Can't believe I didn't post this yet!!! Hanna!!

So what did Hanna go shopping for today??? I'm guessing shoes, a funky new purse, and some more great clothes!! Isn't she adorable?

I dressed Hanna in a Citrus Leaf with Clover Meadow trim dress. Her hair is a combination of Sunflower and Goldrush. Her bags are Twilight, Amethyst, Citrus Leaf, Blush, and the Sunflower/Goldrush combo. Her shoes, of course, match her dress. (All markers are CTMH.)

The Amethyst heart button is tied on with some citrus leaf colored floss. Hanna is layered on Amethyst cardstock and Citrus Leaf B&T paper.

I can't believe I hadn't posted her yet!!

Snow Friends Card 1

Well, hard to tell from this picture but the card base is Twilight blue, then a layer of chocolate, and then the snowman layer. Isn't he just the cutest? I love this little guy!! He's stamped in chocolate ink and colored with Petal, Twilight, and Orange CTMH markers. He also has a little glitter that doesn't really show in this picture. The saying is stamped in chocolate with the solid part of the small snowflake stamped in second generation Twilight. The bird is also Twilight. The layered snowflake is stamped in Chocolate for the outline, second generation Twilight for the inside and then glittered. I layered that on the larger snowflake which I stamped on Twilight cardstock and then cut out. (The stamped side is glued down.)

This is the November Stamp of the Month set from CTMH. Stay tuned for two more cards with this set!!

Javabella Friends

Just had to keep trying I guess. Here's the photo of my Javabellas card. I used CTMH White Daisy cardstock for the card and the image panel, and Holiday Red for the layer. I colored the Bellas with my CTMH markers. The "flower" in the vase is one of the new CTMH sparkles in Holiday Red. It was exactly the same size as the flower in the image, so I thought it would be fun!!

The red paper flower was dyed with Holiday Red reinker to match the other red elements in the card, layered with a smaller plain white flower and another Sparkle. The saying comes from the CTMH set called Because of You. It says "There are many people that we meet in our lives", and inside it says "but only a few are worth getting to know."
(Not 100% sure I agree with that, because I always seem to find lots of people I wish I could get to know better!)

Yay!! I played yesterday!!

I finally got some time to just sit and stamp and play yesterday. It was SO nice! Fun to stamp just for me - I just don't do that very often! So, I played with a new Bella stamp, my new Hanna set, and the November Stamp of the Month set - Snow Friends. I practiced coloring with my markers using techniques I've been reading about on lots of different blogs and felt pretty good about my results.

Hmm, seem to be having trouble uploading pictures. I'll keep trying and hopefully have something to show you soon.

Happy FRIDAY!

Wow, it's Friday, and I haven't posted anything since Tuesday! Yikes! What a week, though! I'm looking forward to a calm weekend....think it'll happen?? Somehow, I kind of doubt it! Well, my hope is to get to sit at my stamping desk and create today...so hopefully, I'll have something to share later! I have new Bellas and a Hanna set I haven't even gotten to touch yet!