Christmas Card

Just wanted to take a minute to share a Christmas card I made several days ago.  Still no sunshine here, so  I've had to delay posting.  Unfortunately, its almost Christmas so I had to make due!
  I made this card for a challenge over at Donna Salazars Girlie grunge site.  The challenge required us to use denim and glitter. 

I made the wreath by ripping strips of old jeans and then knotting them up around an cheap bangel bracelett I found.  I added glitter to the bow...and because I couldn't figure out where to put the Merry in "Merry Christmas" I decided to spell it out with wire and place it on top of the wreath. 





I am still very lost when trying to make cards.  I have decided to start practicing though, to get over the intimidation! lol

So, I will be posting another card here in a few days...

Thanks again for stopping by, and I'm wishing you a Very  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!  Oh and to my Messianic and Jewish Friends, Happy hanukkah!

altered journal

Hi there!  I've been wanting to post pics of this journal I have made all week but the sun has hidden from me and my pics weren't doing it justice.  So today I finally had enough light to take some quick snapshots...
 



This is what it looked like without embellishments...and I loved it so much that I really didn't want to add anything!!! I used crackle medium and several different Donna Salazar Smooch Spritz to create this background.



The wordlets, window, wings, and door knob are all some of my favorite chippies from Scrapfx!  I have been hoarding my scrapfx chippies...using them very sparingly because I'm going to be so sad when they are all gone!  So to use so many of them on one project was a bit sacrifice...but I think well worth it!



I made the flower by cutting out a bunch of hearts from Donna Salazars Crafty Chronicle and piecing them together. I unevenly covered the wordlets with white paint and then misted them with more DS smooch spritz and then over heated them with the heat gun because I love the blotchy effect. 

I absolutely love this door knob!!!  I want a million of them. I have a thing with doors anyway and this reminds me of the doors of the old abandoned building downtown where I'm always doing my "photo shoots"

Here I punched holes and added brads and lacing with wire.  Any lacing I do is ultimately inspired by Natasha...I would have never even thought about the lacing without all of her beautiful work, so I am giving her props for any lacing I've done past and future! lol 


This journal was inspired by a chapter in a  book I read recently,  by Rick Joyner.  In the chapter he explains a heavenly encounter he had through a dream.  He was in heaven and was given the opportunity to go through many doors that opened up to rooms where he was given treasures from each room ( mostly in the form of knowledge to the deep secrets of heaven and earth).  He had gone through many beautiful doors where he became more enlightened after each entry.  Then an angel guided him to a door that didn't even look as if it belonged in the heavens.  It was dark, old, and grungy, and the thought of entering the door instantly struck fear in him.  However, when he finally decided to wrestle up the courage and enter the door,  he was given so much more than he had received in any of the other rooms. Also, when he took another look at the door after his experience, he noticed that it was now more beautiful than any other door he had seen.


I used this as another reminder to fear not the unknown, and also to remember that usually the hard choices are the most rewarding!

Thank again for stopping by for a visit! I appreciate you taking the time!!

Punky Scraps #36 "Snow Kissed"

Hi. Hope everyone has had a great weekend and an even better start to your weekend!  Its time for a new challenge at Punky Scraps.  Since December is such a CRAZY busy month, Nat has combined all 3 challenges into one big challenge.

You have your picture above for the christmas cheer, the sketch for inspiration and the twist is you MUST include ONE of the following:

* corrugated cardboard*

*stamping*

*paint*

*misting*

*stars*

*ribbon*

 

 

So here is my sweet daughter a couple of weeks ago during our first snow of the year. 

Products:the crafters workshop snowflake template,  modeling paste, gesso, ScrapFx chippie, Donna Salazar Smooch Spritz, glitter...

 Here I just wanted to show the texture on the background. To give the snowflakes more dimension, I used several of Donna Salazars Smooch sprays.  I let the colors pool around the creases of the flakes and then used a wet wipe to lighten the tops of the flakes a bit.

 

I made the snow-woman out of corrugated cardboard that I painted with gesso and covered in glitter.  I hand cut the hat, covered it with denim, then added ribbon and a flower.  The scarf is also scraps off an old pair of jeans. The swirly piece is a chippie from ScrapFx.  I tried to make it look like the snowman was "blowing" a kiss.  I also added some glossy accents to the end of the nose, but instead of looking like an icecicle it looks like snot! :)

Thank you for looking!  I always appreciate your visits!