Happy Birthday Wendy Vecchi!!!

As many of you regulars know, I love me some Wendy Vecchi goods, but I also think the lady herself is wonderful! She is kind, generous, gracious, knowledgeable, creative, inventive, and  wonderful to talk to! Today is her birthday, and this is the card I made for her, which is also what the #55 Making Art Challenge is all about at the Everything Wendy Vecchi Yahoo Group. I hope she likes it! It's a little daunting making something for a Master!

 

 

Supplies:
From My Stash- Thickers Alpha Letters, Metal Polka Dot Tab, Best Wishes Stamp


I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

A White Christmas ATC

First things first. The biggest THANK YOU ever to Tim for shouting out my Christmas In The Hood! WOW...what an honor and a thrill, and one I never expected! He is so busy trying to please us all, yet he takes the time to read so many of our blogs...what a testament to his love for crafting. He knows when you are blogging. He knows when you're at the make. He knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for crafting's sake! Sorry...I couldn't help it! And, THANK YOU people...every single one of you inky fingered people!!! The comments, the texts, the calls, the emails, the hits, the new followers, the old followers, and the passers by have made my cup truly runneth over! I've tried to reply to every single one who has left a link, an email, a number, etc. to send love back. Hugs to all of you!

Since I received my November ATC's from the All Things Tim Yahoo Group the other day, I figured it was time to get cracking on the December ones. This month's theme is Anything Christmas or Winter, so I decided to incorporate both, plus design these around ALL (Honest!) the challenges listed below, which are many, so this really was a challenge for me. I think I got it all in.
I cannot wait to see what I get back in return! It really is just like receiving a present, and a Christmasy theme will make them extra special! Thank you to those that participate.

 

Using left over scraps of white cardstock, I cut 2 1/2 x 10 1/2 inch strips. I scored and folded the strips at 3 1/2 and 7 inch intervals to make three equal sections to create an easel type stand.

Using Tim's Snow Flurry and Christmas Snow Flurry Border Texture Fades, I embossed the image on the whole first section and on the bottom portion of the last section. Seen below as well.

These were misted with Ranger's Perfect Pearls Mist in Perfect Pearl to add that blinding snowy glimmer. I inked the edges with Pumice Stone Distress Ink.

Using more scraps of white I die cut Tim's Sizzix Tree Line On The Edge Die. After misting with the Perfect Pearls, I cut these in half, inked the edges with Pumice Stone, and adhered them to the bottom portion of the front of the ATC. I also added Dresden Foil Lace to the bottom of this.

More die cutting of white scrap using The Festive Greenery branch portion. I inked the branch stems only with the Pumice Stone, and foam taped this onto the ATC. Icicle Stickles made for some snow covered needles.

I decided to try something new to me using Idea-ology Glassine to see if something would work, as my white cardstock scrap stash was now reduced to the tiniest of scrap. I covered both sides of the sheet with Claudine's Gesso, drying between coating each side. I cut the sheet into inch long strips.

I die cut the strips using the miniest of the Mini Snowflake Rosettes. The strip wasn't quite long enough, but that was good as I needed my rosette smaller. The Gesso made the Glassine so durable that no reinforcing tape was needed, and the accordion  folding was easy.  The plan worked!!!! I joined the end parts together.

Glassine adheres quickly with Glossy Accents, so rather than use my hot glue gun, I just applied a glob of GA onto my craft sheet and formed my strip into the rosette and pushed it into the glob. I glued the smallest snowflake into the center to hold in place. Here is the coolest part. The edges of the Glassine remained their original brownish color, so the snowflake rosette already looked distressed. No extra inking here, but Icicle and Silver Stickles were needed to bling it up, as well as a tiny metal star.

I used Grunge Board to die cut the Mini Cardinal. I colored him in with Distress Markers, and then gave him a coating of UTEE. I always manage to make bubbly  bits in the UTEE. I think I am getting too close with the heat tool. I adhered him to the branch. I painted some Lil Davis alpha letters (Remember that company?) with Adirondack Acrylic Dabber in Silver, and distressed them up a bit.  I stuck them on to the card base for my sentiment. Last, I added a little more Silver Stickles to the lace.

 

 

 

I am also submitting these to the Sunday Stamper challenge of "Noel", Unruly Paper Arts Reader Art Quest 2 for "An Easel Card", The Stamp Man Challenge for "In The Bleak Mid Winter-Use White", The Blogger's Challenge for "Create A Scene", and finally the Compendium of Curiosities II Challenge for "Paper Rosette" from Tim's Book by the same name on page 63.

Supplies:
From My Stash- various white cardstock scraps, mini metal star stickers, Little David Vinyl Letters



I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!