A not so traditional Christams card!

This is not your traditional Christmas card. The Outlawz had this color combo as part of a challenge and I decided to do a Christmas card. They also asked that we use Stickles.

The die cut ornament was made with my Cricut machine and the Christmas Cheer cartridge.
The panel were made with the Serendipity Technique.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Color Challenge, July 5, 2011: Red, White and Black at The Outlawz

Thanks!

Love
Julia

Challenge #5: The Whole Story... at Stampin' Dymonz Creative Space

Challenge #5: The Whole Story... at Stampin' Dymonz Creative Space
This has been so much fun. The final chapter of this series of challenges is here and boy was it a challenge.
Here are the rules:

Take the background you created over the last two weeks and make a Father's Day layout. Your layout can be made to insert into an album, as a wall hanging, or inside of a shadow box. Your layout must include the following elements:

• Handmade flowers -- at least 3.
• A hand colored digital image -- at least 1.
• A photograph -- at least 1.
• Butterflies -- at least 3.

For the past two weeks I have been learning two mixed media techniques: Credit Card Painting and Serendipity. Part of the instructions were to leave the project created untouched so that we could use it for the following week's challenge.

From the beginning I knew who I wanted to honor through this LO: my dear husband and of course a great dad!

There was just a tiny little problem: Didn't have a clue as of what I was going to do!!!

As days passed, inspiration came to me and a sketch was born.

I had to have at least three butterflies and since I couldn’t make up my mind on the patterned paper, decided to paint some more paper, heat embossed it with gold embossing powder and die cut them.
The flowers are simple handmade lollipop flowers.
The background paper created in Challenge 3 and 4 are the accent pieces on my LO and bring everything together.
Here it is:

Recipe:
DCWV and COLORBOK cardstock
Me & My Big Ideas Patterned Paper
Image: Lost in Paper Scraps
Tim  Holtz Ranger Distress Ink: Peeled Paint and Broken China
Versamark
Stamp: Unity Stamp Ser: Now and Always
Embossing Powder
Acrylic Paints: Deep Teal, Holly Berry, Caramel, and Pure Gold
Adhesive
Cricut Expression
Sentimentals Cartridge
Heat Gun
Buttons

 Some details:

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Thanks for visiting!

Love

Julia

New Card!

This is a fun card. The image and sentiments are from Fresh Brewed Designs.
The background was created using the Serendipity technique (Mixed Media Arts)
Here is the card:

Image and sentiment: Fresh Brewed Design

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Through the Craftroom Door - Paper Piecing
• Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #108 (MMSC108) at Priscillastyles
• Freshly Brewed Challenge 49
• CAS-ual Fridays Challenge CFC7
  

Thanks!

Love
Julia 

Challenge #4: Mixed Media Arts - Serendipity Technique

Challenge #4: Mixed Media Arts - Serendipity Technique at Stampin' Dymonz Creative Space
The challenge this week:
This week we will be using the Serendipity Technique to further enhance the background we were challenged to create in Challenge #3.

Utilizing this technique, select corresponding papers and colors to use for the Serendipity Technique.
Embellish Challenge #3's Credit Card Painting background with your Serendipity Technique to take your background to the next level. Hint: You will use this newly embellished background in next week's challenge, so please do not do anything more with the background then what you are asked to do in this post.

Here is my creation, I really love it!!!

Used scraps in the same arrange of colors that I used for the painting part, also used some of the left over paper from the original one, that I painted on.

Wanted to show some of the painted work and I think that it looks great.

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Thanks for visiting!

Love

Julia