I Did It!

I managed to complete my page spread for January.  I used white embossing for a resist on the big tag and vaseline resist on the background.  I did some stenciling and stamping and included some die cuts.  Now to see what the suggested February techniques are.

January Tags

I signed up for an online journaling class.  I really didn't need another thing to do but I enjoy journaling and thought it would be an incentive to keep an art journal going.  This month's focus was on resist and the use of just two colors plus white and black.  The first tag used crayon resit, the second is a vaseline resist (which I'd never heard of), the third is white powder emobssing and the last one uses Glossy Accents.  The resist on that one isn't white because I added it to a tag that already had some color.  I've started an actual page spread but haven't finished it yet.  Since there's only one more day in the month, I better hustle to finish it.  Or maybe not.

Zipper Thanks

Ya gotta love dies.  This card uses one for the zipper panel on the front.  It "unzips" to reveal a yellow panel with the text.  I've discovered that I may need to give the perforation a little boost with a craft knife so it opens more easily but I think they are something different and fun.     And I'm into a yellow/gray/black mode so you may be seeing more of that color scheme.  Guess it reminds me of winter  - the frequent gray skies but with sunshine thrown into the mix.  Just need to add some snowflakes, though we have seen very few of those so far this year.  I think that's a good thing, especially since we've had moisture in the form of rain.

Calendar Cards

For many years I have sent cards out in January that include a mini calendar.  This year it was fun to make easel cards, especially since all of the work was done by a Sizzix easel (stand up) die cut.  The set includes 22 dies and that's a lot of pieces.  I only used two of the dies for this design.  The green border behind the calendar is a punch, as are the flower and leaf.  You is a die cut but from a different set.  I think I've already done more than 15 of these easy and fun easel cards and they weren't all calendar cards.  You may be seeing more designs in the coming months.

More Thanks

This is a variation of yesterday's card.  I added a textured panel created with an embossing folder and the hearts are die cut.

There's not much else to say.

Thanks

We're going to leave Peru for a few days and I'll show you some cards I made this month.  But not to worry, we will get back to Peru.

There's always a need for thank you cards after Christmas and I did a variation of this design.  The background paper is commercial and the butterfly and flowers are die cut.  The "thanks" is also die cut but I cut it again from black fun foam and adhered them together for both a shadow and 3-D effect.  The other text is stamped.

It's a great thing to have to send thank you cards because it means you received something nice from someone who thinks you are special.

Local Market

Outside the gates of the ruins there was a rather extensive market where many booths were set up and all sorts of items were for sale--carvings to weavings to silver items, and more.  And it seemed to be something of a social event for the women who conducted business there.