Saturday, December 26, 2009

Warm Winter Wishes

From The Funkie Junkie



I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas!! I did for sure! Since most of us have been eating and drinking our way through the holidays, Jenny Gropp, our hostess this week at Our Creative Corner, has challenged us to make a card with a food/drink theme. I flipped through my stamp image binder looking for food and found that I don't have many stamps of food images. I did find this adorable Whiff of Joy stamp that had never seen ink and thought it was a perfect time to use it. I actually had been wanting to use it before the winter season is over. I also had this (digital) round brush from a set called On the Edge, In the Round by Katie Pertiet from Designer Digitals that I had been wanting to use. I am not much on digis, but I really like her designs. The file came in black and I really didn't want black. I spent some time a week or so trying to change a digital stamp from black to another color in Photoshop Elements 7 and finally gave up. But this week, I was fortunate enough to be reading Faith's blog Delightful Inspiration and caught her post with tips on how to change the color of digital stamps. Thanks to Faith I was able to match up the digital image very closely to Sage Shadow. I also lucked out and found a free Verve digi. I changed the color to match up with the brush and printed it inside a smaller (resized) version of the brush. Later I decided to just cut the sentiment with a circle Nestie, but a little of the brush design remained around the outer edge - that is not a part of the Verve digi. The designer paper is retired SU and the snowflakes are Cuttlebug dies. A l ittle zigzag stitching and some tiny chocolate Kaiser pearls and this crad was ready to post.

After the gifts are unwrapped and the goodies gobbled down, I hope you'll take some time to stop by Our Creative Corner and the blogs of the other team members to see what delicious concoctions they have whipped up for your delectation.

14 comments:

Hanne said...

This is a really beautiful card Linda! Many wonderful elements!

Lovely Linda said...

Hi Linda - what a gorgeous creation! Love the image and the colours - just lovely! Your DP and embellishments are perfect! You sure know how to make a 'work of the heart!' God bless you my friend - I have enjoyed gettng to know you this year and look forward to more inspiration and visual delights in the coming year! {{{hugs}}}

LorettaL said...

Linda, this is such a darling Willow card!

Wendy J. said...

This is very "you", Linda! I love your style. Gorgeous card!

Lori Rider said...

Oh, this is beautiful! I love your image and colors - perfect for a winter card. Such beautiful embellishments and wonderful little touches, as always!

Beautiful Greetings said...

Absolutely beautiful Linda! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and that 2010 brings you great joy!

Silke Ledlow said...

GORGEOUS!!! Love the colors and your design!!! The image is totallyy cute!!!

Happy Holidays!!! Hugs ~S~

Jennifer Meyer said...

Amazing card Linda, I LOVE the fun shades of blue! The detail of layers and embellishments are always amazing - WOW!

Have a wonderful weekend, Jennifer :)

Mrs B said...

Such a pretty card! I love the detail!
CindyB

Jaspere said...

This is absolutely gorgeous!

Christine said...

Very heart warming creation Linda!

Faith S. said...

This is so beautiful, Linda!! I LOVE the inside, too. Wow!!

Devlin said...

Thanks for your lovely comment.
And wow, your card is gorgeous! I'm still lokking for that stamp, haven't got it yet, but it's a beauty.
Happy newyear!

Sandra said...

Such a beautiful card. Love all the altered elements.
Happy New Year!
Sandra x

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