Good evening everyone! This is for today's Inspiration Challenge: Whimsy Holiday Gift Wrap. I selected the polka dot sheet which was the flip side of Festive Forest Gift Wrap. Thank you for the terrific challenge; and the very fun inspiration at Whimsy!
I used some wonderful polka dot designer paper from My Mind's Eye, compliments of the lovely and generous Anne Ryan.
To that I added a colored snowman, cut him out, popped him up on dimensionals, gave him buttons, some customized brad mittens and a shimmer of glitter snow. Scattered some snowflake stickers over some of the polka dots. To try to match the colors on the snowman to the dp , I used inkpads with blender pens, watercolor pencils, markers and a gel pen.
The photo doesn't really reflect the true colors, so please trust me when I tell you that it's really quite a beautiful sheet of paper! This card took WAY longer than it should have; probably because I was trying to do justice to the fabulous paper that Anne sent! Not quite sure I achieved that, but it was fun to make none-the-less.
Thanks again for the challenge and thanks for looking!
Date: Saturday, November 29, 2008 GMT Views: 2284
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Registered: July 1, 2007 Location: small town near montreal, quebec Posts: 26677
Sat, Nov 29, 2008 @ 6:27 PM
Oh M this is beautiful, glad I took a few minutes to check the challenge, you have made one beautiful creation, what paper, Anne is so generous! Love your layout and those flakes wow!See ya soon...
Registered: November 5, 2007 Location: Hamilton, ON, Canada Posts: 13629
Sat, Nov 29, 2008 @ 6:29 PM
Wow - this is fabulous! And all your details - the snowflakes, buttons and mittens on your snowman are so cute!! Great compliment to the great dp from Anne!
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Registered: September 12, 2007 Location: Wake Forest, NC Posts: 61357
Sat, Nov 29, 2008 @ 7:38 PM
Divine Ms M, this is so fantastic! With some of the cards you've been turning out lately, I would never have thought you could do whimsy too. Well, I've dismissed that thought post haste. This is so darling, DMM! I love that snowman and that liquid applique is just the best, girl! Love those buttons and stickers, too. Yikes, this is just fabulous!
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