Let It Snow

This week's Art Card Tuesday prompt was snowflakes. We had snow recently, but the weather has been fairly mild the last week or so and I was having trouble getting inspired. Last night I was sorting through old Christmas cards I had stashed - an embarrassing number of years' worth - and found a pretty snowflake design on a card which resulted in this.

Glitter and shine make me happy, but they are certainly hard to photograph! I used my Cricut to make the window frame, and scrounged through my case of Christmas craft supplies and found a package of Tim Holtz Remnant Rubs for the "let it snow" phrase.

I'm working on artist trading coins - my first - for a Valentine swap, so will have those to show soon. Here's a sneak peak at the not-quite-completed first one. I've finished five so far with five more to go, and am having fun with them.

Hope you have a great week!

Ice is Nice

It's week 3 of Kim at ArtJoyStuff's Art Card Tuesday, and her prompt this week was ice.

This is another super simple card. The skater image is from The Graphics Fairy. I searched for quotes related to ice, and the first one up was from a favorite author so I went with it.

I'm really enjoying this opportunity to make a little creation each week using someone else's prompt. You should join in! Your creation can be whatever the prompt leads you to, and you can spend as much or as little time as you're comfortable with. If you blog about it, you can link your post to Kim's Art Card Tuesday post for the week.

In other news, I'm just trying to get some things listed on Etsy, finish reading Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver (loving it, and I have two more great books waiting in the wings) and attend to life and everything it's throwing my way lately.

Hope you have a great weekend!

Art Card Tuesday Follow-Along

I'm following along with Kim at ArtJoyStuff on her weekly Art Card Tuesday. This week's theme is Winter White which fits perfectly with the weather we had a few days ago.

We had ice one night, then snow fell the next night in huge flakes. It was so quiet and peaceful. Lovely.

Of course, it was gone by the time I woke up the next day so my only snow photos are nightime shots.

All the glittery white inspired me to finally use a quote I've been saving from the border strip of a sheet of Authentique paper.

This was a super quick and easy creation - not my best ever but it will make a very nice ornament for next Christmas, or just a little display piece for winter.

If you're wanting some creative inspiration, hop over to ArtJoyStuff and follow Kim's blog to get the weekly Art Card Tuesday prompt.

Have a great weekend!

Welcome 2019!

Welcome 2019 - a new year with new opportunities! I've missed blogging. I only managed four posts last year but hope to do better this year. Even knowing that most people go to Instagram or Facebook now to keep up with others, I want to keep blogging for my own sake. It's nice having these reminders of good times and good vintage finds.

To start the new year with a bit of creativity, I decided to follow along with Kim at ArtJoyStuff and her Art Card Tuesday. She's already posted her second one and I just completed my first, but then she's in a different time zone so it's all good!

Here's my card for this week, using things from my work table.

Kim's prompt last Tuesday was "My Word for 2019." Since I'm not doing a word for the year, I just used a little Happy tag left over from a Christmas project. The background is a leftover strip of paper, there's a tiny bit of vintage metallic wallpaper near the top, and the butterfly, flowers, trim and rhinestones were in a little baggie on my table and left over from another project.

Last year was hard and I do want to try to be happier this year, so this was the perfect start to a year of creating.

Hope your year is off to a good start as well!