Flakes

Happy Monday!
I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend!  We did a whole lot of nothing, which is always nice!  Still trying to get over this head cold that has plagued us both for a few weeks now...not fun at all!

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So on to my creation for this week.  Our new challenge starting today at Paper Makeup is to Use Your Scraps!  Yes!!  Who doesn't have a mile high pile of scraps to use up?  I know I do!  I try and try to use them up but somehow I always end up making more!

I figured since snow season is right around the corner, that I'd make something appropriate for that.  I have all sorts of snowflake paper scraps so I decided to try and make a little gradual snowfall scene.  I used the darkest snowflake paper on top and then gradually lightened it up as the snow fell.  I cut out a few snow drifts and inked them with some blue ink.  It's a little darker than I wanted, but it's about the only blue ink pad I have that still works well enough for this.  So I rolled with it :)

I printed off my snowman from the Snow Happy set from Paper Makeup and colored him in with my colored pencils.  I also printed off the fun sentiment - All my friends are flakes - and cut that out in a scallop frame.

To help tie in the orangish yellow on his scarf, I used some orange twine across the top and made a bow to tuck the sentiment under.  I finished everything off with a few touches of my new Wink of Stella glitter pen so things sparkled :)

Such a fun card!  I hope you will join us this week!  Pull out your scraps and use a digi on your project!!  Can't wait to see what you create!! Oh and while your at the challenge blog, welcome our new teammate Marsha!!  So happy she has joined us!! <3

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    DigiStamps4Joy #78-Embossing
    Quirky Crafts #22-Make Us Laugh
    Timeless Tuesday #243-Fussy Cutting