Monday, November 29, 2010

Get in Shape

The 38th challenge at the Shabby Tea Room is to "Get in Shape": to make a shaped project that uses no squares or rectangles.  Every year I make some ornaments for our Christmas tree, so I decided to use the Spellbinder's Fleur de Lis pendant to make snowflake ornaments.  Here are 2 examples:




Briefly, I diecut a circle out of blue cardstock, overstamped it in white ink with the snowflake circle, then stamped the trees in green ink.  The snow is a torn piece of a white diecut circle, glued to the blue circle.  The log cabin was stamped on kraft cardstock, and colored in with colored pencils, adding white gel pen for the snow and popped up for a little dimension.  I added glitter with a glue pen, then dipped into prisma glitter.  I used 2 pendant diecuts, 1 turned 45 degrees from the first behind the finished scene, and then put another finished scene on the reverse side, so that if it turns you still see the main image.

Supplies: blue, white, kraft cardstocks, colored pencils, glue pen and glitter, Glossy Accents on some windows, Hero Arts CG100 Snowflake Circle, CL462 Magic of Christmas (added snowflakes), CL464 Sending Holiday Cheer (cabin and trees), Colorbox Frost White, pine needles distress, and Versafine onyx black inks, Spellbinders Fleur de Lis Pendant diecut, circle diecut

18 comments:

Virginia L. said...

Love these two beauties!The shapes are perfect for this!

Debbie said...

Lin, this is simply BEAUTIFUL! Your tree must look gorgeous with all your handmade lovelies on it!! Thanks so much for sharing your talents with us weekly in the Tea Room :)

Arlene said...

Oh, I think this is fantastic! LOVE THIS!

Nicole said...

So pretty! Love that image! Thanks for playing along with us at TSTR! :)

Anne said...

These are just lovely Lin and will look fabulous on your tree!

Michelle said...

WOW! This is fantastic Lin! I love every detail from the snowflakes to the house and the snow!!!!

Barb said...

Beautiful ornaments, Lin! Love the snowflake die cut and the lovely scene you've created!

donna mikasa said...

Beautiful ornament! I can just picture your tree covered with dozens of these--so charming!

Suzanne C said...

Beautiful! Love the lacey edges around your little cabins. Lovely ornaments.

CinnamonSally said...

Fabulous ornaments Lin, love the shape and that cute house.

Anne Gaal said...

Hi, Lin! What a terrific project! The little holiday houses are adorable! And I love the glittery snow! Beautiful design and so creative! :-)

sideoats + scribbles said...

Lin! These are so pretty -- love all the GLITTER! :) And they gave me a great idea -- J's mom and dad are coming for a week long visit from Ohio and they're going to be staying with us -- the house stamps will make a perfect card to go on a "welcome to Texas" basket I'm making for them!

Hugs!

Ann said...

Lovely Lin - really like the 3D effect you've created with the little scene - puts me a bit in mind of a snowglobe.

Clare said...

beautiful! thanks for joining us this week at The Shabby Tea Room!

Vee said...

wow absolutely beautiful!

Stamping Cafe said...

WOW... what a gorgeous ornament, Lin!! Love love love this!!

Ayana Posadas said...

This is just beautiful, Lin!
Wonderful use of the stamp for such a CUTE ornament! :)

Nancy said...

Spectacular design, Lin! That little house is perfect and I love that your ornament is 2D with the design on both sides! Kudos on the Tweet!