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Sunday 13 January 2013

New Year - New Swap Idea

Last year I took part in a swap project with Chocolate Baroque members and I now have a beautiful and varied collection of Alpha tags.  This year the idea is to produce 'quintiles' which are defined as pieces of artwork five inches square, obviously using mainly products either made by or sold by Chocolate Baroque. The theme for January is Winter Wonderland - just when I thought I'd be putting my Christmas things away for a while at least although I do aim to make a few seasonal cards throughout the year.  On this one I've used a background printed from their Season's Greetings CD and a stamp which was a special for members of what was Graphicus Guild in times past (now CB).  For the wording I used a CB stamp from Christmas Reflections set but as the words were quite large, I scanned the stamped image into Word and reduced it to a more suitable size for this piece.  The little shaped layer was embossed using a cuttlebug folder.  Colouring of the sky was done with Distress inks, first masking off the snow and using brushes for a light touch.  The snow was glittered using clear rock candy dry glitter by Tim Holtz.


10 comments:

  1. Certainly looks wintery Val... its white with frost here... no snow thank goodness.
    Suzi B xx

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  2. Lovely card Val and a love how you have created your scene...haven't heard of the rock candy dry glitter but it looks interesting

    Anne

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  3. Wow Val your quintile is beautiful I'm really looking forward to this years swap challenge

    Jackie x

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  4. Such a beautifully wintery scene (and according to the weather forecast very appropriate too!) Hugs, Jenny x

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  5. Lovely card Val, just right for today it's freezing here and try to snow. Hugs x ChrisB

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  6. Love the cool, clean winter image Val, let's hope it's not a forecast of weather to come!
    Val x

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  7. this is lovely Val, really wintry looking! Am still thinking about what to do for mine, will have to get a move on as time is running out, and I don't want to be behind from the start

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  8. A gorgeous scene Val, I really enjoyed looking at your tags last year. This year my aim is join in more, so I've joined the quintiles group.

    Sue x

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  9. Beautiful quintile Val. Your colouring of the sky is gorgeous.

    Karen x

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  10. Lovely Val- you can't put your Christmas stamps away - you need to be planning this years!

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