Crafting by Candlelight

 Hello again - I'm back online. Honey and I have survived! We lost power Sunday evening and throughout much of the week. Monday night was the worst of it, 19 degrees outside and 50 degrees in the house. I told Honey I now know why all the old-timey pictures showed people in their bedclothes with head coverings! We had to wear our ski caps and scarves, lol. Then, rolling blackouts, which were worse in my opinion, because I would get confused between the two. Habits are hard to break. Then our municipal water plant failed, so no water. Luckily we lived on our bottled water supply and melted snow/ice water to fill the toilet tanks. 

Anyway, life this past week was at times minute by minute survival for WE the uninitiated so when I could, I took possession of one of our battery lanterns and a couple of candles into my playroom and tried to craft. First I colored a bunch of images and then I tried putting together some cards. It was hard not being able to look on my computer at my stamp files, sketches and other supplies, so I simplified. No heat embossing, used only color-coordinated papers, etc. Luckily, I was able to find a few sketches when I was able to get enough bars on my phone to navigate the web. 

I found this Split Coast Stamper Sketch 420 and used a premade 5x5" square red DCWV card base along with Basic Grey's Color Me Silly 12x12" designer paper, my new-to-me Crafters Companion Gemini Torn Edge Square dies and a Bugaboo digi image called 4 Block Tulip Square colored with my Promarkers.

  

On the inside I used stamps from Crafty Secrets and Clear Dollar with BG paper. On back, more BG paper and a Technique Tuesday stamped and circle-punched siggie.

And a final view. Candlelight crafting simplified! And lots of fun to color a Spring image, too. Thanks for visiting - I still am way behind in my blog visiting and I hope you will forgive me. I will catch up with ya! Oh, and...

Yes, it snowed! Just a dusting, but it stayed for days because of sustained freezing temps and I cannot ever remember seeing that before. 

  

I took photos the first night with more snow, but they came out really dark. These photos were taken the second day, a "panoramic" of my view from my front porch, left to right. The last of the snow on our roof melted yesterday, so it was on there almost 4 days, quite rare for us. 

MY CHALLENGES PLAYLIST:

1.   Split Coast Stampers Sketch 420

2.   Outlawz Sundays Songs & Rhymes 2/7-2/20: Lovely Ladybug  #1/3

3.   Daring Cardmakers: Share the Love  

4.   Passion 4 Markers Week 579: Use 3 or More Papers

5.   I Love Promarkers #429: AG + Opt. Birthday -- Option played and focal image colored with Promarkers

6.   Colour Crazy Craft Challenge Week 5: AG with Colouring -- Used Promarkers

7.   Creative Finger #201: AAG --  #3/3 Used sponsor image

8.   CHNPPC Feb: AG with Patterned Paper

9.   Pearly Sparkles #59: AG

10. Classic Design Challenge Feb. 2021 #2: AAG   

11. YSBP Feb: AAG - #2/3  Entering regular monthly challenge

12. TTCRD 2/16-2/23: AAG -- #1/2

13. Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #490: AAG with Paper

14. Crafts Galore Encore #84: AAG

15. Country View Challenge Feb: First Signs of Spring

16. More Mixed Media Feb: AAG + Opt. RED -- Option played!

17. Happy Little Stampers Feb AG with Dies -- Used CC Gemini Torn Edge Square dies  

18. Use Your Stuff #416: It's My Favorite -- My favorite go-to is always COLORING

19. The Creative Crafters #37: AAG

20. ABMTTC #134: AAG

21. ABMTTCXtra Feb: AAG