January 7th Weekly Post

Hey there!

Hope everyone survived the week's weather!

From monstrous snow drifts to record heat, this winter is definitely not a consistent one so far. Just when you think a pattern is forming, BAM! Nope.

We've had a rollercoaster week with our offer on the house accepted on Dec. 30th, then a few minor surprises in the inspection report, but before then our realtor was rushed to the ER January 5th, diagnosed with sepsis and is currently fighting leg and heart infections in hospital. We're just kinda in shock and trying to figure out what to do if anything with the clock running. His Re/Max team finally kicked in today and appointed someone to get up to speed and be our eyes and ears in his absence. Hopefully she will be contacting us soon. And the seller agent came by tonight to offer an extension of 5 days. So we feel we are gonna be good albeit not ideal. It's just stressful for us anyway not having done a home purchase in so long. To have this monkey wrench thrown is even more stressful. We're just trying to focus on praying our realtor beats this and regains his health. He had already done a lot of the heavy lifting.

So, onto a more peaceful and calming home scene, shall we?

This week Anne is hosting a Snowy Landscape/Cityscape theme at Sunday Postcard Art.

Using 4X6 white deckle-edged watercolor card, I stamped the Art Impressions barn and tractor in Versafine Clair and heat-embossed with clear powder. Then I drew two hills and snow drift on the tractor wheels with a Stabilo Aquarelle pencil. I had also stamped and fussy-cut masks and applied them to the barn and tractor, then watercolored the sky, tractor and glitter-brushed the snow with Wink of Stella. I also colored in parts of the snow background with a white Posca. I couldn't find a quote that spoke to me about my scene, so I composed one, written it in my longhand with a blue Posca. Lastly, liberal amounts of Stickles Frosted Lace, Icicle and Arctic Ice were used. 

Angle shot to show the glittery shine.

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This birthday card for a girlfriend features a digital image from Power Poppy called Layer Cake. After printing out on Springhill Digital and coloring with Promarkers, I trimmed it down for my layered center stack of various designer papers in my stash, all ink-edged. I stamped the Creative Visions circle sentiment with Versafine Clair and heat-embossed with clear powder before cutting it with a Spellbinders circle die, then layering that onto another Spellbinders doilies die cut from yellow scrap card.

And here's the sketch I used.

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This birthday card I had a little fun with. I'd never used a stencil and black ink to cover brightly inked colors before, but it works! I took a 5x7 piece of card stock and Distress Inked horizontal bands in a rainbow color order. After that dried, I used my new A Colorful Life stencil and Black Soot Distress Oxide ink to create the focal heat tree. Below it I added a Kat Scrappiness shadowed inset sentiment die cut from card that I'd also inked with the DOX inks, and below that I stamped a Hero Arts sentiment using Versamark and Ranger Magenta embossing powder. To finish, I added 3 tiny Altenew enamel hearts to the tree and colored the center heart with a Posca paint marker.

And the sketch I used.

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Well, that's it for me this time.

Thanks for visiting and I hope your week ends in blessings.

Seeya next week,

XXO