Hello friends! Hope you’re enjoying your day so far and staying warm! We’ve just recently survived a very cold below freezing temps in my area, so going outdoors is not that pleasant even bundled up! So with that, I stay inside and find crafting to be my happy space!
I’m very excited to be joining with my crafty friend, Carol (from Crafty-Stamper) for another year of SMASHING OUR STASH!🎉 I love the inspiration that we bring each other as well as accountability for getting those piles of stash used up! Thank you for joining me again and please be sure to check out the wonderful inspiration on her blog too! Here’s my AJ page with this month’s prompt of “COLD” (anything related to this word):
Of course when I think of cold, I think of my favorite animal…the penguin!! I pulled out some Lawn Fawn stamps to use on my page today. Lots of blues and silver and sparkle help with the feeling of cold too! I have so many sparkly items, so it was great to use some up!
For the background: I started with a piece of Canson Watercolor 140# coldpress 5.5″x8.5″ pre-punched holes at the top and covered it with blue colored acrylic paints using a baby wipe. I also went around the edges with a darker blue and then used a number stencil with white paint which you can barely see as I’ve covered most of it up. I then splattered with white paint using a fan brush for the snow.
- I also found a cool icicle border and cut it out with my Cricut machine in silver glitter cardstock for the top of the page. I then used my Zutter machine to punch the holes again and used a corner chomper to round the top edges.
For the bottom: I used all Lawn Fawn border dies for the mountains and snow hills. The blue ice water the penguin is standing on is just a straight piece of blue cardstock covered with a glitter brush pen. I also used Stickles glitter to cover the snow cone that the penguin snowman is holding.
The lettering was done with a Lawn Fawn alphabet die that I ink blended in blues and covered with crystal effects. I foiled over the “January” word with blue foil and cut it out with a die and placed a couple of silver rhinestones next to it. This was popped up with foam underneath the “BRR” letters.
I hope you’ve enjoyed my AJ page today and have been inspired in some way! Thanks so much for stopping in!
Challenges:
- Art Journal Journey – It’s On the Calendar (January is COLD!)
- Kreativ-Tanten – Snow
- Once Upon a Time – Mr. Popper’s Penguin book cover
- Penny’s Paper-crafty– Anything Goes with Paper
- The Sisterhood of Crafters – Winter Blues
Love your freezing AJ page with the adorable penguins.
xxx Margreet
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These are some really adorable images and make for a really cute wintery scene. I need to peek at the challenges in blog land again. It has been a bit since I have had time to play. Maybe things will slow down next weekend for me to peek at them again.
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This page has all the elements of a perfectly cold winter’s day! Those ice capped mountains and sparkly ice hanging from the top of the page almost make me shiver, but those penguins and snowman are too cute with their ear muffs and igloo. Ok, enough about frosty cold, I’m ready for spring 🙂 Have a great weekend!
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Such a cute winter scene!
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OMGoodness, such an adorable page! I totally think of penguins, too! Love everything about this! As much as I love cold weather, enough is enough, and I’m ready for some spring stuff! 🙂
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What an adorable scene. Love those cute little penguins!
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Gorgeous scene Vicki, love the sparkly snow and those cute little penguins with their snowman.
Luv CHRISSYxx
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This is a fabulous journal page, it sure does show our recent weather and it so darling with the penguins and snowman !
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You always come up with a brilliant journal page Vicki ! I love the cute penguins the die-cut mountains and icy/sparkly icicle border-brilliant.
Carol x
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Amazing and what a gorgeous card this is with this lovely design and colours ♥
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Warm wishes
Much♡love
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Oh so cute!! Thanks so much for participating in my ONCE UPON A TIME challenge!!! I appreciate that you play along and I enjoy visiting your blog!! Have a happy crafty day!! Deanne at A Little Bit O’ Paper
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This is perfect for on the calendar Vicki. And for your weather much of January too. I love the silver sparkle icicles. What a fun way to celebrate winter. Thanks for joining in at AJJ. Enjoy your last few days of the month. Hugs Erika
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That’s brrrrr-illiant Vicki!
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So adorable, love the scene you have created. Thank you for joining the Penny’s Paper-Crafty Challenge blog. Good luck with your entry.
Crafty Hugs, Renske Penny’s DT
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What a fun way to start the new year off with a fun AJ page. You used my favorite – penguins. AND – we have SUNSHINE today – first sunshine in over a week.
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OMG this is so, so cute Vic! Love the scene you have created! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Sisterhood of Crafters challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
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Such a gorgeous and fun scene! I love the glittery elements and the penguin and snow penguin are super cute 🥰. Happy wishes! Hugs, Jo x
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And this is your style, recognizable to you, which I love. Your cards are so fun and so beautifully composed. I love this winter scene!
xx
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