Sue's Sentiments

I had an opportunity to play a little after the dreaded “chore list” was done… So, I decided to pull out my new bkgd stamp that I received from Cheryl over at OnyxXpressions for having my card published in Just Cards magazine using one of her images. It’s the beautiful bkgd stamp that you see here. I thought it was the perfect backdrop for this precious little magnolia image. I am entering this in the Stampin’ Sisters In Christ Challenge this week and the shadow box card is the theme. It’s based on the scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:12 (King James Version): “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” PeggySue is hosting this one and here is her understanding of this portion of scripture in her words: Our view of God in this life is veiled; we can’t see Him clearly. But just because our view is dim, doesn’t diminish His reality or His glory. When we get to heaven, we won’t be looking through a dark glass or catching a brief glimpse in a mirror, we will see Jesus face to face. We will know Him and He will truly know us, as no being knows us here on the earth. We will see God’s glory revealed in all of its indescribable splendor and majesty. How wonderful! I don’t know about you, but I am really looking forward to that. Isn’t that beautiful? What a glorious day this will be! I’m also going to submit this for the December Magnolia-licious Homepage Card challenge in the Magnolia-licious yahoo group.
I’ve been wanting to try one of these cards and so I just had to participate. I printed out the tutorial from SCS.
I think I took a photo of this card about 20 times…no jest.
I just could NOT get the right angle without either a shadow or losing the “shimmer” that I wanted to capture. Here I FINALLY used my Yasutomo pearlescent watercolor paints on the snow. I ended up taking a paintbrush and dabbing some white PTI Fresh Snow ink on it to make it a little more visible and then went over the top of that again with the pearlescent paint in white. Furthermore, I painted the tree as well in the green pearlescent. The river is colored with a blue American Crafts Galaxy marker. Then I went over top of that with my sakura clear glitter pen. Because my take on snow is that it’s always glistening. In addition, I used a copper Galaxy pen on the tree stumps to the right. I also finally pulled out these pretty white MFT flowers. I bought them up at CHA and never have had a chance to use them. I added some blue dewdrop centers. I applied some faux fern branches with my MS fern punch.
Tilda is colored in with prismacolor pencils and OMS with blender stump. Lastly, I used a Miss Elizabeth’s adhesive sentiment and Heidi Grace rub-on snowflakes. The window is cut out using my CB and nesties die.Phew! I think that’s it….LOL This was a FUN card to make! You’ll definitely being seeing another one of these only with different images. TFL!

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