Hi, everyone! Another Wednesday in the middle of winter, and I have a wintery birthday card to share today, featuring Miles in Winter from Mo Manning. 
I went with a combo of cool Copic colors and even used the E80s, which I hardly ever use. I cut my colored piece down using a faux stitch rectangle die from My Favorite Things.
I used some old scraps of patterned paper to create this card. On my desk I have a container of scraps of patterned paper that I’ve cut down to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2″, making them very convenient to use. The paper I used to cover the entire front of the white card base is from My Mind’s Eye (it’s the same sheet as the one I used for the sentiment banner), the one with the white lines running through it is from Autumn Leaves, from their Manhattan line, which happens to be from 2007. I definitely have some old papers in my stash. The lightest piece is from Kaisercraft. I decided to add dark blue enamel dots from Papirdesign to break a little from the monochromatic patterned paper I had going, and also to reintroduce the blue from the image, even though I really like the grayish teal of the jacket and the patterned paper scraps.
I stamped the sentiment from Norsk Stempelblad AS using VersaFine Onyx Black ink and die cut it using one of the fishtail flag frames dies from My Favorite Things.
Quick and easy coloring of this one without too many colors. As usual when I color snow, quite a few of the colors were used for the snow alone. I also used BG71 on the jacket, which is a color I’ve made myself.
I feel like every other day is Wednesday, and today’s another one. Time just goes by so incredibly quickly, it’s hard to keep up and keep track of the weekdays. I colored up 
I haven’t made one of my cluster cards in quite some time, but I really enjoy the process of putting these clusters together, so I decided to do it for this card. It’s a great way to use some patterned paper scraps, and one of these patterned papers is actually from 2007! It’s from Autumn Leaves. Remember them? I think it’s been a while since they ceased to exist. Now, when you go to autumleaves.com, you get to a site for assisted living communities for those with dementia. It’s a Texas based company, and definitely not a maker of pretty patterned paper. The other papers I’ve used are also what we’d call old in the card making world, the yellow one is from My Mind’s Eye and was released in 2011, and the remaining two were both released in 2013, they’re from Maja Design and Inkido, respectively.
I use a couple of different dies to make these clusters, I make the banners using the Fishtail Flag Frames set from My Favorite Things, and I use the Happy Days Ticket Stubs die from Xcut for all those tickets. It’s one die that cuts nine different tickets, and I love that I get that many from one run through my diecutting machine. I mounted some of my diecut pieces on 1 mm foam tape, and glued others down using just double sided tape. Behind the whole thing I put half a mini paper doily from Doodlebug Design. I used the other half for the card I posted yesterday. On top I added a sentiment from Norsk Stempelblad AS stamped in Ocean Tides ink from Papertrey Ink. I mounted that on foam squares, and tripled up the foam squares on the left side of the banner. Finished off with a few pink dots from Papirdesign.
I leave you with the colors I used for the adorable little girl. Not too many today.
Jeg har brukt et gammelt motiv fra Magnolia og kun resteark på dette kortet – alltid en fordel når restebunken blir mindre! Denne gangen var det stort sett Maja-ark, men det turkise er arket Pied a Terre fra Manhattan-kolleksjonen til Autumn Leaves, og det er faktisk fra 2007! Jeg har stanset ut noen små sommerfugler i det ene mønsterarket som jeg har limt på med bittesmå perler på ryggen. Jeg stemplet to småtekster fra 
Jeg hadde ikke nok av det turkise mønsterarket igjen til å dekke innsidene også, så der brukte jeg en annen rest jeg hadde. Her har jeg gjort det enkelt og stemplet et bursdagsstempel fra 
Siden jeg har pyntet både forsiden og baksiden med noen sommerfugler tenkte jeg at et tekststempel med sommerfugler passet bra, også dette er fra Norsk Stempelblad AS, det kommer fra 
Kortet skal gis bort sammen med et par tykke, hjemmeheklede grytekluter, så jeg valgte faktisk farger på de grønne bladene etter grønnfargen i gryteklutene. Her skal ting matche! 
Jeg avslutter som vanlig med fargene jeg har brukt. Jeg har også brukt cleaner faktisk – sammen med et stykke møbelstoff med struktur. Jeg startet med fargelegging av himmelen, før jeg tok litt cleaner (blender gjør samme nytten, men jeg hadde mer cleaner enn blender) på stoffbiten og presset i noen få sekunder mot motivet. Da får man en liten struktur på bakgrunnen, men siden jeg har brukt såpass lyse farger i utgangspunktet vises det ikke så godt på bildet selv om det syns i virkeligheten.
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