Paintings by Marilyn Fiedler

 

Christmas Gnome

 You probably wouldn't guess that I am in love with gnomes! Snowmen are my 1st love and gnomes are a close 2nd. 

I'm entering my Christmas Gnome in the Double D's latest Challenge, "Christmas in July"

Of course, I had to use my Silhouette Cameo to cut out this handsome guy.  I cut the gnome and garland separately and used dimensional dots. I also used dimensional dots to pop up the snowflake die. 

I have found a lead pencil works the best to define his beard. I used Copics and Copic Opaque White to give a little dimension to the dots on his hat. 

Recipe:

Star JamLines (Digi)

White and green cardstock
Craft Smith Crystal Frost cardstock
Memory Box Scattered Snowflake Frame
Silhouette Cameo
Copics & Copic Opaque White
Lead pencil

It's me again!

 A person with a blog should post at least every two years right?  Well, I moved. The basement was unfinished. That took a year and I now have a fabulous craft room.  But wait... now I need to remodel the kitchen. So here I am two years later and I have the new craft room, bought myself a Silhouette Cameo 4, and a new laser printer.  Now I am out of excuses.

So I went to my favorite inspiration blog, 

Double "D" Challenges - Lemons or Yellow as your focus

This is my entry

This is one of many Star Jamlines digis that I bought off of Etsy a year or so ago. I went back to see if there was anything new and Star JamLines is no longer selling on Etsy.  Trinity Stamps is selling gnomes that look like they may be by the same artist.  

Before I colored him up with my Zig watercolor brush markers, I scanned the image into my Silhouette and traced him. Since I wanted to pop up his hands and the flowers, so I isolated them and cut them separately with the Silhouette. It took a little work to do this, but it's saved for me to use whenever. 

 

I fell in love again with the first touch of the watercolor marker.  I had so much fun creating that I really have to make more cards.  (I still struggle with posting.)

Used for this card:

Star JamLines digi
"Smile" from Silhouette Design Store
Zig watercolor markers
water color pencil (for the beard)
pop-dots
White Cardstock
Yellow Cardstock 
Stitched die frame (Not sure what company)

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Happy Valentines Day

Hope wherever you are, you are warm. Windchill is -18 here in northwest Iowa. 

Today I am sneaking in on the last day of Double D's Valentine Love Challenge.

Using the image in the upper left, I created this card mostly with my Silhouette Cameo cutting machine.

Even the inside sentiment is from the Silhouette Design Store.

Recipe:

Silhouette Design Store
     #18961 Build a House (Card shape and window)    
     #119906 Spring Wreath
     #37699 Love Swirl
     #118742 3D Rolled Flower
     #54644 Happy Valentine's Day.

Other
     Cherry Lynn B162 Lace Corner Die
     Hobby Lobby gemstone heart
     Hobby Lobby small pink flower
     Hobby Lobby white pearls
     Joann Store's Park Lane woodgrain cardstock
     Misc. stock - ribbon & door knob
     

Have a great Valentine's Day. 

     

And here I am again!

I bet you think I haven't made a card in 6 months. Well I have, but I've usually so far behind that I'm racing to the mailbox and I don't even have time to photo them. There are some that I gave to my children that were finished Christmas Eve. Maybe I'll ask for them back so I can take pictures. Ha ha!

Being the last minute gal that I am, I finished this one too late to make it into a challenge. I did however have time to photo it before it got mailed off.

This is crazy, because I didn't think I even liked Gnomes!  I found this artist, Star JamLines, that makes the cutest digis. This digi happened to be holding a heart, but with the Silhouette software I was able to swap it out for a Clip Art shamrock. The Silhouette traced and cut out this sweet little guy and the "lucky" is from their design store. 

The inside is a pop-up purchased from the Silhouette Design store. 

I hope everyone is well and safe. My family and friends are healthy as am I. 

I choose to be happy :)

Noel

Would you believe I found this stamp in the garage. Several years ago I put it in with some stuff I planned to put in a rummage sale. Well, the rummage sale never happened, and I am so happy it didn't.
I diluted Nuvo Indian Gold Embellishment Mousse with water and painted parts of the letters. I used Copics to color everything else. The mistletoe berries are brush painted with Copic Opaque White. I used red Nuvo Crystal Drops on the holly berries.
This Marianne die turned out to be the perfect frame for this beautiful stamp.  I decided to frame the die in black. I cut a die in black and scanned it into my Silhouette Cameo. I used the offset function to make it slightly larger than the die. Taking a step further, I then manipulated the scanned image to make the card the same shape as the the die. Now you may think that was a lot of work and it was. But I have saved the design for future use. I love how this turned out and plan on making several more. 

On the inside I framed this beautiful digital sentiment with black.
The stars were cut into the white with a Memory Box die and accented with a white jewel.
I am submitting my Noel to these challenges:

Double "D" Challenges - Focus on Sentiment
Wordart Wednesday - Weeks 405-407 Anything Goes

Supply List:

Stamps -   PSX Noel
                 Unknown Digital Sentiment
Dies -        Marianne frame 

                  Memory Box stars
                  Silhouette Cameo
Mediums - Nuvo Embellisment & Drops, Copics, Copic White                          Opaque

Stitched and Quilted

Would you believe that since I've started blogging in 2010, I've probably made less than 10 baby cards?  Even though they are so adorable and fun to make, I just haven't need to make many.

The Double "D" Challenge - Featured inspired me again.

Just look at all that quilting and they upper right has all those cute critters. My stitched dies are my most favorite, so I grabbed that IO Patchwork Elephant Die that I've had a couple of years and never used and cut up some pretty paper scraps. The double stitched frame is a rectangular die that I cut twice and mitered the corners to form a square frame. 

What's a baby card without lace? I went to my Silhouette Cameo to help me out and I found a design that worked perfect.

I used a really yummy We Are Memory Keepers embossing folder. 

This is possibly the most precious sentiment in my entire collection. I used the inside of one of those double stitched frame and accented it with some pretty  3D heart stickers.

Supplies:

Dies -      IO Die425-L Patchwork Elephant
                Divinity Designs - Double Stitched Rectangles 

                Die Namics - Double Stitched Oval
                Silhouette Design Studio - Lace Frame

EF           We are Memory Keepers
Stamp -   Verve
Paper   -   I'm pretty sure it is DCWV
Stickers - From my stash

Challenges:
Double "D" Challenge - Featured

On a humorous note.. there was something I did not notice this until I edited the photo. A die that overlaps the background paper cropped a word and I'm not sure what I will do about it. Maybe some more hearts or a bow?? Can you find it?