Love You Still, Always Will

Good Morning Fellow Crafters!  I do hope your weekend is off to a good start.  It's raining here in the desert southwest and seeing as how we rarely get to our 7-inch per year mark, this is a real treat indeed!  It's somewhat of a good and bad thing though.  If we get good rains in the early part of the year, springtime can be quite beautiful.  However, when all of that growth dries out in our scorching summer heat, it becomes a fire hazard.  A real buzz kill, I know.

I do have a bit of news that I'm really excited about.  My mom, who has always been too generous, gave me an early birthday present of the Copic certification classes.  I will be taking them this coming Friday and Saturday.  I have been chomping at the bit, waiting for them to come to my area and I am so grateful to have this opportunity to attend.

I have for you today, a card that has been in my thoughts ever since I laid eyes on these gorgeous Tilda and Edwin stamps.  They instantly brought back the memory of a ski outing my husband Craig and I had when we lived in northern Wisconsin, which was 20 years ago.  We were casually going down a run, criss-crossing paths and talking when all of a sudden he was gone.  I stopped, looked around and called his name but he had just vanished.  Then suddenly, his head popped up from behind a fluffy snowbank.  His glasses were packed with snow and his hat was askew.  The sight was so funny that I laughed for at least two minutes before I could catch my breath and ask him if he was alright and needed help.  I felt a little bad about that...

Sorry about the bad lighting but I had to use a lower light to catch the sparkle of the glitter and the reflection on the clear snowflakes.  Brighter light bleached everything out.  It's been a while since I've colored with Distress Inks and I felt all thumbs but I do not have the purples I was looking for in my Copics.  I had forgotten how fun it is to use the watercolor techniques. 

I made the mountain scene as a side step design, using a tutorial for a basic side step card, posted by Norma Lee.  The mountain itself, I drew out freehand and cut the snow caps on my Cricut.  All of the supplies used can be found at the bottom of the post.

Here are closer Photos of Tilda and Edwin that might make it easier to see some of the detail in the snowflakes and such.
 
Thank You so much for stopping by today.  I hope you will leave a comment and take a look around.  Become a follower and sign up for email updates as you don't want to miss out on my birthday/blogaversary candy that will be coming up in March.  I've been gathering up some wonderful goodies...  Have a great day, and better tomorrows!

♥ Laura C.

Challenges:

7 Kids College Fund New & Old  (New: Tilda & Edwin - Old: Distress Inks, Clear Snowflakes)
Milk Coffee Snow & Sparkle
Penny Black All Sorts Love Is In The Air
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge Embossing
The Sketchy Challenges #39 Karen's Sketch
Stamp and Create Love
Winter Wonderland It Takes Two
Deep Ocean Anything But A Square
The Dutch Magnolia Chickies Winter
Lovely Haenglar & Sweet Magnolia Ribbon or Lace
Magnolia-licious CB Photo Inspiration
Magnolia-licious Highlites Anything Goes

Magnolia-licious Highlites Mid-Month: All You Need Is Love

Marvelous Magnolia Tilda & Edwin
Stamp and Create with Magnolia Winter Blues

Supplies:

Stamps: Magnolia of Sweden (Tilda In The Mountains, Ski Edwin with Snowflakes)
Inks: Ranger Distress Inks (Seedless Preserves, Tea Dye, Tattered Rose, Black Soot, Frayed Burlap, Vintage Photo, Broken China, Walnut Stain, Faded Jeans, Wild Honey, Scattered Straw, Peeled Paint, Fired Brick)
Cardstock: Bazzill, Recollections
Patterned Paper: Karen Foster (Snowflakes)
Dies: Marianne Design (Tree LR0136), QuicKutz (Wood Fence), Cricut (Paper Doll Dress Up)
Punches: Martha Stewart (Snowflake PATP, Arctic Snowflake) McGill (Mini Heart)
Misc: Heidi Swapp (Clear Snowflakes), Ranger (Embossing Powder - Holographic), May Arts (Blue and Snowball Ribbon), Cuttlebug (Embossing Folders - Swirl, Swiss Dot), Stitching