Tweet Friends at Christmas - Jan's Digi Stamps

 

Hello, my friends! Hope Life is treating you well. If you live in an area that celebrates seasonal changes, this post is for you! It's all about Autumn and Holidays! Today I'm GUEST DESIGNING for Jan's Digi Stamps! It is the October mid-month Anything Goes Challenge at Jan's Digi Stamps! If you use a JDS image in your card, please mention it. There is a 2nd draw specifically for those who use one of Jan's fun images.

October's Sale is an all-inclusive HOCUS POCUS SALE!

Jan's images are so much fun to work with! I made a monochromatic winter snowbird scene by using the darling vine wreath set below.

First, I chose the blank black-and-white version of the wreath and cropped off everything except the little bird on the branch below the wreath. Be sure to make a copy of the digital before you crop the image. I copy and pasted the little bird and "flipped" the image so the new scene shows bird friends enjoying one another's company.

The birds and berries are colored with dark blue and gamsol.

The twig is the lighter blue:

For a little dimension, a dark gray was used:

The festive holly frame was die cut, dry embossed, and distressed with Faded Jeans color ink. The darling sentiment is from one of Jan's older sets Holiday Sleigh.

The interior uses the Winter Snowbirds again, and another sentiment from the Holiday Sleigh set.

Products: Jan's Digi Images:Winter Snowbirds (new and on sale),  Holiday Sleigh 3355 (sentiments), Dies: Spellbinders labels One for sentiment and Sue Wilson Festive Collection Ornate Holly Framed Noel CED 3073, Caran d'Ache Luminance 6901 Color Pencils and Gamsol, Faded Jeans Distress Ink.

I'd like to play in the following Challenges please:

1. World Wide Open Design Team Challenge #10 AG DT 11/15
2. Pammie's Inkie Pinkies #2242 AG 10/24
3. A Perfect Time to Craft Open Challenge #10 AG 11/1
4. Classic Design Challenge #10 AG 11/1
5. The Alphabet Challenge (Oct 7) "N is for Nature" 10/20
6. 52 Christmas Card Throwdown (Oct 15) Christmas Critters (using Jan's Winter Snowbirds) 10/21
7. Crafty Friends Challenge #160 Use More than One Die 11/1 (I used: Spellbinders labels One for sentiment and Sue Wilson Festive Collection Ornate Holly Framed Noel CED 3073)
8. CD Sunday Plus Challenge #96 AG using downloadable products ( I used 2 digital stamp sets, cropping one and making it look like two friends talking instead of being a single bird as part of a wreath. The sentiment is downloaded from another set - both sets are listed above)

Stamping Hugs,

Rustic Autumn Wreath - Jan's Digi Stamps

  Lovely Autumn Colors in a Wreath - about the only way we experience Fall here in central Florida! I am guest designing for  Jan's Digi Stamps again today!

(Note: because a Cold Front pressed down from up north about 50 miles further south than anticipated, my husband and I escaped the horrific damage caused by Hurricane Ian with only minor rain, winds and brief power and internet outage. But our heart goes out to our neighbors further south. The devastation we anticipated in our area hit them instead. First Lady of Florida Casey DeSantis has created a special Disaster Fund for Florida's residents impacted by Hurricane Ian. If you are thinking of donating, will you please consider this site which is dogeared especially for this cause https://www.volunteerflorida.org/donatefdf/   To volunteer: 850-414-7400 or info@volunteerflorida.org)

Hello, my friends! Hoping you are doing well, and that Mother Nature is treating you nicely with her weather and delights. Today I'm GUEST DESIGNING for Jan's Digi Stamps ! It is the kick-off for the October Anything Goes Challenge at Jan's Digi Stamps! If you use a JDS image in your card, please mention it in your upload. There is a 2nd draw specifically for those who use one of Jan's fun images.

October's Sale is an all-inclusive HOCUS POCUS SALE!

Today's card features two of Jan's beautifully pre-colored images (with some Copic Marker highlights in gray/brown, orange, golden yellow on my end).

Jan's images are so much fun to work with! I made a wreath using her fall branch above, and placed a bow with leaf at the bottom:

Two layers are dry embossed and inked, and the third layer is heat embossed with an embossing powder color called "Timber". It's shiny brown on top, and from an angle, has orange flecks in it.

Products: Images from Jan's Digi Stamps: Wisps of Autumn 647, Banners and Bow 4015; Tonic Layered Leaves 1441e Embossing Folder, Craftwell Delicate Dots EF,  Sue Wilson Frames & Tags - Grace CED4313 die set, Spellbinders Grand Large Scallops, Spellbinders Grand Ovals; Mahogany, Walnut, Tea Dye, Old Paper, Antique Linen Distress Inks, Copics, 

I'd like to play in the following Challenges please:

1. World Wide Open Design Team Challenge #9 AG DT 10/15
2. Pammie's Inkie Pinkies #2240 AG 10/9
3. A Perfect Time to Craft Open Challenge #10 AG 11/1
4. Classic Design Challenge #10 AG 11/1
5. Double Trouble #122 "Leafin' it Up to You" 10/16
6. Crafty Friends Challenge #160 Use More than One Die 11/1 (I used: Sue Wilson Frames & Tags - Grace CED4313 die set, Spellbinders Grand Large Scallops, Spellbinders Grand Ovals)
7. Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog #78 Autumn or Halloween 10/28
8. Scrapping for Fun #217 Autumn 10/28
9. CD Sunday Plus Challenge #95 AG digital 10/15 (this is downloaded, cropped, recreated, and merged to include two different sets. I hope I understood the nature of your challenge)
10. The Four Seasons #Oct 1 Anything Goes Fall 10/28

Sending Warm Autumn Hugs your way,