JYC 2010: 2nd December

Weather is the prompt, I dream of white christmas but it is sooo not happening, so as you can imagine I keep complaining about the insane weather, I start worrying that I'm in a Doctor Who episode and that I'm mysteriously transported (or should I say teleported?) to Australia! As you can see the flowers are blooming in my backyard, I won't be surprised if I see the Easter Bunny (ok, maybe it will be brain damage but I'm sure Dr House can find the cure!) see, I 'm already rambling!

My ideal christmas weather is illustrated on the left page, after I finished it I thought that it lacked something (snow, duh!) so I used a uni ball white pen and added snow on the branches and dots all over the images, it really made the difference! For coloring the Tilda I used my copics, I wanted an intense and vibrant result so as to contrast whith the backround.

The truth is that today it was a little chilly (11 *C in the morning, compared to the previous days you can call it chilly) so I think that maybe it will eventually get on track, I certainly hope so!

JYC 2010: 1st December

Humbug...NOT!
Journal Your Christmas year 2, I really would like to give many kisses to Irini for giving me the chance to get to know this awesome online class from Shimelle! Here you can see how it all started and here are all my JYC 2009 posts.

This year I'm going to keep it simple, quick and spontaneous, so that I will be able to incorporate this project into my daily routine without stress, after all it is about having fun!
With this in mind I had already assembled the album (4''x6'') together with covers (that I will reveal at the end!) and all, so all I have to do everyday is to put together the elements that I see fit for every prompt. I have also printed or stamped enough christmas images so that I can choose one, color it and add it to my page.
One more difference from last year's JYC is that I'll also keep a mini journal for every day's happenings, regardless if it is in the spirit of the daily prompt or not, it will be really funny to read it in the future!

As for coloring, you know how I love it,  and as it is expected you 'll see a lot of them! I 'll also do a lot of watercoloring with distress inks, it's really quicker than coloring with my copics and the result is more subtle and transparent.
So, dear friends, prepeare yourselves for my JYC 2010 posts, only 37 left!LOL

Card making: Christmas card #4

Another color that I rarely use is dark royal blue, so I decided to give it a try for this christmas card and the idea was to create an outdoors night scene.

First thing, I made the snowy hills with white cardstock and Broken China distress ink and then stamped and embossed the little stars. Next step, I adhered the little deer (I colored it with distress inks), I had some difficulty with cutting around the tiny swirly horns so I threw them away and drew them right on the card with glue and then covered them with glitter.
Last thing, I heat embossed the tree with white embossing powder and then colored it with distress inks. When I adhered it on the card, the outcome was a little dull, so I lightly covered it with stickles and...ready!

Card making: Christmas cards

I just made my first bunch of Christmas cards, this year I decided to try some color combos for the first time, like, red and light sky blue!

It is evident nevertheless that I was desperate for some traditional red and green, so I colored all the images using these colors, even the little house!

I accented some details with Sakura Stardust clear pen (remember how you liked Sakura Stardust pens in last year's JYC layouts? You only have to buy the clear, the sparkle is soooo good, much bolder and more intense than the clear Atyou Spica from Copic.

Run Forest, ruuuun! LOL!!!

Project: Christmas Tree

All these lovely christmas projects, cards, etc that I see in your blogs made me realize I was wayyyy behind my christmas preparations, so I started with something very easy, fun and quick: a little flourish wooden tree by Kaisercraft. Sorry for the lousy photos but I couldn't take a decent one no matter what!

I made it for my office at work and I wanted a really lively and sparkly result, (can't you tell that I'm a traditional all red-green christmas girl?)LOL

The execution was quite simple:
- colored the trunk with copic markers
- colored the tree with distress inks except the flowers, birds etc. that I colored with copic markers
- sprayed the lot with the water-Perfect Pearls mix
- adhered Martha Stewart's microbeads on the flame and the flowers
- and finally covered the birds lightly and randomly with white glitter

 Here's a close up

Last touch, I used tiny pearls for the eyes of the larger birds and...ready!