Mystical Winter...Take 2!

These are my final projects that were made with Swirlydoos' January kit, Mystical Winter.  This is such a beautiful kit and for me it really exemplifies the beauty of the season.  As an added bonus, I've posted some gorgeous winter sunrise pictures at the bottom!

This is a photo of my daughter on her 5th birthday.  I ran the photo through a photo shop type of program where I was able to extract colors from selected areas of my photo.  I wanted to highlight my baby girl.  

I made the big flower using paper from the kit and my tattered florals die.  I added a small flower from a prior kit and I used some of the pearls that came in the Bling Me add on.  I also found a new obsession.....using fabric.  I blame Lynne Forsythe.  She is one of our Education Designers at Swirlydoos and she showed us this fabulous technique of using multi medium as a fabric stiffener.  Sooooooo, I cut some leaves out of white fabric using my Vagabond and stiffened them with Multi Medium and voila!  I have beautiful white leaves!!  Now I have a laundry list of things I want to make out of fabric.  Thanks Lynne! *said sarcastically*  Love you girl!  

I sacrificed one of the blue, ruffled Prima flowers that came in the kit and placed that white rose on top of it.  I think it creates a nice backdrop and sets the flower and fabric leaves off nicely.

This is a card I made with some bits and pieces that I had left over from the pages I made.  If there is one thing I've learned so far, it is that I save every little scrap I have left over from each project.  Then, when I'm done I see what can be used for a card and get rid of the rest.  

I ruffled some paper and created some layered butterflies and finished it off with a flower made using a fussy cut snowflake from the paper and my tattered florals die.

The other morning we had a sunrise that made me grab my camera, put on my boots, brave the bitter cold and walk down to the road.  There is something about a fine, fresh layer of snow.  It defines everything it lands on and makes everything glow with a new life; a bare tree is no longer bare, but instead has its beauty accentuated in ways that you wouldn't normally see.  Add to that a soft, velvety pink sunrise and the end result is something otherworldly.  Here are a few of the photos I took.  

I hope you enjoyed your visit!!

Thanks for stopping by.

XO, Lisa