Winnie and Walter 1st Birthday Bash - Sketch with Joni

I am playing along with Joni Andaya her sketch for the Winnie & Walter Birthday Bash today.

I love the flowers on The Big, The Bold and The Extra stamp set. I started by stamping my flowers and sentiment on a 4" x 5 1/4" panel.   Then I die cut a circle and removed it temporarily. I adhered the panel to the base and then put the circle back in with foam tape. Finally I fussy cut and added the pink flower. This card is going out to my nephew and his beautiful fiance .

My son is studying architecture at a University that is in the near north, like really in the north where it is really cold. This week his class went on an excursion to an ecology centre in Mattawa which is near North Bay (cold). I thought I would share some photos, 

Apparently they are boiling water over a fire???? I assume there is some education benefit to this. 

Winnie & Walter Birthday Bash - Distress Inks

Another card for the Winnie & Walter Birthday Bash.
This one is for Mayuri's Distress Inks & Patterns Challenge

I started off with a 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" piece of white cardstock. I sponged Distress Ink over the Scenery Triangled Creative Screenings--Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade, Ripe Persimmon and Picked Raspberry. After I finished sponging I die cut the panel with a stitched mat die. I love how water reacts with Distress Inks so I flicked some water on the panel--don't you love it when one of your flicks is more like a Tsunami? Ugh! Really love these colours together though.

I am welcoming Lena as my newest follower today, all the way from Norway!

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My 4th Blogaverary, RetroSketches #150 and Winnie & Walter Birthday Bash

Four years ago today I made my first, very awkward post, here at In My Creative Opinion.
I started in on this adventure as a place to chronicle my life and a place to put a card for a challenge.  It didn't take long to find out there was a world of wonderful crafters our there, whom I now call my friends.  There have been a few more cards, many times that I shared my life with you and I imagine there will be many more.  My blog and this community have become so very important in my life. I am much more confident than I was in the beginning and I have you to thank for that.  I appreciation of you who follow me and comment on my posts I have some blog candy to share with one  lucky commenter on today's post.  Tell me why and when you started your blog and if blogging has changed you as a crafter.

Today we have another new sketch at RetroSketches.  My card uses lots of embossing and some Winnie & Walter stamps.

I am submitting this card to both Winnie & Walter's Birthday Bash Collage with Laura and Winnie & Walter's Color Combo Challenge with Heather. I used clear and silver embossing, Copic colouring, vellum and layers to build my card which uses the colours silver/aqua and blue.

I have a couple new followers joining me this weekend...

Shannon, who is a new blogger and makes the sweetest cards pop over to visit her you won't be disappointed.

Esther, also another new blogger you will want to visit!

Don't forget my blogaversary contest and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

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Winnie & Walter Birthday Bash: One Challenge

Happy Friday! Are you happy to see the weekend here?

I am pushing time along a bit, looking forward to my hubby coming in this week. It may seem like the New Year just happened, but I haven't seen him since New Years Day so it will be nice to have him home for a few days. Then he goes back for a week and then home again for a holiday. We are taking an impromptu trip to Florida. We were able to work out the timing by tying it into the February Family Day week, so Brooklyn will only miss 4 days of school and Ben in on a his reading week--his girlfriend is coming with us as well. I hate to think this is our last family vacation, but seeing how busy life has gotten with the kids grown up and Brooklyn off to university next year we need to grab opportunities when we get them. So off to Orlando, where we rented a villa about 15 minutes from Disney. You are never too old for that.

Okay onto my card. My card is for Winnie & Walter`s 1st Birthday Bash: One Challenge with Shay.  I used one image, one colour, one technique (embossing--clear and silver) and one layer. The image was clear embossed with Silvery Shimmer Delicata ink and the sentiment embossed with silver embossing powder. Of course the camera was playing hide and seek with the embossing, but it does look lovely in person.

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