Mosaic Moments Design Team January Challenge #2

The second challenge of the month is now posted at MMDT For the next feew days the Design Team's pages will be posted...be sure to stop in and look. This is just a teaser!

Welcome Blog Hoppers! So nice to have you stop by today.

This is Five Pines Designs, I'm Andrea Fisher and this is your second stop on

the DeNami Design Valentine Blog Hop.

Amy Smidebush  got you started with today's hop and her fresh Valentine presentation for your enjoyment!

I have several to share with you today, so let's get to the heart of the matter!

card 1

On a white rib cardstock base a pink cardstock heart cut with the Spellbinders Scallop Hearts. The DeNami Love Script Heart is stamped and embossed with Liquid Platinum embossing powder. A pale pink ribbon at the heart base finish off this simple design.

card 2

This card on plain white cardstock with DeNami stamps  B98 Mini Solid Filigree and D109 Small Solid Filigree in Brilliance Graphite Black. A section of red cardstock stopped with a piece of Core'dinations Black Magic. The sanded Embossing Folder image is Victoria for Provo Craft's Cuttlebug. Spellbinders Scalloped Hearts and Classic Hearts contain a portion of the DeNami stamp P88 Love Script Heart. Colored with Prismacolor pencils, Crystal Stickers Elements-clear for spot between L-O-V-E.

Finally, my favorite...card 3

and some detail of card 3

Red gingham ribbon on red cardstock base. Dotted heart from DeNami Design PF43 Petite Four Hearts  set. Narrow dotted ribbon wrapped around wire stems (Darice) Some hearts are stamped and cut others are cut with the Spellbinders scalloped heart. Stamped with Cranberry Color Box cat's eye.

Did anyone else (other than Paulina!) notice that there are two Andreas, two Lindas, two Lisas and two Wendys in today's hop?

Hope that means it's some kind of special blessing!

 The blog hop starts on January 8th at 6 AM, PST. However, you have until January 9th, 11:59 pm PST, to leave comments on all the blogs (to be eligible for a prize)

Why: To be inspired by fun DeNami Design creations and also the chance to win mini shopping sprees on the DeNami Design website!

Prizes: We are giving away THREE $20 gift certificates to our website! We'll be giving away one gift certificate to a random participant (DT members not eligible) and then we'll also be giving away TWO gift certificates to TWO people who comment along the hop! 

Be sure to continue on to the next blog of sweet treats from

Andrea Matthews

Thanks for stopping by...

andrea fisher

Mosaic Moments January Challenge #1

Today I posted my first layouts as a 2012 Design Team Member hope you will head on over to their Journella.com website where all the designers are posting their layouts. You may even want to check out Journella for your own journaling needs. You can work with it as a private, personal recording tool or use it to post your creative side to the Story Board sharing section.

See what these things have in common with winter...

Layout One

Layout Two

Check out http://www.journella.com/ 

Mosaic Moments Design Team for 2012

 

see:  Life.in.Lists

for buying the Mosaic Moments Grid Paper

Stop back on the Sunday or Monday for the

 DeNami Design Valentine's Hop

Until then...have a creative day...
andrea

Final Challenge of 2011-LYB

Little Yellow Bicycle has a sketch challenge that ends tomorrow night. I really put this off to the very end, but now it's done and I'm sharing it with you.

Every Fall I gather the kids around and head out to one the nearby parks to do our fall photo shoot. This year with my oldest son married I thought managing four subjects might be easier...not so much...

Now if I can ever master chopping heads from one photo and transferring it to another I might get a photo layout where everything was perfect, but it wasn't this year! To my greatest surprise the child who was always the hardest to keep from bursting into tears at the prospect of having to sit and pose, gave me some great pics this year! Her personality really came through.

That's my little minx! So mischievous! ...love you Libby-Lamb!

Now I will duplicate the page doing one of each of the kids for their albums and change out the photos of Libby with theirs. Of course will have to adjust a few things as I don't think the guys will appreciate being called "beautiful" they won't buy the idea that it's my family that's beautiful....guys!

well, until 2012...
wishing you all the best for the New Year. Hey isn't it nice to be able to start the New Year...the very first day...at church? How great is that!

                                            andrea

and then there were two...

Two days to Christmas...

I tried, but alas, the many last minute details of the holiday season just carried me off to do their bidding. So all the cards I have planned will not make the blog this year in a countdown but to be sure they will continue to be made and posted on the Flickr account, so be sure to occasionally click the link under Card Designs to the right that says Five Pines on Flickr to find the 2012 Christmas card designs throughout the year.

Today I will post my Christmas card for this season. I tried an easel card to display the painting, Folded so that it tucks behind the verse on the bottom of the inside. It is mounted with foam tape and gives just enough height to allow the face of the card with the 'painting' to rest behind it.

The watercolors are twinkling H2O's. I have loved trying these colors out on several projects, but felt this rubber stamp by Deb Strain really called for that extra sparkle of the H2O's. Yes, it was time consuming, even with a great deal of the work sone months ago, I left the painting to almost too late as the business of the season kept creeping in stealing time.

I hope you and your family have been able to focus on the real meaning of Christmas this year, and look forward to starting the New Year on the right foot.

Merry Christmas!
andrea