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A Winter Storm Watch in Hawaii
Updated November 16th–Quite a few people said my first photo looked more like blue and pink. Not!!!! Here’s a picture I took in daylight. Definitely Handsome Hunter and Bravo Burgundy!
Aloha, all!
Oh, my, how the rains have come these past few days! And now that it’s November, we here on the Big Island of Hawaii are all wondering if, when the clouds clear, we will see snow on the peaks of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa! An exciting time each year as we anticipate the first snows of the winter. One tradition here is for people to take their pickup trucks up to Mauna Kea, fill them up with snow, and bring them down the hill. I live far enough away that I’ve never seen a pickup arrive in our neighborhood still filled with snow. After all, it is Hawaii, and it really isn’t all that cold – except up on the mountains. But I have seen the neighbors all sunburned from their snowboarding trips because they forgot – it is Hawaii, and the sun is always hot!
All of this winter speculation has been enough for me to look for snowflake stamps to use this weekend! The first is one of the snowflakes from the stamp set, Snow Swirled. I especially love to emboss snowflakes on dark colors of card stock. This time, rather than embossing a white snowflake, I chose Bravo Burgundy and Handsome Hunter (nicely embossed with the Sizzix Stampin’ Up! Petals a Plenty Embossing Folder), and added a bit of gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder and some Brushed Gold card stock. Finish it off with some Gold Brads, and there’s a lovely Holiday card.
The design for this card is part of this week’s Stamping 411 Challenge! I just love this site because they not only give you a sketch to follow, but they also suggest measurements for the various layers. If you have a stamp set you’re trying to figure out how to use, you should go to their website, pick out one of their challenge designs, and figure out how to use YOUR stamp set with THEIR design. It really does get the creative juices flowing!
I’ll let you know when the clouds clear if we have snow!
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Nov 15, 2009 - 04:11:06Beautiful job! I love all the texture and embossing!
I love the colors of pink and blue together. I know it says you used Bravo Burgundy and Handsome Hunter with Brushed Giold but it looks like you used white, blue and pink. Now I am going to have to go in the stamp tree house and try your colors. Beautiful.
Carey
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Carey, you’re right! It does look like those colors. I may have to go out in the daylight and take a photo without the flash!
Very pretty, I like the light snowflake on dark paper too!
Thanks for playing along this week!
Beautiful card!! I am waiting for this folder to arrive at my house as we speak. Great work!!
Heather RDH
Oh my goodness….. Your card is stunning. I love it… I really love the gold against the handsome hunter and bravo burgundy. very elegant. You also have inspired me with that embossing. I need to pull out that folder and use it on paper.
Love what you came up with for the sketch challenge.
This classic color combination is always a winner especially when its stamped as beautifully as you have stamped it. Great job with the sketch.
One word..BEAUTIFUL!
Robin == this is absolutely georgeous! Love the embossing with the Petals-a-plenty and the gold medallion. Just beautiful!!! Fabulous job with this week’s sketch challenge! I hope you are able to play along with the Stamping 411 operators again soon! Thanks for sharing — blessings, Gretchen
Lovin’ all the texture and these colors are stunning!! Thanks for playing along this week!!
You know…I never really thought that it would snow in Hawaii! I love those colors for Christmas…I just used them on a project myself!