Make It Monday #345 - Creating Ombre Sentiments

Hello friends.  This week's Make It Monday challenge has Lizzie showing us how to make OMBRE SENTIMENTS...you can check out her video and awesome card HERE.

We had our Christmas celebrations early this year, so when yesterday came with the new Make It Monday video, I was all excited thinking I had the whole day, even the whole week to play with the challenge and any others that caught my eye too!  As soon as I watched the video I had an idea pop into my head using the Bold Borders: Flurries die and got right to work!  And unfortunately it was one of those ideas that looked great in my head, but didn't translate so well onto cardstock!  And of course it was one of those where it would have been so much easier to just pick a different idea, but stubborn ol' me couldn't accept defeat and kept going!  I did end up with a card I like, just not what I first saw in my head!

I wanted not only sentiment to be ombre, but the card as well, so I started by blending Spring Rain, Blueberry Sky, & Enchanted Evening inks together and then die cut using the Bold Borders: Flurries die.  I sprayed quite liberally with Sheer Shimmer Sparkle Spritz and then adhered to a white card base...so far, so good!  My idea next was to use the sentiment "dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh" from the In The Meadow stamp set and make it ombre like I had with the snowflakes die.  The problem??  Sentiment was too long and wouldn't fit in the small rectangle in the center of the card!  I had also wanted to die cut the horse and sleigh image in black (silhouette) to coordinate with the sentiment and that was too large for the small rectangle opening too....grrrrr!  Plan B.  Find a smaller sentiment and image...I do need a birthday card for January, so the birthday sentiment from the In The Meadow set would work fine...except there's not enough of it to really make it ombre with 3 colors!!  Plan C.  Only use two colors for the sentiment...Blueberry Sky and Enchanted Evening.  To be able to use the sledding image on my snow hills and include the sentiment meant having to cut down the snowhills, and that meant stamping the sentiment over 2 layers...the MISTI sure came in handy here!!  OK, done grumbling here as my card didn't turn out too bad...just wasn't what I had first saw in my head!  And here's a closer up shot so you can see some of the shimmer...it really does SPARKLE in real life!!

Also had to show you how cute the Penguin Potbellies that I made for my granddaughter and grandson turned out:

My 4 year old granddaughter got such a kick out of there being goldfish in his stomach!!  (They got enough chocolate in their Rudolph Bags that I didn't feel guilty about putting crackers in the Penguin's belly!!)  Took the idea from Marybeth Lopez and added a zip strip on the back so they wouldn't have to destroy the Penguin to get the treats out.

My zip strip came from the Just A Little Something stamp and die set.

Make sure you check out Lizzie's lovely card and video HERE and then play along for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate to Papertrey Ink...I just won a couple weeks ago and it makes shopping so much more FUN!!  :0)

Thanks for stopping by today ... I love it when you do!