By Judi Maddigan on December 16th, 2009
This week marks the end of the Fall 2009 Design Team term, and the designers have created some wonderful projects to celebrate the holiday season. In addition to their new designs for this week, I’ve also picked my favorite from each designer over the past four months.
Penguin Tag Treat Boxes by Dawn Lusk
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This Penguin Chicks image is colored with Copics. Shipping tags, plain white cardstock, ribbon, and fun patterned paper make up this cute treat box. Check Dawn’s blog for a tutorial.
» Dawn’s Blog
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My Favorite
When I asked the Design Team to use either real or faux stitching on their projects, I didn’t expect someone to "stitch" on a candle. Dawn combined the Faux Stitched Borders and Seasonal Borders with the Penguin Chicks image and sentiment. She printed the images on tissue paper and fused them to the candle with a heat tool.
» Dawn’s Blog
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Tiny Holiday Ornaments by Lisa Cook
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Lisa went to town with her tiny ornaments. She provides a link to the tutorial so you can make your own. They are quick, fun and easy. She used a couple of her favorite images from Angel’s Landing as well, the first being this bird from the Ho Ho Hollydays set.
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Lisa’s second Christmas ornament has a close-up of one of the Penguin Chicks.
» Lisa’s Blog
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My Favorite
In September, Lisa designed this elegant card for the first-ever Angels Landing sketch challenge. All of the individual elements combine beautifully, and the cracked glass technique really sets off this Autumn Tweetings image. The warm amber colors are so appropriate for Fall.
» Lisa’s Blog
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Cardinal Ornament by Broni Holcombe
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Since Broni has had grandkids, each year both of her daughters and their families come to her house early in December and they all help her decorate the Christmas tree. They have such fun and it really sets the tone for a joyous and grateful season of celebration for them all. Broni used the Season’s Tweetings cardinal to create a new ornament to add to her tree this year. The base is a wooden snowflake. Glass glitter, a little lace, a silk flower also coated with glitter, and some tiny garnet colored microbeads have been added. The cardinal is layered and the top layer has a fine coat of Distress Stickles in Rock Candy, for just a touch of shimmer.
» Broni’s Blog
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My Favorite
This was Broni’s debut card for the Design Team, and it remains one of my favorites to this day. The images from the Alphabet Train set were colored with Copic markers and shaded with Prismacolor pencils. Her color scheme couldn’t have been more perfect. She added sparkle and glitz with Stickles on the train cars and around the Nestie Dahlia die cut.
» Broni’s Blog
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Fleur de Lis Ornament by Cindy Royal
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This week, Cindy chose to do an ornament by accordion folding the Fleur de Lis Nestabilities medallion die cuts. The "pearls" are liquid appliqué and the Season’s Tweetings image is printed on acrylic painted paper and heat embossed in gold. The ornament itself is 5" across.
» Cindy’s Blog
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My Favorite
For the November Blog Hop to celebrate the release of Polar Bear Cubs, Cindy constructed this adorable snow globe card. The polar bear is placed inside, beneath an acetate globe. She has colored the bear with Copics to flawlessly coordinate with the designer paper and Core’dinations cardstock. I especially like the play between all the varieties of snowflakes.
» Cindy’s Blog
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Shadow Box Ornament by Lynn McAuley
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Lynn tries to make an ornament each year for the children in her family. This year she used this super easy shadow box made from a 2¼" x 3" jewelry gift box and Labels 4 Nestabilities to showcase this precious cub from Angels Landing’s Polar Bear Cubs.
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This photo shows the components of Lynn’s shadow box.
» Lynn’s Blog
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My Favorite
For our ABC Anything But a Card challenge, Lynn came up with this lovely travel night light. She used the Pierced Backgrounds set to pierce the translucent vellum, and it is lit with a battery-powered LED tealight. The cardstock cover collapses for packing.
» Lynn’s Blog
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Shaker Ornaments by Maria Bell
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Christmas means many things for Maria, but one of the things that brings good memories, other than spending time with family, is hanging ornaments on the tree. She decided to create three handmade shaker ornaments in three different shapes.
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She used images from the Ho Ho Holidays set for the first two ornaments and the Polar Bear Cubs image for the third one.
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The templates and tutorial to create the shaker ornaments are provided on her blog.
» Maria’s Blog
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My Favorite
I had to pick these mini photo albums made with the Ho Ho Hollydays set, since it’s hard to believe how much Maria packed into a 3" x 3" space. The mini albums come complete with a little pull-out drawer to store them. A very close second is Maria’s Multi-Flap Pocket Card, another winning design.
» Maria’s Blog
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Photos and descriptions ©2009 by their respective owners. Used by permission.
A Special "Thank You" to the Team
I want to take a moment to thank each of these designers for all their efforts to help promote Angels Landing. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to work with them. It’s always hard to say goodbye — and that’s why I’m not going to. I’ll be inviting them back again to participate in future blog hops. While I’m taking a break from my main Design Team for a while, there will still be new releases planned for 2010. Look for these designers, as well as some of our past Guest Designers and some new faces, to be joining us for blog hops in the new year. Until then, I wish you all joy-filled Seasonal Celebrations of your own.
By Judi Maddigan on December 9th, 2009
This week the Design Team focused on finishing the edges of their designs. The edge treatments range from punches, to scallops, to lace, to serging. All that attention to detail added such nice finishing touches to their cards.
Serged Winter Wishes by Cindy Royal
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Cindy chose a Polar Bear and sentiment (from the same image set) and made a card. Her edge technique for this week is serging. She used her serger sewing machine to edge outside and inside layers, using yellow and green thread to match the card’s paper colors. The image itself is printed onto gesso-coated paper and heat embossed. She then colored it with Copics.
» Cindy’s Blog
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Joy-Love-Peace Polar Bear by Broni Holcombe
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A scalloped circle was used for the front of this easel card. The edges were finished by sponging and then by adding a line of pink Stickles all around the edge. The edge of the inside patterned paper was also finished by using a Fiskars Threading Water punch. Even the little scalloped sentiment circle has finished sponged edges. The image comes from the Polar Bear Cubs set.
» Broni’s Blog
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Winter Holiday Card by Lisa Cook
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Lisa went with a true scallop theme for this project. She used pierced Seasonal Borders and a border punch to set off her design. Her Polar Bear image is the center of attention on this wintry holiday card.
» Lisa’s Blog
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Torn Mulberry Paper Season’s Tweeting by Maria Bell
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Maria has a lot of mulberry paper because there was a time when they were really popular. She likes the elegant look of mulberry paper on cards and thought it would be a perfect torn background for the Season’s Tweeting image. Sticking with the elegant theme, she layered the image and mulberry paper over gold metallic cardstock. She colored the image with Copic Markers and heat embossed glittery embossing powder to give the image a very sparkly appearance. The bottom edging is lace.
» Maria’s Blog
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Tweeting Christmas by Dawn Lusk
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Dawn colored this Season’s Tweetings image with Copics, masked and airbrushed the background. White gel pen and stickles make the frosty look. It is punched with Martha Stewart Deep Edger Flowerbed.
» Dawn’s Blog
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"Caught a bug?" by Lynn McAuley
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Sadly Lynn is needing way too many get well cards this time of year. But whose spirits wouldn’t be lifted by this adorable dragonfly? He is a part of Angels Landing’s Button Bugs set. She used a mixture of buttons and button brads to create his body. The wings are coated with iridescent ice Stickles. Some edges of the card were punched and distressed.
» Lynn’s Blog
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Edgy and Sweet by Cheryl Walker
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This bear from Mini Bears & Birds is airbrushed, and Cheryl added lots of "edgies." She did decorative sewing along the edges, and a punched border at the bottom. The circle has a pendant for its edges.
» Cheryl’s Blog
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Photos and descriptions ©2009 by their respective owners. Used by permission.
By Judi Maddigan on December 2nd, 2009
After the biggest shopping weekend of the year, the Design Team’s theme this Wednesday is anything to do with gifts. They have come up with a variety of holiday gift bags, boxes, and pockets.
Polar Sweet Treats by Michelle Redman
For Michelle’s Gift Giving project, she chose to make a window treat box. She used [...]
By Judi Maddigan on November 30th, 2009
As November draws to a close, we have one last card creation from Cindy Haffner, this month’s Guest Designer. For her sweet kitty in a Santa hat, she has chosen a striking holiday color combination of pink, green, and white.
Photo ©2009 by Cindy Haffner. Used by permission.
Supplies:
Ho Ho Hollydays and Pierced Tags digital stamps.
Copic markers, [...]
By Judi Maddigan on November 25th, 2009
There’s a new tutorial on the main Angels Landing website: Copy Part of a PDF File. It explains how to use the Snapshot Tool to copy and print specific images from a PDF file. It’s for anyone who would rather work with the PDF versions of the files rather than the individual PNG images.
The Snapshot [...]
By Judi Maddigan on November 23rd, 2009
Cindy Haffner has created a triangle box with one of this months’s new releases, Polar Bear Cubs. With its snowflake and candy cane patterned paper, this box is the perfect size for a special little holiday gift. The “Winter Wishes” sentiment comes from the same digi-stamp set.
Photo ©2009 by Cindy Haffner. Used by permission.
Supplies: Designer [...]
By Judi Maddigan on November 18th, 2009
It’s time for the last Angels Landing Blog Hop of this year. Today we’re introducing two new image sets, Polar Bear Cubs and Button Bugs. The Design Team and Guest Designers have been working all week to make some wonderful samples for us to ooh & aah over.
Polar Bear Cubs Digital Stamps
The first new image [...]
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