It's a New Year!

Hello Stamplings!

Happy New Year! How has 2023 been for you as we finish out week one? Have you already broken any of your resolutions? That's okay, now you can just get on with life without pressure! 

We are starting our year off with a series of Bomb Cyclone/Atmospheric River events here in California. Some places have not seen rain like this for 150 years! The storms are lined up out in the Pacific until the 20th, possibly longer. As much as we desperately need the rain, it's not good to get so much at once. So far we are in no danger, but so many folks are not faring as well. 🙏

Between the weather confining me to quarters and the card challenges being on break, I enjoyed cleaning and purging. I know, I'm nuts to enjoy it, but if I don't do it, I get creatively clogged. (Aside: I find chocolate washed down with wodka also helps with clogs, but that's a different blog.😊)

Now we are lucky to have some of the challenges back to light our schparkle and Hammy brought back a whole case of brand-new winkers thanks to his generous relatives. So, away we go ~

Onefer

The NBUS star of the performance today is the "Serene Bird and Branch" die from Memory Box. For this CASual scene, she was cut from watercolor paper and painted with Ziggies in pink shades. With all the shiny gold from the frame and branch, we decided to just wink her tail feathers and use a simple sediment. 

Challenges

• Color Hues: Light pink and gold
• Critter Crazy: A/G with a featured critter.
  
• SSS Wednesday: Something new. (The bird.) 

Twofer

Look away if you just can't bear looking at a Christmas card right now, lol!

This card is more layered. The snowflake circle cut from gold is a Hero Arts die called, "Snowflakes and Ornament." I cut off the ornament hanger to make it look like a wreath and then I nestled the Serene Bird cut from pp in amongst the snowflakes. (I don't think they are so cold when they are cut from gold.) 

I used Penny Black's "Red and Greens" holly die as wreath decorations and the NBUS sediment is from Simon's stamp set, "The Magic of Christmas," inked with CP's Juniper Mist.

Challenges

• Four Seasons: Anything goes winter.
  
• Just Us Girls: Color week.
  
• Snippets Playground: A/G w/ snippets. I used snippets for the wreath, bird, and holly.

I've been posting Twofers now for years. By Christmas, I was up-to-here with even the thought of making Christmas cards, but I'm going to try and use the same stamp or die to make my Twofer a Christmas card during 2023. I'm slowing down and this past year I wasn't able to make as many Christmas cards as I needed.😒 The only way around that is to religiously make them all year like a lot of you are disciplined to do. I want to be like you. I always have good intentions, but then I get distracted by one bagful of squirrels or another! 

Plus, I'm hoping this plan will give Mr. Mojo a kick in the jo! Even a kick in the mo would be good, but that's gonna leave a bruise. Here are a few other Christmas designs I made using the Serene Bird. It got rather addicting once I got started and I have several more birds cut from pp to make even more. Whoop! 

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