and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
5 Commit thy way unto the LORD;
trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. Psalms 37:4-5
Last post, I named Snow. I should have saved it for this week! Here is what it looked like yesterday at our house. I couldn't get the door open wide enough to take a good photo, and I couldn't take it through the glass as you can see.
Today after early temps and feel likes of 0 and -5, the sun is shining. My husband who is elderly like me, went out the garage to begin shoveling. He was standing there as the garage door opened, and surprise, there was our neighbor shoveling our driveway! My husband asked, "what are you doing?" He said, "helping you". He did the whole driveway and most of our walk to our porch. How wonderful! Hubby did a little and cleaned off our porch. Well, the neighbor is nice for sure, but also about 60 years younger than my hubby! We haven't got to know them really well as they just moved in a couple of months ago. I took them a plate of goodies at Christmas; I am sure glad I did! Thank you, God, for good neighbors. We live on the right side of the street, so with the sun shining, even though it is still 13 degrees out, it should hit that concrete and do some major melting. I think we had over three and a half inches on ice, as it had rained and sleeted first. So everything is closed here, and we had alerts on our cell phones to warn us not to get out on the roads! So we are in for a while. Temps are going to remain below freezing and with feel likes below 0! So, we continue to leave cupboards open at nights under sinks and leave the faucets dripping!
Okay, enough about the weather! Let's craft. One thing about the weather being this way, can't go anywhere, can't go walking, so it is great for crafting. I have been playing today.
I found this note I had taken when watching videos sometime, don't ask what video as I have no clue:
So instead of cleaning, which is what I had started out doing, I tried this technique:
So, first I looked in my gel print drawer and came up with this piece, which I thought was quite ugly, so I didn't think it would matter covered in black:
Then I found an old embossing folder that I wouldn't care if the black ink ruined it. (it didn't, it washed off real easy)
I then inked it up with VersaFine Black Onyx ink.
I had cut down to size the gel print to run through in the embossing folder through with my Big Shot.
I don't think I got a photo of it after the black. This photo shows after I ran white ink over the raised parts.
I glued to a turquoise base. Then had to decide how to decorate. I decided it looked masculine card and I always need those.
What do you think? It sure improved on that gel print, or at least I thought so! I will try again with different gel prints, (after all I have a drawer full on them!) and different embossing folders.
Today is TSFT over at Bleubear & Elizabeth's Altered Book Lover. All you have to do is have a drink reference and you can join the t-party. (link to her blog and be part of the blog hop).
We went out for the first time in 2025 at Braum’s one of our favorites.
What we love about it is we get the combo, cheeseburger, fries and shake! Their ice cream is wonderful! My shake was peanut butter. Then despite knowing it was going to be record setting low temps, we bought ice cream to bring home, and we have been eating it! LOL He got Chocolate Carmel Moose, and I got Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup frozen yogurt. So good!
Happy New year! Thanks for stopping by.
Stay warm! Stay Safe! Stay Crafty!
