Take Me Away!

Hi!
Today's guest designer is Julie Andersson from Minnesota, who happens to be my sister. She created a card that speaks to domestic violence.  The background is made of pieces of paper that represent the shattered lives of those affected by DV.  She took pieces of scrap paper and cut them into irregular shapes and layed them on sticker paper, leaving small spaces between them.  Once the page was filled, gold embossing powder was sprinkled over it which stuck to the sticker, and then embossed.   Take me away to a better place....

Take Me Away is linked to; 

The Damsel of Distressed Cards 

http://damselofdistressedcards.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-hop-to-stop.htmlhttp://damselofdistressedcards.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-hop-to-stop.html

gelatos and stencils

On this card, I tried new techniques: gelatos and stencils.  So this card is for the new beginnings when people resolve a DV situation.  It is also for the person who instigates DV to change their behavior.

Gelatos and Stencils is linked to:
The Damsel Of Distressed Cardshttp://www.damselofdistressedcards.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-hop-to-stop.html

Beautiful

This card was designed for the women who have suffered domestic violence and have forgotten how beautiful they are.  It is also for the people who reach out to help them.

Beautiful is linked to:
The Damsel Of Distressed Cardshttp://www.damselofdistressedcards.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-hop-to-stop.html

Flutter

This card is for the person in a domestic violence relationship that flutters between the explosive episodes and is trying to decide how to resolve the situation.

You are not the only person that has had a DV situation and there is help out there if you reach for it.

For this card, I got my watercolors and stencils out.

Flutter is linked to:
The Damsel Of Distressed Cardshttp://www.damselofdistressedcards.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-hop-to-stop.html

Snowman Angel

This is one of my favorite stamps. I love the stick hair and the little heart on the snowman's chest.

I embossed the background paper with a snowflake folder. Red and black are a great color combo. After I stamped and colored the snowman, glitter was put over the entire image.

Snowman Angel is linked to:
Sweet Sunday Sketch #288 http://sweetsundaysketch.blogspot.com/2015/09/sweet-sunday-sketch-challenge-288_30.html

Ombre Butterflies

With a little help from the wax paper in the kitchen cupboard, Ombre Butterflies was created.

To make the background, a piece of wax paper was run through an embossing folder. Then, the wax paper was sandwiched between to shets of glossy paper. Because the wax is on both sides, this will make two backgrounds. Now, iron your sandwich to get the wax to resist when you apply the ink to the glossy paper. Then one piece of paper was brayered using a Kalidescope ink pad. Take a paper towel and rub the paper to make the white shine through. I absolutely love the look the background has and did not want to cover much of it up.

Butterflies were staped and fussy cut.

Here is another look

Stamps used: STAMPlorations
Die used: Tim Holtz

Ombre Butterflies is linked to:
Simon Says Monday http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=3122
House of Cards
http://www.houseofcardschallenge.blogspot.com/2015/10/october-challenge-add-texture-color.html
STAMPlorations http://stamplorations.blogspot.com/2015/10/october-challenge_2.html
Time Out Challenge http://timeoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2015/10/challenge-41.html
Word Art Wednesday http://www.wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2015/09/challenge-203-anything-goes.html
STAMPlorations http://stamplorations.blogspot.com/p/stamplorations-anything-goes-challenge.html
Work It Wednesdayhttp://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/blog/work-it-wednesday-september-2015/
Craft Stamper Magazinehttp://www.craftstamper.blogspot.com/2015/10/take-it-make-it-challenge-october.html

Grapes Of Wrath

One of the meanings of Grapes of Wrath is an explosive condition. Another meaning is an unjust or oppressive situation or oolicy that may inflame desire for vengence. Domestic violence can be just that. This card is for when the domestic violence become the explosive condition.

When I first made my prints, I did not make the first print. I put the paper over to make the negative print or second print and wasted a lot of paint. That is when Becca got the call for instuructions!! When I made the print, there were some distressed areas. I thought it looked cool. Then I wanted to use purple grapes but wondered if they would show against the bold background. I decided to seperate it a little with green leaves and pop some of the grape bunches up. I added a green ribbon. There are also three purple gems on the popped bunches of grapes.

Stamps used: one of my very first Stamping Up sets.
Stencil usde: STAMPlorations

Grapes of Wrath is linked to:
DL Arthttp://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/2015/10/dlart-thankful-thursday-october-linky.html

The Damsel of Distressed cardshttp://www.damselofdistressedcards.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-hop-to-stop.html