So here is my story:
I tried - I really tried - to stay in the studio with 42000 wild and whirly teapot party artists, but it just got too crazed so I threw on my coat, grabbed my portable easel and went out to paint a landscape of the village - Plein d'air they call it. We have had a major snow storm here on the Cape so every thing is covered with almost a foot of snow. It all looked so lovely but my water for my watercolors - water soluble crayons actually - kept freezing. Maybe I should have throw a little alcohol into the water :-) Finally its done and now I can go get a hot cup of tea and some cookies and warm up while I watch the rest of the teapotters trying to hid stamps and embossing folders and everything else under their smocks!
And finally, I needed one more special holiday card and this blank canvas idea was perfect. It is also a perfect time to wish all my Teapot Partying friends "Peace on Earth"! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Image - I have no idea. I received this stamped image in a swap a few years ago and I just uncovered it from where it was stashed - water colored with water soluble crayons and then a little stickles on the snow in the foreground to bling it up; sentiment is Anna Griffin 3-D Christmas stickers; DP is our girl MS.
Date: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 GMT Views: 639
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Registered: July 27, 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 131482
Tue, Dec 21, 2010 @ 6:31 AM
Brrr, that looks too much like here just now. Beautiful on a card, not so much fun in real life. I like all the Stickles in the snow.
A very merry Christmas to you too.
Registered: June 15, 2004 Location: Denver, Co Posts: 14474
Tue, Dec 21, 2010 @ 7:47 AM
A romantic village scene but maybe the people down below shoveling wouldn't think so. Your use of stickles (wish they sold it by the gallon) is very effective.
Registered: February 24, 2008 Location: MN Posts: 11427
Tue, Dec 21, 2010 @ 8:05 AM
Now this looks just like looking out my window!! It has been snowing steady and hard since 6:00 last night and it's not supposed to stop till 6:00 tonight!! I live by a main hwy, and there are hardly no cars going down it...
But that's Minnesota for yah!!
I love youe scenery.... Beautiful!!!
Registered: March 24, 2006 Location: Deep in the Heart of TEXAS Posts: 15980
Tue, Dec 21, 2010 @ 10:39 AM
A lovely, lovely scene!! It's 65-70 here in south central TEXAS! But just two days ago it was in the 35 degree range at night!! Our weather is very unpredictable!!
------------------------------ Phyllis Young at heart, slightly older in other parts. We really never grow up, we just learn how to act in public!! What if you woke up today with only what you had thanked God for yesterday??