Snow Day Creation

Another snowy day here in NJ. Not fun snow but heavy wet snow. Ugh. Despite the fact that my girls were home all day and there was some bickering going on, I got some time in my craft room this afternoon.

I had fun playing along with this week's Make It Monday challenge Layering Coverplate Diecuts. After seeing Dawn's video I knew I wanted to layer my horizontal and diagonal striped coverplates. The hardest part was selecting the colors to layer. After trying several combinations I settled on my three favorite PTI colors - Hawaiian Shores card base, Enchanted Evening horizontal stripes, and Aqua Mist diagonal stripes on the top.

Love these colors together! Sentiment from Keep It Simple series and I added a Jenni Bowlin pale orange vellum butterfly for some contrast. 

I also made a tag inspired by Debby Hughes' gorgeous and elegant creation for the Tag You're It Challenge. 

Since I'm in the midst of a snow storm right now, I wanted to make a bright tag for the summer so I colored my embossing paste with Summer Sunrise reindeers and used it with my Heidi Swapp arrows stencil in the same direction as Debby's sunburst. I added coordinating washi tape to the bottom of the Hawaiian Shores die. Sentiment and popsicle from Summer Sweetness. 

I clear embossed the Hibiscus Burst popsicle to give it a shiny, wet look. Love all the dimension on this tag. 

That's all for me tonight. Hope you are warm whereever you are and thanks for stopping by!