Happiness reigns!

And that happiness came in the form of a new 50mm 1.4 lens for my Canon 50D camera! If you don't already know this, this lens is one of the answers for taking indoor photos so it helped make my Christmas photos for this year pretty nice. I'll show you a couple but first of all I need to share an ornament I created and somehow I forgot to share it earlier.

The foundation for my ornament is a wooden snowflake. I painted it a creamy brown color to match the cardstock that I used. That way the back and sides matched. The Core'dinations cardstock was embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder and then cut to shape.

The Santa image is from The Vintage Workshop. You purchase a set of prints from them and then you can print them as many times as you want. I just love their selection.

I pulled out my chunky glitter again. I love this stuff! It is from Impress Rubber Stamps store. I put a line of Aleene's Paper Glaze around the edge of my prepared snowflake and then sprinkled the glitter over that while it was still wet. I just love how much of the glitter the paper glaze holds. Notice the white dot accents too. That is Tulip's 3-D Fashion Paint. Such an easy way to add a little additional interest.

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On to those photos. I love the look that I got by using my new lens. It is great for up close photos like this and great for indoors photos.

Can you see that anticipation!? All of those filled stockings just waiting to be explored.

And here our youngest grandson is with that overfilled stocking. He is looking for his mom to help him find out what is inside.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

VINTAGE SNOWFLAKE ORNAMENT
Materials: Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations

Vintage image – The Vintage WorkshopCuttlebug embossing folder

White 3-D Fashion paint – Tulip

Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®

Chunky glitter – Impress Rubber Stamps

Ribbon

Scallop scissors – Fiskars