Snowglobe from Scratch!

[Sissy]

Christmas Day at my house is always very quiet, so I spent the day playing. I got a new video by Linda Sattgast at Scrapbook Elements on how to make snow globes. I have the action by Graffi and love it, but I thought it would be fun to learn some of the steps and make one myself. I downloaded a beautiful photograph from Font Fun Pictures of some Christmas candles on a mantel to put inside the globe. I've uploaded two versions to show; one is more like a photograph and one is like a scrapbook page. Thanks for looking.

[AngelicKim]

Sissy, beautiful pictures. I love them both. You did a great job. I tried the tut in the subscribers area once a couple of months ago and totally messed it up. Very nice and thanks so much for sharing.

[tbrannon]

This is beautiful.
You did a great job with the tutorial.
I got it the other day and have played around with it a little.
Really enjoying it. I had to sneak some time from the holidays to try it.
I couldn't wait. hee hee.

Love what you've done with it!!!!!!!

[Diana]

Sissy,

Beautiful images and great job with the globe! Did you make the gold bow, or is it part of a kit?

Diana

[Sissy]

Thanks everyone for your kind words.

Diana, the background paper and the bow are from the December Mega Kit from RAKScraps. Wish I had made the bow. There's still so much I have to learn!!

[karen donnybrook]

Sissy,

Both images are breath taking. The globe is beautiful.

Karen :)

[scrapperjlc]

Great job Sissy! One of these days I must learn how to do this. Yours turned out beautiful! :)

Jodi

[hukari]

Those are wonderful globes, Sissy. I won't be able to keep up with you on collages either! :(

P.S. Where did you get the picture?

[AlphaShooter]

Awesome Sissy -- I've added this to my "inspiration" file of things I want to try to learn some day...

I'm out in the mountains of Taos this week skiing with my wife. Of course I brought my camera but I'm not a good enough skiier to ski with my camera for fear of falling on it, so I don't have any mountain-top pics yet. Maybe today later. For now I am happy with the pics I'm taking in town and out and about -- I can't wait to get home to load them into my desktop where I have PSE loaded. One of the first things I'll try is this Snow Globe with one of my pics. Thanks again for sharing Sissy.
Ken

[Wendy]

Hi Sissy ...

Wow that is just beautiful ... what a great job you made of doing it!!

Well done, and I love the scrapbook layout :)

Wendy

[NMarti]

Sissy
You did a wonderful job on the snowglobe. I should check that out.

[nkeevers]

Sissy, what a wonderful job with the snowglobe!

[kroberts]

Sissy,

Beautiful snowglobe! That's another thing on my to-do list...now I just need to finish the 2007 calendar for my family first!:eek:

[John L Gray]

Sissy,

I like your candle globe. You have done a really good job with the photo.

I spent time this year making tags for the Christmas presents for the family and your candle globe gave an idea for a new tag for next year. One of the early tags I made was of my dog Chelan in the Globe. Globes have become very addictive.

Enjoy the day,


John:)

[Sissy]

Those are wonderful globes, Sissy. I won't be able to keep up with you on collages either! :(

P.S. Where did you get the picture?

Hi Reka, Well, of course you'll be able to keep up with me on collages. I've looked at your gallery, so you don't fool me!! ;)

I got this picture from: http://www.fontplay.com/freephotos/

Somehow I just don't have any really nice Christmas photos of my own on my computer. Somewhere in all the boxes of hard copy photographs, I think I might have some that I'd like to scan, but it will take time to find them.........just a little organization problem. LOL........

Thanks everyone for the compliments. What a great group this is!! :)

Oh, John, you are quite right. You can't just make one snow globe.

[hukari]

Hi Reka, Well, of course you'll be able to keep up with me on collages. I've looked at your gallery, so you don't fool me!! ;)

I got this picture from: http://www.fontplay.com/freephotos/

Well, thank you. That site is wonderful. I can imagine using those photos for many effects.

Thanks also for the vote of confidence. I hope it will hold true. Only 11 more days. I am glad the course starts on the 7th since the kids will be going back to school on the 8th and I will have more time.

Now if it would only snow so I could take some pictures of more than gray landscapes!

[kar1211]

Hi Sissy I love your globe and alot of other things in your gallery. But tell me how did you do the ornament top? I love it!

[Wendy]

Hi ...

I think that Sissy may have used the one the Linda made available for people to use :)

However if you want to make your own the take a look in the Sunbscriber Area>Tutorials ... Making a Christmas Bauble includes instruction on how to make a simple one.

If you want to make a shaped one the you simply make the plain one and then use the lasso tool to cut curves into it :)

Wendy

[Robyn]

GREAT WORK Sissy, they are both excellent, but my favourite is the one with the white matt background.

[Sissy]

Yes, I did indeed use the ornament top that Linda Sattgast at Scrapper's Guide provided. I made my own on a couple of other ornaments, but I didn't like them as much as Linda's.

Thanks again everyone for the kind words. Makes me feel like I'm making progress!!

[Tom K]

Hi Sissy... Love the snow globe. But , tell me How did you get the candles lit?

Tom :p :)