Saturday, October 26, 2013

let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

I've been busy colouring this week, using some images from a cd-rom that I've had for a while but have recently re-discovered. I love it when you've forgotten exactly why you bought something and then look through it again and get that whole "ooooooo" again!

Anyway, this is another Christmas card using the Crafters Companion SWALK images.


I started by printing the image at the 4 to a page size, and then coloured it with a mix of promarkers & spectrum noirs. I used a Sakura glitter pen to highlight the snowflakes and then 'white opal' perfect pearls for the small snow blobs. I'm not yet an owner of any die-cutting shapes so I had to cut these out by hand- I used some Kanban mats as the stencil for the patterned paper and coloured image. I didn't have a stencil for the mirror layer so I used the same stencil as the topper and then just cut a little away from the pencil line to create the mat. The tree design paper is from a Dovecraft 'Merry & Bright' 6x6 paper pad which was a bargain last January! The card blank is from Craftwork Cards and already has the fancy edge that matches my chosen mat shape. To add a little extra interest to the plain white base card, I used a snowflake mask and 'picked raspberry' distress ink to stencil the snowflake design.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:-
Polkadoodles 'xmas'
Papertake Weekly 'oh Christmas Tree'
Creative Inspirations 'anything goes'
Graph'It 'alternative xmas colours'
Crafty Catz 'spots & stripes'

5 comments:

  1. What a lovely card Vikki! Thanks for joining us at the Graph'It color challnege!

    Hugs,
    Iris

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  2. This is so cute, like the silver snow dots...
    Thank you for joining our challenge at Crafty Catz this week! Good luck!
    Nick

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  3. This is a beautiful creation! Thanks for playing at Creative Inspirations! xxx

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  4. lovely sweet card, thanks for sharing with us at CRAFTY CATZ x carol

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  5. Gorgeous card, I like the sweet image and the colours, Thanks for joining in with us at Graph'It colour challenge, Good Luck.
    Kevin xx

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