Ski into Christmas

Morning all.

Looks like both my hubby and I have the dreaded winter cold and sore throat. Hope it gets better before Christmas. There seems to be a lot of it around even over in Italy as my friend Chris cancelled on Wednesday as she had come back from looking after the Grand kids with a shocker.

So it's been a while since I did any crafting or sat at the computer typing and it has been noticed! So for my friend Di's benefit here is a card for today.

The little skier is a LOTV stamp minus the little dog, which I didn't want on this image. I used Copics to colour him and the trees which were cut from a Marinne Christmas tree die LR0136. None of the trees are the actual die, the 3 behind the skier have only 3 branches and a reduced tip and the foreground trees have had the bottom branches cut away. These are the colours I used:-

Hat gloves and scarf - B99,97, 95,93  C5,3,0, blender

Skis - C10,7,5

Ski suit - R39,37,35,32

Trees - YG67,63,61, G29,28,21, YG17, E59,57,55

The snow was made using Stampendous chalky white embossing enamel. I always get this all over and very little on the project where I want it, so I hi lighted some areas with an embossing pen first.

The background to the central image was a piece of card embossed using a Cuttlebug folder. The hills I cut freehand and the frame was also cut freehand, then the middle cut out using a Sizzix Ornate labels 2 die. This is mounted on pads and the trees and skier mounted on top. 

The inner was layered with some swiss dot embossed card and a LOTV sentiment stamped onto a small label cut out on pads. Snowflake from a Woodware punch.

I shall enter it for the following challenges:-

ABC Christmas Challenge   Y - You make (own embellishments)

Crafty Little Fairies  Let it Snow

Creative Inspirations -Traditional Christmas Colours

Addicted to stamps and more - Photo inspiration

Penny Black and More :- Traditional Christmas colours

That's all for now, thanks for stopping by.

White on White Christmas

Evening all. 

Where has today gone? Here I was working away this afternoon and suddenly its pitch black outside.

I must have been really concentrating on my crafting! 

OK, here is my card for today. Its WOW as I have been reading the Creative Inspirations blog.

I like the challenge of working in a restricted palette. It makes you think that little bit harder and sometimes you can surprise yourself.

This is an easel card made using a Go Kreate large Frilly Frame. I made a mistake at first, I forgot to leave one edge as a hinge! Well I used the mistakes to cut out some embellishments so they didn't go to waste.

The skier is an old Magnolia stamp and I used Copics to colour ,keeping the palette simple, just reds,blues and brown. The sentiment is from a set from LOTV, cut and mounted using a Sizzix die set, Ornate labels 2. The embossed papers were from Cuttlebug and the trees from a Marianne die. Small snowflakes from a Xcut and Woodware punch, the large from a Sizzix Sizzlet die.

I will enter it for the following challenges:-

Creative Inspirations - WOW

Christmas at Sweet Stampin -WOW

ABC Christmas  - W for Winter Wishes

Drop by again soon.