Christmas Card Club Challenge #14 - A Christmas Snowy Scene

Hi Crafters,

Where do these weeks go?

It's already time for another new challenge at our friendly Christmas Card Club and this week it was Shaz's turn to choose the theme.

A CHRISTMAS SNOWY SCENE

Recipe

Embossalicious Cloud Folder

Cuttlebug Snow Folder

Distress Ink - Tumbled Glass

Perfect Pearls Shimmer Spray

Glitter Card

Memory Box Dies - Curved Dashing, Cute Cottage, Frosted Roof and Ledges

Magnolia Doohickey Dies - Slender Firs, Snowy Forest

Britannia Die - Christmas Flight

Challenges I'd like to enter:

CHNC Every Saturday - #341 ATG Christmas

CHNC Extra - July Challenge

Christmas Cards All Year Round - July ATG

Unicorn Challenge - #23 Christmas in July

Deep Ocean - #158 Lots of Layers

I had made a card similar to this last year using the cottage die and thought it was perfect for this challenge, thank you Shaz for a great theme.

Pop over to the other CCC members blogs by following the links in the tab at the top of my blog for more Christmas inspiration.

See you soon,

Lorraine 

xXx

Christmas Card Club Challenge #4 - Icicles

Hi Crafters,

I'm posting my CCC card a day early as I have another DT card due tomorrow. 

Kate is our hostess this time and has chosen the theme of 'icicles'.

Recipe

Memory Box Die - Cute Cottage & Frosted Roof and Ledges

Sizzix Striplet Die - Stacked Words - Christmas

Paper Smooches Stitched Dies 

Distress Inks - Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean

Perfect Pearls Shimmer Mist

Crafts Too Embossing Folder

Black Brad

Glitter Card

I made my own sky background for this card. I used water colour paper and my distress inks and swooshed the wet paper through the inks on my craft mat, dried it a little with my heat gun and then sprayed the Perfect Pearls Shimmer spray, which is very shimmery in real life but a little shy here.

Dried the paper again, embossed the snow using the embossing folder, then ran a white ink pad carefully over the raised bumps and used clear embossing powder to further highlight them.

The cottage and words were cut from textured core'dinations cardstock and I sanded the cottage after running that though a wood-grain embossing folder. This card has lots of texture and lots of  shimmer too, hope you like it.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

That Craft Place - ATG
Creative Moments - #87 ATG / Wet / Dry Embossing
Crafty Catz - #312 CAS, No DP
Brown Sugar - #186 ATG
Creative Fingers - #103 ATG
Country View Challenge - Make your own background
Crafty Girlz - #12 ATG
The 12 MoC Link Up - #14 ATG / Winter Wonderland
CHNC Christmas Challenge - February Challenge

I have quite a few Christmas cards made already this year and am feeling rather pleased about that, looking forward to a 'no rush' approach to Christmas this year.

Enjoy your weekend and see you tomorrow,

Lorraine

xXx