Non-Traditional Colours - Winter Wonderland Challenge for 20th of May 2016 - better late than never!

I'm a little late this week as I have been travelling quite a bit for work the last few weeks, plus a little boy's seventh birthday and party, so I have not been able to concentrate on colouring and making cards.

But the challenge this week at Winter Wonderland chosen by Christine is

"Non-Traditional Christmas Colours".

This means that you must create a card that is not red and green.

To be in with a chance of winning a prize, please remember that it is Christmas projects only.

We are sponsored by the fabulous Crafts and Me this week.

Here are my two gift cards, using the trees from Bottlebrush Holiday from Power Poppy:

I stamped the image on to water colour paper and coloured with the following Distress Markers:

• picked raspberry
• worn lipstick
• spun sugar
• dusty concord
• seedless preserves
• shaded lilac
• chipped sapphire
• blueprint sketch
• tumbled glass
• faded jeans
• salty ocean
• peacock feathers
• spiced marmalade

The image has been die-cut using a decorative die called nesting frames by Kaisercraft. I have stamped the sentiment "be merry" from the same Bottlebrush Holiday by Power Poppy in Memento Bahama Blue ink on to a smaller die-cut. Both the image and sentiment are adhered to a Kraft card from Envelope Solutions.

There is inspiration from the Snowflakes DT on the Winter Wonderland blog, so please pop over to everyone's blog by clicking on their name. We always appreciate a comment or two! :) Also you can find out what other challenges are out there, which could give you ideas.

Thanks for looking!

Anything but a card - Winter Wonderland Challenge for 6th of May 2016

The challenge this week at Winter Wonderland chosen by Eileen is 

"Anything but a card".

This means that you must create or alter anything you like. Examples are tags, bags, boxes, sleeves for wine bottles, the choice is yours.

To be in with a chance of winning a prize, please remember that it is Christmas projects only.

We again have two fabulous sponsors this week:

Di's Digi Stamps who is giving a voucher for $12 to spend in store

and Marianne Designs who will send the winner a super surprise.

 Here is my creation using Santa Marci and Sunny Christmas Luka from La-La Land Crafts:

Here is a close up of Santa Marci:

Here is a close up of Sunny Christmas Luka:

I printed the images on to X-Press It paper and coloured with the following Copics pens:

• Reds: R32, R35, R37
• Greens: YG00, YG03, YG17
• Blues: B93, B95, B97, B99
• Skin: E000, E00, E02 (both these were coloured before I started Kit and Clowder classes!)
• Hair for Santa Marci: Y11, Y15
• Hair for Sunny Christmas Luka: E31, E33, E35, E37
• Panda: C03, C05, C07, R20
• Santa's sack: E41, E43, E47, E49
• background: V000 or B000
• Glitter: clear Spica pen

I have fussy cut both images and adhered them to green tags from my stash. The red ribbon is also from my stash.

There is inspiration from the Snowflakes DT on the Winter Wonderland blog, so please pop over to everyone's blog by clicking on their name. We always appreciate a comment or two! :) Also you can find out what other challenges are out there, which could give you ideas.

Thanks for looking!