Let It Snow!

Good morning everyone!

I had a lovely long weekend, yesterday it was Queen's Day here in the Netherlands and we had absolutely beautiful weather! We had a lovely walk into the town centre, had a short look around all the stalls of people selling the content of their attic and had a lovely ice cream in the sun :)

My card today is about a totally different kind of weather though, namely lovely winter snow! As it's the 1st of May, a new challenge started at Christmas Cards All Year Round and this time it's "CHRISTMAS CAROLS"! Or basically Christmas songs, so plenty to choose from. The prize this month is a gorgeous set of Christmas ornament stamps, go check it out! Hope to see you there :)

This is my card, inspired by the song Let It Snow:

Materials:
* Studio Light Decoupage image
* Dovecraft Let it Snow DP (how appropriate!)
* Eline Vintage Sentiment stamp
* Spellbinders shape
* Silver snowflakes from my stash

Challenges: 
* Crafty Hazelnut (Greeting without the word Christmas - My sentiment says: Happy Holidays)
* Sparkles Christmas Challenge (Christmas Tree)
* Papertake Weekly (Anything Goes)
* LEJ Designs (Anything Goes)
* Christmas Inspirations (Bingo, I've used Tree - Glitter (DP) - White (Card and pearls)
* Always Crafting (Anything Goes)
* Lollipop Crafts (Anything Goes)
* 4 Crafty Chicks (No Stamping)
* Crafty Catz (Anything Goes)
* Crafty Sentiments (Spots or Stripes)

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Winter Birthday

Good morning, I have another card to show you today. For this card I wanted to try and not cover everything in backing paper, something I usually do, but also show off the beautifull muted gold colour of my base card (Crafters Companion). I found it difficult though to make it interesting enough, as to me it looked pretty bland at first.

Also, since my craft room is pretty cold in winter and last night especially so, I retreated to the living room with just limited stash and planned the card upstairs to take only the necessary stuff down with me. Again a first for me, I usually change and change back my design while I am working on it. I will probably do that again next time, if only I would not risk being frozen to my chair! :)

Anyway, here is the card:


I've matted two squares of backing paper with mirri card then used snowflake brads to give it more interest. The image is a twisty pyramage one. Matted the sentiment on little pieces of glittery red card (I love this stuff and can't bring myself to even throw away any little bits I have left, however small). I was thinking about adding something in the upper corners of the card, but thought that it would defeat the purpose of choosing a gold base card.

I want to submit this card to the following challenges:

* DCD Christmas Challenge (Winter Birthday)
* Allsorts Challenge (Male/Boy)
* Creative Card Crew Challenge (Show the colours of your country; red, white and blue for the Netherlands)
* Incy Wincy Challenge (Winter Wonderland)

I'd better be off, I am working from home today but have a long list of to do's, better get to it!

Ciska

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