Home for Christmas

How about a Christmas card? I used this week's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches for my starting point.

I wish you could see the glitter and shine but alas my photograph cannot capture

the beautiful shine. I glittered the snow laden tree, red ornaments and light

from the lantern using Stampin' Up dazzling diamonds and a Wink

of Stella glitter pen.

The image is from Stampin' Up "Home for Christmas".

I am also entering this at Merry Monday Christmas  where their

Challenge #120 is "Skiis, Skates or Sleds".

I love the sled against the door and would love to have one 

of my own to decorate for Christmas---found one

at our local vintage/antique shop, hmmmm!

I embossed some snowflakes with Stampendous white embossing powder

which I also used for the inside sentiment along with a few more stamped 

snowflakes.

I also was inspired by this beautiful picture at Festive Friday - doesn't 

it just scream Christmas. I loved the pine trees and wreath and of

course the color palette.

I have a sweet spot for old trucks...wish I could have worked 

that in as well, maybe another card?

I stamped the sled again,, coloring and fussy cutting so that

I could pop it up for some extra dimension.

I used foam dots to pop up the image as well after I cut around

it. I used re inkers as my coloring medium.

Hope you enjoyed my card half as much as I did making it and will

check out all of these great blogs and join me in starting

your own Christmas stash.

Challenges Here I come....

Happy Weekend, hope you are all staying warm. It was a balmy

-2 degrees here this morning but we are

staying warm, plus tomorrow is suppose to be 

a bit warmer, yeah!

I am sharing something new I tried this week, I picked up this beautiful 

dairy barn which is a free piece of clip art which you can find here.

I placed into my Cameo software doing a trace and detach which

released it from the background allowing me to pull this

pine tree from Beccy's Place in, which I duplicated

and re sized several times until I had the look I wanted.

I used Spectrum Noir markers to color and both

Martha Stewart snow and fine glitter as well as Stampin' 

Up dazzling diamonds to achieve my winter scene. 

For my inspiration I found two challenges that I just couldn't resist.

Festive Friday Challenge #23 which is this beautiful photo inspiration

I love barns and red ones the very best.

Merry Monday--Love these colors plus my first Christmas card of 2014

I used burlap and red ribbon.

Love both of these challenges, won't you join in?

I am also entering at Digitally Sweet Challenges - Anything Goes using a digital image 

Through the Craft Room Door Anything Goes

thanks for stopping by.....