No red or green allowed ....

..... Hello!!!  This week Danielle has given us instructions NOT to use either Red or Green on our 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown challenge.  So I was looking through my Christmas papers and nearly all of them had some red and/or green, so I expanded my search and found some wonderful Kaisercraft papers which had black, copper and dark peach.  Here's what I came up with:

Stamps: My Favourite Things - Christmas Sentiments; WMS - Yonder Star
Inks: Versamark; Distress - Wild Honey
Dies: Spellbinders - A2 Locking Loops (S5-175) #2, A2 Matting Basics B (S5-132) #3
Accessories:  Kaisercraft DP - Miss Empire; Copper card; Copper Embossing Powder; Cream Lustre Card

I don't normally use copper - a bit out of my comfort zone - but these have turned out so much better than I'd hoped.  I love the elegant scroll/stripe pattern set off against the subtle pattern in the dark peach paper.  Obviously, once I'd cut the paper to make one card, it was only sensible to use up the other halves on another card.  I used the sketch from CAS - Colours & Sketches - CASC&S46 - works beautifully.  For the inside of both cards I cut a mat layer in copper card and on the cream panel stamped a star and sentiment which I embossed in copper to match the front of the card.

There are only ten weekends until Christmas - so, if you've not started on your Christmas cards, why not join in with this week's challenge - we'd love to see what you make.  Don't forget to check out the inspiration cards from the rest of the team.  Bye for now!