52CCT - Colour ....

....  Morning.  I'm sharing the first card that I made for this week's colour challenge at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown.  Fabiola picked the colours - RED, WHITE and ANOTHER colour, but NOT green.  Sadly, I didn't read the instructions properly and I have a touch of honey behind the snowman, and worse, I've got the tiniest hint of green!  But I'm really pleased how it turned out.  However, it didn't follow the rules, so I made another card and that's the one you saw yesterday.  This is the first card:

Stamps: Chocolate Baroque - Falling Snow; Uniko - Simply Said Christmas; Stampin' Up! - More Merry Message; Stampendous - SSC112 (Can't remember the name of the set)
Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, London Fog; Versafine - Onyx Black; Distress - Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Weathered Wood, Festive Berries, Wild Honey, Shabby Shutters
Dies: Die-namics - In & Out Diagonal Stitched Rectangles #3
Accessories: White Lustre Card; SU DP - Real Red, Pacific Point; Copic Markers; Wink of Stella - Clear; SU Glitter - Dazzling Diamonds; Pigma Black Fine Point Pen

I'm playing along with the current CASE-ing Christmas Challenge - CCC#29, Jingle Belles - JB:15:19 and Shopping our Stash - SOS/JB.  I decided to use a snowman stamp that I've had for years made by Chocolate Baroque (and sadly discontinued).  I die cut a rectangle, stamped the image and coloured it with Copic markers - making the hat bold red, black and blue.  I added a touch of colour to the staff, star and snowman.  I masked the snowman and created the hills by tearing paper and sponging on colour.  I made a sunset sky by adding a touch of honey, warm red and dark blue distress inks.  I used my clear Wink of Stella all over the snowman to give him a subtle shimmer and used glitter on the falling snowflakes. I layered the finished image on blue design paper and white card.  I cut a piece of red design paper slightly smaller than the card and attached the snowman panel to the centre of the card.  I finished the front with a simple sentiment.  On the inside I cut a mat layer of blue design paper and on the white panel stamped a Christmas greeting along with a few more snowflakes.

I took a close up of the snowman where you can just about see the shimmer on his body - no sun here today, so the sparkle isn't showing up much!

We had a fun day out yesterday - at a photo shoot up in Pontiac.  I took loads of photos - as always - photos to follow.  Yesterday evening was the start of Kathryn's Birthday Week!!  She had dinner with a group of friends - they had fun.  We heard them, but enjoyed a quiet dinner at a table of our own :)))  This was followed by a sleepover here.  Why do they call it a Sleepover?  The girls were chatting until quite late!!  That's all for now - have a good day.