52CCT - Colours .....

...  Hello, good morning!  It's time for our colour challenge at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown.  Patricia has picked some wonderful colours - soft pink, soft yellow and soft green - just gorgeous.  Here's my card:

Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Big Bloom Poinsettia; PTI - Wet Paint Holiday
Inks: Stampin' Up! - So Saffron, Pistachio Pudding, Pink Pirouette; Memento - Grey Flannel; Versamark
Dies: Lil Inkers - Stitched Rectangles #5; PTI - Wet Paint Holidays
Accessories: White Lustre Card; SU Card - Pistachio Pudding; Ranger Watercolour Paper; Gold Embossing Powder; Gold Mirri Card; Spray 'n' Sparkle - Gold; SU DP - Pink Pirouette

I took inspiration for my card from the new Muse: Christmas Visions Challenge - MCV#1 - Kimberley's card is just stunning.  I'm also submitting to Merry Monday - MM#157 where the team would like us to use dry or wet embossing on our card.  I pretty much kept to Kimberley's layout and I also used poinsettia.  I created a watercolour background using SU inks and then stamped the poinsettia in Versamark, heat embossed with gold powder and cut both flowers out.  I made the base from pale green card and die cut two panel to go on top.  I die cut the greeting from gold mirri card, stamped the ampersand and then adhered the words.  Before attaching the flowers I sprayed some gold sparkle over them both.  On the inside I cut a panel of white card, added a couple of small poinsettia and finished with a bold Christmas greeting.

I made this card yesterday afternoon just as we hit a record high temperature for the day - 30°C (86°F) - sunny and humid - not the kind of weather that makes me think of Christmas :)  Do visit the blog and check out the cards from the rest of the team.  Have fun!

Cute Christmas and some news ....

.... First the news!!!  Yesterday the new members of the Rick St Dennis Elite Design Team and Rick's Facebook EDT were announced.  I am delighted to say that I've been asked to join the blog EDT - I'm so excited.  I only found Rick's images earlier this year and I just love them.  So, as my way of celebrating joining this team of very talented folk, here's a Christmas card I made yesterday:

Stamps: Rick St Dennis Digi - Star Kids Trio; PTI - Wet Paint Holiday; Waltzingmouse - Flurries
Inks: Versafine - Onyx Black; Stampin' Up! - Bermuda Bay
Dies: Spellbinders - Petit Ovals Sm (S4-140) ; PTI - Wet Paint Holiday
Accessories: White Lustre Card; SU Card - Melon Mambo; SU DP - Pumpkin Pie; Copic Markers

I used the sketch from the new challenge at House of Cards - HOCNov for the layout.  I printed the cute kids on white card, coloured them with Copic markers and then cut them out.  As I've used non-traditional colours on the card, I'm also submitting this to Less is More - LIM#196.  I cut some strips of bright pink and white card to make the vertical panel.  I made the backing oval from orange design paper and white card and attached the completed image to the oval frame.  I finished the front of the card with a simple sentiment made up of die cut and stamped words.  I coloured some white card to match the blue Star Kid and cut out the word "Christmas", cut several more glued them together and ended up with a homemade "chipboard" diecut.  The hardest part of making this word was cutting the dimensional tape into small pieces - took ages!!!  I attached it with dimensional tape.  On the inside I cut a mat layer of orange design paper and stamped a very simple greeting on the white panel.

I had Jonathan at home with me yesterday, he really wasn't feeling well.  I know that Jonathan's really ill when he (a) goes to bed really early on Sunday, (b) sleeps fitfully and (c) spends of the day in bed too.  He's still not 100%, but is much improved.  Why is man flu so much worse than flu?  And today is election day, Kathryn's school is a polling station, so she has the day off.  A full house here.  Well, that's it for now.  Do come back later and check out details of our new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More! - see you then.