This weeks challenge was a color challenge, mainly to use blues & silvers/grey. I actually took these colors out of the inspiratin challenge a few weeks ago and made this tag:
I used my favorite Christmas set, Fancy Christmas! I decided for this challenge to show my Xmas tag today & tomarrow on the QKD blog I will show a coordinating project which also goes with this challenge.
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The inspiration photo for this weeks challenge reminded me of the soft creams & blues of winter & snow. Mabey it's because of Black Friday coming in 4 days (yippee!) or Thanksgiving Thursday, but I'm getting in the Christmas spirit this week! We have only had one snow this year so far which didn't last the day (very odd for MN) but I can still feel the excitement and wonder of Christmas. We even saw Santa for the first time of the season on Saturday.
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The first thing I wanted to do with this was make a card using the yellow brick road, of course! :) I decided that the easiest way to do that was to just take a piece of yellow cardstock and hand draw brown lines for the bricks using a ruler. After finishing my "yellow brick" paper, I free hand cut it with a craft knife. I colored the image with copics, added some glitter to Dorothy's red shoes :) and mounted on red paper. I popped the main image up on pop dots to add to the effect of the yellow brick road in the background.
I love how she pops out above the little strips of paper. It has a very peaceful feeling, I think. :)
Lucas
Lucas is such a little ham!
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I'm just so excited about this new artist & my son is a big fan of dragons so I can't wait to see more and more!
The poinsettias are simply stamped in 3 different pti colors and than gold sticky back gems are added to the middles in a cluster. I added a strip of paper along the bottom using a scalloped border punch.
The papers are from Basic Grey's Eerie collection (LOVE that!) and the border was punched with the MS spiderweb border punch.
I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder for the base layer of the card front to resemble the scales of the dragons. The image was colored with copics, the dragons dotted with the blender to make them look like they have scales. Are they cute or what!? For the base of the easel I die cut a pumpkin and used some twine thread to sew a button on.
And here is my card (changed the sketch a little):
Isn't that bear adorable with it's little scarf!? I used the same velvet ribbon that's on the top as a scarf by cutting a piece in half to make it skinnier.
Is that image amazing or what!? It was so much fun to color him I did 2 cards right in a row! I cant wait to share the next one!
They have some adorable new fall, winter & Christmas images including snowmen, elves & some beautiful bird images, so go and check em out!
Classic Japan black & red. I used a fuzzy brad & 2 glittered brads.
I saw a lot of orange in the inspiration photos as well as the circle of the sombrero and the gorgeous floral embrodery (similar to this stocking).
The challenge for India was to use some bling (lots of jewels & gold in India inspiration). There are also a lot of gorgeous colors used together in India, so I choose to stamp in 3 different colors and than use simple gold dots in the center of each.
The challenge for Australia was both to use masking & white dot outlines. I masked the large poinsettia to stamp the dotted frame in white and than used a white pen to dot around the flower & leaves.
And this is the fab Unity set I used, Simple Blessings:
I also used a Quickutz embossing folder to emboss the long strip on the right side of LO. I just punched the circles with 2 different size circle punches. I used the "Simple Blessings" stamp in place of the journaling along the left of photo and circled 2 sized rhinestones around the first circle.
Sorry I couldn't get a great photo, but it hasn't stopped raining here in 2 days!
Now, onto the fabulous 
Twine wrapped & tied around the top finishes it off. A very simple, clean one layer card.
Rather than a title, I added the beaver cut out (also from Unity) in the middle. A perfect fit for a photo of the kids with a giant beaver if I do say so myself! :)
And here's my card:
I used the Fancy Christmas set again...I LOVE that tree! I distressed the edges of the paper strips and the main image panel. There is twine tied around the vertical strip and than tied through a button & tied in a bow. The letter stickers I used for my sentiment are Jenni Bowlin.
I used a natural paper with a little speckle to it for the background of the stamped images. I first stamped the car, turkey, leaf "breeze" & Gooble Gooble on to the paper and colored with copics. I than stamped the car image 2 more times. I colored one & cut out complete car and popped up on top of original car. I than colored just the tire covers of the 3rd card, cut out and popped those up on top of the 2nd car.
Holiday Sweater stamp set from Queen Kat Designs for main sweater image & yellow background. Colored with Copics & popped up on pop dots.
I took the colors from this beautiful Earth Love paper from Cosmo Cricket. The stamp is from Unity Stamp Co. Pearl swirl from Basic Grey. I colored the image with copics and cut & mounted with the Spellbinder's die.
More to come :)