Wednesday 24 November 2010

Untraditional christmas colours @ creative cottage


Hello and happy Wednesday to you !

Wednesday means that it is time for another challenge at the Creative cottage challenge blog.

This week Carol has challenged us all to make a christmas card using UNtraditional christmas colours.

I have used pink and black as my colours and added plenty of sparkle - which is the law at christmas or should be !
That gorgeous paper is from the swirly cupcake mini set which is super value at just 80p !
For that you get the paper and a beautiful cupcake topper along with some great sentiments too and as with all of Tracy's kits the quality is first class - you can check it out here.

For my base card I used a piece of 8 x 8 scalloped cardstock folded in half to make a tall skinny card.
My image is from whimsie doodles - a set called Christmas greetings. I have covered the entire image with versamark and embossed it with a clear sparkle to give it a sparkly shiny finish - I've also done this with my scalloped diecut circle and snowflakes (before diecutting).
All that was left to do was add MORE sparkle with my stickles and add a ribbon bow - voila - simple !

I do hope you like it - I had fun making it as I haven't had my heat gun out for ages x

I would like to add my card to the following challenges;

2 Sisters Challenge Blog
- Snowflakes
Scrappy Frogs Challenge Blog - Christmas cards
Stamps R Us - Sparkles and scallops
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Cut it out
Artful Inkables - All about punches and diecuts

Thanks for stopping by - I hope you join in with us at the creative cottage challenge blog this fortnight we love stopping by to see all your creations x

((hugs)) Suzie xx

9 comments:

Sue said...

Hi hun
fabulous card, luv the design, lovely embelies, sue,x

lindyloo said...

Hi hun super dooper card need those mitts on today its so cold huggies lindyloo x

Berry said...

Gorgeous card Suzie! Love that cute mitten image and fab colours hugs Rebekah xx

Anne said...

Hi Susie
Fab card, love the mittens
Anne x

Tracy said...

Suzie this looks fab i love the mittens and the snowflakes. hugs Tracy x

Laura said...

Those mittens are so adorable!! Thanks for sharing your card with us at stamps r us.

Lisa said...

I love the shape of your card and the non traditional colors you've used. Thanks for joining us over at Papertake Weekly this week :)

Rachel said...

Gorgeous card Suzie, love the colours and the mittens look so cute. I love a bit of sparkle and think this card is fab! Wedgie xxx

Poppit said...

Love this colour combo!