I challenged my double dare challenge group this week to make a Christmas in July card using the SU color Brocade Blue and Julee Tilman's Mojo Monday sketch challenge #45. If you'd like to see the cards the other's made, click here:
For my card, I stamped the various sized pinetree stamps from my Kittie Kit's Scene #2 stamp set in the bg onto watercolor paper. I then daubered Bashful Blue and Brocade Blue for the sky. I pressed the bottom half of the bg cs into white craft ink and heat embossed for my snow. Stamped and heat embossed the falling snowflakes.
I used my MS lace border punch on the Brocade Blue strip and sponged white craft ink around those edges. I rock and rolled my Lovely As a Tree image in Mellow Moss and Handsome Hunter and then adhered the brads and sponged these edges in Brocade Blue.
I purchased the adorable snowman ribbon at a really cool lss in Colorado last year when I visited Mothermark and Tracim.
Julee is offering blog candy for this particular sketch challenge, if you want to check it out here:
Registered: July 27, 2005 Location: Texas USA Posts: 13067
Sat, Jul 12, 2008 @ 6:46 AM
Wow Charlene! This is gorgeous, all the way around. I've just been sitting here picking apart all the details! Everything about this lovely scene is just amazing. The snowflakes falling, the way you created the sky, the row of trees, the white EP to make snow, the lacy border (I must get that punch!!), and your rock and rolled main image! There's so much more I know but Wow!! Just awesome!
Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105272
Mon, Jul 14, 2008 @ 3:48 PM
Wow Charlene! this is just beautiful! I love the snowflakes, trees and snow, the lace edging, but that ribbon is to die for! I hope when you bought it, you got a good supply! I never seem to get enough, even though i always think I have plenty!! Awesome job!!
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Registered: February 1, 2005 Location: Temple, Tx Posts: 37720
Mon, Jul 28, 2008 @ 4:11 PM
SUPER AWESOME Christmas card, Charlene, and what a wonderful challenge!!! The background you created with the trees and the snow is amazing and the big tree in the front is gorgeous!!! Beautifully done!!!