Snow Drifters

 

It's Christmas every month for us over at 12 Months of Christmas Link Up.

However many non-Christmas challenges traditionally have a Christmas in July theme and this has given us the opportunity to use any Christmas supplies this time round.

The Merry Maidens are sharing their cards for you today.

As alway our amazing leader Lisa of Decosse’s Dynamite Doodles has created some lovely papers Paillette Stripes which will be the prize for 3 lucky winners this month. Lisa's papers are always fabulous quality and very high resolution files so they print really crisp and clear. 

For my Card this month I have used a digital stamp from a set called Snow Drifters by Beccy’s Place. The images come in both colour and outline stamps and you get the 4 sentiments and 7 different snowflakes so you can easily make your own scenes.

I used the image of the snow couple hugging. I adore the expressions on their faces so much. I coloured the image using coloured pencils and added some detail with a white gel pen. Loads of glitter glue has been added to the snow and fur trims. There is even a subtle glitter added to the body but this doesn't show up in photos at all.

The small snowman has been taken from the patterned paper in the Christmas Fun Paper Pack. I love picking elements from these papers to use as an image in its own right. It is a fabulous way to stretch your supplies, you just need very basic digital image skills to isolate it from the main paper. Always just remember to work on a copy of the paper though and not to use your original so you don't accidentally delete your original file.

The background is a paper from the Merry Christmouse Paper Pack. I used this for last month's card and my hubby had printed it for me on plain card and glossy photo paper. The colours are move vibrant on the glossy paper so that suited my  previous card better. The more muted tones of the card I knew I could use so kept for this card instead.

I added some silver glitter glue for star details and used gold to highlight the shooting star and the moon.

Finally the sentiment is an old freebie from Pink Cat Studio. These seem to be no longer available as the author has gone down a more educational route with her digis.

I do hope you will join us with Christmas in July at 12 Months of Christmas. If you haven't already started your Christmas Cards then this is the perfect opportunity to get cracking on your festive makes.

Card Details -

Size - 6” Square

Digital Image - Snow Drifters (Beccy’s Place) Snowman taken from Christmas Fun Paper Pack (Decosse’s Dynamite Doodles)

Digital Paper - Starry Sky from Merry Christmouse Paper Pack (Decosse’s Dynamite Doodles)

Digital Sentiment - Old Freebie (Pink Cat Studio)

Colouring Medium - Arteza Expert Pencils, White Gel Pen

Embellishments - Stickles glitter glue, Spectrum Noir clear glitter overlay

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

• A Perfect Time To Craft - #7-2021 Anything Goes
• Beccy’s Place Challenges - Anything Goes With A Store Image
• Cardz 4 Galz - #151 Christmas in July
• CD Sunday Plus - #64 - Anything Goes with a Digital
• Christmas Crafts All Year Round - Something Starting with M or N (moon)
• Christmas With The Cuties - #450 Christmas Cuties
• Classic Design Challenge - #7 Anything Goes
• Colour Crazy Challenge - #27 Anything Goes with Colouring
• Crafter’s Castle - #43 Christmas in July
• Crafting Happiness - #104 Anything Goes
• Crafty Gals Corner - #221 Christmas in July
• Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge - #550 Anything Christmas Goes
• Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
• C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - #606 Christmas in July
• Creative Fingers - #212 Anything Goes
• Creative Moments - #218 Anything Goes
• Dare 2B Artzy - Christmas in July
• Digi Choosday - #27 Anything Goes
• Digi Doodle Studios - #40 Christmas in July
• Di’s Digi Designs - Christmas in July
• Dragonfly Dreams - Christmas in July
• Ellibelle’s Crafty Wednesday - Anything Goes / Christmas in July
• Happy Little Stampers Christmas - Anything Goes
• House That Stamps Built - #J1421 Patterned paper and a stamped image
• I Love Promarkers - #439 Anything Goes / Get Well
• Ike’s World Challenge - #146 Anything Goes / Christmas in July
• Incy Wincy Designs - Christmas in July
• Lemon Shortbread - #150 Anything Goes
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #161 Christmas in July
• Merry Little Christmas - #36 Anything Christmas Goes
• Pearly Sparkles - #64 Favoruite time of the year (Christmas)
• Penny’s Challenge - #500 Anything Goes
• Polkadoodles - #27 Anything Goes
• Stinkin’ Inkers - Let the sparks fly (glitter on stars and snow)
• The Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge - #97 Anything Christmas Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
• Through The Purple Haze - #182 Anything Goes / Christmas in July
• We Love 2 Create - #7 Anything Creative or Mixed Media Goes
• Word Art Wednesday - #499-500 Anything Goes