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For my 3rd week as a Guest Designer for the Color Challenge (CC775), we have a lavender, purple & mint green color combo w/ the dessert option of making a winter card. Since it’s been below freezing all day here & lows in the mid teens, I think it feels pretty much like this poor bear & his little bird friend look. 

After coloring the bear in the tree, I added the cute little bird (from another winter image) on one of the branches. It was good thing the SU neutrals are allowed, because I made liberal use of the browns, grays & merlot colors! For the bg, I die cut some stitched hills out of scratch paper & used them to sponge in the snow hills & purple/lavender sky. 

After it was sponged, I dry embossed it w/ a snowfall folder & added stickles to the snow. I used the purple inks to sponge the greeting die cut.

Here are the Copics I used, You can see by all the different greens & blue greens, I had to work to get that mint color for the hat & scarf. The purple shades were used just on the bg of the image circle. I didn’t feel like cutting a mask, lol, so I just used the Copics to mimic the sponging I did on the lg background.

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Supplies:

 

RN Winter Bear in Tree 1250-02	RN Owl w/ Bird on Sled 1220	RN Hugs die 5205-01D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Circle Stitch dies 5006D
Copic Sketch Markers	Memento Inks	Distress Inks	X-Press It Blending Card	Staples 110# White Card Stock
Stickles	Sizzix Snowfall Speckles 661008

For the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge (IC729), we’re headed to a wonderful Christmas site called Bronner’s Christmas Wonderland. After much window shopping, I chose THIS item as my inspiration. I just rec’d this cute little Owl image & I knew it would be perfect.

After stamping & coloring this cute owl & his sleigh, I die cut them w/ their matching dies & attached them to one I cut out of white cardboard..it gives the image a little lift & sturdiness. For the bg panel, I die cut the frame w/ curves die & snipped out the topmost curve. I put the lower sections back into the frame because I thought they resembled hills of snow. The blue bg has a snowflake frame embossed on it & I sponged it & splattered it w/ water. A partial line of trees was tucked into one side & a lamppost added to the other side.

Here are the Copics I used to color everything.

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Supplies:

 

RN Owl w/ Bird on Sled 1220	RN Owl w/ Bird on Sled die 1220D	RN Snowflake Frame 656	RN Tis the Season 981-05	RN Frame w/ Curves dies 5148-05D
RN Cardinals dies 5217-02D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Pine Tree Forest 5164D	RN Winter Lamp Post die 5217-05D	RN Lamp Post die 5163D
Staples 110# White Card Stock	X-Press It Blending Card	Distress Inks	Memento Inks	Colorbox Pigment Ink
Ranger Embossing Powder	Decoart Acrylic paint

For the Inspiration Challenge (IC727) we’re headed to Ruby Mountain & I chose THIS as my inspiration.

The round shape of the earrings & white snow falling reminded me of this new Snow Globe die I have & wanted to use. I die cut a couple of trees & the larger one on the left, I snipped it out of the oval frame it comes in. Thinned white acrylic paint was used to paint the snow on them & when dry, I added some ink & embossed them w/ a sparkly white powder. I used part of a snowflake frame image to add the embossed falling snow. For the greeting, I stamped it onto a piece of white shrink plastic w/ Stazon & heated it. A larger metallic blue layer was added behind the snow globe to go w/ the stand of the snow globe. On the deckle frame, I swiped a dark blue ink along the inside & outside edges & heat embossed w/ a blue satin powder & purposely left the little specks of powder here & there. 

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Supplies:

 

RN Snow Globe die 5177-01D	RN Deckle Frame die 5176-01D	RN Evergreen Tree dies 5217-01D	RN Cardinals dies 5217-02D	RN Tree in Oval 5165D
RN Holly #1 die 5162-08D	RN Circle dies 5002D	RN Snowflake Frame 656	RN Winter Wonderland 1256-03	Staples 110# White Card Stock
Colorbox Pigment Ink	Ranger Embossing Powder	The Paper Cut Layering Swatches	Stazon Ink	Shrinky Dinks shrink plastic