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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 my second week as a Guest Designer on the Color Challenge (CC774), the colors are a lt blue, dk blue & white. Very clean, crisp colors! I don’t have the exact colors so I came as close as I could.

I love this tall coneflower die & I thought it would be great in white, so I die cut a circular window behind it, framed it w/ a stitched circle then created a blue bg to put in the window. Using a lt blue, dk blue & white acrylic paint, I dry brushed them across the card stock, then sprinkled on some glitter before some of it had dried. Acrylic paint dries so fast that it only took in some streaks which I think looks great IRL. The greeting was heat embossed in white on the dk blue strip & I added a few clear sequins.

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Supplies:

 

RN Sending Love 1319-07	RN Flower #3 die 5301-03D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D	RN Circle dies 5002D	RN Circle Stitch Frames dies 5120D
Colorbox Pigment Ink	Decoart Acrylic paint	Ranger Embossing Powder	Staples 110# White Card Stock	AC color card stock
Glitter	Sequins

It’s my pleasure to host the Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge this week & we’re headed to a lovely site that also has an awesome Pinterest Board..Mackenzie-Childs. For my card, I was inspired by THIS wreath.
I really loved the gorgeous wreath so I went for a totally silver & white combo. I wanted a bigger wreath circle than the one in the wreath set, so I used a couple of circle dies for my wreath base. I die cut all the ‘greenery’ & sm. snowflake out of metallic silver &/or silver glitter papers. The poinsettias were die cut out of white glitter paper & the 3 little cardinals out of silver mirror paper. I used some thin silver cord to twine around the wreath & made a loopy bow for the top of the wreath. The greeting is from a large frame greeting, but I didn’t ink the frame part. Since my wreath is good size, the card is also. It measures 6.5 x 5 so it fits in an A7 envelope. The white bg also is larger than the A2 sized rectangle die so I had to use my die resizing/extending technique to make it larger. I thought the sides looked a little bare so I added a couple of strips of silver mirror paper to each side.

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Supplies:

 

RN Wreath Set die 5217-03D	RN Poinsettia #1 die 5168D	RN Cardinals dies 5217-02D	RN Greenery #2 die 5217-04D	RN Rectangle Stitch dies 5007D
RN Seasons Greetings Frame 1063	RN Circle dies 5002D	RN Sm. Snowflake die 5100-04D	Metallic Silver Cord	Staples 110# White Card Stock
DCWV Glitter Matstack	Mirror Board	The Paper Cut Layering Swatches	Memento Inks