I am really thrilled today as I have a Guest DT spot over on Sundays with Crissy which is very exciting :-D The challenge this month is to create a Christmas themed card or project in non-traditional Christmas colours - that is specifically to not use red or green. I have a couple of Crissy's wonderful images that are Christmas themed and couldn't decide which to use so I decided to do both!
For my first card I printed her very jolly Santa on kraft paper and coloured him just using polychromos pencils from Faber Castel -eek no copics! I usually use copics for skin and under colouring and finish with pencils for detail but as this was kraft paper I knew the copics wouldn't show up so had to go straight in with pencils. I'm actually really surprised and pleased with the results - I didn't use sandsoder for blending either as it doesn't work on kraft so did any blending with dry stumps.
Once coloured I cut him out with a nestie and then used the same nestie sets to create a frame with kraft card. I darkened the frame with a couple of shades of distress inks and added a pearl shimmer spritz for a vintage yet frosty feel. I added some DP from the My Minds Eye Signature Christmas stack to a 7 x 5 inch kraft base card. The DP is mostly brown but has frosty white glitter and snowflakes so I finished the card with a snowflake cut with a large MS punch again from kraft and coloured with picket fence distress stain and some pearl smooch with a large pearl center. The sentiment is a Craftwork Cards die cut.
As he's entirely in kraft - I'm entering him into the lovely Spotted Chick's That's Krafty Thursday challenge too.
For my second card, I used one of my favourite ever images from Crissy - Mudzie Plays Christmas Tree - I just love Mudzie and the humour of the image. This is a very large 8 by 8 inch base card, again kraft - I have a weakness for it can you tell ;-) so I printed Mudzie quite large to match - this is the joy of digi for me over rubber - you can decide on the size to suit your project.
This time Mudzie is coloured entirely with copics and to avoid the red and green this time I took my inspiration from the Happy Holidays sentiment which is cut from a DCWV paper stack and I went with purples and teals. I had lots of fun creating Mudzie's fur so have done a close up shot below. Once I'd coloured him, I added stickles to the tinsel to add sparkle and texture and added glitter and glaze to the baubles, star and lights. The candy canes I feared would be difficult without red - but I think they work well in pale teal and are just mint flavoured instead of fruit!
The teal DP is an old 12x12 sheet so I don't know who it is by but its is rich flocked velvet. The purple sheet on top of that is from the same DCWV stack as the sentiment. I added a little silver mirri for Christmas shimmer and to echo the lights on Mudzie I used my MS lights punch on black card and then tried to punch it through the material they make sequins from but it got stuck :-( I really wanted that sequin look however, so I drew round one of the bulbs MANY times and cut them out by hand.... It did take ages to do but I'm glad I persevered as it does give a lot of shine and shimmer as I'd hoped it would.
I've loved Guesting over with Crissy this month and hope you've enjoyed my shares - do pop along to this post and join in the challenge with your red and green free Christmas themed projects.
Thanks for stopping by today :-)
Craftilicious
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