Challenge #11: Red, Green and Gold (with Melanie)

Good morning friends! Have you been keeping up with the posts here at Sundays With Crissy this month? Each very talented member of Crissy's Crew has a designated day to post, so there is inspiration and gorgeous eye candy to be seen throughout the entire month! This month, Crissy has set a wonderful festive colour challenge of "Red, Green and Gold".

I chose to work with one of Crissy's newest digital images from Whimsy Stamps...this is "Little Christmas Angel". I always adore Crissy's illustrations of children...they are so precious! After measuring the Spellbinders Labels 8 die that I planned to use, I resized "Little Christmas Angel" to fit, printed her off on Neenah Smooth cardstock and coloured her with Copic markers. I chose some design paper from My Mind's Eye and used accents of red and gold for the matting and punched border. To pull in some green to fit with Crissy's colour challenge, I sponged around the image and sentiment (from CC Designs) with Bundled Sage Distress Ink. The little flourish in the sentiment is something I drew in myself...mostly to fill the huge gap left when I misjudged the placement of the word "Christmas", lol. I added in some gold flourishes that were made with Spellbinders Doodleparts. The snowflakes were also made with Spellbinders.

In hindsight, I wish I would have coloured her gown with ivory or cream shades just to provide more contrast between the clothing and the wings. I coated both with Stardust Stickles after colouring.

Copics: Skin: E000, E00, E11, R20 Hair: E50, E30, E31, E33, E37, E59 Bird: R22, R27, R46, R59, C10 Gown: B60, C5, C3, C1, C00, blender Wings: B000, BG0000, BG000, B60, blender

We would love to have you join in our challenge this month...you have until midnight on November 30th (EST) to submit your project on Crissy's post HERE. (Just look for the little blue Inlinkz frog at the bottom of her post) If you use one of Crissy's digital images on your project, you will be eligible to win this month's fantastic prize from our wonderful sponsor LSL Diversified. Take a look:

Here's what Crissy had to say about our sponsor:

LSL Diversified is a wonderful Canadian paper crafting store that happens to be one of my personal favourite places to shop. I hope you click on the link and see what they have to offer, esp. if you live in Canada. I don't think you'll find lower prices on all our favourite crafting supplies anywhere else in Canada. They also have really low shipping rates and super fast service! And I don't get any compensation for tootin' their horn either. I am just happy to let you know about a great Canadian shop!

Crissy will also be giving the winner 3 of her digital images from either Squigglefly or Whimsy Stamps! You can purchase Crissy's digital stamps from Wags 'n Whiskers, Whimsy Stamps or Squigglefly.

Make sure to become a follower here at Sundays With Crissy so that you never miss a post by one of the lovely members of Crissy's Crew...we still have a few more post to come this month!

Have a wonderful day friends...and thanks for stopping by!

Blessings,

Melanie

Stamps: Whimsy Stamps "Little Christmas Angel" by Crissy Armstrong, CC Designs sentiment Paper: Neenah, Bazzill,
Ink: Copics, Distress Ink
Embellishments: Kaisercraft brads, dollar store pearls, Stardust Stickles
Tools: Spellbinders Labels 8 and Snowflakes, Martha Stewart border punch

Challenge #11-Red, Green and Gold (with Michele)

Welcome,

It's Michele here and I'm so excited to share my take on this months Challenge at Sundays with Crissy! For the entire month of November our challenge for you is "Red, Green and Gold" any way you'd like.

You need to go Here to link up your card to the blue inlinkz box at the bottom of Crissy's post

Crissy has four new images just released at whimsy stamps. She has designed each of them with the upcoming Christmas holidays in mind!

Hint: The week of Nov. 8-14 all digis at Whimsy are on sale 50% off!

Please be sure to check back here every few days as the other design team members will be taking turns to post their own creations all month long.

This month LSL Diversified is sponsoring with another generous prize they donated to give to one lucky challenge participant:

LSL Diversified is a wonderful Canadian paper crafting store that happens to be one of my personal favourite places to shop. I hope you click on the link and see what they have to offer, esp. if you live in Canada. We don't think you'll find lower prices on all our favourite crafting supplies anywhere else in Canada. They also have really low shipping rates and super fast service! And Crissy doesn't get any compensation for tootin' their horn either. She is just happy to let you know about a great Canadian shop!
Crissy will add to this package of stamping related accessories from LSLD, and throw in three of her digital images of the winner's choice from either Whimsy Stamps or Squigglefly!

All you need to do to be eligible for the draw is to use one of Crissy's digital images on your creation. If you are just playing in the challenge, you may use any image you wish from anywhere. This is just a rule for the candy draw.

I used the new Classic Santa at Whimsy as my image for this challenge, I cut the image and scalloped circle out with my Nesties, I first chalked the background with pan pastels in yellow as I wanted there to be a sort of "sunrise" effect, but then added some Tattered Angels glimmer mist in sunshine to give a more muted golden effect. I colored my santa with copic markers and added a gold metallic card stock in a border punch! I colored santa on Neenah Cardstock, Bazzill cardstock was used, I punched a sentiment from my computer with SU oval punch and then used SU scalloped oval punch to mat. The rest of the details on my card are at my blog here !

I hope each and everyone of you have a wonderful day

Blessings

Michele