It's Christmas! Cardz 4 Galz -Fred She Said

Welcome, friends and visitors! It's great to see you this morning, and I hope you are doing well.

Time for a new challenge at Cardz 4 Galz Challenges today!

Badges are awarded for the Spotlight Winner and Top Picks.

Challenge #52 is chosen by teamie ME! (GIGGLE) -and the theme is:

  CHRISTMAS-WINTER  

So get started on your Holiday Cards now, 
and 
show us your Christmas-Winter projects using any technique and medium!

All paper-crafting projects are welcome.
Challenge ends on August 3rd.

My project today is FLAT for mailing, 

and 

uses the beautiful new Fred She Said Winter Greetings rubber stamp set found at Sparkle N Sprinkle.

My Tombow Markers began hurling insults every time I walked into the craft room because I've been neglecting them. Sad but true...

Do your products hurl insults at you when they have been neglected?

But they forgave me as I delightedly colored this wonderful new stamp set. If you enjoy coloring, this set has lots of fun opportunities. I wanted to color it some fantasy color - like blue or lavender, but Nature won, so traditional red and green happily won the tug of war.

You can imagine how many colors of embossing powders I've collected from SNS over the years. My favorites remain the same, however - The Cosmic Collection and the STARS Collection.

Fortunately (for me), SNS keeps expanding the Cosmic collection, and creates new colors similar to the STARS Collection.

Christmas Green Cosmic embossing powder works as a detail embossing powder. When the light shines on it, it's a creamy, luminous, pearlescent feature. When seen in less light, it shines forth its beautiful green, as shown below:

Sometimes it is difficult deciding how much color to put on an image.

Crafters know that mistakes are impossible to make -

less is more...

more is more...

and medium is more...
it all looks great no matter what we choose to do!

Add an unexpected shade to projects for artistic value. With greenery, I enjoy adding blue tones or purple hues. Here I've used turquoise in the leaves:

TIP:

In the end, I applied the turquoise to some of the berries as well.

TIP: Although I'm not an artist, my rule is to add orange, yellow or chartreuse type shades for blending purposes, as those colors using bring out the beauty in all the other colors. I wish my photography better captured the lovely colors with the embossing powder:

Hoping this close up shows off at least a portion of the glistening pearlescent EP, and the golden threads of the fabric behind the image. (I left the image quite large, so if you click on it, you should be able to see the details) - sorry email followers, you need to visit the blog to enlarge the photos by clicking on them:

It really was difficult for me to not leave the image in a very pale style, but I can do that next time since two images were embossed!

Don't forget to upload your Christmas-Winter Creations to the

Cardz 4 Galz Challenge.

Products Used:

Winter Greetings Birds and Wreath Christmas rubber stamp set
The digital set includes papers and more sentiments, plus lots of color images.
Christmas Green Cosmic embossing powder
NUVO Glitter Drops - Golden Sunset
1/4" Tear-ific Tape
Tombow Markers (173, 177, 195, 243, 452, 856
Canson Cold Pressed Watercolor Paper
Craftwell Delicate Dots embossing folder
Golden Woven fabric (on top of green cardstock), 2 colors green, glossy white (for frame)

Challenges I'd like to play in:

1. ABC Christmas Challenge July "N is for New, O is for Old" (brand new stamp set, old old TERRIBLY old fabric fibers on the card back, and old embossing powder)
2. C.R.A.F.Thttp://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ #425 "Christmas" 7/28
3. Creative Ladybird Creations #28 anything goes 8/1
4. Creative Moments #122 Anything Goes + Christmas in July 7/25
5. Christmas at Sweet Stampin' July Anything Christmas Goes 8/10
6. Christmas Cards All year Long (July) Anything Christmas Goes 8/1
7. Deep Ocean Challenges #159 Christmas in July 7/25
8. Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #10 Anything Christmas Goes 7/26
9. Little Red Wagon #403 Christmas in July 7/27
10. Unicorn Challenge #23 Christmas in July 7/29
11. Kerst Christmas "July" Christmas Always 8/1

Stamping Hugs,