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Christmas Card Challenges #35: Color Challenge

2 Aug

Good afternoon!!  If you’re looking for my Chibitronics LED stickers giveaway please click here!  And don’t forget my Instagram giveaway that can be found at my IG account: @JessicaAFrost! ? Anyway, onto my actual post for today…

This week’s Christmas Card Challenge is a really unusual and pretty pastel color palette.  I had a lot of fun coming up with ways to create a holiday card using a very non-holiday palette!  I look forward to seeing how all of you interpret the challenge!

Here’s what I came up with!

My colors aren’t quite true to the palette but they’re close enough for me! 😉 To start off, I blended Old Paper, Milled Lavender, and Shaded Lilac distress inks onto a 4″x5.25″ piece of white cardstock.  I let it dry and then stamped the sentiment with versamark before heat-embossing with silver embossing powder.  Next I die-cut the trees from Memory Box and adhered them to the card with glue dots.  Next I used my pico embellisher to add “snow” at the base of the trees and on the branches.  While it was still wet I sprinkled it with distress rock candy glitter.  I adhered the panel to a white card base but decided that it was missing something.  I wanted a little more shimmer and sparkle so I masked off the white card base with post-it tape and spritzed the panel with shimmer spray.  Once that was dry I removed the post-it tape and placed my card in an empty box.  I sprayed it lightly with Aleene’s Tacky spray and then sprinkled the whole card with superfine glitter.  I tapped off the excess glitter and then let it dry overnight.

I love how the spray glue actually creates texture on the card and that, in combination with the glitter, it looks like snow!  So there you have it, a pastel Christmas card! 😉

That’s my card for the week!  I hope you’ll play along with the challenge!  For even more inspiration, don’t forget to visit the rest of the design team!

  • Carol
  • Donna
  • Gail
  • Heather
  • JoAnn
  • Margo
  • Marsha
  • Monica
  • Shirley Anne

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  1. HJ says

    August 2, 2015 at 1:54 pm

    Wow!! Jessica, that is a very beautiful card you have created. Thanks so much for giving us the tips on how you did it. Anyone would be thrilled to receive it during the holidays..

    Reply
  2. Celeste Goff says

    August 2, 2015 at 3:41 pm

    Just gorgeous! I would never have thought to use these colors for a Christmas card but it works.

    Reply
  3. Michael Bakeler says

    August 2, 2015 at 3:51 pm

    Jessica, this is a very elegant card. I am inspired, as always!

    Mike (your number 1 fan)

    Reply
  4. Janet K says

    August 3, 2015 at 9:22 am

    Hi Jessica can you send me folder 8 and 10 stamp set beer wishes and peace poinsettias? Queenosax@aol.com US

    Reply
  5. Carol S says

    August 4, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    This is a beautiful card Jess – I love the soft colours, gentle shimmer and sparkle.

    Reply

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