Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow! - Just Add Ink Challenge #761

It's time for a brand new challenge at Just Add Ink and this week it's a chance to drag your Christmas supplies out of storage and make with the ho-ho-ho!

I love making Christmas cards when it's actually winter here and I can add snow elements without it looking weird - or maybe it's just because I have the perfect excuse to go to town with the splatters! And I certainly took advantage of that on my card 😁, as you can see...

It's a veritable blizzard! 😂 I really wanted to emphasise the winter aspect, lol. 

For my background I inked the inside of the embossing folder before running it through. I used puffy embossing powder for the snow on the ground - love the texture. The baubles on the tree (what do you mean, you don't bring your tree home fully decorated?) were cut from glitter card then coloured with Copics. All the other pieces - apart from the obvious white bits - were cut from coloured card and inked for shading. As usual, I cut two layers of the sentiment die and applied some white pan pastel top and bottom for a wintery look. The whole thing got a spritz of shimmer mist so has a lovely subtle sparkle to it when it catches what little sun we have at the moment. 

Getting the tree is one of my favourite Christmas memories from when my girls were younger. We'd go to the same tree farm every year and take ages choosing just the right one before chopping it down and fitting it in the boot of the car. On the way home we always stopped and bought tons of fresh fruit - strawberries, cherries, grapes, apricots, watermelon. The cherries were usually almost gone by the time we got home, lol. 

Materials used:

• dies - Beach Bound, Beach Bound Holiday Add-Ons (HoneyBee), Merry Christmas print (Waffle Flower)
• other - snowflake embossing folder (Couture Creations), Big Shot, blending brushes, Copic markers, white pan pastel, puffy embossing powder, heat tool, craft foam, picket fence distress paint, fan brush

It was a very chilly day when I made this, which seemed appropriate, but it did make me laugh that it followed on the heels of the tropical/summery theme I used for my last challenge cards, lol. Talk about polar opposites!

We hope you'll join us in creating for this theme and share them over on the Just Add Ink blog, where there are more samples to inspire you.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

JAI#661 - Just Add Inspiration

Welcome back to a new challenge at Just Add Ink! This week we've an inspiration pic for you that could perhaps get you in the mood for Christmas (it's closer than you think, lol).

Here's how I was inspired.

Materials used:

• stamps - Leaf Creeper, Silhouette Grass (both Lavinia)
• card - basic white, crumb cake, watercolour, Wonderful Christmastime junk journal (The Journal Boat)
• Tim Holtz dies - Darling Deer, Vintage Tidings
• other dies - Essential Arches (Spellbinders)
• other - picket fence, frayed burlap and tarnished brass distress paints, paintbrushes, Big Shot, craft foam, sponge dauber, Holiday Talk metallic stickers (Tim Holtz), crumb cake and vintage photo inks, Dimensionals, distressing tool 

I was interested to discover the origins of the Christmas in July tradition here in Australia - apparently it's attributed to some Irish tourists who were visiting the Blue Mountains in July (which of course is summer time in Ireland but winter here) and, thrilled to see snow and reminded of Christmases 'back home',  persuaded a local hotel owner to hold a "yulefest" party. The idea caught on and here we are!

There's plenty more inspiration to see over on the Just Add Ink blog.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry