A Joyful Challenge

Today I'm sharing my latest Christmas card for my 2022 stash.  My image is Pointsettia Snowmen from Di's Digital Stamps.

  

I started out with several images when I read the weekend challenge from Christian Card Makers.  It was this beautiful, rich color spread of five colors and yummy berries. But I quickly found that with no light color selection, everything just 'blobbed' togethers.

Christian Card Makers ~ Weekend Challenge Color Swatch

I was thrilled to come across the snowmen and was able to make the color selection work. I used Copic markers and for the color selection I used BV29, BV04, R59, R39, R29. 

Next, I've been wanting to post in the Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers site, so I grabbed the sketch for August and spent the next 40 minutes searching for paper!  I'm sure you've had those days too - red is hard to match and in this case the purple has a lot of blue in it, making it a bit of a challenge also.   

Here's the sketch for August from BYSHC...

Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers 

I used Gina Marie Designs Stitched Circle dies for cutting the image and her Drop Pendant dies for the 'ribbon/paper' strips.  

After layering and securing as shown in the sketch, I added the sentiment 'Joy' on the left ribbon and the tiny mitten charm at the bottom right corner.  Ta-Da...one more for my Christmas stash.

Thank you for stopping by today to view my blog. I enjoy sharing my work with you and invite you to 'Follow' my blog and to visit my site - "Not Just Scraps' on Facebook - where you can purchase my cards.  

I will be entering this card in the following challenges: 

CD Sunday Plus ~ Challenge 92

Peace on Earth ~ Challenge 22  

Di's Designs ~ August ~ Add a Sentiment  

Krafty Chicks ~ Challenge 626

Moving Along with the Times ~ August ~ Challenge 145  

Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers - August

Pam's Pearls

 

Products

Di's Digital Stamps, Pointsettia Snowman 

Gina Marie Designs, Stitched Circles

Gina Marie Designs, Drop Pendant