Christmas Card Challenges #35: Color Challenge

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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

Thanks for visiting!

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