2017 Pantone card challenge - December

I'm posting the last Pantone card challenge prompt of the year a little early.

Our final colour picks of the 2017 are:

Neutral Grey

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And Shaded Spruce:

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There's plenty of scope for combining these shades too as well as focusing on one!

• As those lovely cookies demonstrate, the neutral grey tones can be used together to create a monochrome look that plays with dark and shade. You could even incorporate silver or black heat embossing to accentuate the details.
• How beautiful do those snowflakes look? I'm sure you have snowflake dies and stamps in your stash that would work well as a DIY background or as the focal point of your card design.
• There's also scope to create a blended background with Distress Inks, combining masking techniques for the moon, and you could even introduce the spruce shade into your blending or for the trees.
• Neutral grey of course can be a great background instead of white. One of my personal favourites!
• As for Shaded Spruce - the following ink shades in my stash are a perfect fit, you may also have them:
  Pine Needles - Distress Ink
  Evergreen - Altenew
  Pine Feather - PTI
  Noble Fir - Lawn Fawn
  Meadow - Adirondack
• Any of these inks would be a great bold colour for foliage, pine boughs and trees.
• When used as foliage, blush pink tones also work great to highlight the green - so blush berries rather than red, blush tone winter roses, so many possibilities.

Here's a card idea from last year that demonstrates how the spruce green, neutral grey background, and blush pink tones could be combined:

I hope you've enjoyed this year's prompts!

Happy crafting!