DCM - October elements

Morning all!

It's the first Friday of a fresh new month, so of course we have a nice elemental inspiration challenge over on the Daring Cardmakers blog.

As December is nearing at quite a pace, I'm also switching my sights to festive card projects.

So behold the inspiration for this week:

 

And here is my festive take on it - and fair warning I've used some old but great supplies:

Paper: Crate Paper - Bundled Up (r)
Stamps: WPlus9 - Holiday Hugs (r), Mama Elephant - Holiday Messages (r)
Dies: WPlus9 - Holiday Hugs (r), PTI - In the Meadow Silhouettes, Avery Elle - Season's Greetings (r), Hero Arts - Infinity Nesting Rectangles, Hero Arts - Wood Frame Infinity, Mama Elephant - Landscape Trio border, Memory Box - Country Landscape (r), Simon Says Stamp - Sentiment Labels
Other: Copics

The elements I went with were someone in a hood, a furry creature, woodgrain, and a bit of knitwear.

Since I'm playing catch up on my festive projects this year, I am hoping to make multiples of the same card where possible. So for this card design I used different papers from the Bundled Up 6x6 paper pad, but I also tried out different colour combinations for the cuddly bear and little girl.

Here she is with red hair and a teal jacket:

Brown hair and a blue coat:

And a cheery red jacket with coordinating stripy pink tights:

I tried to use a white pen for highlights, and though not very good at the whole shading thing with my limited Copic Ciao colours, the little white pen details really brought the images to life.

This was also the first outing for my infinity woodgrain frames. I think they will be rather handy for framing little winter scenes, you know how much I love those! LOL

The other little details include some glitter paper for the snow, Nuvo dots for the holly berries, and using some Forest Moss Distress Ink on the die-cut trees for extra depth.

Make sure you check out the fantastic projects from the rest of the design team, and play along with the elements if you can. :D

Happy crafting!

 

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Mama Elephant - Holiday Messages stamps (r) Shop at: SHC	WPlus9 - Holiday Hugs stamps (r) Shop at: EH | SHC	PTI - In the Meadow Silhouettes dies Shop at: MISC	WPlus9 - Holiday Hugs dies (r) Shop at: EH | SHC
Avery Elle - Season's Greetings dies (r) Shop at: SHC	Hero Arts - Infinity Nesting Rectangles dies Shop at: EH | SBC | SHC	Hero Arts - Wood Frame Infinity dies Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC | SHC	Mama Elephant - Landscape Trio border dies Shop at: SHC
Memory Box - Country Landscape border die (r) Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp - Sentiment Labels dies Shop at: SSS	Distress ink pad - Forest Moss Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Gina K Designs - Obsidian Amalgam ink pad Shop at: EH | SSS
Versamark ink pad Shop at: AZ | EH | SHC	Hero Arts - White embossing powder Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC | SHC	Tonic Studios Nuvo Crystal Drops - Red Berry Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Uniball Signo White pen Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC
Tonic Studios Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	3M Scotch double-sided foam tape Shop at: AZ | EH	EK Success powder tool Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Lawn Fawn - Stamp shammy cleaner Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC | SHC
MISTI stamping tool Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Cosmetic blending brushes Shop at: AZ	Sizzix - Big Shot machine Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Sizzix - Sidekick machine Shop at: AZ | SBC
Thermoweb iCraft - Purple tape for die-cutting - 1 1/2" Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC	Tim Holtz - Tonic guillotine trimmer (small) Shop at: AZ | EH | SBC

Comments

[Dawn]

Love your Christmas take on this months elemental inspiration challenge. xxx