Mistletoe Kisses

More Christmas cards to make. Someone just ordered 3 more - and were specific that they had to be 8"x8". Back to the Cubbyhole I go. Feminine without being too glittery - here goes.
The traditional festive colours of red and green was my first one. I suppose in many peoples eyes, Christmas IS red, green and white. The colours of holly, ivy, fir and mistletoe - the natural decorative items in days gone by.
I chose the image "Mistletoe Fairy" from AuroraWings. Coloured with promarkers with a drop of glossy accents on the mistletoe berries.

The card itself was made with the sketch by Tuesday Morning Sketches as inspiration.

The main paper is DCWV with a MME panel. All matted on pearlised dark green card with TH leaves from the offcuts.

 A shiny red satin ribbon with pearly clasp

 and a little Die'sire sentiment on pearlised white card 

One down - two to go.

I'd like to enter this card into the challenges at

Tuesday Morning Sketches - their sketch this week

Through The Purple Haze - Favourite Christmas colours (this is another one)
Passion for Promarkers - Mega Christmas challenge - include a sentiment

Craftitude - Anything goes/Christmas Sparkle

Samhain Sunset with HDH

It's the start of the second week of the last challenge of the year over at Haunted Design House. We going on our annual hiatus for a couple of months. Do not fret - we'll be back in the new year. In the meantime we will be refreshing (hopefully) those flagging energies and whipping our mojos back into shape. So are you going to have us go out with a bang or just a damp squib? Are you going to show us you can create a project depicting the colours of a

"Samhain Sunset."

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Hallowe'en

based art piece that represents a 
Samhain Sunset.

We're looking for the colours of a beautiful fall sunset.

We are sponsored by the incredibly talented Mitzi Sato-Wiuff, of 

Aurora Wings.

She has offered up a very generous prize of $15 worth of digis (digis ONLY)

to each of our GTs this challenge.

Mitzi has beautiful artwork available in her store. She has digis,

ACEOs, original artwork, and more in her shop. Stop by and check it out.

What did I do?
Just a simple wall hanging. The artwork is so lovely it deserves to be unadorned by any other fripperies.

The image is LasCalaveras

Coloured with promarkers before mounting onto plain black card. This, in turn, was mounted onto another piece of black card onto which had been stamped with versamark - a mesh stamp and words from a Sheena Douglas collection. Copper metallic Pan Pastels then sponged on. A fitting frame for a gorgeous image, I think.
So, are you up for joining in our colourful challenge at Haunted Design House. We hope so.

We're in the process of organising a few events in the two month holiday, you'll have to keep popping back to the blog for updates.

See you soon

I'd like to enter my wall hanging into the challenge at
Through The Purple Haze - Anything Goes