10 December 2011

A Traditional Christmas!

I hope you are all well, if not I'm sending you huge hugs! We haven't had any snow yet, so todays misson is to find some lol!! We are off on a snow hunt, hopefully Buxton will still be covered in it, then we only have to go about 30 miles! Yay!!
Today I have our weekly CES Challenge which is

TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS

so we want to see your creations with traditional colours of red & green!
I decided to use one of Di's Digi Downloads super cute images!

For details of who won & made our top 3 from last week & also Details of this weeks prize please pop over to the main challenge blog here!



Challenges I Would Like To Enter
Seems A Little Sketchy- sketch
Auds Sentiments- sentiment
Crafty Purple Frog- Its Cold Outside
Forever Friends- Christmas (must include animal)

Goodies I Have Used
Image- 'Winter Stroll' by Di's Digi Downloads
6" square elegent edge card blank from Crafty Emma's Store
Promarkers & Flexmarkers
Girl
Skin- coral, sunkissed pink & blush
Hair- raw sienna, mustard & canary
Hat, dress & boots- lipstick red, berry red, crimson & burgundy
Scarf & hair bobbles- apple, forest green, tea green & denim blue
Dawgies- sandstone, caramel, umber, warm grey 1, 2 & 3
Ground & snow- soft aqua, aquamarine & cool aqua


Papers & Embellishments
DP- (green trees) 'Back 2 Basics Christmas' by Dovecraft from Crafty Emma's Store
DP- (double sided snowflakes) 'Festive Treats' by 1st Edition from Crafty Emma's Store
Red card by Kodak
Sentiment by Birdscards
Large snowflake punch by Martha Stewart
Small snowflake punch by X-cut
Divine twine aqua & cherry from Crafty Emma's Store
4mm white pearls from Crafty Emma's Store
Colour distressing using Tim Holtz broken china

Thank you for stopping by today, I hope you have a fab weekend & stay warm & dry. Please pop over to see what fab traditional creations my teamies have made this week! Hugs xx

16 comments:

Vicky said...

Hi sweetums gorgeous card loving the shape & the image is fab.
Yous sound like Craig he loves to gon on the hunt for snow as well.....hope you find some shug.

Lotsa hugs Vicky xxx

Always with a Sentiment said...

Hello Shell. What a cutie. Love the design and your combination of papers. So sweet. Enjoy your weekend.
Love Sandra xx

AllisonG said...

I love the sketch from Seems A Little Sketchy turned on its side. It turned out great! Thanks for playing along with our first ever challenge and hope to see you again for Challenge #2 on Monday. :-)

Good luck finding snow. Here in Texas we'd have to drive farther than 30 miles for sure!

sallysbitz2 said...

Shell your card is beautiful x

hugs sally x
sallysbitz.blogspot.com

Donna said...

Gorgeous lil card Shell, love the traditional colours and your sweet layered snowflake...hope you found some snow :) Donna ♥ x

patricia said...

thanks for joinning the foreverfriends challenge this month
nice card
patricia

kaos said...

Such a cute card!

Thanks for joining us at The Crafty Purple Frog Challenge
kaos

Hazel (Didos) said...

Ah this is super dooper, Love it, Love Me xo

Spyder said...

Just tooo cute!! Love the snowflake!
(Lyn)

paper fun said...

Great take on our sketch. I love the way you turned it. Sweet image.

Thanks for joining us at Seems a Little Sketchy.

Mari

karen said...

This is gorgeous Shell, hugs, Karenx

Unknown said...

This is so sweet, what a cute image and those papers are gorgeous xxx

debby4000 said...

Oh love your gorgeous cute card Shell.
luv
Debby

Sue B said...

Aww this is SO sweet Shell. I love the image - she's adorable! Beautiful colouring - love the soft background. Papers and layout are perfect and love that delish snowflake!!
Hope you're having a great weekend!
Hugs Sue xx

coops said...

so stunning shell.i love your colours and details and the image is gorgeous :D

xx coops xx

Julie said...

What a sweet card. Thanks for joining us at Aud Sentiments
Hugs,
Julie