The snow did not even whisper its way to earth…

Sharing my first, and possible only, Christmas card for the year featuring some of the cute stamps from the Holiday Village set by Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps.

I needed to make up this card as it has to get over to Japan before I am uber late again.  And by uber late I mean this one will be going over with last year’s in the same box!  Have been working crazy long hours so bit short of creative ideas but a quick scout around the challenge blogs threw up a wintery theme over at CCC Digi Creations.  Cue my new Holiday Village stamps from Kraftin’ Kimmie and I had my idea.

I created a little water coloured scene with several of the stamps from the set including both trees, the village hall (think it’s a hall it has a clock on its front), picket fence, mailbox, Santa and his reindeer and street light.  I also used one of the sentiments from the set.

At Simply Create Too they’re looking for cards with more than one fold, so I decided to make a gatefold card to enter.  To make it a bit more interesting I did the folds vertical and cut the top of the larger bottom section using my new Snow Capped Mountain die from Mama Elephant.

I wanted to play along at Sparkles Christmas as well so have lots of heat embossing on my card.  My sentiment is heat embossed in the same gold I added a border to the bottom layer of my card with.  The snow capping on the mountains as well as the snow on the ground are also heat embossed, with some lovely sparkly glittery embossing powder.  I also added a layer of clear embossing powder over my silhouette of Santa and his reindeer to deepen the black.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Bellbird Paperarts Embossing Powder ~ Clear Sparkle

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Super Fine Detail Clear

WOW! Embossing Powder ~ Metallic Gold Rich Pale

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Mama Elephant ~ Snow Capped Mountain

Sizzix Tim Holtz Paper Punch ~ ½" Circle

Inks & Paints etc

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Water Colors ~ No. 10 White, No. 56 Marine Green & No. 58 Ever Green

Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pad ~ Basic Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Black Soot, Blueprint Sketch, Broken China, Chipped Sapphire & Weathered Wood

Tim Holtz Distress Paint ~ Picket Fence

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Monochromatic Cardstock ~ Typhoon

Bellbird Paperarts Card ~ Cotton Blend

Stamps

Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps ~ Holiday Village

Challenges

CCC Digi Creations #98 ~ Winter Time!

Simply Create Too #144 ~ More Than One Fold

Sparkles Christmas #95 ~ Embossing Heat or Dry

Thanks for stopping by!