Wishing You Frosty Fun (Winter Card)

Time for another challenge at Double Trouble #157. This challenge runs through Saturday evening, January 27, 2024. As is customary, there are three "Things" to our challenge:

Thing 1 (required): Trouble Maker has decided on a Wintry Country Feeling using either a stencil or embossing folder.

Thing 2 (optional): Double Dare is hoping you'll link your card to our partner's challenge at Farm Quest Challenge #44. Just be sure to check out their guidelines.

Thing 3 (optional): Twisted Sister is suggesting that you include a winter sport in your design. She wants to see one of the following: skiing, sledding, sleigh riding, tobogganing, or skating. There is also a "January Special" - include a hat in your design in observance of National Hat Day on January 15 to be entered into a special random drawing.

This was truly a challenge for me because I didn't have much in my stash that represented winter sports. I have also been trying to use up my existing supply of patterned paper so have not purchased much lately, which can be limiting. Using an evergreen stencil, I used two shades of green ink, then fussy cut the resulting image and adhered it to patterned paper representing a night sky. 

Two snowbanks were added and popped up with foam tape in both 1 mm and 2 mm heights. The skate in the foreground was die-cut from white cardstock and trimmed with glitter paper. The skate blade was cut from silver holographic paper. The entire card front was adhered to a card base of blue cardstock. The blue color is also present in the night sky but did not photograph well. The inside was lined with a panel of white cardstock and decorated with glitter paper. The sentiment was stamped and adhered along with the winter hat, and tiny rhinestones were added to the sky and the evergreens.

Be sure to visit the Double Trouble Blog to view the Design Team's cards and to play along with us. Don't forget to visit our partner's blog, too, Farmquest Challenge Blog #44. 

Thank you for stopping by.

Melanie

Materials

Stamp: The Stamps of Life (sentiment and hat)

Ink: Stampin' Up! Boho Blue, Shaded Spruce, Parakeet Party

Cardstock: Stampin' Up! Basic White, Boho Blue

Paper: CTMH Glitter Paper (Mulberry), Stampin' Up! Glimmer Paper (silver), Honey Bee "Winter Wonder" (sky), SBC "Holographic" (skate blade)

Dies: Kokorosa (ice skate and bow)

Stencil: Newton's Nook (Evergreens)

Misc.: CTMH Bitty Sparkles, CTMH thin (1 mm) foam tape, 3M (2 mm) foam tape

Size: 5.5" x 5.5"

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