Sleigh Ride

 Hello. Hope everyone is well. I'm popping in to share a Christmas card.

We are having electrical work done today and they just turned it back on for me to upload this one pic. Once they are done in a little bit, I will come back and add more to this post. 

OKAY, electricity is back on and I can finish this post. We are having a new vent hood put in and the work will be continuing tomorrow. We borrowed a neighbor's generator for the icebox and air conditioning. So, because I've not had indoor lighting today, I decided to work on this card because it's a limited color palette, pink and grey. I used Morning Mist Versafine Clair for my stamping ink and Artistic Outpost's Sleigh Ride stamp set (which I've had for years and had never inked up). 

I used the stand of trees as background.

 

I used one of Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2's current challenge sketches for my design layout.

I used a white Bazzill 6x6 card base, some dark pink Bazzill for my base mats front and back, some grey SU card for matting and a scrap of light pink Autumn Leaves patterned paper for my top paper layer. On it I stamped the trees with the VF Clair, which I also used to stamp the sentiment and the girls. I colored them with Promarkers and fussy cut them. I used my metallic silver shadow gel pens on the sleigh blading and the flourish peeking out from under the bottom of the circle. I die cut a Elizabeth Craft bow  from white card and colored it with the silver gel pen as well. I added store bought silver metallic snowflakes at each corner per the sketch. Oh, and I stippled Angel Pink Memento ink on the sentiment and edged it with an ice grey Promarker.

 

Inside at left, I stamped a Stamplorations sentiment with the VF Clair and accented with a pink Promarker. At right is a shot of the card back along with the front to show continuity. I have used a sheet of Pink & Main Frosty patterned paper on top of the dark pink base mat, and a stamped and punched siggie.

And final view. I have a huge collection of AO stamp sets (almost 70 sets!) because I love their vintage look, but some of them really intimidate me. So I need to just use them and get over it. At any rate, one more Christmas card done and an otherwise on-hold day was productive for me. I'm not a fan of this color combo, but that's okay because it does have a wintery look to it. I also probably don't have the best shades of the colors to look really good, because I've seen some really nice pink and grey cards. Still glad I tried it out. 

Have a great evening/day, thanks for visiting me and keep on crafting! XOX

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 May Challenge: Sketch #229

Jingle Belles Challenge JB-21-10: Winter Grays

Splitcoaststampers CCC22JUN: Let It Snow

MTTCC Challenge #34: Sled or Sleigh

Pearly Sparkles Challenge #73: Let's Layer It Up

613 Avenue Create Challenge #202205: AG Only

The Paper Funday Challenge May 2022 #41: AG + Opt. Family

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #231: Buttons and/or BOWS

Hero Arts SCWABNH May Challenge: Get Scrappy

Classic Design Challenge May #5: AAG

Love to Scrap Challenge #155: AG

Colorful Options May Challenge: Pretty Pink

We Love Stamping Challenge: Feminine Creations

Crafting Happiness Challenge #123: AAG

Double D Challenge: Monochromatic

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge #521: AAG

Gem of a Challenge Week 10: AG

Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge: Think Pink

MLCCB #44: ACG

12 Months CCLU Challenge #88: ACG + Opt. Winter Sports

Winter Wonderland Challenge: Use Three Colors

Happy Little Stampers May Christmas Challenge: ACG Only

Peace on Earth May Christmas Challenge #16: ACG

CHNCC #594: ACG