Winter Blues

I never did put up those other pictures *rolls eyes* I'll put them up at some point!

Anyway, I got some digi stamps and other goodies for Christmas, as well as numerous other lovely things. So, I've made my first card of the year now (how slow am I?! Should have started before now). I also got some Promarkers, which are wonderful for colouring, so have used those to colour.

I used the digi stamp  A. Mucha Influence - Winter from The Paper Shelter, which is a beautiful design, and also comes with the background stamp that I used for my card. I coloured some of the background with Promarkers, and paper pieced the rest with some blue patterned paper I had hanging around. To the coloured area I added some liquid pearls as well.

The image itself is coloured quite basically with Promarkers as well. I've not had a lot of practice with them yet, and I could do with a blender marker as well for on the cardboard. Basic looks good when the image can stand for itself anyway :). I used liquid pearls on the snow in silver as well, to add a bit of shine. The image is set on foam pads to add an extra dimension to the card. I decided not to add a sentiment to the outside, as I didn't want to crowd the card, and the sentiment I picked was pretty big. At a later point I may add a flag style sentiment to the very bottom, but I quite like it without. I've added another image with the flash on below, it shows the shiny blue paper I used for the circular area on the background.

It seems a definite improvement on the cards I've done previously, although they were still nice. Well, I liked them anyway.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

The Paper Shelter - Winter Blues (http://thepapershelter.blogspot.co.uk)

Papertake Weekly - New Year, New Stash (http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.co.uk)

Passion For Promarkers - Just A Fairytale (http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.co.uk)

Charizma Cards - It's a Boy Thing (http://www.charismacardz.blogspot.co.uk)

Creatilicious Challenges - Turquoise Winter (http://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.co.uk)