Monochrome Christmas

It was Claire's turn to choose the theme for today's challenge for the Christmas Card Club and she asked us to make monochrome cards.

My card uses background paper from a Papermania signature linen paper pack 'A Christmas Carol'. The stamp is the same candelabra image as on the paper - I simply stamped with London fog memento and mounted on an offcut piece of grey paper and then on to a scrap of darker card. I added the snowflake panel, greeting and Craftime silver grey flower.

I followed the sketch for Sketch n stash 120 (turned it upside down and tweaked a bit):

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CHNC challenge 141: layer it up

Time for another challenge on CHNC and this week CHNC challenge 141 is all about layers: layer it up.

I've based my card on the sketch for Feeling sketchy 68:

Regular visitors to my blog will  know that I quite often try to use up offcuts - I have a few boxes of them - plain card, patterned papers, Christmas papers, mirror card etc - I can't imagine where they all come from! Anyway, for this card I felt like cutting into new papers and I used four, yes four, papers from an Echo Park very merry Christmas pad - and, of course, I now have some scraps that have been cut off that will have to go into the appropriate box.

For the image I used the 'prissy poinsettia' image kindly supplied by Robyn's fetish, one of the sponsors of CHNC challenge 141. I digitally coloured it in Microsoft Paint and then printed it out four times, cutting my own decoupage pieces. I edged the pieces with a spectrum noir pen and layered them. I tore round the edge of a perspex oval and edged with a Le Plume alcohol pen.

Colours for Fab 'n' funky 183: opposites attract - I choose red and green:

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