Kraftin' Kimmie Weekly Christmas Challenge

 This week's prompt for the Christmas Challenge is to make a slimline card.  This is a card that is 8.5 x 3.5.  I really wanted to try out some new dies and to see if I could replicate a moon colouring that I had seen on the Lavinia YouTube channel.  

I created a white card base and then used slimline dies to create the black frame as well as a white piece to do the main work on.  Using a Lavinia Stamps YouTube video, I created the moon and night sky.  I cut out the snow, mountains and trees from a dies set and mounted them on the base. 

The sentiment and Santa are from the stamp set Christmas Cheer from Kraftin' Kimmie and were stamped with black Memento ink.  I used my Stampin' Up platform as I needed to stamp a few times to get a nice crisp image.   I originally had the saying "If you don't believe, you won't receive" but my hubby didn't like it so I stamped a new sentiment, coloured the paper to match the sky and  mounted with pop dots.

I then watered down some white acrylic paint and splattered on the card to make it look like snow. This is a skill I am still trying to master.  The sky and moon were created using Tim Holtz Distress Inks - scattered straw, mermaid lagoon, chipped sapphire and seedless preserves. 

I will need to continue to try these techniques to master them but they were fun to try.