Warm Winter Wishes - Pearl Shimmer & Sparkle

Hello!  Just finished up this beauty... I am loving this digital image from Pure Innocence this year. I think it might be the only image I've used twice so far. I don't think my first attempt at white on white did the image justice, so I thought I'd put her in pretty pink this week. I've done several blue and white cards, and although I love that combination, I also am loving the pink-white-silver I have seen on other crafters' cards  over the past month. Plus I wanted something soft and feminine for the friend for whom this is intended. =)

Apparently I don't learn from my mistakes... if you remember, on my WOW card, I dropped on Liquid Pearls for the snow and then found out that running it through the embosser with a Nestie resulted in flat snow dots. This week, just as I was finishing up my Copics coloring, a drop of gray got onto her sleeve that colorless blender just wouldn't remove. I couldn't figure out a way to cover it up or get rid of it, except to add snow over her to match her background, so I got out my never used bottle of white enamel and dotted it up. To my delight, it worked, at least well enough for me. To my horror, I realized... d'oh! I'd done it AGAIN. So after smacking myself upside the head, I realized that since I wanted to use some embossing, I could cut out a frame and emboss it and lay it OVER my image! Eureka! =)

I used a shimmery pearlescent white and a pearlescent silver/gray, both from Colorbok, and a pink scrap left over from my niece's birthday card. Can't remember what paper pack that came from. I used a Sizzix Textures snowflake embossing plate and shimmed it to get a really good, deep impression. I colored a Martha Stewart snowflake with the same pink Copics I used for my image and added some Stardust MyLifeWouldBeDullWithoutYou Stickles and layered it with a smaller MS snowflake punch and a white pearl colored with pink Copics. I used a white single-faced satin ribbon with a pearlized twine from a name badge holder from a recent conference. The computerized sentiment was done in a darker pink to match the background paper and the darkest pink Copics I used.

So, one more checked off the list. =) Challenges are being very easy on crafters this month due to the holiday, so here's the list for my shimmery, snowy warm winter wishes card:

Christmas Cards All Year Round: December (this one's #3... 2 more to go!)
Crafty Calendar: Cold and Frosty
Joanna Sheen: #1 It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Cupcake Crafts: #172 Don't Look at the Light

Lollipop Crafts: #61 Happy Holidays

Digital Tuesday: #141 Winter Wonderland

Tuesday Throwdown: #78 For Someone Special

Papertake Weekly: I'm Dreaming of a favorite-color Christmas

ABC Christmas: Y is for Yippee - Christmas Is Almost Here!

The ABC Challenge: E is for Embossing

Paper Crafting Journey: Christmas Challenge

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards: #1 Celebrate  (my final entry - I managed 3 different types of celebrations!)

2 Sisters: #69 Christmas
and finally... Sunday Stamptacular: #142 Christmas Glitz

Whew! Well, soon it will be back to non-Christmas stuff and from what I've seen from scrolling through older challenges at these sites, I'll have a much harder time combining challenges. But this has been fun while it lasts!  I'll just have to make lots more cards in 2012! =)

Thanks and Happy Crafting, everyone!

Christy