Four Seasons December Challenge - Christmas Blessing

Hello and welcome! 

So hard to believe it's December!! I'm not sure where the time went and I wish it would slow down a little bit! We already had our first snow of the season then some below freezing temperature but thankfully it's been warming up a bit since yesterday. As much as I love a beautiful winter scene, I am just not a fan of winter weather anymore, especially when it comes to the unpredictable road conditions!!  

A new month means a new challenge at the Four Seasons challenge blog and we are also switching seasons as it's time for WINTER for the next 3 months. So we would like to see all your winter themed creations of course that includes winter holidays. As always there is a wonderful mood board to inspire you but it is completely optional.

Here is what I created:

And here is our December mood board:

My inspiration came from the bottom right image, the icy holly berries. I used this as an opportunity to ink up the beautiful Penny Black stamp Holly Berry Birds. This is a large stamp so instead of using the full stamp, I first stamped the end of it on the top left then the part with the birds on the bottom. I colored with distress inks, the background was also watercolored using only Chipped Sapphire Distress ink, I love the variation of colors this ink gives when diluted. 

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I created a snowy background with a white Posca pen then added the die cut Snowflakes (Dancing Snowflakes dies by Penny Black). The sentiment is from the Penny Black Christmas sentiment set Festive Cheer.

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I plan to share with these blogs:

• Path of Positivity - Something Positive
• Penny Black Saturday Challenge - PB Stamps
• TIME OUT Challenges - Winter/Holidays
• My Time To Craft Christmas - Snowflakes
• FarmQuest Country Christmas Challenge - Outdoor/Country
• The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up - Anything Christmas
• Bastel-Traum - Winter Landscape
• Pattie's Creations - AG
• The Crafty Addicts - AG
• Word Art Wednesdays - AG
• A Perfect Time To Craft  - AG
• Ally's Angels - AG
• Classic Design Challenge - AG
• Crafts Galore Encore - AG
• Crafty Animals - AG
• Creatalicious Challenges - AG
• Critter Crazy Challenges - AG
• DL.Art Linky Challenge - AG
• Merry Little Christmas Challenge Blog - AG
• Mix It Up Challenge - AG with Stamping
• The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up - Anything Christmas
• The Crafting Challenge - AG
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - AG
• A Gem of a Challenge  - AG
• Inspire me Monday

PS: If you've been thinking about taking part in this year's Papercrafters Year in Review hop, there are only a few more days left to sign up for this hop which takes place at the end of December. Please visit this post for all the details! Would LOVE for you to join in!!