It's Winter Time at the Four Seasons Challenge

Hello everyone, it's so hard to believe December is here, this year flew by so fast and Christmas is right around the corner. I hope you got a good start with your Christmas cardmaking but if not then there is a great mood board at the Four Seasons challenge that might help you along in creating some beautiful winter/Christmas cards. For the next 3 months our theme at the Four Seasons challenge will be Winter, the mood board is not required but a great starting point should you need one.

Last month I went on a shopping spree at Del Bellos Designs who is closing her shop. She is/was a stockist for some UK brands such as Lavinia and Cardi-o stamps and as she is selling many of the stamps at a great discount I could not resist. Most of what I purchased were Lavinia stamps but this Cardi-o set came up as *last one* and the price was right so it landed in my shopping cart too :) It's my only Cardi-o stamp set.

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I first stamped the snowman and bunnies using Versafine Onyx ink then used a homemade mask to create some hills and snowbanks. The sentiment is from the Penny Black set Snow Fall. I wanted to add some icy "greenery" and I decided to use a stamp from Lavinia Stamps set Winter Foliage which was part of their latest release. Some glitter and die cut snowflakes (Penny Black Dancing Snowflakes die set) were added as embellishments. I used blue cardstock as a mat and then a white card base.

I plan to share with these challenges:

• Alphabet Challenge - Q for Quote
• Cardz 4 Galz - Cute Christmas
• C.R.A.F.T. - AG
• Crafty Gals Corner - Tis the Season
• Creative Fingers - AG
• DL.ART Thankful Thursday - AG
• Girlz Creative Christmas Challenge - Christmas
• Just Add Ink - Stencils or Dies (I used dies)
• Peace on Earth - Christmas
• Simon Says Stamp - AG
• TIME OUT Challenges - Pick Two from list (I chose white and sparkle)
• Try It On Tuesday - Snowflakes

Thanks so much for visiting. Hope to see you at the challenge blog :)