Keeping Christmas: October 2018

It's time for the October installment of Keeping Christmas with The Challenge design team!  For this month, I kept things simple with a little heat embossing and some festive distress inks.

My simple design features a classic sentiment from Avery Elle's Sending Peace stamp set.  I heat embossed the words "wishing you joy this holiday season" in white on a watercolor panel, then pressed the embossed panel into some watered-down red distress inks on a large clear acrylic block.  When the ink dried, I buffed the ink off of the text to reveal the words.  For a festive sparkle and shine, I brushed a gold ink pad along the panel's edges.  It's so pretty IRL!  Even though I don't usually mix metallics, I did here, accenting the text with a bunch of different sized silver sequins.  The finished panel was adhered to a coordinating red card base.

Don't miss what the rest of our team has created to inspire you to get a head start on your holiday card making!  There is a lot of inspiration and ideas to get your creative juices flowing.  Here's where to find the team members:

Kelly Lunceford

Lesley Croghan

Anita Madden

Broni Holcombe

Claire Broadwater

Julee Tilman

Kim Heggins

Lori Tecler--you're here!

Nance Salkeld

Nina Forsyth

Rachel Bergfeld

Vicki Finger

Materials Used:
Sending Peace stamp set (Avery Elle); Memento Luxe Wedding Dress and Delicata Golden Glitz inks (Tsukineko/IMAGINE Crafts); Fired Brick and Abandoned Coral distress inks (Ranger); Riding Hood Red cardstock (Stampin' Up!); Snow embossing powder (Michaels); silver sequins