Wednesday Weekly Card Giveaway

Hello there my crafty friends!  This is the card that I demoed on my very first Hochanda show.  I was on Youtube one day and came across a video called Northern Lights card that was done by a gal named Debbie Henderson.  Having just been to Norway and seen the northern lights, it piqued my interest so I decided to watch it.  It was a lovely video and while she did her card with Distress inks and stamps,  I couldn't help but wonder what it would look like done with Creative Expression Colour Cloud inks and my dies instead.  This is the result which I was tickled to bits with (thank you Debbie!)  I started with a piece of coconut white card and, using smoothies, inked it in slanted stripes with Chic Aubergine, Scarlet Woman, Baked Peach, Decadent Teal and Chic Moss Colour Cloud inks.  I tore a piece of card to use as a mask for the hills, then inked with Smudged Charcoal.  I went over the edges with Black Soot distress ink to darken the hills and give some contrast.  I inked the sky with Decadent Denim and pulled in streaks to soften the Northern Lights colours.  Finally I went around the edges a bit more with Black Soot.  I dotted the sky with a white gel pen to create the stars.  Using several sizes of my Winter trees, I added a forest line on either side of the hill, leaving a small gap for my sentiment die.  I cut the Merry Christmas die in both black and white, cutting away the snowflakes then offsetting them, using the black one on top.

If you would like to be entered into the drawing for this card, please leave me a comment.  I do need to say, however, that the pictures shown here are of the original card made.  However, I took it to Ally Pally to display on my demo table and ended up accidentally damaging it while I was demoing (a smoothie filled with ink bounced onto the card)  so the card that will be sent out will be the actual card made during the Hochanda demo and it may be slightly different to the pictures shown here.   All for now, Sue x

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