Hero Arts Winter Contest – Christmas Village!

Whew…I'm so excited to post this card! Monday was my day off and I spent the better part of the day creating this one! Seriously, I think it took me like five hours! Stamping, coloring, cutting, glittering, more cutting, more stamping, more glittering! Hahaha. Hero Arts is having a contest for December with a color challenge of kraft, cranberry, slate blue, pine green and white. I used all five! The contest also called for "adding shine" and I did that in the form of glitter. The prize is $50 in products! Woo Woo! Wish me luck! I had a lot of fun making this one and I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for stopping by today.

 
The first thing I did (after choosing my Hero Arts stamp set and stamping the images in black) was to pick out markers in the challenge color palette. That way, I knew I would just color all the houses in those shades. This also made the finished project look uniform and eye catching. Yup, I used ALL those markers! It was fun mixing it up on each house. I love this set!

The next step was to make my background for this wee village. I stamped the trees in Adirondack Bottle Green ink which is a nice deep pine green. I stamped the snowflakes in Brilliance White ink.

I had to add some bling to my snowy scene by making my own glitter mixture. I took some plain chunky white glitter and added Prisma Glitter to it. Before I put the glitter on, I edged the snow in a light blue ink.

Here's my scene…now the hard part…trying to fit all those houses on there! Hahaha. My finished card is 4.25 x 8.5 inches. Sometimes you just need more room to stamp, ya know? I put the scene on a kraft base, then a layer of cranberry.

The houses all have prisma glitter where the snow parts are. It's really hard to photograph glitter…trust me I tried! When I mounted the houses onto the card I put them on with double sided foam tape so they pop up off the card.