Celebration hop week 4: Celebrate the season

Hello again my friends. It is time for the final week of the blog hop over at TTCRD. Again there are lots of prizes up for grabs.

Winners will be selected weekly from the Main blog post and announced on Monday. 

For a chance at winning the prizes you must

1. Comment on all the blogs

2. Be a follower of TTCRD blog

3. You MUST leave your blog address, name and email address in Mr. Linky at TTCRD!

Below are the list of the prizes on offer this week.

Deedees Digis - PRIZE: $30.00 Gift code to store

KennyKStamps - PRIZE: 3 DigiStamps

Paper Crafting World - Prize: $25.00 Gift certificate to store

Drawn with Character - PRIZE: Choice of 3 images from store

And here is the list of blogs you need to visit and comment on for your chance to win.

Willeke

Kamila

Stacey

Therese - you are here

Mary

Cara

Sandra

TTCRD BLOG

I will also be offering some blog candy. To qualify for this you need to become a follower of my blog and leave a comment.

The pic is difficult to make out. There are various cardstocks including some mirri boards and some foiled Christmas backgrounds. There are toppers and embellishments and also some foam pads. It is a mix of Christmas and everyday so hopefully something to suite everyone.

Now onto today's card. I thought i should feature a Christmas card toady. It is getting closer and i'm nowhere near finishing my cards.

I started with a piece of white stamping card and brushed 3 aquatints across it. I used a blue, turqoise and green. I also added a bit of black to darken the top edge.

For the hills I used a torn piece of card and applied distress ink with a make up sponge. I used peeled paint and forest moss.

The trees are stamped with olive and library green archival ink.

The moon and clouds were created by a faux bleaching technique using just water and a brush. Santa and the reindeer were stamped in black archival ink. I also stamped second generation ink reindeer.

I added the reins with a fine black micron pen and some white highlights with a sharpie pen.

 Using same pen I added some stars to the sky.

I wanted to add some interest around edge, so I went round with snowfkae stamps in versamark and heat embossed with stardust powder. This adds some glitz. I also added some sparkle to moon with a clear wink of stella pen.

Finally I darkened edges with blue distress inks and added some black sootin the end. This made the snowflakes pop even more.

For the sentiment I used the new alphabet dies from Hochanda.com

All the stamps are from Claritystamp Ltd.

So i hope you like my offering and I hope to see you joining in with these celebrations, Theresa xx.