Sparkling Christmas Scene from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning folks, my  first post today features stamps from Christmas Candlelight and Sparkling Trees, two of this months new releases from Chocolate Baroque that I've  used to make Christmas scene.

I love to create scenic cards so I really enjoyed making this one. The stamps from the two A5 stamp sheets work beautifully together. I began by stamping the images using Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I used PanPastels to add colour to the background so I didn't need to mask the stamped images as PanPastels are erasable. The only thing I had to mask was the moon.

I used shades of Blue and Grey PanPastel to Create the sky and the snowy hills and I added some silver to the moon for a little shimmer and some falling snowflakes with a white Graph'It Shake pen.

 I used a black fineliner pen to extend the post under the lantern. Next I coloured the trees, reindeer and lantern with coloured pencils. It was looking a little bare in the top left corner so I used one of the tree stamps as a branch, again colouring with pencils.

I've matted on white and red card and added pearls, ribbon topped with buttons and a little charm to finish the card off. The sentiment is from Christmas Magic, stamped with Rhubarb Stalk Memento Ink.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafts Galore Encore: anything goes

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas challenge Extra: anything Christmas

Fan-tastic Tuesday: anything goes with a twist use some glitter

Happy Little Stampers Christmas: Sparkle

Holly Jolly Christmas: Snowflakes and sparkle

Love to Scrap: anything goes

Noor Designs UK: Christmas

Sparkles Forum Christmas: No designer papers

Through the Craft Room door: Anything goes

Thanks so much for visiting today

Claire xx