Christmas Magic for the Paper Players

Hello friends!  I hope all of you in the US had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday.  We had a big family gathering and it was a gorgeous day for the end of November.

Since it's the fifth Sunday of the month, we have a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge this week at the Paper Players.  The lovely Claire is hosting and has created a wonderful board full of great combinations.

Paper Players

My card fits both the left column (white, Christmas, die cuts) and the bottom row (die cuts, trees, sparkle).  Let's take a look!

I'm a big fan of Tim Holtz die sets and when this came out earlier in the fall, I snapped it up.  I didn't have a cityscape die set and thought this one was so cute and I ended up making four of them!

First came the background.  It was ink blended on Distress Watercolor paper with light, medium and dark blues, along with black around the edges.  The die set has a moon die but I wanted this to be a snowy scene, so I intentionally left a lighter spot, suggesting the moon trying to show through the clouds.  At least that was the story in my head lol! After applying the ink, the panel was splattered with an iridescent shimmer spray and white paint.

Next all the city scene components were die cut, then ink blended towards the bottom of the die cut for some shading.  I took time to randomly little strips and square of yellow to some of the windows in the buildings, then adhered all the die cut pieces to the dried backgrounds.  The snowbanks were hand cut from white glitter paper. I used more white paint to splatter which dried while I created the sentiments.  Those were added with foam tape to finish things off.

I will admit I probably got carried away with the snow/splatter but I still like how it turned out!

I hope Claire's TTT board inspires you to play along with us this week!  The challenge will remain open until Friday December 5th at 3pm EDT.  Before you head off to your crafty space, I hope you'll pop over to the challenge blog, where my talented teammates have some fun cards to inspire you further!

Thanks for stopping by!

Stef

• Tim Holtz/Sizzix Vault Christmas Magic dies
• TH/Stamper's Anonymous Simple Sayings Stamp
• Simon Says Stamp Labels die
• Distress Watercolor and Black Heavystock paper
• SSS Slate, Red Metallic and White Glitter paper
• Broken China, Uncharted Mariner, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot Distress inks
• SSS Kale ink
• SSS White Splatter medium
• Hero Arts White Iridescent Spray