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This week's Challenge at the Basic Grey Blog is an Inspiration Challenge based on this yummy bowl of summer fruits.
How I managed to get from cool summer fruits to a Christmas card is unclear, but I always say you just have to go where the inspiration takes you.
I looked through my Basic Grey collections trying to find papers that reminded me of the fruit. I settled on a polka dot pattern from Porcelain and Maroon & Green papers from Eskimo Kisses.
I decided to use this week's 2 Sketches 4 You sketch, which seemed perfect for one of my favorite circle seal sentiments from CatsLife Press ... and hence, a holiday card was born.
I stamped some Snowflake Flurry from Stampendous and a very old Stampin' Up image (that has the teeny tiny snowflakes) & decorated the flakes with Diamond PSX Sparkles glitter glue for a bit of winter sparkle. The fine ladies at Daring Cardmakers are also celebrating Ice & Snow this week, so I'm not the only one thinking about snow on this steamy summer day.
Wonderful Christmas card, great take on both challenges.
Posted by: Lisa Somerville | June 26, 2010 at 09:37 PM
Beautifully done, Stef! It's incredible!
Posted by: Shar B | June 26, 2010 at 10:13 PM
Great Christmas card, lovely design!
Posted by: Sylvia Nelson | June 26, 2010 at 10:41 PM
this is really fabulous!
Posted by: ~amy~ | June 26, 2010 at 11:30 PM
A fabulous interpretaion of the sketch Stef, who knows how you got there (lol) but it works for me. Great combination of papers, fabulous snowflake flurry and cut sentiment.
Thanks so much for playing along with us at Basic Grey.
hugs Heather xx
Posted by: Rica | June 27, 2010 at 05:41 AM
loving the christmas goodies I am seeing lately - this card is super cool!
Thanks for playing along with us at 2S4Y this week
Hugs
Kazan
Posted by: kazan clark | June 27, 2010 at 08:04 AM
perfectly fabulous! I need to get started on my Christmas cards as well!
Posted by: Cheryl N | June 27, 2010 at 08:45 AM
Tee hee, Stef, you must have had your mind more on the "cool" part of cool summer fruits than on the "summer" part! I love this card - and it really does evoke the inspiration photo in color and pattern! What a fabulous start on the holidays!
Posted by: JeanFB | June 27, 2010 at 03:53 PM
weirdly enough, i can totally see how you got to xmas from there...and WOW! what a gorgeous holiday card!!! ♥♥♥
Posted by: lauren | June 29, 2010 at 07:22 AM
It's a fabulous card! Thanks for joining in with Daring Cardmakers.
Lynda xxx
Posted by: Lynda | June 29, 2010 at 02:03 PM