LIM Sketch

Before we start on this week's challenge I think we all need to give a little round of applause to the Diva and Lady of LIM for their monumental commenting efforts.   There are soooooo many challenge sites out there where the DT NEVER comment on ANY cards so I know I for one really appreciate the time and effort Chrissie and Mandi put in to visiting us every week and to visit close to 800 blogs last week was amazing - so three cheers to you two :-D

This week's LIM challenge is a sketch - which was great as I really wanted to get some ink onto my divine new Waltzingmouse stamps which arrived on Thursday - and as soon as I saw the sketch this morning I knew exactly what I wanted to play with.  It's just taken a while to colour all the layers and cut it, with that and the washing machine repair man then for me this week my entry is a little tardy.

The stamp and sentiments are all from the delightful new Christmas Cottage set.  I stamped the cottage 3 times and coloured it like a gingerbread house using just 3 shades of copics (browns) and then my favourite super pale BG0000 which is perfect for snow.  I stuck to the BG colours for the paintwork too.  The central part of the cottage is decoupaged from the second image, and then from the third I cut the lamps and trees.  I coloured a yellow circle around the lamps on the second layer to show them glowing.  I finished it all with stickles for the snow, baubles and lamps and matted it on a blue background.  The "Merry Christmas" stamp is actually the same as the From our House to Yours - ie it has a dotted line and second sentiment line to it but I carefully inked it and took it off the bits I caught with a cotton bud (too hard to mask as the "y" goes below the dotted line).  The finished card is a 15cm square.

I really love how these have turned out and think they will be our "family" cards for this year.

Hopefully will get some time to comment this week.

Tara x