365 Cards - Day 290 - Touchy Feely

Aloha and welcome to another wonderfully wintry day at 365 Cards! Well, as Gloria likes to remind me neither of us really experience wintry weather where we live but I still like to make cards in that theme! It's about as close to the cold white stuff as I want to get! :) Anyway, today's challenge is to use texture in three ways, either wet or dry embossing, glitter or flocking, and fabric or lace (you pick one from each group to meet this challenge). Well, I didn't have any fabric or lace that I liked with this card so I used a "lace" border punch for that element along with my dry embossing (the snowflake panel that I wiped platinum ink over) and the flower soft for the snow. Since I "cheated" a bit, I also added some extra texture through glittery stickles for the snow and the big faux brads (look like snowballs to me!), that sliver cord in the middle of the lace, the glitter paper behind the image (can you see it? It shows just a little) and then that fabulous starburst/snowflake mirror brad! Whew! This was a fun card to make and I got to use another fabulous image from Faith at Delightful Inspiration/Designed2Delight (it's this week's freebie if you played last week. If not, get it in her store and play along to get next week's image for free!). Here's a picture of the inside:

And here's some other challenges I was inspired by for this one:

1. Alota Rubber Stamps - snowflakes

2. Alphabet Challenge Blog - G for glitter

3. Catch The Bug Challenge Blog - winter wonderland with lots of glitter and sparkle

4. Craft Your Days Away Challenge - punch it out

5. Cupcake Inspirations - inspiration picture

6. Delightful challenges - embossing

7. Digi Doodle Shop's Best - animals/insects

8. digital tuesday challenge - sparkling Christmas + digi

9. Double Delight Challenges - anything goes + D2D image

10. fun with shapes and more  - scalloped

11. Gingersnap Creations - polar animals

12. iCopic color challenge - color challenge (light and dark blue, white)

13. Our Creative Corner - sketch

14. Paper Romance Challenges - heavy metal: I'm counting that big brad as my metal

15. Raise The Bar - "SNOW" (Silver, No ribbon, One designer paper, Wording )

16. S2G - Holidays + lots of sparkle

17. Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturday - monochromatic

18. Stampin' Royalty - Winter holidays

19. The Pink Elephant -  winter wonderland

20. Totally Gorjuss - snow

Lastly but not least, I also wanted to wish Faith at Designed2Delight a fabulous birthday (it's this Wednesday)!!! Hau'oli La Hanau (Happy birthday), Faith!! Here's a card I made for her using one her fabulous images, Cardinal and Winterberry! (Find it here in her store!)

I colored the image with Prismacolor pencils and OMS. Added a bit of stickles for the snow on the berries and sponged a blue sky with ink. It might be hard to see but I used the 5x7 snowflake embossing folder for the background and I used a corner embossing folder with snowflakes on the inside (couldn't get a good picture of that!). Here's some other challenges I was inspired by for this one:

1. Bee Crafty - DOWNLOADS - winter themed card but not a Christmas card + digi

2. Critter Sketch Challenge Blog  - no patterned paper

3. Frosted Designs - ribbon

4. Hand Stamped Sentiments - snowflakes

5. If The Shoe fits... Scrap It! - texture

6. Mami Doodles: Digital Stamps - anything goes

7. One Stitch At A Time Challenge - anything goes

8. Order of the Opus Gluei  - share anything you have made

9. Papertake Weekly Challenge - Christmas birthdays

10. Pixie Dust Studio Pixie Challenge - let it snow (white and non-traditional colors): well, it's a non-traditional color combo!

11. Sketches by Carly - sketch

12. Stamp Something - digi day

13. Stamps R Us - anything goes

14. The Crafty Pad - embossing

15. Wags ‘n Whiskers - snowflakes

Thanks for sticking it out for this long post! This will probably be my last long post for awhile as my parents are coming for a visit starting Friday! YEAH! I should have my 365 Cards post for the next few weeks but likely no others. Hope everyone has a happy, safe and warm holiday season!

Mele Kalikimaka and Hau'oli Makahiki Hou! (Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!),