I just love the MFT Warm Hugs & Frosty Kisses stamps and dies, and when I found a sketch challenge from MFT and a color challenge on Color Throwdown, I had my plan. Putting the star together was a challenge. I used my Silhouette to cut the star. I used Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxide to ink the sky, with a few well placed water droplets for stars. Next I used the Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders dies to cut the hills. If I had thought it through, I simply would have used precut stars with the hillside borders, so everything would stack neatly. Instead I just used some scrap cardstock and glued it down, then trimmed the edges to fit the star shape base. That was not easy. I used light blue cardstock sprayed with pearl glimmer mist for the ice. I did precut this in a star shape, so that made fitting the lower half onto the star very easy. The sweet doggy and penguin are colored with alcohol ink markers. The sentiment is printed from my laser printer and backed with a slip of SU's Night of Navy. 

Ingredients:

CS: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 110lb, Gina K Pure Luxury 110lb, Stampin' Up! Crumb Cake, Night of Navy (under sentiment), Seaside Spray (ice)

Stamps: MFT Warm Hugs & Frosty Kisses 

Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, Stampin' Up! Smoky Slate (ice patch)

Dies: MFT Warm Hugs & Frosty Kisses, Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders

Alcohol Ink markers: Copic B41, B45, Dick Blick cool grays

Glimmer effects: Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Pearl, Clear Wink of Stella on trees

Embellishments: Stampin' Up! Elegant Faceted Gems

Challenges: MFT Sketch Challenge 557, Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, Kat Scrappiness September Challenge, Clever Dexter Challenge 21, Color Throwdown 658

This was a fun card to put together and is for a special little guy. I first took a piece of Stampin' Up! Sahara Sand cardstock and using the Lawn Fawn brick stencil die, I sponged Stormy Weather Distress ink over it. I used my Silhouette Cameo (and the software) to create and cut the street from SU black cardstock, and then glued a piece of Daffodil Delight behind it. I used the Mama Elephant Slimline Window Dressing Dies to cut out the cardbase and the street (to get the scalloped and stitched ends to match the cardbase). I used the same set of dies to cut out the windows (I cut out the window mullions on the 2 left windows), curtains, wallpaper, and the tiny vellum butterfly.)

The two dogs from Tim Holtz's Dog Talk Stamp Set (these dogs look remarkably like my 2 dogs) was stamped on cold press watercolor paper and colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers (love these things). I die cut them with the matching dies.

Finally, I stamped the truck, the woman, and the sentiment from a very old SU stamp set called Loads of Love onto . I colored the truck with Copic markers (R17, R24, R29, R35) and some Dick Blick alcohol markers in light and dark gray. There is a silver on the bumpers from a Signo Silver Gel Pen. I fussy cut the truck and hand cut the speech bubble.

I assembled everything using primarily Art Glitter Glue and SU foam dots.Challenge is Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything Goes. #ssswchallenge.

CS: SU Sahara Sand, Black, Daffodil Delight, Gina K Pure Luxury Layering Weight CS 80lb

Patterned Paper: Brown and green are from The Paper Studio from Hobby Lobby, other 6x6 papers and vellum from my stash

Markers: Copic, Dick Blick, Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers for the dogs

Dies: Tim Holtz Dog Talk, Mama Elephant Slimline Window Dressing Dies