More Black!!!

What was I saying about challenges and black earlier?  Well, there's one that actually suits my new Tilda stamp and it's over at Magnolia Stamp Lovers!  Fortunately for me the challenge is to use black and no other colour is specified, although I was a bit worried that there wasn't enough black on my card.  Having seen the fabulous DT cards though, I was reassured that black and white/grey would be OK.

 I coloured this adorable Tilda (I'm so in love with this latest collection!) with my Copics and added half a ton of Glamour Dust to her hat and scarf.  I masked the main image and stamped the trees over the top; I stamped an extra tree, cut it out and layered it over parts of the background for a bit of depth.  A good dollop of Stickles on the trees gave them a bit of sparkle.  The sky looked a bit empty so I used some Kaisercraft rub on stars to fill the space.

The silver DP is from the latest SEI pad and over this I layered a square of Pink Petticoat little stars paper.  I then embossed a piece of black Coredinations card with the Cuttlebus Swiss Dots folder, roughed up the edges and added this as another layer.  Then I wrapped a length of M&S black sparkly ribbon around all the DP layers, although to be honest now you can hardly see it. 

I put a large snowflake (I won these as part of a candy a while ago and I'm eeking out my last few!) behind the image and a smaller snowflake on top.  In the opposite corner is a Craftwork Cards message circle.

The picket fence, cut in black, is a Doohickey die cut.  I covered it in Polar White flowersoft and hope it looks like snow!  Actually if I had the time I should have just left the card outside overnight - it's been freezing here all day and this afternoon I had to defrost the car for the first time since last winter.

Now please can I go back to my flowery and girlie comfort zone? 

Have a lovely evening.

Tracey xx