December Winter Themed Challenge

As everyone gets busy in December, we thought we'd make the challenge really easy to participate in - we have a theme this month - WINTER. Any winter themed card goes - Christmas, snow scenes, winter birthdays - as long as it says "winter" in some way, then it works this month and its a good excuse to boost the Christmas card stash too.

Tara's made two different cards to meet the theme this month - indoor and outdoor.

For her outdoor card Tara's given a soft frosty feeling to Concord and 9th's Alpine Village die set. One die cut of white for the background with some light inking and a few tiny details. The sentiment is from Colorado Craft Company's White Christmas set - this could be Christmas, a winter birthday or even a winter anniversary with the walking couple holding hands.

For her second card, Tara took winter indoors with a fireplace dressed for winter. The Fireside die from the Greetery is the base, decorated with elements from Hung With Care, and a sentiment from Warm and Cozy to finish it off.

All you need to do to play along for a chance to WIN A £10 STORE VOUCHER is make a card on a winter theme (ideally with products we sell in store, but this is NOT a requirement to participate) and then link it up before 11pm on 31st December. Winner will be announced in January.

Apologies to those who don't have blogs or instagram accounts but we are unable to add "offline" entries to the challenge.

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