Winter Wonderland IG Hop - Week 6 bonus week!

Hello again friends; I hope you're having a fabulous day so far....one day closer to the weekend.  Sorry I'm a day late with my card for the final week of the Winter Wonderland IG Hop, organised by my lovely friend Kelly.  I went on a shopping trip yesterday to Bristol and it was such a long day and I was exhausted when I got home at almost 8pm so didn't post but I am finally here to share my card.  This week is our last and bonus week where we share cards with a winter theme.  

So our prompt for this week is 'sweater weather/winter at the beach' and obviously as the weather is really cold here at the moment I went for sweater weather as my inspiration.  Here is my card:

a close up of my sweaters (or jumpers as we call them in the UK):

I decorated the inside as usual:

I began by picking some red and green card from my scrap bin and stamping the cute sweaters in black ink and then used the matching dies to cut them out.  I also cut some plain sweaters to that I could add an extra layer behind each one.  I grabbed a stencil and using red and green ink created my background.  I also inked around the edges with the green ink as there was more red than green in my background.  I matted the panel onto a black panel and adhered it to my card base with double sided tape.  I created a small white panel, which I again matted onto black and added this onto my card base with foam squares at a jaunty angle for some interest.  I added the sweaters with double sided tape into each corner.  The fun sentiment was stamped onto a small piece of white card in black ink and I used a sentiment strip die to cut it out.  This was added to the centre of the panel with foam squares.  I finished off with a few gold pearls.  For the inside I stamped a sentiment in black ink and added a green sweater in the bottom left corner, again I added a black mat panel and adhered this to the card base with double sided tape.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Creative Inspirations challenge - Happy Christmas/Happy New Year

Creative Knockouts challenge - Tis the season

Cut it Up challenge - use more than one die (sweater & sentiment strip dies)

Dragonfly Dreams challenge - Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - use craft dies

Stamping Sensations challenge - favourite colours (I love traditional red & green for Christmas)

Stencil Fun challenge - ATG include a stencil option Christmas

The Male Room challenge - Christmas

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - sweater weather

We hope you will be able to join us over on Instagram and follow the hop.  Please use the hashtag #winterwonderlandcardhop2023 to find all of our creations and we will be able to find yours if you feel inspired to join in.  

Enjoy the rest of your day and thank you so much for stopping by.  

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Gina K Designs - a very silly season stamp & die set

Gina K Designs - sweater weather stencil

Gina K Designs - pearl mix (black, gold & silver)

Gina K Designs - large strip sentiment dies

Gina K Designs - red velvet and jellybean green ink pads

Gina K Designs - sketched wreath builder stamp (for inside sentiment)

Limetree Crafts - 250gms smooth white card

Hobbycraft - A4 luxury black card

red and green card from scrap bin