Challenge #115 - Reminder

 

Hi there Christmas Kickstarters, welcome back to what seems to be a slightly tricky challenge! We are so lucky to have the rather wonderful Carol from Just Me:c making a return visit as our elf this month.

 

Challenge #115 - Gothic Christmas

The linky gallery is now beginning to fill with stunning entries... I think it took you guys a few days to think this one through! It took us a while too! If you're still unsure about how to play this challenge here are some thoughts to hopefully spark your creativity.

You'll remember how Carol focused her creative thoughts on "darker colours, ornate images, a degree of ‘elegance’"  as she felt "Gothic Christmas doesn’t ‘have to’ equate to being sort of ‘creepy’ or gaudy or whatever people may ‘typically’ associate gothic as being."  

We've included this inspiration picture to help. Nothing creepy about this beautiful tree, just pure class, sumptuous decoration and wonderful colours.

For Carol, going gothic is all about the colour palette.  Just look at her stunning second card, and how the poinsettia 'pops' against that black embossed background. The touch of gold taken from the star on the tree is just so elegant. Please drop by at Carol's blog and leave her some love.

Here's a reminder of Carol's first card for our challenge. You can see how she used the inspiration picture, yet kept to a traditional colour combo for the baubles and fabulous plaid trim. 

I love Carol's take on the theme, and for my Inspired by piece I wanted to go completely OTT with as much glitter card as I could muster from my stash. I was tickled pink to discover a ready-cut black glitter card bauble in the same shape as Carol used hiding in my goody box of off-cuts.

Here's what I made, and believe me it is very, very sparkly! 

Rudolph is here once again with his Random Raffle Prize and has dressed for the occasion. 

 

Carol and I both hope you'll get your gothic on to play along... Rather fittingly, you have until the witching hour on Halloween to join the fun.

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