The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #115 - Gothic Christmas

Hi there Christmas Kickstarters, and welcome to a brand new challenge!

We have the rather wonderful Carol from Just Me:c making a return visit as our elf. 

 

You'll recall that Carol was last here in February when we played Christmas Sing-Along. While chatting and passing ideas back-and-forth for Sing-Along cards, we began to wonder if it might be interesting to play a Christmas Challenge with some kind of Halloweeny twist. 

Good people of cardland, I bring you...

Challenge #115 - Gothic Christmas

Following a spree of Halowwen cardmaking, my workspace is covered in black glitter card and witches, bats and ghosties - all the perfect potential ingrediants for a Gothic Christmas! But how to pull these things together to make a Gothic Christmas card? Pinterest to the rescue! Honestly, take a look... So much inspiration and fun. 

Here's what Carol said in a recent email about our theme...

"Yes, [it's] a challenging theme but fun to do some thinking/crafting out-of-the-box, so to speak. Because Gothic Christmas doesn’t ‘have to’ equate to being sort of ‘creepy’ or gaudy or whatever people may ‘typically’ associate gothic as being." 

Carol focused her creative thoughts on "darker colours, ornate images, a degree of ‘elegance’" and once we found this gorgeous image things really began to fall into place for both of us. 

To join this challenge Carol and I suggest you either go full-on The Nightmare Before Christmas or draw your inspiration from this fabulous tree image... The choice is yours and we can't wait to see what you create! 

Here's Carol's first card for our challenge taking her cue from the inspiration picture, but leaning into a traditional colour combo for the baubles and fabulous plaid trim. I'm sure you'll agree she nailed the brief!

Here's what I made. Again, I pulled inspiration from the picture, but added a side-order of crazy with a sweet bat in a Santa hat. You can find all the details about my card over on my blog.

Two very different creations, but we think they fit the bill.

Rudolph is here once again with his Random Raffle Prize and, as you can see, he's entered into the spirit of this challenge perfectly. 

 

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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