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. 

 

When Carol was last here in February we played Christmas Sing-Along. As we were chatting and passing ideas back-and-forth for Sing-Along cards, we began to wonder if it might be interesting to play a Halloween-y challenge, but with a Christmas twist. 

Good people of cardland, I bring you...

Challenge #115 - Gothic Christmas

I don't know about you, but my workspace is currently covered in black glitter card and witches, bats and ghosties. All the perfect potential ingrediants for a Gothic Christmas! OK, so I'll confess this challenge has been quite challenging, but it's been HUGE fun. I found it sooooooooo helpful to take a wander around Pinterest after discovering it to be chock full of inspiration on all things Gothic. 

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 suggest we focus our ideas on "darker colours, ornate images, a degree of ‘elegance’" and that way of playing this challenge really hits the spot for me.

Once we found this gorgeous image things really began to fall into place. Feel free to grab that glorious palette!

Here's Carol's first card for our challenge - she used the inspiration picture, but leant 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 my 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 I think they both have a Gothic feel. 

Rudolph is here once again with his Random Raffle Prize and, as you can see, he has 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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