Christmas in July, Vintage style

Hi folks! 

There have been so many Christmas challenges that I've seen this week that I figured I should ink up some of my new CHF stamps and play along.  

Here is a card I made tonight using one of my new Thomas Kinkaid images.

I've done a lot of "research", looking at tutorials and reading about techniques here in blogland, and also at the CHF gallery forum (which I hope they keep active!).  I also got that book on how to colour TK images (as of today still some at the CHF store...).  So here what I did was instead of colouring the windows just all one yellow, I used orange/red on the outside edges and worked to a ligher colour on the interior.  Below you can see the range of colours I used:

After colouring the windows, I trimmed the image to make it a bit smaller, and used metalic rub on paste all along the edges. 

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - Christmas in July
Tuesday Throwdown - Christmas in July

OCC - Christmas in July
Little Red Wagon - Christmas in July

Paper:  SU Glossy cardstock, Coordinations cardstock, SU regular cardstock

Ink:  Staz on (warning, do not recommend this with your copics!)

Other:  Copics, metalic rub on paste, snowflake stickers, cuttlebug folder

Stamps:  all CHF




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