It is that time of month again where the design team over at Elizabeth Craft Designs gets together and plays along with the designer challenge.

This month’s challenge is a A Very Krista Christmas –  where the team Creates a Christmas or Winter card using any of Krista Schneider’s new Christmas/Winter themed Stamp sets.

I may have gone a little copic coloring crazy today using the new Elves stamp set.

Step One:  Stamp out the scene using copic friendly black ink.

Step Two:  Using a copic friendly pen, draw in a ground line, fill in the banner lines and add a sketch of a tree marking where you need it.

Step Three:  Color in the stamped images using your alcohol markers.  I used copics.

Color all the stamped images first, making sure they remain the star of the scene.  You should use your boldest colors on the focal images.

Step Four: Start coloring in the back ground with your alcohol markers.  I always start with the floor to help ground the characters into the scene.

Fill in the tree and add some color to the back ‘wall’.

Step Five: Trim a piece of Ladybug Red Soft Finish Cardstock to 12×6 inches, and score and fold it at 6 inches to create a 6×6 inch card frame.  Trim a piece of 6×6 piece of True Green Soft Finish Cardstock.  Die cut the sentiment out of Ladybug Red Soft Finish Cardstock from the Words 5- Winter Wishes die set.

Step Six:  Die cut a rectangle frame using Garden Notes Frame It/stitched rectangles out of some True Green Soft Finish Cardstock.  Add the colored scene into the frame and adhere with 3mm Clear Double Sided Adhesive.

Step Seven:  Adhere the Green Frame to the card base using 10mm Clear Double Sided Adhesive.  Adhere the sentiment to the frame using Kids Choice Glue.

I hope you enjoy my project for this month’s Designer Challenge.  You can get in on the fun with the crew today and win yourself a $20 gift card by popping over to the ECD Blog and answer this month’s question, Which new Krista Schneider stamp or die would you use?