Time Out #43 - Christmas

It's time for another challenge at Time Out - and this week we are getting into the holiday spirit with a Christmas theme. Our sponsor this week is Uniko Studios and they have generously agreed to give a prize to a random entry that uses pink and/or purple in their Christmas card. Their design team has also inspired us by sharing some of their cards on our blog so make sure you check them out!

Our guest designer this week is Suchi and she has a wonderful blog called Suchi's Cardstock - she has wonderful creativity so please check out her work.

For my card this week, I decided to fully the pink theme and what better way to do that than pink flamingos! I picked up this wonderful stamp set from Newton's Nook on the weekend at the Create event and decided to ink it up for this challenge. Please forgive the lighting - the days are getting shorter which makes daylight photography almost impossible for me during the week:

Lots of Distress Inks were used for the background and the watercolouring - Tumbled Glass, Spun Sugar, and Evergreen Bough primarily - with a touch of Mustard Seed for the beaks. In my world, it wouldn't be a Christmas card without a little shimmer or glitter so I did both - Wink of Stella on the birds and silver glitter on the frame and sentiment strip. I usually like the velvety Glitter Ritz but I didn't have any silver so I went with the much more sparkly Martha Stewart glitter - it was fun but it my be a little bit too OTT (even for me!).

I will link up to a couple of places:

• Newton's Nook colour challenge: 
• Sweet Sunday Sketch: 
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge where Anything Goes

Thanks so much for visiting and make sure you take the Time Out to play along with us and get a head start on your holiday cards!

Jill