Under something

Hello and welcome to another challenge over at the Alphabet challenge blog. I can imagine that many of you are exhausted after a creative winter/Christmas/New Year's time, so we're having an easy theme for the "U" challenge: our request is simply to create a project that is inspired by "Under something". What exactly the "something" will be, is entirely up to you. On our challenge site you'll be able to see that the DT has presented various projects for you, and I'm sure you'll discover some that inspire you in your own crafting journey. 

For my DT work, I'm showing you one of the remaining Christmas cards. The little desert village is a rather small motif I found on the internet ages ago. I finally put it into action by printing it and cutting it to the size of a kraft card base. I then coloured it with coloured pencils, adding a bit of blue in the background to represent the night sky. 

Once that was done, I picked my Christmas stickers from my stash. At first, I placed a huge golden star in the sky atop of the village, which should represent the Christmas star. After that, I just kept adding stars of different shapes and sizes, until the whole upper part of my card was full of stars. Some of them are "full" stars, others are merely star silhouettes, and for the tiniest stars I even used golden filler dots that usually remain after you use up other motifs such as the letter "o" or the number "0". For a bit of gold in the lower part, I then added a sticker sentiment saying "Merry Christmas". 

My idea was a card that would resemble the feeling of being "under the starry sky" or "under the star of Betlehem", and I hope you can take it as a bit of inspiration when joining us this fortnight. 

challenges:

- krafty chicks: Christmas

- 613 avenue create: ATG
- a place to start: ATG

- gem of a challenge: ATG

- classicdesignchallenge: ATG DT 

- crafty calendar: Christmas themed
- crafty catz: ATG with optional twist "no design paper"

- creative crafty uncles: Christmas/New year

- do-all kreatives: ATG

- lil patch of crafty friends: ATG handmade

- love to craft: ATG 

- morgans artworld: ATG

- path of positivity: ATG

- pearlysparkles: CAS
- pennys papertake: ATG paper

- vesela hiska: Z (zvezde - stars)
- wortartwednesday: ATG
- worldwide crafters and colorists challenge: ATG