Well we have reached the penultimate challenge for this year.
November sees us focusing on a rather apt Pantone colour:
Grenadine!
It’s the ideal opportunity to use this month’s prompt for festive inspiration as this shade of red will go beautifully on Christmas cards.
Here are a few ideas to get you started:
- There are lots of different patterns with red featured in the image – check out your patterned paper stash to see if you have any scraps that finally need using up!
- The glass dome is great inspiration for featuring a snow globe or other similar elements on your card – so many Christmas lines have featured these in recent years (especially My Mind’s Eye).
- The big wooden number peeking out reminds me of Marquee lighting or you can simply go big and bold with numbers on your card, whether for a birthday, anniversary or just to record December 25th.
- The shiny ceramics could easily be interpreted with glossy accents or (DIY) enamel dots – perhaps as berries.
- Foliage is always a great element to incorporate, it doesn’t have to be red – you could use conventional colours or a monochrome look and add red for a pop of colour.
- The bookcase could be used as inspiration for a vertical card with horizontal stripes or blocks of elements in the blueprint of your card design.
- The wooden blocks could be used as inspiration for some creative apertures. Whether a simple circle centred near the top of your card or an offset semi-circle, or even something more abstract.
- Why not incorporate another language on your card? “Noel” would be a simple way to pay homage to that French book title.
I hope you enjoy playing along this month. I always love the prompts that can be interpreted in a festive way, especially considering how behind I am on my own Christmas cards!
Happy crafting!
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