The Merry Monday challenge this week is to use gold, silver, white and one other colour.

I debated about this for a while – it’s not easy to combine gold and silver effectively. But then my eye fell on the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Home set, most of which I haven’t used. I have previously made a tag using night of navy with the santa and reindeer in silver and that seemed like a place to start. I realised that colouring some of the houses’ windows in gold would give the effect of that room having the light on, perhaps the children waiting for santa. This is the first time that I’ve used the houses from the Holiday Home set and thus the first time that I wished that I’d got the matching framelits. Instead, I had to deploy my paper snips!

So after cutting out the houses stamped in night of navy on whisper white, I coloured in a window per house in gold. I then used my night of navy blendability markers to colour in the doors, going over the outside of the third door a couple of times to give a darker colour. I also stamped the wreath in night of navy figuring that it was dark at night and all colour from the wreaths would be missing. Before adhering the houses, I used the embossing buddy and then embossed the santa and reindeer in silver. I really like the houses and will have to use them more! I finished off the card by lining the envelope using the backgrounds DSP in night of navy.