TOMIC Challenge #55 - Christmas in July (Colour & theme Challenge)

For this challenge, we have to create a card with these colours:  RED, GREEN and WHITE Stars must also be used. It's Christmas in July theme.

Front of the card

My initial idea was to make an apperture card but I decided to spice it up with two flaps. The card is held together with a sentiment tag, which I layered using diecuts & a pair of velcro. I think the flaps just adds a little mystery to what is  in the card.

I wanted to create a story for the card & so the story goes.... one night, 2 little girls are playing pretend play. One of them pretended to be an angel & wanted to make a beautiful sky filled with twinkling, sparkling stars & guess what? Magically, it actually did happened! & the other girl just leaped in joy at the beautiful sight. :)

I covered the background with the stars that are diecut out from doohickey die - Starlight Lace, inked every single 1 of them & added stickles-star dust to create the glittery & twinkling effect. It's tedious but I think the effort is worth it! Don't you agree?

I tried paper piecing for Tilda's blouse & added C1 & C3 (Copic markers) to create the dimension. Don't you think it's just adorable? :)

Other than the face colours (E000, E00, E02, E11 & R20), these are the rest of the colours.

Materials:
Magnolia Stamps: Celebration Tilda (Sweet Crazy Love 2012 collection),  Starlight Tilda (Merry Little Christmas 2010 collection), Santa Bench (Santa Collection 2008) & Post -Vintage Merry (So Jolly & Under the Mistletoe 2009)

Doohickey Die: Starlight Lace

Papers: red, yellow, cream & green coloured CS, Theresa Collins - Spring Fling Collection

Other Materials: Chipboards (For pop-up effect) Sei - Christmas Mint collection, gold bead trimming, cream crochet lace, mint coloured satin ribbon, Stickles - Star Dust, Spellbinder Grand Nestabilities die - Grand Circles & Grand Scalloped Circles, Spellbinders Nestabilities die - Label Four,  Distress ink-Tea Dye, Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Copic Multi Liner 0.1 & Copic markers.