A Gauntlet in Every Colour

In an effort to keep things tidy around the Guild Hall, I decided to go through our winter armour and see if there was any we could get rid of. To my surprise, I found piles and piles of gauntlets in various colours and materials. I hailed the Lady Commander of Copics and asked her why we had such a collection of fur-lined winter gauntlets. She shrugged and said she needed a pair to match each winter cloak. If she wanted to match all her outerwear I suggested she just get mittens, which was much more cost effective than purchasing a new piece of armour each time. Rolling her eyes she said, “Mittens? How much will those increase my defense? +2 AT MOST? I need gauntlets!” And with that she stormed off, her rainbow scarf trailing behind her. I shook my head and began packing up the multi-coloured gauntlets. 

I started this card by stamping one of the images from The Greeting Farm’s “Miss Anya Scarves” set (which is brand spanking new!) onto watercolour paper. I coloured her with Distress Markers and my legendary Hydra Brush. I wasn’t super pleased with the finished colouring job; I find it easier to watercolour larger images and she is smaller than the “regular” Anyas. The background paper I used from a pack of Michaels Christmas paper that I’ve had since forever! The brads are also from my older stash, having purchased them at a craft fair in 2011. I stamped a banner from Lawn Fawn’s “Bannerific” set and then the sentiment from the BugBites “Mistletoe” set inside. I cut the snowflakes using the Winter Woodland cartridge, adhered them together and added some glitter to match the sparkly ribbon.

The inside shape was also cut from the Winter Woodland cartridge as well as the small snowflake. The inside sentiment is also from the BugBites “Mistletoe” set. Love me some puns. In fact, between this card and the other pun-filled card I made today, I gained +100 bonus punny exp points.

I decorated the envelope using some Recollections brand snowflake stamps. Overall I wasn’t super happy with this card. I wish I’d made it A2 rather than A6 because Miss Anya Scarves is so small (I didn’t realize this before I’d cut all the papers). I always default to the A6 size because I don’t have any A2 envelopes, so I end up having to make one (which uses up paper when I have a ginormous box of A6 envelopes). Oh well...hopefully the sparkles will blind people from realizing my blunder. 

**Sparkle ATTACK**

This wintery card will be blustering into the following challenges:
The Perfect Sentiment Challenge #61: Winter Wonderland
Pixie Dust Studio: Winter Challenge
Jingle Belles Challenge: Look What Santa Brought Me (Miss Anya Scarves!)
Cute Card Thursday Challenge #251: Beat the Blues
Simply Create Too Challenge #28: Let It Snow
CHNC Challenge #107: Rudolph is Resting
Little Scrap Pieces Fun Friday “Winter Blues” Challenge
Love To Create Challenge #48: Sparkle & Snowflakes
Creative Card Crew Challenge #27: Snow and Ice
Pause Dream Enjoy Challenge #1: Use Ribbon
Anyone for Anya: Snowflakes
Crafting For All Seasons Challenge #43: Something New (Miss Anya Scarves stamps is new!)
Christmas Cards All Year ‘Round January Challenge: Anything Goes Christmas
Spark Your Creativity Now! Challenge #5: Anything Goes
CHNC Challenge Extra: January

I sent a raven to Mikal, who owns the armour shop in the village, telling him to freeze the Lady Commander’s tab there. I’ll not have her spending the Guild Hall’s hard earned coins on any more pieces of coordinating armour. Sheesh!

~ Guild Master Crystal ~

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