Christmas in August? Kinkade - Stoneheart Hutch

With all the Christmas challenges around I decided to make a Christmas card too.
I used a Thomas Kinkade stamp called Stoneheart Hutch and colored it with Prismacolor pencils. I added some white Fun Flock on the snow, but it's really hard to see, but you could definitely feel it.
The satin ribbon's color looks really weird on the picture (wonder why), in real life it's more like the CS. I kept the layout really simple to keep focus on the image.
I'm entering it into the following challenges:

Winter Wonderland - walking in a winter wonderland
The Crazy Challenge - make a Christmas card
Sew Many Challenges - Christmas in August
The Creative Cottage challenge - christmas
Christmas card challenge - vintage - Kinkade stamps sure have a vintage feel

Kinkade - Light of Peace

I like Kinkade stamps - some people are scared of them, but they are fun to play with. I recently received this image from Eliz'th from Nova Scotia (they sure have lots of beautiful lighthouses in there) and here is my first creation. Image is colored with Prismacolor pencils and blended with OMS. I used a sketch from Eat Sleep Stamp. I'm also entering it into this week's Paper Play Challenge - where they want us to create a card "Just because" and mail to somebody just to let them know you are thinking about them. I'll mail it to my sis. ;)