Hero Arts color challenge and a share of my Christmas decorations

The monthly challenge at the Hero Arts Blog is to use these colors: kraft, cranberry, slate blue, pine, and snow - all great Christmas colors.  We can also make something that has lots of shine.  I tried to combine both of these criteria in my submission:

You can click on any picture for a better view.  I started with white cardstock, and stamped one of the flourish borders in stormy sky distress ink, then sponged on more of the same to make the sky. This was overstamped with the trees. Then I paper-pieced each of the houses, adding glitter to each roof with a glue pen and prisma glitter. The fence was punched out of kraft cardstock, and I added Crystal Stickles along the top and dipped that in glitter for more sparkle. Then I cut it apart to make my fence openings, lined it back up, glued it down and then added more crystal stickles along the bottom. To finish I used Shari's idea of adding stickles throughout the sky to simulate glittery snow. It really adds a lovely dimension!

Here's a little closer look. 

Supplies:  white, cranberry, pine, slate blue, and kraft cardstocks, Hero Arts CL464 Sending Holiday Cheer, LP107 Flourish Borders, Versafine onyx black, stormy sky and pine needles distress, and Adirondack cranberry inks, Prismacolor pencils, Martha Stewart picket fence punch, Crystal Stickles, glue pen and Prisma Glitter

I thought I'd also show you our Christmas decorations.  This is the outside of our house at this time of year:

                          

And inside, each window has a candle.  The nativity scene here is made of parchment paper, an old art called scherenschnitte.  It is cut with very tiny scissors.

And another closer look.  I did this years and years ago and put it up every year.  Amazingly enough, it has held up very well.

I hope to share more pictures as the house is decorated.  The tree is up, with lights and wood cranberry roping, and now it's my job to add all the decorations.  That will be my next share!  Thanks so much for sticking with me throughout this long post!