Almost White Challenge

Hi Folks
Hope you are all having a good weekend.  It is so nice to have a weekend with some lovely weather attached to it.  Believe me, here in the UK, that seems to be a rarity.  It is a quiet weekend here as the eldest daughter went to Turkey on her holidays yesterday and the youngest daughter has gone away for a girly weekend with some friends.  So hubby and I are having a quiet night with an Indian takeaway.  Smashing.

Anyway, I have been having a little play today.  The lovely Linda over at Creative Harmony has a little challenge going on at the moment.  The challenge is Almost White and you need to create a card that is mainly white with only two other colours, one of which should be a hint of.  The card base should also be white or cream.
I am desperately trying to use up some of my old stash at the moment.  I seem to have so many bits and pieces lying around.  One of the items that I have lots of and never use are peeloffs.  When I first started making cards I bought loads and loads of peeloffs.  I think a lot of crafters can relate to this.  But as my crafting has developed I seem to use them less and less.  So I decided to rectify that and see if I could use peeloffs in this creation.

Here is what I came up with using the colour combination of white, black and a hint of blue.  Hope this fits the challenge criteria okay.

As you can see the peeloff is a black silhouette of three cats sitting in a window.  I mounted this onto some white card and then matted onto black.  I added a touch of blue distress ink to the window panes and then added a bit of flower soft to the bottom of the window sills.  The idea was to make it look a bit like snow.  For the background I cut out a piece of white card and pierced around the edge.  I then matted another piece of white card on top which I embossed using one of my embossing folders.  I also added a touch of blue distress ink to the edges.  I cut out some snowflakes using a Marianne die.  The little tag is a stamp from Little Claire Designs and I was lucky enough to win a set of these sentiment tags from them.  The finishing touch was some little blue pearls to the centre of the snowflakes.  Also added a couple of punched christmas trees, some ribbon and a pearl heart.
I think it came out okay although I am still not too sure.  It certainly gave me the incentive to try and use some more of my peeloffs.  But would love to know what you all think.

I would also like to enter this into the following challenges:
Creative Card Crew - Christmas
A Blog Named Hero - Who's the Boss (embossing)
Great Impressions - Sentimental Journey
Ribbon Girl - Add Pearls
Cutie Pie - No flowers
Forever Friends - Embossing
Anything Goes - Early Christmas
Papertake - Anything goes
Aud Sentiments - Christmas is coming
Crafty Catz - Christmas
Winter Wonderland - Christmas Pets
Allsorts - Layers
One Stop - No floral embellishments

Thanks for popping by.