Double Trouble

It's Friday!!!  And that means another challenge over on the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog.  Participation has been a little low the last couple of weeks, maybe you are all out enjoying the spring weather.  Anyway, maybe this one will get you in the mood to play along.  The challenge is:

Inspired by a Christmas Carol

Our sponsor is the wonderful Emma Canning

There will be THREE winners; each will receive 2 images of their choice!

I received this adorable image to play with called "Snow Race".  (I'll explain the double image in a minute)  The Christmas Carol that kept coming to mind (really the only one I could think of) is "Jingle Bells".  You might not know exactly what I'm talking about, so let me sing it for you:

"Dashing through the snow, in a little red plastic sled, o'er the fields we go, laughing all the way . . . "  What??  That's not how it goes?  Well, it should be because you can do some serious dashing through the snow if you are on a big enough hill and there can definitely be lots of laughing.  Well, if you don't buy that one, I could also go with "We Wish you a Merry Christmas" since that's what my sentiment says.  But I'm sticking with "Jingle Bells"

 I tried to create a fun border by  punching out a bunch of snowflakes and adhering them to the panel behind the stamped panels.  You can see it at the bottom, but unfortunately the stamped panels cover up most of them.

So, here's the story of the two girls on the card.  With the sketch I chose to use there were two panels and I thought it would be cute to put two girls on there because we all know that sledding is way better with someone else.  And I decided to color them to resemble my two twin girls.  I decided early before they were born that I was not going to dress them alike except on special occasions.  Sometimes they have similar outfits just in different colors.  So, although the sledding girls are dressed almost alike, you can see that their sweaters are different shades of blue and one has a gray shirt while the other has white.  Also, the girl on the left has darker hair and blue eyes (which you cannot see in the picture) like the older of the twins and the one on the right has lighter hair and brown eyes like the younger twin.  It was really just for my own amusement since I'm sure no one else will pick up on it.
After all that blabbering . . . hop on over to the CSAYL blog and check out the full details plus the projects from the other DT members.

Challenges:
Sparkles Christmas Challenge #28--use your favorite festive colors (I love blue and white together for Christmas)
Flat Friends Challenge #8--use punches
Christmas At Sweet Stampin--winter sports
Seems a Little Sketchy #39--sketch

Holly Jolly--First letter/first name (use a product/technique that begins with the first letter of your first name.  Mine is "H" which was hard to think of, but I finally came up with Heat embossing--my sentiment)
C.R.A.F.T. #209--Christmas in May

Supplies:
Stamps: Emma Canning "Snow Race" digi; Verve "Merry and Bright" sentiment
Punches: Martha Stewart snowflake punch
Dies: Verve "Charmin Oval" die
Paper: DCWV Christmas pack