Wednesday 11 November 2015

Festive Cheer

This is the first of my Christmas cards for my friends and family that I'm sharing.  Gotta say, I'm really happy with it, don't think the photo really does it justice. I got to use some of my new crafty items on it too.




The image I chose to use on this card is "Chloe in hat and jumper" from Pink Gem Designs . I decided to use the pre-coloured image to save me some time with needing so many cards plus I think the colour scheme used really suits the image and Chloe is wearing my favourite colour. I think their digi stamps are stunning and can't wait to use more of them (I bought a few and got my eye on a few more).

The card is an 8 x 8 scalloped square card. I picked 2 different co-ordinating  papers to use, snowflakes and diagonal stripes. They are from First Edition's "Christmas Wishes" paper pad. I matted both papers, my sentiment and also my Chloe image onto cream cardstock, choosing to die cut my image with an oval nestabilities die and to mount it onto card die cut with an oval scalloped die. I decided to add a doily to my card as I felt it fitted my snowy theme and papers well. My Festive Cheer stamp is from a set I bought at The Range recently but I threw the packaging and now can't remember who made them. I added a white snowflake ribbon from docrafts and also made a bow with it. Finally, I added little snowflakes from my stash to the corners and silver gems to the snowflake paper and also little gems to the centres of  my tiny snowflakes.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges

pinkgemchallengeblog - christmas critter challenge (ends thurs 19/11)

a snowflakes promise challenge-9. (ends tues 17/11)

pennyschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/welcome-to-pennys-challenge-253.html (ends mon 23/11) My "3 of something" is my sets of 3 snowflakes on the corners and I also put 3 rows of ribbon, the last of which I made into a bow.

1 comment:

  1. Nice,I like the layout.Thanks for joining us at Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge.

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