A Christmas Card

Happy Monday everyone, I hope you had a great weekend, the weather has been pretty grey and wet where I am, so I tried to inject some shine in to it while in the craft room.

Today I want to share with you my entry to a few challenges and it all started with the Make the Day Special November Challenge.

I this is my first sketch challenge... So I would appreciate your comments. Below is the sketch provided by MTDS.

And here is my design, I have also entered these to a few others which are listed at the end of the post.

I used the Waffle Flower circle doily die to do a faux letterpress imprint on the background (very much inspired by the amazingly talented Jennifer McGuire). I also water coloured some watercolour cardstock with Scattered Straw and Mustard Seed Distress Ink and some homemade gold shimmer spray, then die cut the doily.

When I die cut the medium tag from the Sizzix framelit set for the tag element, I stretched the die cut to get a longer tag.

I Heat embossed Merry Christmas on to some acetate and vellum, cut those in to banners and attached them using a Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher, I coloured the staples first with a Krylon Gold leafing pen.


Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you again soon...



Interested in the products I use? I have listed them below to make them easy for you to find, the links are just links (I am not affiliated with the shops). 

I do shop at these places occasionally but I urge you to shop around for a good deal.


Make the Day Special Stamp Store: 
Waffle Flower Circle Doily Die
Mama Elephant Merry Greetings stamp set

Dovecraft Junior Fun Foam 8 sheets blacks and greys from The Range

Mica Powder Metallics	Papermania Card Blanks 5 x 7	Sizzix Framelits Tag Collection Die Set 8pk by Tim Holtz	WOW! Embossing Powder Opaque Bright White	Papermania Gold Embossing Powder	EK Success Powder Tool	Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher	Cosmic Shimmer Acrylic Glue
Dovecraft Vellum	Crafters Companion Watercolour Cardstock	Teresa Collins Candy Cane Lane Sequins	Zig Wink of Stella Glitter Brush Clear	Uni-Ball White Gel Pen	MISTI	Waffle Flower Circle Doily Die	Mama Elephant Merry Greetings Stamp Set
Tonic Studios 12 x 12 Guillotine	Stix 2 Double Sided Ultra Clear Tape	Krylon 18kt Gold Leafing Pen	Anchor Alcazar Metallic Thread - Silver	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Mini Kit 4 - Spun Sugar, Scattered Straw, Evergreen Bough, Shaded Lilac	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Mini Kit 1 - Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed, Peacock Feathers & Spiced Marmalade

Challenges entered:

Make the Day Special November Christmas Card Sketch Challenge
CAS on Sunday - Challenge #71 Tag It!
Virginia's View Challenge #20 - All About Textures
Happy Little Stampers - Christmas Challenge November 2015 - Tag
CAS-ual Chic - The Utterly Adorable Layers Challenge
Happy Little Stampers - November 2015 Sketch Challenge 
CAS-ual Fridays - Clean and Simple Challenge
CAS(E) This Sketch #148