Challenged Myself Today

Hi all
I had bit of a dilemma this morning as hubby was not too good and had to stay in bed and rest I was going to clean the house but the hoover would wake him then I decided to iron but the steam makes too much noise so I thought I would dust but we have a sand storm at the moment so there’s no point because as soon as you start the darn dust comes back, well now I have got all the excuses out of the way of why I can not do the boring house stuff lol. I retreated to my craft room and I set my self a challenge to do a Christmas card towards my stash not only this but to combine all three Christmas challenge blogs themes I wanted to enter into one, not as easy as I thought it would be.


First I needed a sketch to follow (I love a sketch makes life so much easier) and when I spied the sketch by Carole over at Friday Sketchers I just loved it, I did flip it round.


The next challenge was over at Susie and Vicki Christmas Club and there theme is Girly Christmas and I knew I had an image of this cute girl by Digital Doodling which fits perfect I think, don’t you?

I coloured her with Copic and Ho2’s in green and added winter stickles on the coat trims and muff oh all the snowflakes as well, then added green bling for the coat buttons.
The paper is by Basic Grey and all the edges have been distressed with Timmy ink called Pine Needles plus they are all different shades of green which leads me to the next challenge over at Winter Wonderland, which is monochromatic tones.
The flower I made from a flower Nesstie (can not remember the name of the die) I then distressed all the edges with the same ink and sand papered, all the edges have had the stickles treatment and then sprayed with Glimmer Mist and added a pearl to finish. I did the same with the Christmas Trees and added a pearl to the top, which leads me onto the next challenge over at Bah Humbug with the theme of Trees.

The inside I wanted to follow the theme with matching paper, pearls and trees.

I could not post it till now as I had to wait for the flowers to dry before I could mould them into to shape and add them to the card.

Wow I do rabbit on a bit sometimes but I am very happy with this card and it’s another one for my stash, the only thing is, the one’s I really like I never want to give away lol.

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Thank you for popping by my place and after a cup of tea and piece of chocolate cake I will be round to see you all.

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