Hello friends! I am sort of “off track” with some other crafty things on my “to do” list and a bit behind in fact! I have soooo many things ahead of me to get ready for and I promise I will be sharing more on that later, but scanning through my groups on Facebook, I saw a post where a challenge was getting ready to end, so I just decided last minute while I was working on other things, that I would challenge myself to get a card made before the deadline ended! Yeah, I do that to myself…keeps the creative “MOJO” flowing, right?! I feel good about it because it is a head start for a Christmas in July card stack that I hope to get going on! Here’s what I came up with:
I created this card for the FB Group Sparkle N Sprinkle Creative Challenges. The deadline was right before midnight last night, but I got it done yesterday afternoon and wanted to post it within the group before the deadline ended and then I wanted to share it with you here today on my blog. The condition for this challenge is pretty much anything goes as long as you have used a Sparkle N Sprinkle stamp/digital image somewhere on your design. I have used the SNS Christmas Baubles stamp set that I actually received from a card kit a while back. Instead of using it for the intended purpose of the card kit, I switched up the design a bit to make it my own.
I took the cardstock from the kit for the base as well as the pink cardstock from the kit for behind my decorative paper and under the bauble. I die cut an oval from the pink cardstock in the kit as well as a larger oval from some gold mirror cardstock. The bauble and holly were colored with Copics and gold gel pen. I then fussy cut them out. I took the pink oval and heat embossed the holly image randomly over it with the SNS Vanilla Ice EP. I layered it over the gold circle and added the images. The holly image was popped up with foam tape around the oval. I die cut the decorative paper and pink cardstock with stitched border dies and placed it on the top folding white A2 card base. I gold heat embossed the sentiment at the bottom of the card base and then I used some gold ribbon from my stash to create the bow and placed it over top of the decorative papers and bauble. I also used the Nuvo White Blizzard Glitter Drops to go over the berries. Looking at it now in the photo, it looks wet, but they were dry and so glittery IRL!
Hope you’ve enjoyed a little hint of Christmas coming your way! It helps to beat the heat a bit and get a good start for the up-coming busy Holiday Season! 🙂 Thanks so much for stopping by today!
Challenges to enter this card:
- Crafty Cardmakers – Wet or dry embossing
- The Merry Christmas Challenge – Anything Goes + Christmas
- QKR Stampede #301 – Anything Goes
- Crafting from the Heart #212 – Anything Goes
- Artistic Inspirations #203 – Anything Goes
