WMSCCC01 - 2013

Hi all, I have a card today for the first 2013 Waltzingmouse Sketch Christmas Card Challenge, or something along those lines lol!

Here's the sketch:

 I was inspired to go with Winter Blues, courtesy of this week's City Crafter Challenge:

 ..so here's my take:

To make my card I used a new Tim Holtz snowflake embossing folder, and inked one side of the folder with Tumble Glass Distress Ink. I then cut to size, and a panel of patterned paper from Papermania Happy Days collection. Then, these were mopunted onto some silver mirri card.

I added some silver pleated ribbon and some aqua bakers twine from The Ribbon reel.

I then covered some white card with some glitter film from Little Claire's. and cut with a Spellbinders fancy doily die from Venetian Motifs. This film transforms plain card into something quite beautiful, but it makes it difficult to cut with an intricate die!  It took me half an hour to extricate the the doily from the die! It was worth it though!

I then stamped the small circular label from Waltzingmouse stamps Nutcracker Sweet, and hand cut out. I then added to the glitter doily with some foam adhesive.

I then cut the small banner using a Spellbinders die, and sponged with distress ink whilst still in the die. The sentiment is from WMS 'secret' set ;-)

I then added some glossy accent dots to the centres of the embossed snowflakes, the little hearts on the label, and the patterned paper, then topped with some glamour dust for that extra sparkle. I have tried to capture the sparkle from the glittered bits, but it's dark here now, so I had to shine some lights on it.

I would also like to enter this into this month's 52 (Christmas) Card Throwdown, which wants to see patterned paper, some Glitter and a decorated inside of the card too.

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline