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Sunday 21 November 2010

X is for Xmas

I have made this card for the following challenges this week:
ABC Christmas- X is for Xmas (plus optional extra of flowers- oops I forgot about the extra until now and so have not added any flowers- hope this is OK).
Pollycraft Monday- Glittery Christmas
Passion for Promarkers- stitching and distressing
Sweet Sketch Wednesday- sketch
Digistamp Boutique- monthy competition.

The image on the card is Milly singing carols from Digistamp Boutique (coloured with PMs) and the papers are from a recent magazine. The snowflake is a chipboard one I bought and painted and made glittery with embossing powder (still haven't got the hangof heat embossing and hence the reason why so much of the snowflake is not embossed since it all flies off when I heat it!) I have added faux stitching and distressed the base card with a black ink pad and blue glitter glue.

22 comments:

Debs M said...

love the colours and the bp's are fab x

Kathyk said...

Smashing card, love the masculine blue shades too

Kathyk

mulberry station said...

I love the use of all the silver and blue in you card. Such a cute image. Nicce take on the sketch, Louise. Thanks for joining us!
Nancy SSW

Clare Lloyd said...

Beautiful card and that is a very cute little mouse! good luck in all those challenges. x

Tracy said...

Fab card Louise. Thanks for joining us this week at PfP, good luck.
Hugs Tracy x

sweetbloominscraps said...

Beautiful Christmas card! I love the silver glittery look! Thanks for joining us at SSSW!

The Crafty Den said...

Hi Louise, what a gorgeous card. I love the image and your colouring is fab. Thanks for sharing with us at PFP this week. Hugs, Denise x

Anja´s kortkreasjoner said...

Such a cute card. Thank you for joining us at PFP this week.
Hugs, Anja

Julie said...

Lovely image and a great card! Thanks for joining us at PFP this week. Juliex

Kathie said...

Hi Louise, this is a lovely card I love all the silver glitter and the blue goes so well with it. I have this image as well one of my favourite Xmas images from DigiStamp Boutique. You said you have problems heat embossing! Are you using the embossing stamp pad first so that the embossing powder sticks to it? Don't hold the heat embosser so close to your image hold it back a bit otherwise you could burn your image as well. It makes a better job. Hope this helps.
Thanks so much for joining us this week at SSW and good luck.
Hugs
Kathie SSW Design Team.

3treescreations@gmail.com said...

She is just darling! I love all that silver and I would have never of guessed that you used faux stitching. It looks so real! Thanks so much for playing at Sweet Sketch Wednesday.

Deanne :)

melody said...

what a darlin lil image! awesome take on the sketch chickie..and love your color combo

Sharon Basel said...

OMG what a creative card Louise! I just love this. That mouse is such a cutie with the silver glitter and I love your take on the sketch with the XMAS down the side! Great job! Thanks for joining us again at Sweet Sketch Wednesday-we love the inspiration you bring to our challenges!
All the best,
Sharon
SSW-DT

Michele Roos said...

Love the wonderful card Louise. Thanks for joining us this week at PFP. Hugs Michele x

Linda Anderson said...

How sweet!!!!! Love your image and the colors - fabulous silver and blues!!!!! Thanks for joining us at SSW.

Linda

Andie's Space said...

Hi Louise,
Aaawwww, this is so cute. What a fab card. Thanks for joining us at PFP.
Hugs,
Andie xx

Carissa said...

Lovely card. Thanks for joining us at ABC Christmas. Hugs, Carissa

Jackie Randolph said...

ohhh what a lovely Christmas Card!Thanks so much for playing along with us at SSW!

Arlana 11426 said...

Oh such lovely colors. Love all the added embelishments and glitter. Thanks for playing along @ SSW!!!

The Crafty Den said...

Hi Louise, what a pretty card. Your colouring is fab and I love the papers. Thanks for joining in with our monthly competition over at DigiStamp Boutique. Hugs, Denise x

Emma said...

Such a gorgeous card Louise, gorgeous colours and layout.
Thanks for joining us at Pollycraft & PFP.
Hugs Emma x

Digi Stamp Boutique said...

Love this Louise - super stunning...Thanks for joining in our monthly competition over at DigiStamp Boutique again...Sally-Ann...x