Fancy Fold Card.

Another 2 weeks has sped by again 

and it's time for the girls in the 

Christmas Card Club to show our makes.

The challenge was set this time by Maureen 

and her theme was  'Feature a Critter or Critters'.

A quick look through my used Christmas card pile

turned up 3 possibles.

I spent ages waffling on the 1st picture but nothing 

seemed to work so in the end I went onto the 2nd

card of my choice and so glad I did as I love the result.

I found a great tutorial by Brenda of Floral Fantaises 

for this Fancy Fold Card.

I did change my measurements slightly to accommodate the 

card front I was using.

The Artists name is 'Audrey North'

and I cut the shape of the card to

 leave  it showing. 

The detail on the mice  is fantastic.

I did a search on the web but all I could

find out about her is that she is a

British Visual Artist.

Her prints sell well on auction sites. 

I cut the card down using my XCut  Oblong Parenthesis die

and backed it with a further die cut using gold pearlescent card.

Base was made using cream card stock and then the panels layered up

using cherry red card and the gold pearlescent card. 

I had thought that bit  was the most time consuming part

until I got to the Ivy die!!

The die is acutally a Joaanna Sheen Ivy corner

but the snippets of  green and brown card I wanted to use

were just that  'snippets' so I ended up cutting the leaves

with the die individually from the scraps. and then pieced/glued

the trailing  leaves down the outside side panels.

Sentiment is Briannia word dies.

Maureen  also runs the Rudolph Day challenge 

which is just as well as I spent so much time on this card

I can enter it there too and not miss the deadline!!

Entering into the following challenges:

Crafty Hazelnuts Extra#   Christmas cards only

Christmas cards All Yr Round # Cute critters.

Rudolph Day #  1  Chrismtas  card only.

Me and Mine #14 Beat the rush.

Fab 'n' Funky #252 Christmas.

Southern Girls # Punching above your weight.

Allsorts #304 Feature a creature.

Hiding In My Craft Room #193 Any holiday.

A Gem Of A Challenge #141 Shaped cards anything but square.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #170 Use up your snippets.

It is going to be all go here for the next month 

as we are having a major refit done 

starting tomorrow with the electrics.

So if I go all quiet you'll know that our

temperamental Internet access    

has not rebooted when the switch gets flicked back on!!