Holly & Ivy

Who fast forwarded the clocks again!!

It's time for the girls in the Christmas Card Club

to show their cards using the theme picked by Asha

The Holly And The Ivy.

A quick look through my used christmas cards

and I found this robin card with lots of Ivy.

Artists name is shown as Audrey North .

I decided to give it the tiled effect

so I first adhered the card front to cardboard 

from a cereal box and then another layer 

of the same for more strength.

I trimmed to 4" x 5 and marked out on the back

a grid of 1" squares  which I numbered 1 to 20

in order to know where they all went once cut!

I then marked a piece of red cardstock

into a 1.25" grid with my Scor-pal  to give 

the appearance of the grouting between the tiles

and adhered them all into place.

So that was the ivy element  now I needed the Ivy

Remembered I had a Joanna Sheen Ivy die

and cut it out twice using white shimmer card.

I didn't have any green card stock the right shade 

so once cut out I coloured in with a promarker.

A little glue from a glue stick  and a sprinkling 

of glamour dust  gave the frosted look.

I used a Britania word die for the sentiment

which was cut  and coloured the same way.

The little bit of ivy was left over from 

where i arranged it round the tiling .

It's the last Rudolph Day challenge for this yr

so am dashing off to Mo''s blog to enter .

Entering into the following challenges:

Scraps of Life by Scrappymo # Rudolph day.

A Snowflakes Promise #10 Anything goes.

Crafty Hazelnuts #257 Use die cuts or punches.

Crafty Hazelnts Extra # Anything goes.

The Crazy Challenge #211 Everything goes.

Craft Your Passion #289 Anything goes

Fab 'N' Funky #283 Anything goes as long as its christmas.

Suzy Bee's Bloomin #108 Anything goes + use a die cut.

Hiding In My Craft Room #227 Any holiday.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #205 Use your snippets (White card for die cuts).