No Snowmen.

Time once more for the girls in the Christmas Card Club to show our latest cards. Margaret chose the theme of Snowmen and I did get as far as printing off some cute Digi images but then I got a nasty tummy bug (where from ! as I haven’t been anywhere just indoors or in the garden) which has laid me low for the past week so I have resorted to using our fall back of anything goes as my theme. Fortunately I had already made this card up from an online  FaceBook card class with  ‘Julie Hickey’ that I had done a couple of weeks ago and haven’t yet shown. We were using some of her older stamps and dies which I just happened to have (from the good old days when we were still  able to go to actual workshops in craft shops ) which seems like a lifetime away already. 

I have used Julie’s ‘Christmas Frame‘ JH1026 and ‘Christmas Frame Word’ JHD-CUT-FR002 die cut.

The background was made using Distress Oxides laid down in strips and blending the edges of the colours together. Using a water brush pen you then lift some of the colour away to give a lovely faded look. I added a gold gel pen around the holly, mistletoe and poinsettias. I used gold card for the die cut Christmas and as backing for the the word Merry. Gems from my stash.  Instead of using 3D pads for the layering I used up some strips of cardstock glued together. Works a treat and another way to use up those pesky scraps!!  

As it is the 25th today I am going to enter this card into the Rudolph Challenge over at Scrappy Mo’s.

n.b.

Good job I bought The Doc some Thermal (2.3 tog) socks from Ebay the other week. I despair  of some of the logic behind the new rules banning supermarkets from selling clothing.!

HUGS