O Christmas Tree ....

....  Hello - I hope you all had a super weekend - ours was great fun, and the house is starting to look quite Christmassy!!!  I've another Christmas card to share with you this morning, made for the following challenges:

• Freshly Made Sketches - FMS64
• Colour Throwdown - CTD221
• Jingle Belles - JB12:25 - Anything Goes

Stamps: Just Rite - O Christmas Tree; Waltzingmouse - Compliments of the Season II, Ornate Ornaments
Inks: Versafine - Onyx Black; Stampin' Up! - Riding Hood Red, Crumb Cake
Dies: Spellbinders - Nested Pennants (S5-028) #3, Edgeabilities Classic Triple Scallop (E8-003)
Accessories:  Design Paper - Hot off the Press - Forever Christmas; SU Card & DP - Crumb Cake, Gumball Green; Clear embossing powder; Cream lustre card

I got the HOTP design papers free with a UK craft magazine (can't remember which one) and I found this gorgeous scroll paper in the stack - perfect for this challenge.  I cut a mat in Gumball Green, adhered the scroll paper and attached them both to the Crumb Cake card base.  I cut a smaller panel in Crumb Cake card and randomly stamped snowflakes in Crumb Cake ink to give a subtle tone-on-tone effect.  I stamped the Christmas tree in Versafine, heat embossed with clear powder, cut out with the Pennant die and used my aquabrush to paint on Red Riding Hood in the scroll.  I cut the lovely border in Gumball Green attached it to the SU design paper, cut it to fit the card and then rounded the top corners.  I finished off with a simple sentiment (fabulous font).

For the inside I cut another piece of the scroll design paper onto which I layered some cream lustre card.  I stamped the sentiment in Riding Hood Red - love the scroll detail which goes so well with the scroll design paper.

I'm having lots of fun finishing off my Christmas cards - only nine left to go.  Then I need to make several birthday cards - I think I may have mentioned that January has lots of family birthdays.

That's all for now.  It's a busy week - a couple of my friends are going back to the UK for Christmas and we're getting together for a girls lunch before they go.  And today I'm off to school for lunch duties.  It's a really good way to get to meet some of Kathryn's friends - they even come and talk to me now!   See you soon.