A simple thanks ....

... Good morning!  It's snowing, fortunately not much though!  Just a quick post this morning with another thank you - this time of year you always need a good supply! 

Stamps:  Waltzingmouse - Festive Foliage, Join Us
Inks: Stampin' Up! - Garden Green, Soft Suede
Dies: WMS - Pine Cones Dies; Spellbinders - Pinking Circles Lg (4-170) #5
Accessories: White Lustre Card; SU DP - Garden Green; Martha Stewart Coarse Glitter; SU Markers - Garden Green, Always Artichoke, Gumball Green, Wild Wasabi, Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Cajun Craze

First of all - sorry about the photos - quite dark here this morning, so I've had to take this on my desk and I always seem to get them a bit lopsided!!  I used a few challenges to make this card:

• The Paper Players - PP#174 where the theme is "Evergreen"
• Seize the Sketch - SS#9
• Less is More - LIM148 - they have a GD, Gillian, and the theme "Sparkle" is in honour of her blog

The evergreen theme was the prompt for the card, and gave me the chance to use my lovely new Waltzingmouse Dies - Claire has lots of lovely new dies in her shop.  I cut a panel of white card, slightly smaller than the base and cut out the pinking circle and glued the panel to some green design paper.  I stamped the branch and pine cones onto some scrap card.  I coloured the stamp with lots of markers and then sprayed some water into the air and passed the inked image through the droplets - this gives a lovely soft image when stamped on the paper.  I cut out the stamped image and added a touch of glitter - to suggest frost.  I adhered the branch to the card with dimensional tape.  I was going to have just the sentiment at the bottom, but I added a fallen pine cone, also glittered.  The inside has a mat layer of green and a plain white panel for my message.  I think you can see the glitter sparkle above, however, I've added a photo to show the sparkle.  Deliberately blurred so that you can see the shimmer.

That's all for now - off to do housy stuff again!  It never ends!!!  See you later.