Merry Christmas ....

.....   Hello!  I've had a busy year making Christmas cards, so I thought it would be a good idea to count how many I've actually made.  I'm on the design team for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown so I knew I'd have a good amount of cards - well at least 50!  I'm pleased to say that I've made 88 cards, which is brilliant.  However, I actually need about 115!!!  So I need a few more cards!  Here's one I made yesterday afternoon:

Stamps: Stampendous - Mega Merry; Uniko - Simply Said Christmas; Waltingmouse - Alpine Christmas; Snowflake Tree (don't know the company)
Inks: Versamark; Versafine - Onyx Black; Distress - Lucky Clover, Cracked Pistachio, Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch
Accessories: White Lustre Card; Stampin' Up! Card - Pacific Point; Ranger - Holographic Embossing Powder

I started by stamping the snowflakes in Versmark and embossing them with Holographic powder.  I sponged on two shades of blue and two shades of green ink blending to reveal the sparkling snowflakes.  I cut a panel of white card, slightly smaller than the card, and stamped the word "merry" and "Christmas" in black ink.  I used a scalpel to cut out the inside of the letters in merry and then went round the cut edges with a black marker.  I adhered the panel over the inked snowflakes and attached the whole panel to the front of the card.  On the inside I cut a mat layer of blue card and on the white panel added a Christmas greeting and lots of blue and green snowflakes.

I've actually managed to combine four challenges to make this clean, simple card, and they are:

• Less is More - LIM#253 to use GREEN and BLUE
• Just us Girls - JUGS#322 where the word is "MERRY"
• CAS-ual Fridays - CFC#146 - Snowflakes
• Inkspirational - INK#97 - Flakes

I think I'm going to have to come up with a really quick, clean and simple design that I can mass produce over the next few days!  But not today.  Today, I'm off to a photoshoot with Jonathan - should be lots of fun!  And that's all for now, see you tomorrow.