OSAAT #86 Christmas

There's a new challenge today at One Stitch At  A Time and the theme is

CHRISTMAS

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I love Christmas, especially trimming the tree and I adore this image Lite Brite from Stitchy Stamps. I have always loved how elegant and simple it is and I am so glad I had the chance to work with this one. I coloured the pot and stalk of the tree with Promarkers but the rest of it is pure glittery goodness. I always felt this card would be great with multiple colours of glitter for the lights. It was quite time consuming and VERY messy but I am delighted with how this has come out. I used a fine tipped pva glue and just played with lots of colours of glitter, working on one colour at a time. I added a decoupage layer for the star and 2 more layers for the pot and bow. I added lots of gold glitter to the star to make it twinkle even more J

Using the current Tuesday Morning Sketch I layered candy cane papers in red and white and the green striped paper is from the Smirk Christmas pad, I thought the card needed a bit more glitter LOL. The image was matted onto some scrap black card to provide a strong contrast to the papers and tie the black tops of the lights together. I added some gold ribbon from my stash and the digi sentiment was diecut with a Nestabilties label die and embossed

I love this card so much and think I may do some variations of it in different colours. I think a blue and silver one would look good……

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Please pop over to OSAAT to see the fab cards from my colleagues on the DT. I look forward to seeing your entries for this challenge

Materials Used in this card are as follows:-

Card Size – A5

Image – Lite Brite by Stitchy Stamps

Papers – Dovecraft Festive Treats & Smirk Christmas pack

Sentiment – Free Digi from Elegant Word Art by Bethany

Embellishments – ribbon and tonnes of glitter 

Tools – scissors, 3d foam, Fiskars hole punch, Nestabilities die

Techniques – Decoupage, punching,

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order):-

• Alota Rubber Stamps #69 – Christmas
• Bah Humbug #43 – Die Cuts
• Card Makin’ Mamas #32 – Die Cuts
• Christmas Card Challenge #48 –Any Christmas Card
• Come and Get It Challenge – Anything Goes
• Cooking It Up With Katie #81 – A row of red ribbon
• Crafty Purple Frog #27 – Sparkle
• Creative Craft Challenge – Fancy Edges
• Crimbo Crackers #1 – Anything Goes
• Critter Sketch Challenge #88 – 3 Different Designer papers
• Digi Doodle Shop’s Best #80 – Anything Goes
• Dream Valley Challenge #19 – Anything Goes
• Fairytale Challenge #27 – Lights
• Going Grey With Scrap Creations – Do It With Digi
• Hiding In My Craftroom  #18 – Freestyle
• Inky Impressions IIC #30 – Anything Goes
• Lily Pad Cards - Texture
• Little Claire Designs #14 – Christmas
• Little Darlings #10 – Something that isn’t square
• Meljen’s Designs #82 – Christmas
• Paper Crafting Journey #22 – Use a digi
• Paper Pretties Wednesday #177 – Embellishments
• Partytime Tuesday #39 –Anything Goes
• Patches of Pink – Link Up Party
• Ribbon Girls Christmas Challenge – Any Christmas with a trim
• Scrapbook Sisters #58 – Anything Goes
• Sew Many Cards – 2 background papers
• Simon Says Stamp – Anything Goes
• Sweet Stampin’ Challenge – Anything Goes
• Totally Papercrafts #90 – Glitter
• Tuesday Morning Sketches #117 – Layout of Card
• Wags n Whiskers #66 – Black plus ribbon