Twinkle the Snow baby

OMG, I have made a card without any Designer Paper. That is virtually unheard of in the world of Made By Mandy I can tell you….. I am however very proud as both the sentiment and paper strips have been recycled from old Christmas cards.

The cute snowman is Twinkle The Snow baby by Michelle Perkett. The current challenge at Sparkle n Sprinkle is to use a digi and you get a free image from Michelle Perkett if you use a store image. I do follow Michelle’s blog and have been lucky to have quite a few freebies and have also purchased some images in the past too. This little Snowman is just so cute and anyone who knows me / follows me / takes even a tiny bit of notice of me know that I love making Christmas cards with snowmen images.

I coloured it up with some Promarkers and added some glitter to my silver star. I cut it out using a Fiskars round template and then used some scrap blue card for the Nestabilities die.

I had a look at the current sketches with a circle focal point and found this brilliant one from Artful Delight’s challenge blog. The striped panels inspired me to dig out bits and pieces that I have cut from old Christmas cards. I found the most glittery mid blue twinkly border and using a scrap of blue card laid strips of the papers on it and trimmed to fit on my card base. I then used an old sentiment, cut it out with another nesties die and then matted that onto dark blue. Other than the base every single bit of paper/cardstock is recycled or an oddment so essentially this is a ‘free’ card. I therefore decided to add oodles of gems to the scalloped frame J That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.

So we have a gorgeous cutie patootie image with the teeny little heart and I have another Christmas card ready to go. That’s 12 already this year so I know I will be avoiding the last minute panic I had last year. I was so unhappy last year, it was a very stressful time made worse by a death in the family on Christmas Eve and I never even got my tree up. I am determined to be better organised for it this year so I can enjoy it more and RELAX J

Materials Used in this Project are as follows:-

Card size – A6

Image – Twinkle the Snow Baby by Michelle Perkett

Paper strips & Sentiment – All Recycled from Christmas Cards

Tools – Letraset Promarkers & Flexmarkers, Nestabilities dies, 3d foam pads, Glamour dust glitter, lots of gems

Techniques – Diecutting & Recycling

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

2 Sisters Challenge - #140 Blue and/or Green

613 Avenue Create – #16 Anything Goes & optional colours

Artful Delight – 31 Sketch for Layout

Catered Crop – Add Glitter

CDAC Anything Goes – Any Handmade Craft

Christmas Stampin All Year Long - #12 Celebrating Snow

Craft Your Passion - #159 Diamonds are a girls best friend

Crafts and Me - #129 Bling It Up

Crafty Boots – Recycle (paper strips & sentiment all from old cards)

Crafty Hazelnut’s Monthly Christmas Challenge – Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations Paint – Anything Goes

Cupcake Craft Challenge - #239 Monochromatic

Desert Island Crafters – #52  (1, 4, 6, 7)

Die Cutting Diva’s - #111 Use A Star

Digi Darla Challenge - #59 Use a recycled item (paper strips & sentiment all from old cards)

Everybody Art – #232 Bling

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - #216 Frame It

Get Inky - #2 Bring on the Bling

Hobbycutz Challenge – #4 Monochrome

Inky Impressions - #105 Punches/Dies

Jingle Belles – Recycled (paper strips & sentiment all from old cards)

Joanna Sheen – Recycle

Make It Monday –  #137 Anything Goes

Paper Crafting Journey – Use A sentiment

Penny’s Challenge - #123 Use a Sentiment

QKR Stampede – #35 Punches or Dies

Sparkle & Sprinkle – Use a Digi

Tammy Scrapin’ Corner - #59 Bling It Up

Three Scrappy Gals – Recycle

Whoopsi Daisy – Use Circles

Word Art Wednesday - #76  Anything Goes