Hi crafty people! How are you all doing? Our spring weather continues today, although I understand it’s going to get colder again very soon, so we are just enjoying it while we can. Today we took the morning off and went to a local park to do the snowdrop spectacular walk and it was stunning. We even say a couple of roe deer but I wasn’t quick enough to get a photograph. We treated ourselves to brunch before my husband headed off to the office and I went to drop off orders for customers at the post office.
It was a lovely start to our day. This chilled out blog post is sharing a card for a couple of challenges (ABC Christmas Challenge and Alphabet Challenge). I’m trying to get a few Christmas cards made for my 2019 stash every month. This card used the above challenge prompts for C for Candy and X for xtra bling!
I used the candy canes stamp from the Sweet Christmas set by Clearly Besotted. I stamped and heat embossed a few of these using the Wow red glitter powder then fussy cut them out. Then I cut a ring to be the base of my wreath using two nesting circle dies. I used a holly border die which was gifted to me (I think it is a spell binders die) and cut several holly sprigs. Then I added some small red gems for the berries and layered them onto the wreath before adding some candy canes. I then used some 3d tape to adhere the wreath to a white square and then layered it up on the red and then patterned paper.
To finish it off I stamped the sentiment (from the same stamp set) and stuck in a couple of the left over candy canes.
The sun was so bright it was hard to capture the bling on the card, but I think it’s a little clearer in this picture.
I hope you are having a lovely Tuesday whatever you are up to. Thanks so much for visiting my blog.
Crafty hugs
Jenny (AKA the Ginger Ninja!) x
Cute! I too work on Christmas Cards all year for the mailing season! It helps to avoid a Christmas Crush of last minute ideas for Cards!
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It does feel a little strange just now but it will make life so much easier in a few months time! x
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Sounds like your morning was beautiful. Your Christmas card is a blinged out beauty, too.
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Thanks so much Golda, it was an above average Tuesday morning! 🙂
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Oh, the snowdrops! How beautiful! I am also jealous that you are working on your Christmas card stash already – this is a “sweet” addition. Have a great day, Jenny!
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Thanks Kathy and you too 🙂
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Great bling on your Christmas card, love the design lay out thank you for joining in at the Alphabet Challenge
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Thanks so much Maragret 🙂
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Wish I was so determined to get ahead for Christmas. Lovely card. Love Dawn x
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Ah well we will see how long it lasts! x
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what an adorable card!
thank you so much for playing along with us at alphabet challenge!
hugs and kisses from germany,
Silvi xoxo
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Thanks so much Silvi xx
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Gorgeous Christmas card! Love your idea of candy canes on the wreath. Thanks for playing along with us at ABC Christmas Challenge. Looking forward to seeing your creative projects in the future galleries again.
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Thanks so much x
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Wonderful card!
Thanks for playing at the ABC Christmas Challenge!
Helen x
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Thanks so much Helen xx
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