CHNC challenge extra for March

Today is 1 March and that means that two months of this year have gone already. There are lots of 'crafty' crafters who are getting ahead with their Christmas cards to ease the panic that tends to happen towards the end of the year. There were lots of entries for last month's challenge and I hope that many will join in with CHNC challenge extra for March, where 'anything goes' as long as it's Christmas. Please click on the link and see the gorgeous crafting of the rest of the team, including my guest for the month. If you've never joined in before, don't be shy ... please come and join us and have the reward of starting to build up a stock of Christmas cards ahead of time.

The challenges on CHNC challenge extra blog are always sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps - the randomly chosen prize winner gets to choose $21 worth of digital images. Bugaboo kindly supplied images for the team to use and for my card I've used 'AKV Nativity Mary Joseph' which I coloured digitally using Microsoft Paint. I mounted the image on to a piece of gold mirror card and then on to some Christmas script paper that I've had for ages that originally came with a magazine. This was then mounted on to gold mirror before matting on to the dark brown card blank. The card was finished off with the glitter ribbon and the sentiment square.

I based the card on the sketch given for Digi sketch 'glitter it' challenge:

This is also for:

Catch the bug March: anything goes (with this wonderful Bugaboo stamp)
The 12 months of Christmas card link up
Christmas card challenges 13: anything goes
Fab n funky 205: Christmas
Craftin desert divas 25: glitter
The stamping boutique 6: use glitter
Eclectic ellapu: sparkle
Divas by design: make it sparkle
The squirrel and the fox 64: something spooled
Kaboodle 212: use ribbon
Everybody art 267: ribbon or lace
Card mania 41: use a sentiment
Crafts galore March: using a stamp or digi stamp anywhere on your project
613 avenue create 60: anything goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday 25: anything goes
Party time Tuesday 161: anything goes
Through the craftroom door: anything goes
Tuesday throwdown 184: anything goes
Card and scrap 70: hip hip hooray - everything can be celebrated
Crafty catz 220: anything goes
Sister Act 46: anything goes
Inky linky 46
Make it Monday 180