O little town of Bethlehem

It's time for a new challenge for the Christmas Card Club girls and this time Asha has asked us to make a card based on our favourite festive tune.

I love the carol 'O little town of Bethlehem' although I have to admit that I have lots of other favourites too.

For the background of my card I embossed some creamycoloured shiny card using my eBosser with the 'star of wonder' embossalicious embossing folder by Crafter's Companion, brushing it with some broken china distress ink. This was then mounted on to blue mirror card and then on to a navy blue card blank.

The digital image was from Crafting with Jack. I imported the image into Paint and 'coloured' the background and stars, printed it and then used a couple of Spectrum Noir to colour the trees. Holographic and padded tars and ribbon from stash. Some of the stars look gold here because of the flash reflection, but they are all silver.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Deep ocean 57: Christmas in July
Craftin' boutique: Christmas
Hobby house 3: Christmas
Flourishes timeless 232: backgrounds
Get inky 10: ribbons
The lollipop ladies 74: start your day with some sparkle and stars
Top tip Tuesday 107: embossing
Penny's 139: dry embossing
Pattie's 73: embossing
One stitch at a time 176: use a digi
The paper girls 37: glitter, glitter, glitter
Word art Wednesday 92: anything goes
Crafty ribbons 56: anything goes with ribbon
Inky linky 26
Stempelsonne 95: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 19: anything goes
Make it Monday 152
Inspire me Fridays 115
52 card pickup 2.32

Another card for CHNC challenge 137: picture inspiration

This is another card for my CHNC challenge 137, with this picture inspiration:

I made the background paper by inking one  of the 6 x 6 Papermania urban stamps 'home for Christmas - homespun'. As this is a large stamp I inked it with fired brick distress ink and placed the piece of card on top of the stamp, pressing down well. I then inked part of the stamp with bundled sage distress ink and die cut a circle using the cuttlebug, using this to create a spotlight, making use of the colours in the inspiration picture. The felt reindeer seemed an appropriate addition as there are deer in the picture.

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Christmas stampin all year long 28: colour combos - I chose: 1 - red, green and white
Winter wonderland: cute Christmas
Deep ocean 57: Christmas in July
Craftin' boutique: Christmas
Twisted Tuesday 56: a simple Christmas in August
Flourishes timeless 232: backgrounds
Eureka 51: clean and simple
Whimsy 62: clean and simple
Crafty sentiments: animals
Crafty boots: die cuts
Cute card Thursday 281: die-ing to punch (circle die cut)
Stuck on u: die cut challenge: furry friends
Crafter's cafe 23: furry friends and/or friendship
613 avenue create 31: anything goes + optional twist: use a sentiment
Challenges 4 everybody 26: anything goes
Loves rubber stamps 64: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Brown sugar 54: anything goes
Stempelsonne 95: anything goes
Creative fingers 2: anything goes
Hanna and friends 177: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 19: anything goes
Make it Monday 152
Inspire me Fridays 115
52 card pickup 2.32

CHNC challenge 137: picture inspiration

For today's CHNC challenge 137 I've given this picture as inspiration - you can use the colours, the shape, any of the items in the picture - interpret in the way you wish.

For my first card I've concentrated on the colours, also the trees, using a stamp supplied by Flonz craft, one of the sponsors of CHNC challenge 137. I inked with versafine onyx black and dotted the trees with a quickie glue pen on to which I put some Art Institute green glitter. Papers are from my Christmas offcuts box and the ribbled snowflakes are from Hobbycraft.

This is also for:

Deep ocean 57: Christmas in July
Craftin' boutique: Christmas
Ooh-la-la: a step back in time
Ruby's rainbow 60: vintage
Paper-crafting journey: distressed/vintage
Lisa B designs: vintage
The paper girls 37: glitter, glitter, glitter
Stamp and create August: glitter
Make my Monday: silhouettes
Sweet stamps 129: silhouettes
613 avenue create 31: anything goes + optional twist: use a sentiment
Challenges 4 everybody 26: anything goes
Crazy challenge 151: anything goes
Loves rubber stamps 64: anything goes
Papertake: anything goes
Brown sugar 54: anything goes
Stempelsonne 95: anything goes
Creative fingers 2: anything goes
Hanna and friends 177: anything goes
Card and scrap 59: anything goes
DL.ART August: anything goes
Sister act 19: anything goes
Make it Monday 152
Inspire me Fridays 115
52 card pickup 2.32