CHRISTMAS CARDS ALL YEAR ROUND - MAY CHALLENGE - 'VINTAGE CHRISTMAS'

Afternoon everyone - here I am with another DT card for the Christmas Cards All Year Round challenge.  I have a little confession here - Christmas cards are my absolute favourites, I just lurve making them.   It must be the glitter, the snow, the snowflakes, robins, holly, poinsettias ...... etc etc.  What's not to like??

Anyway our theme this month is 'vintage', which is another great pick .. and it's never, ever too early to start on your Christmas creations!

I used a rubber stamp from La Blanche for this card - I've had it for years and it's a great one for this type of theme.  My papers are from My Minds Eye and they are truly gorgeous, quite vintage looking and distressed too!!!  I chose three papers and put one of the three inside the card.  I piled a few 'flakes on top of each other for the embellishments, I cut these out of white coated Core'dinations card then sanded off the white to reveal the core colour underneath.  I inked the edges of the image and them popped some embossing ink around the edge before dipping in gold embossing powder - love this effect.

Ingredients

7" x 7" White Card blank - Anna Marie Designs
Vintage Sleigh - La Blanche White rubber stamps
Signature Christmas by Jen Wilson - 12" x 12" My Minds Eye card pad
Bristol Snowflake die - Memory Box Dies
Snowflake die ref DIE024X - IO Dies
Happy Christmas die - Cheery Lynn Dies
Pearls - Brenda's Lace and Ribbon (sold on Facebook)
Stardust Stickles
Tea Dye Distress Ink

I hope you can join in our challenge this month, pop over to CCAYR to check out the cards made by my teamies.

Watch out for another post tomorrow!  Take care of yourselves and I'm sending another big hug to you all, thanks loads for stopping by and having a read of my waffles.

Hugs to everyone

Sue xxx

I would like to enter my card into the following 10 Challenges - 

Crafts Galore Encore Challenge (May) - http://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/anything-goes-for-may.html

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge No 227 - http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/chnc-challenge-227-girly-featuring.html

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge Extra (May) - http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/chnc-challenge-extra-for-may-2015.html

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge No 257 - http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/challange-257-christmas.html

Hiding in my Craftroom Challenge (May) - http://www.hidinginmycraftroom.com/2015/05/himcr05nsd-die-cuts.html

One Crazy Stamper Challenge (May) - http://www.onecrazystampercom.blogspot.ca/2015/05/may-challenge-anything-goes.html

Party Time Tuesday Challenge No 197 - http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.ca/2015/04/challenge-197-and-winner-from-march.html

Sisters of Craft Challenge (May) - http://thesistersofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/sisters-of-craft-may-anything-goes.html

Sugar and Betty's Challenge (May) - http://sugarandbetty.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/anything-goes.html

Your Scrapbook Place Challenge (May) - http://yourscrapbookplace.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/its-may-so-anything-goes-at-your.html