Monique - Christmas Love

I have tried to get the sparkle to show up too - lucky the sun has decided to shine today!

Challenges :
Mo’s Digital – Colours of the Rainbow - blue

Allsorts – Song title (Sacrifice – Elton John)

Sweet Stamping - bling

Sketch Saturday – design sketch

Creative Cottage – bling

Stamp Challenges – punches

Alphabet - Christmas

Flutterby Wednesday – open (wings).

Today’s card uses a fab image from Mo Manning, that of Monique. Having decided to bite the bullet and make another Christmas card, I then had to decide how to colour Monique in - and as I do try to enter the Mo’s DP2 Challenge each week it was then a choice of which colour of the rainbow did I want. The DT there had all used one particular colour of the rainbow for their individual cards and I decided to follow that route too, rather than go for the whole rainbow. I also wanted to tie in the fabby sketch over at Sketch Saturday so with that in mind, I created my card.

There are two tonal blue papers cut & aligned to follow the sketch but I also added a line of Martha Stewart punched snowflakes across the ‘dividing line’. These snowflakes were given a liberal dosing of Crafter’s Companion Spray & Sparkle for that bit of extra ‘something’. The image, coloured with Promarkers, was then given a paper-pieced dress using one of the same papers of the background, and this too was shaded with Promarkers and then glittered with the same spray. The Bible verse is from Digi Doodle, and I split the ‘Love’ heading away from the rest of the text to follow the layout I had chosen. This was mounted using both an adhesive runner and foam pads, depending on the overlapping.

Right I am keeping this post relatively short as I have ironing to crack on with! I hope that you have enough time to leave me a comment, and I thank you for each and every one of them.

Tine :)