Monday 7 March 2016

Christmas Lace

The current challenge at Winter Wonderland is 'Use Some Lace' and my first challenge was to find some lace!  This scrap was lurking at the bottom of my ribbon drawer and I made the card following the current sketch at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown.


Card blank:  7" x 5"  silk
Image: Lili of the Valley 'Warm and Cosy' pre-coloured topper
Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities A2 Matting Basics B
Embossing: Kars tan embossing mat
Card: Red hammer
Paper: Hot off the Press Floral Cardmaker's Ultimate Pack, Hunkydory Traditional Christmas (magazine freebie)
Other: Stampendous Fun Flock, Upcycled Snowflake,  Wink of Stella

I trimmed a piece of spotty paper from the HOTP paper pack, layered it onto red card and attached it to the card front.  A strip of Hunkydory green paper was layered onto red card and the lace wrapped around the lower edge, this was then attached to the card.  I die cut the topper (it was originally a square) and embossed it before layering it onto red card and attaching it to the card with foam tape.  I applied Fun Flock to the top of the stocking and the hat bobbles and then highlighted the image with a Wink of Stella.  To finish, I attached a snowflake (upcycled from one of my Christmas cards) to the lower corner.

Kath x

16 comments:

brenda said...

Lovely Christmas card with a real traditional feel Kath.

B x

Kajcyika said...

This image is so cute and you colored it perfectly! :)
Thanks for joining us at 52CCT :) Kaja

Tina Z. said...

absolutely gorgeous!

Barb said...

It's lovely Kath. A lovely image and I really like the design. Barbxx

meg said...

Great choice of papers and colours to use with your topper Kath it's a beautiful card

Sue said...

Hi Kath, What a lovely Christmas card.

Hope you are having a good start to the week. Sue

Julie said...

Such a cute card. Love your paper choices. Great job with the sketch. Thanks for joining us at 52 CCT
Julie T

Debs said...

Gorgeous card Kath - such a sweet image and fabulous LO.
Debs xx

KandA said...

Wonderful card Kath, super colours and papers perfect with the LOTV image xx

Valerija said...

Gorgeous card with super cute image.

Kathleen said...

Really, really lovely card.

Kath x

Liz said...

Oh WOW! I just love this card. What an adorable image and such a lovely design. xx

cotnob said...

A lovely card Kath, such a sweet image.
Pauline
x

Shaz in Oz.CalligraphyCards said...

What a gorgeous card, Kath, love the snow flock, too.
..... Mm, have colours but no white maybe could bleach it, might give it a try :)

Huge congrats too on reaching 100 followers, your blog is very inspiring so worth a visit,
God bless you in it all, Shaz in Oz.x

Cathy said...

Gorgeous card Kath, the image is adorable, Cathy x

Alison said...

Such an adorable image - I love the fluffy stocking top - and your card design and papers are great too. Thank you for joining us at Winter Wonderland. We have a Design Team Call on at our challenge if you're interested.
Alison x