LOTV Moonlight Wishes

At last, I'm managing to find time to finish off and then make the images I coloured whilst on holiday into Christmas cards - yay!! On the downside, Mrs Potato Head always selects background papers these days before doing any colouring at home but hadn't considered this before we whizzed off - in fact she was frantically stamping images right at the last minute - and this did cause some angst when it came to finding matching papers for today's card. Ha, the folder of everyday snippets came to the rescue in the end - after scrabbling through every bit of Christmas paper I possess looking for lilac/purple papers! Here's the end result:

Not that there's a lot of it showing but the main lilac background paper is gently patterned with clouds :)

I used:

- 6" x 6" square white card stock

- stamped image - LOTV 'Moonlight Wishes' coloured using Aqua Markers

- lilac pearlised 'Centura' card from Hobbycraft

- lilac 'clouds' paper and purple glitter paper from snippets

- ribbon, with the wire removed, from stash (originally bought from Hobbycraft)

- finishing touches to the image done at home were Glamour Dust on the moon then Lemon Ice stickles on the stars and the holes and what looks a bit like moon dust. I couldn't find a perfect match for the bobble on this little cutie's hat so I mixed a little squidge of two Stickles on paper - Starry Night and Strawberry Ice.....maybe I need to get out more! Mind you, I never apply Stickles straight onto an image anyhow, I'm much too clumsy so a little blob is always squeezed onto paper and then picked up with a very thin paintbrush - it works for me anyhow :) Oh, and some teeny touches of Anita's Glaze were popped onto the holly berries too. Yup, definitely need to get out more!

- almost forgot, and gold Josy Rose stars shaped nailheads.

As snippets were such a life saver - and it's a couple of weeks since I've been into the playground I'm entering this into Jules Crafty Snippet Challenge Week 45.

Saturday today - yippee. I have to quickly make a box and then race out to post a birthday card this morning that I struggled with for ages yesterday - I'll have to go to our Sorting Office so that's a nice little drive. Last minute panics as usual!

Finally - thank you so much Sandra (H) for hopping back into Friday Feast yesterday evening to say that the Sausage Cider Hotpot was a hit! How quick is that huh - and Kathleen's following comment did make me grin - something along the lines of 'Huh, so Sandra keeps a pint of cider handy'!! Truth be told, we always have some cans of cider here too - it's a refreshing drink is my excuse - but I did mean to offer a tip yesterday. The cans don't come in 600ml sizes but if you look in the bottled ciders section in your local supermarket there's normally a glass bottle of dry cider around 660ml on offer - 60 ml for the cook!!

Have a super weekend - and have a fun time whatever you're doing!

Di
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