Christmas baubles

Hmm,  not the most exciting of titles - but as I type this on Thursday it's hot, late, I'm tired, our bedroom furniture delivery is probably circuiting the M25 for the umpteenth time, I'm also hungry and want my evening meal:( Come on Pink Panther deliveries - get a move on, are you using a horse and cart for goodness sakes?

Anyhow, this is my second card for Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge, which is Monochrome this week - and my first one for Rudolph Day this month over at Sarn's blog:

On hindsight, being 20/20 vision and all that, perhaps I didn't really need to use the holly die - but there was holly in the LOTV image, the die was new and lying on my desk, as well as pleading to be tried out. I totally love the die, the cut card pops out of the die so easily, which also cuts beautifully - but, with even more 20/20 vision, another time I think it's a good idea to mount the card onto double sided sticky film before cutting which would be lots easier to stick down afterwards. But hey, the few loose spirals and leaves could well be deliberate huh?

I used:

- A5 white card stock

- LOTV 'Christmas Baubles' stamp, stamped in Memento 'London Fog' and coloured with Pro Markers. The leaves were then coated with Anita's Glaze and the baubles given a covering of Stickles. Little tip about the Stickles, I have a box full of them in all colours and it's really easy to just mix up a blob of different colours onto a little piece of paper to get the right mix before applying using a little paintbrush

- mid-green backing card

- holly dies, cut from dark green card using Cheery Lyn's 'Holly Flourish' die

-Craftwork Cards sentiment layered onto the two greens used on the card, punched using SU oval punches

Another one for the box.

I hear there are to be chikkins in the 'rural scenes' being depicted in the Olympics opening ceremony -  I do hope Sam and Sarn have TVs rigged up in their coops for Margot, Harriet, Tony and Co. :)

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