Sunday Snippets - CAS Christmas card

A couple of my USA crafting friends very kindly protect cards they send to me through the post with panels of embossed card - and I hoard them like a squirrel! This card uses one of the latest gifted panels - as they are indeed just that, a gift. A quick rummage through my snippets and a short while later this was the CAS result:

I used: 

- 5.5" x 4.25" white card blank - side opening

- a snippet of Tonic pearlised 'Red Velvet' card, very slightly trimmed then glued onto the card blank front

- the deeply embossed deep cream (camera lied again!) panel of Christmas foliage, cones and flowers was trimmed by moi and glued on top of the red layer

- used a NBUS die set for the first time - by John Next Door called 'Bold Wishes - JND558', plus small snippets of Tonic pearlised 'Red Velvet' and pearlised 'Majestic Gold' - to die cut the sentiment and also its shadow background

- glued the gold sentiment onto the red background/shadow using a glue pen

- used Nuvo glue to adhere the sentiment panel to the card front, at bottom right

- finished!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges: 

- Allsorts Challenge #841 HERE.  - 'Anything Goes'

- Darnell's NBUS Challenge #82 HERE - my NBUS item is the John Next Door sentiment and shadow die set

I'm sure that most of you will know, but in case you don't, NBUS stands for 'Never Been Used Schtuff'. You only need to be using an item for the first time to enter. It's run by our friend Darnell - who else would think up a challenge name like that!?

Dudley Pupdate: Dudley is beside himself with the dreadfully damp and dull days we're having right now. This weekend it's the Royal Society for Birds (RSPB) 'Big Garden Birdwatch' - and Len rigged up a CCTV camera covering much of our back garden so I could watch indoors for an hour in the warmth. 

I hit lucky with the chosen hour in that it was dry and bright - even threatening to be sunny! Logged a good few birds - to be reported back to the RSPB online. But nothing overly exciting in the great scheme of things ........ unless you count in a rather cute white fluffy four-legged critter that didn't fly. That would be Dudley (but of course) who kept on hopping in and out of the house and definitely didn't care for the pigeons ground feeding on the hanging feeders leftovers one little bit. Basically 'cos they flew away as soon as he bounced over to say 'hi' to them! Poor little 'Billy No Mates'. 😢 And it's almost as if he KNEW I wanted a peaceful, non-zoomies garden so that the smaller birds wouldn't be skittish! 'Nope Mum, not gonna happen on MY watch. This is good FUN!'

The results from Sarn's Challenge #523 are now published in the Snippets Playground HERE.