Sunday Snippets - 'Christmas Wreath'

I made a couple of identical Christmas cards the other day - and here's one of them:

I used:

- 4" x 4"white card blank, side opening

- added a 3.75" x 3.75" square of paper from the Honey Bee 'Make it Ma\w\erry' paper pad

- for the wreath I used a NBUS set of dies by Memory Box called Bountiful Wreath' which I did cut from snippets of dark green card for the back layer Then cut some fresh sheets of paper from the Crafters Companion 'Ink Drops - Organic; paper pad - all gorgeous shades of green, shot through with touches of gold coloured ink. They did add some variation but the papers from that range are mostly best suited to backgrounds

- after gluing the two wreath die cuts together for stability, and gluing it to the card front, it needed more dimension. So out of the packet came a single die with two little leaf sprigs of the same ilk as the main wreath. I die cut the double sprigs from four different little snippets I found lurking stored in the back of the paper pack

- then added four of the sprigs around the main wreath - I'd tickled the sprigs with clear Wink of Stella before gluing them on, for a touch of sparkle

- popped eight Marianne 'Duotone Red' enamel dots onto the wreath and it, in turn,  popped into life!

- final touch, a Craftwork Cards pre-printed Christmas Sentiment was added to the centre of the wreath using a large sticky pad

For the first time in months, and certainly not since I hurt my arm whist attempting a triple flip along the upstairs landing here and falling badly, I used my Cuttlebug for much of the die cutting! Happy days indeed.

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

- Allsorts Challenge #857 - HERE - under 'Anything Goes'

- Darnell's NBUS Challenge #90 HERE - the NBUS 'Bountiful Wreath' was pre-loved and unopened. Very few examples seem to pop up when doing a search on Google but I suspect it's at least six years old

The results from Sarn's Challenge #537 are now published in the Snippets Playground HERE. 

Dudley Pupdate: this little tale is from a few weeks ago now in one of the scorching heatwaves. Len dropped me off at our dentist, just for a routine appointment - then he came back later on to collect me. It gives the car a reasonable run and helps with getting Dudley used to the car. When he came back to collect me he drove into a spot right beside the front door and reception - I was waiting outside catching a few rays as they say! 

So, this car quietly glides past the wide open reception area window and there is Dudley, riding shotgun in the back, happy as can be to see me, hidden from reception's sight, with his  paws up looking out of the one third partially open rear passenger but well harnessed so still very safe. One of the receptionists came flying out of the dental surgery then burst out laughing. She'd been sitting working at the reception desk and had glanced up to see a white fluffy face and two little white paws glide past her window almost at human height - what's more she could see that the dog was smiling! She truly thought she was losing the plot and raced out ............. to be confronted by Dudley! Hard to imagine but so funny in real life! 

There's still a week left in my current Snippets Challenge if you haven't already joined in!

Love as always, Dudley and yours truly,