Christmas song

Night shifts finished and now back to crafting, can't believe how much I missed it. This blogging sure gets under your skin. Decided to start out with a Christmas card - the idea came from  Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge - "Lets have a sing song"  I had just the stamp for this and so I spent this afternoon in my craft room and this is what I came up with.

This Stamp is from www.circadesign.co.uk . I coloured the image with my whisper stroke pens and then distressed the edges using a brilliance ink - galaxy gold. Next I made a bow using gold and green ribbon from my stash and some bakers twine from We R Memory Keepers.
I then stamped the verse "Away in a Manger" and used an old faithful corner punch for effect. I again used the gold ink around the edges of the verse and added some small pearls to the corners.

 

I covered my card blank with a beautiful paper from Forever Friends  - A Christmas Tale. The stars on it go so well with the image. I backed the image with some gold paper and use two metal gold brads to help fix it. I used some green and red accent beads down the right of the image and added a contrasting flower made using my petal pairs flower punch. The verse was mounted on gold magic fibers - they reminded me of the hay in the manger. I finished the card by adding the green and gold bow and a metal gold star to the top of the stable. I love Christmas cards using traditional colours - reds greens and golds xx.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges -
craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge - challenge-68-lets-have-sing-song.
abc christmas challenge/h-for-hardware
christmas card challenges-week-20.
movingalongwiththetimes/merry-christmas-from-mawtt
sparklesforumchristmaschallenge-colour-combo