Gwen has set us a great challenge this week over at
Sunny Challenges & Creations -
Sketch Only! As I am a little low on Christmas Cards, I thought this would be the perfect challenge to create yet another. I have most of mine written out & ready to go, but there is always that last 1 or 2 that you need.... I also decided to create it using my favourite Christmas Colours this year. I am a bit of a non-traditionalist when it comes to Christmas Colours.
Measurements -
Base Card -
Pink Pirouette - 8 1/4" x 5 7/8" or 21cm x 15cm
Layer 1 -
Whisper White - 3 7/8" x 5 5/8" or 14cm x 10cm
Layer 2 -
Rich Razzleberry - 3 3/4" x 5 1/2" or 13.5cm x 9.5cm
Layer 3 x 3 -
Silver Glitter Paper - 4 1/8" x 7/8"
Layer 4 -
Pink Pirouette - 3 1/2" x 2 1/4" or 9cm x 5.5cm
Layer 5 -
Silver Glitter Paper - 3 1/4" x 2" or 8cm x 4.5cm
Supplies -
Stamp Set - Ornament Keepsakes
Ink - Rich Razzleberry
Cardstock - Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry, Pink Pirouette
Embossing Folder - Perfect Polka Dots
Framelits - Holiday Ornaments
Punches - Corner Rounder
Accessories - Snail Ashesive, SU! Dimensionals, Sticky Strip, Rhinestones
Non-SU - Silver Cord
My card was basically created from 3 pieces of
Silver Glitter Paper that I found - all perfectly cut to size. I trimmed the corners of each end, adhered all 3 pieces to the piece of
Rich Razzleberry Cardstock with
Snail Adhesive prior to running through the
Big Shot using
Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder. I do not know what I will ever do if
Stampin' Up! ever decided to retire this folder as it is my favourite & use it on most of my projects!
This piece was then adhered to the piece of
Whisper White Cardstock & then finally to the
Base Card - Pink Pirouette with
Snail Adhesive.
I stamped the image onto a scrap of
Whisper White Cardstock in
Rich Razzleberry Ink, ran it through the
Big Shot with the matching
Framelit Die. Prior to adhering it to the small piece of
Sliver Glitter Paper, I adhered a small piece of
Silver Cord to the top so that it looked a little like it was going to hang. I then applied
Stampin' Dimensionals to the back of the cut out ornament & added small pieces of
Sticky Strip to the tops of the
Dimensionals. I've found when using the
Glitter Paper, the
Sticky Strip adheres a little better to the top of the Paper.
The whole piece was then adhered to the small piece of Pink Pirouette Cardstock with Snail Adhesive prior to adhering to the card. Again I placed
SU! Dimensionals to the back, added small pieces of
Sticky Strip priro to adhering to the top of the
Glitter Paper.
To finish the card off, I placed a
Rhinestone to the centre of the ornament & 3 along the bottom right hand corner.
We hope you will have time to join us this week for our challenge. We all love comments on our blog & as we love leaving comments, this would be perfect to play along. Why not head over to Sunny Challenges & Creations to check out what
Kris,
Gwen,
Vicki &
Carole have created. Create your card, link to an on-line forum, group or your blog & then link with Mr Linky.
Until next time, Happy Stampin'
Today's card is one I created for a challenge, but the challenge closed before I could post it as I completely forgot all about it. 
A couple of the ladies did have a little trouble getting their head around the concept of the Window Sheet being in the middle & why we were cutting out card at the front, but after a LOT of explaining, showing & playing, we eventually got to complete it. 
Thank you to the number of entries we had in our last challenge. I know we were all excited to see them. I was astounded by the final number. Thank you so much for your support. Maybe the extra week has a big impact as to the entries, so we hope you are enjoying the extra time for creating.
The wide selection of Sale-a-Bration products this year is fantastic. I hope you are enjoying them as much as the rest of us.
Our challenge over at Sunny Challenges for the next fortnight is to create a card, 3-D project or scrapbook page with the theme of "Love". With Valentine's Day fast approaching, this is the perfect time to create that something special for that someone special. Again, we have no sketch to go by, so the field is wide open.
I've used the sketch from Technostamper Monday Lunch Challenge to create my card except I turned it on its side. It has been sometime since I played along with one of Mary Jo's challenges.
Gwen has set us a great challenge this week over at Sunny Challenges & Creations - Sketch Only! As I am a little low on Christmas Cards, I thought this would be the perfect challenge to create yet another. I have most of mine written out & ready to go, but there is always that last 1 or 2 that you need.... I also decided to create it using my favourite Christmas Colours this year. I am a bit of a non-traditionalist when it comes to Christmas Colours.
Supplies - 
This piece was then adhered to the piece of Whisper White Cardstock & then finally to the Base Card - Pink Pirouette with Snail Adhesive.
