Krafty Chicks challenge #707 Christmas

Good Morning lovely friends.  I'm back again today to share my card for this week's Krafty Chicks challenge and this week is all about Christmas.  So grab your Christmas stamps, dies, papers etc and join in the fun with us. 

I bought some new stamps recently from LOTV as they've been having a fab offer and all their polymer stamp sets were only £10 - it would have been rude not to get some lol!  One of the sets I got was Christmas Mugs so I thought I would use one of the images for my card.  I asked my son to choose the image and he picked the cute snowman so here is my card:

a closer look at the cute image:

I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the image with alcohol marker friendly ink and coloured it with Promarkers.  I also added some white highlights with a gel pen.  I decided I wanted to keep my card as one layer so stamped the image again onto masking paper and made a mask to cover my coloured image.  I then ink blended around the image with a light blue ink and also added some stencilled stars behind the mug.  Below the image I ink blended some very light grey ink to ground the image.  I cut out the panel with a scalloped rectangle and added it to my card base with foam tape.  I stamped a sentiment with black ink and cut it out with a banner die.  I also cut a slightly larger banner from a light blue card and layered them together.  This was added to the top right corner with liquid glue.  I didn't add any embellishments as I liked it as it was.  For the inside I cut another scalloped rectangle, stamped a sentiment in the centre with black ink and partially stamped the image at the bottom in a light grey ink.  I applied the mask and lightly inked with blue ink around the image.  The panel was adhered to the card base with double sided tape.   I'm really happy with how this card turned out and cannot wait to ink up all the other mugs.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Christmas With The Cuties challenge - Santa and/or snowman

CRAFT challenge - Christmas

Crafts Galore Encore challenge - ATG

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - ATG

Creative Inspirations challenge - ATG

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG option love/romance

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas Goes

Peace On Earth Christmas challenge - anything Christmas themed

Shopping Our Stash challenge - round and round (dots on my mug and background) 13 max

Stencil Fun challenge - must use a stencil option Easter/spring

The Holly & Ivy Christmas Challenge - anything Christmas goes

The Male Room challenge - food and drink

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'Christmas' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky.  Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori and also our guest designer Shirley, who is joining us for March. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

LOTV - Christmas Mugs A5 stamp set

MFT - blueprints 27 (for scalloped rectangle and banner dies)

MFT - itty bitty holiday stamp set

Funky Fossil Designs - snow is falling stencil

Gina K Designs - ink pads - soft stone & sea glass

Gina K Designs - masking magic sheets

Paula Pascual - Christmas messages stamp set (for inside greeting)

Promarkers

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card (for my card base)

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Sakura - no. 10 white gelly roll pen