Krafty Chicks challenge #750 - Christmas

Good morning lovely friends. I hope you're all doing ok and having a great week so far. It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week we are on Week 2; as always the theme is 'Christmas' and I am your hostess. We want you to see all your festive creations this week and even if you are sick of making Christmas cards just remember your future self will be thanking you in December when you have lots of cards already made. We hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

I actually made this card for my Sister-in-law and her family and I have to say I really love it.  I don't brag on my cards very often but I am definitely going to make more of these cards this year (I'm a sucker for a good wreath) and apart from a bit of die cutting it was really easy to make.  I hope you like it too.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the wreath:

Plus I decorated the inside:

As my card was for family I made my usual 5" x 7" card size.  I cut a white panel 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" and matted it onto gold glitter card with double sided tape.  I found the embossed panel on my desk, which was left over from another project, and thought it was perfect as a background for my wreath.  I matted this onto gold glitter card too with double sided tape.  I die cut the wreath from 3 different shades of green card that I grabbed from my scraps bin and adhered them together with dots of liquid glue.  I also added it onto the embossed panel with liquid glue.  I cut the bow from red card and added that to the top of my bow with a tiny foam square; I also added a red pearl to the centre.  For some extra decoration on my bow I die cut some tiny circles from red and gold glitter card and added them with liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment in red ink and used the matching die to cut it out and also cut some plain die cuts so that I could stack the sentiment for some extra dimension.  I added that to panel with liquid glue.  I also stamped a sub-sentiment in black ink and used the sentiment strip die to cut it out.  I adhered that with foam squares.  The embossed panel was added to my larger white panel with foam tape and then this was added onto the card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I cut a white panel 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" and again matted it onto gold glitter card with double sided tape.  I die cut some extra wreaths from the same 3 green card and adhered it to the lower left corner with liquid glue, trimming off the excess.  I die cut another bow and some extra circle decorations and added them with liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre of the panel with black ink.  The panel was then adhered to my card base with double sided tape.  

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

ABC Christmas challenge - A for anything Christmas

Allsorts challenge - matching pairs (I decorated the inside to match the front)

Christmas (or not) BINGO challenge - line G - red, free, die cuts

Crafty Calendar challenge - add a die cut (3rd entry)

Creative Inspirations challenge - something old or something new (my wreath dies are really old)

Daisy Chain challenge - no design paper

Everybody Art challenge - alphabet W (wreath)

If You Give A Crafter A Cookie challenge - anything goes

Little Red Wagon challenge - piece (and long life) - I pieced my wreath together 

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Peace on Earth challenge - anything Christmas themed

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.

Thank you so much for stopping by; I appreciate your lovely comments.  I'll be back later this afternoon with another card for you so hopefully you will stop by and check it out.  

Love and hugs,

card ingredients:

MFT - winter wreath (retired)

Gina K Designs - holiday floral stamp & die (for outside greeting)

Gina K Designs - blizzard stamp set (for sub-sentiment)

SSS/Gina K Designs - sparkling season stamptember 22 stamp set (retired)

Gina K Designs - lots of dots die set (for circles on the wreath)

Gina K Designs - sentiment strips dies

Gina K Designs - red hot ink pad

Gina K Designs - rainbow pearl mix (for red pearl)

Spellbinders - circle illusion 3D embossing folder

Tonic Studios - gold dust 250gsm glitter card

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card (currently not available but this 250gsm smooth white card is an alternative in stock here)

red and green card from my scraps bin

Versafine - onyx black ink pad