Krafty Chicks challenge #755 - 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 we hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

I recently bought a fun Christmas mug die that I've been itching to use so today's challenge was the perfect opportunity (although the mug itself could be used for various occasions).  A bit of stencilling and lots of die cutting and my card was done.  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the mug:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting my white panel 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" and using a snowflake stencil created my background using a very light grey ink.  I matted this panel onto a grey panel cut to 4" x 5 1/4" using double sided tape.  I cut the mug die from red ink and inked the edges with a slightly darker red ink for some definition.  I also cut the inner part of the mug from brown card to resemble cocoa.  I cut the candy cane from red and white card and adhered it together with liquid glue.  I cut 3 marshmallows and 2 snowflakes from white card and using my trimmer I cut a strip of black card for the belt.  I don't have the holiday additions die set that coordinates with the mug set so I had to make my own buckle using gold mirri card (it's not perfect but I think you can recognise it as a belt buckle lol!).  Once all the die cutting was done I assembled all the pieces.  The inner of the mug was adhered with liquid glue before the candy cane and marshmallows were tucked into the mug and secured on the back with some double sided tape.  The belt, buckle and 2 snowflakes were added with liquid glue.  I stamped the sentiment with black ink and die cut it out with the coordinating die (I cut another 2 from white so that I could add some dimension without fiddling with tiny strips of foam tape).  I added foam squares behind the mug and added it to the centre of my panel.  The sentiment was added across the mug with liquid glue.  I added gold sequins to the centres of the snowflakes and onto the background.  I added some scrap white card behind my panel, instead of using foam tape, and adhered it to my card base with double sided tape.  For the inside of my card I cut the same size white and grey panels, I stencilled the very bottom of the white panel using the snowflake stencil and adhered the panels together with double sided tape.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink and added a die cut snowflake in the bottom left corner.  I also added a gold sequin into the centre.  The panel was then added to the card base with double sided tape.  Although there was a bit of die cutting it wasn't too fiddly and the card came together quite quickly.  

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

The 12 months of Christmas Link Up challenge - ATG Christmas optional twist couples

ABC Christmas challenge - D is for die cuts

Crafts Galore Encore challenge - ATG

Crafty Catz challenge - ATG optional theme use a die

Cupcake Inspirations challenge - colour challenge - red, black and white

Daisy Chain challenge - layer it up 

Little Red Wagon challenge - red alert!

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Scrapping4Fun challenge - black, white + 1 other colour (I went with red)

Stencil Fun challenge - anything stencil goes optional theme pink and/or red

The Four Seasons challenge - ATG winter optional mood board

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - red or pink

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.

Love and hugs,

card ingredients:

Pretty Pink Posh - winter mug die set

Funky Fossil Designs - snow is falling stencil

Gina K Designs - graphic tree stamp & die set (for outside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - soft stone ink pad 

Spellbinders - Santa's sippin' sayings stamp (for inside sentiment) - on sale!

Spellbinders - gold smooth disc color essential sequins

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

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

coloured card from scraps bin