Krafty Chicks challenge #776 - Christmas

Good morning lovely friends, I appreciate you stopping by and I hope you're all doing ok. 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. Another card to add to the Christmas pile, which really takes the stress off later in the year. We hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

I recently discovered some gingerbread men that I die cut and assembled last year so I thought I would use a couple on this week's card.  Isn't it great when you find things you forgot about and they are ready to use.   I hope you like today's card.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the gingerbread man:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I am obsessed with Master Layouts 14 and 01 combo at the moment and seem to be using them on every card so it's no surprise that I used them on today's card too.  I cut the stitched rectangle from ML 14 from some houndstooth patterned paper and the plain mat layer from ML 1 from red card and adhered them together with double sided tape.  I die cut a large snowflake from white card and adhered that onto the right side of the panel with liquid glue.  I added foam squares behind the gingerbread man and added him onto the centre of the snowflake.  I stamped and white heat embossed a simple sentiment onto a scrap of the red card and cut it out with a sentiment strip die.  I added that to the left of gingerbread man with foam squares.  I finished off by adding some red sequins onto the snowflake.  I added some scrap white card behind the panel and then adhered it to my card base.  For the inside I die cut a white panel and red mat layer and adhered them together with double sided tape.  I also added a strip of the patterned paper to the very bottom with liquid glue.  I added another gingerbread man to the lower left corner and stamped my sentiment along the top of the paper with black ink.  The panel was adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  

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

The 12 months of Christmas Link Up challenge - ATG Christmas

613 Avenue challenge - ATG optional twist any holiday

Aud Sentiments challenge - tags and/or Christmas + sentiment 

Christmas (or not) BINGO challenge - Line B - Christmas, brown, free

Craft Rocket challenge - Christmas in July

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - fill in the blank....Christmas in July 

Daisy Chain challenge - Christmas in July 

Everybody Art challenge - Christmas in June

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - Christmas in July

Little Red Wagon challenge - Christmas in July

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Peace On Earth Christmas challenge - anything Christmas themed optional mood board

Sweet Stampin' challenge - Christmas in July

Unicorn challenge - Christmas in July 

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:

Spellbinders - stocking full of joy die set (? retired)

Spellbinders - scarlet smooth disc color essentials sequins 

Funky Fossil Designs - folk snowflake die

Gina K Designs - merry sentiment strips - (? no longer available)

Gina K Designs - sentiment strips dies

Clearly Besotted Stamps - simply said Christmas (retired)

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card - not currently available - but they do have 280gsm silky smooth white card available here

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

WOW! -  opaque bright white super fine embossing powder

DCWV - 8x8 The Natural Stack printed cardstock pack (no longer available)

red card from my stash