Krafty Chicks challenge #789 - 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. Scarily Christmas is not that far away now so if you haven't started your cards yet this is the perfect opportunity to begin.  Obviously if you have joined in with us since January then it's another card to add to the pile, which really takes the stress off. We hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

I just received the latest kit from Gina K Designs yesterday so it was the perfect excuse to dig out my new goodies.  I made a US A6 sized card (4 1/2" x 6 1/4") and went for a soft lilac colour scheme and lots of bling.  I hope you like it.  

I'm sorry about the photos today; I must have taken 20 photos and they were all awful, my card is so soft and pretty in real life but the photos don't really show it off to it's full potential.  I think I will have to try and find my photo light box and see if that makes a difference!

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

Plus I decorated the inside:

The free gift in the kit was a 3D embossing folder/stencil/die bundle so I used this today.  I began by stencilling the background with a light and medium lilac ink and used the matching die to cut out the ornament.  I probably could have gone a little darker but I wanted it soft and light.  I then used the coordinating 3D embossing folder to emboss the pattern, which looks amazing in real life.  I cut a white panel with a stitched rectangle and also the mat layer from gold mirri card.  I stamped the snowy background onto the white panel using the darker lilac ink.  I die cut the ornament top and 'string' from the gold card.  I adhered the panels together with double sided tape, added the string with liquid glue and the ornament was added over top with foam squares.  I stamped and gold heat embossed the sentiment and cut it out with the coordinating die before adding it above the ornament with foam squares.  I used the lots of dots die and cut out loads of gold dots which I added to the ornament with liquid glue.  I added some scrap white card behind my panel and then this was adhered to my card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I cut another white stitched panel and gold mat layer and adhered them together with double sided tape.  I had some of the ornament background and snowy background left over so added one to the top and one to the bottom of the panel with liquid glue.  Finally I stamped the sentiment in the darker lilac ink before adding the panel to the card base with double sided tape.  

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

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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 supplies:

Gina K Designs - a little something card kit (currently only available as a kit but everything will be available individually at the end of the month)

Gina K Designs - snowy background stamp

Gina K Designs - Master Layouts 17 (for stitched and plain rectangle)

Gina K Designs - O Christmas tree stamp & die set (for sentiments)

Gina K Designs - lots of dots die set (for gold dots)

Gina K Designs - layering ink pads - light lilac & medium lilac

Limetree Crafts - 280gsm silky smooth white card

Versamark - watermark ink pad

Cosmic Shimmer - detail bright gold embossing powder

gold mirri card from stash