Let It Snow

     We want to see Christmas cards this week at The Kraft Journal.  Hope you've gotten a good start on yours already.  That clock is a tickin'!
     My card was created with a Brown Kraft cardstock base, matted with Buff Ivory.  I've used designer papers from Lily Bee Designs. 
     I've never tried to make a card like this before.  It may be hard to tell in the top photo, but the center circle has been removed from the front piece of the card and the image is attached to the inside of the card base.  Here's a side view.

     I cut a scalloped circle of the Buff Ivory to go around the opening and frame the image.  For embellishments I used some Jenni Bowlin banner chipboard pieces which I covered in DP and added puffy paint to for a snow effect.  I also used the paint around the circular opening.  The banner pieces are threaded on Red Baker's Twine.  The snowflakes were punched from glittered paper and attached to the card with glittered snowflake brads.  I used a White Round Metal Edge tag for the sentiment and added a Christmas Epoxy brad through the tag hole.      James the bear was the first image I colored when I started playing with my distress inks and he's just been biding his time for me to put him on his own card.
    I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges: 

Craft Your Passion--anything holiday or winter related
Hooked on Craft--Winter wonderland
My Craft Spot--Christmas through the window
Ooh-La-La Creations--lots of sparkle
Addicted to Stamps--Christmas card
Fashionable Stamping Challenge--I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
2 Sisters--holiday
Allsorts--pennants or bunting
Stamp, Scrap, and Doodle Saturdays--red, green, kraft, white/cream
Phindy's Place--a sprinkling of snow
The Poodles Parlour--Christmas
Totally Papercrafts--Christmas
4 Crafty Chicks--snowflakes
The House That Stamps Built/Designers Choice Challenge--snowflakes
Scrapbook Sisters--Christmas Time
Everybody-Art-Challenge--Christmas card
Oldie but a Goodie--let it snow
Party Time Tuesdays--snow us what you got
The Outlawz POM--anything goes

     Hope you can play along with this week's challenge and hopefully get another one of your Christmas cards done and ready to go out.  You just might win your own little Christmas present if you're our lucky monthly winner of the $15.00 store voucher to Kraft Outlet.
Blessings,


Kraft Outlet Supplies


Brown Kraft Cover Weight cardstock
Buff Ivory Cover Weight cardstock
Red Bakers Twine
Jenni Bowlin Chipboard banner pieces
White Round Edge Metal Tag
Christmas Epoxy brad


Other Supplies


Paper:  Lilybee Design, Colorbok glitter paper
Stamp:  Lili of the Valley "James the Bear In the Snow", Papertrey Ink Mixed Messages
Ink:  Distress inks, Marvy Uchida white gel pen
Tools:  Nestabilities Standard Circles large (S4-114) and Classic Scalloped Circles Large (S4-124), Martha Stewart snowflake punches and Cherish edge punch
Miscellaneous:  snowflake brads and glitter from my stash, Tulip puffy paint