Holy Night

Well, here it is mid-November and I'm here with my mid-month inspiration for Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra.  You can enter any project as long as it is Christmas related and you still have two weeks to play along.  Here is my card:

I love this gorgeous poinsettia frame and had it all colored up before I really thought about what I was going to do with the rest of the card.  Kind of one of those "now what do I do" moments.  I fussy cut around the whole image and still wasn't sure what I was going to do for the background.  But then I thought about heat embossing with gold powder to match the gold on the flowers and ribbon, and I really like how it turned out with this music background.  Added a bit of red ribbon and colored some white pearls with my gold paint pen and voila! it's done!  I hope you will play along with us this month.  It's only a couple weeks until Christmas now!

Challenges:
Sparkles Christmas Challenge--Christmas decorations (poinsettias & ribbon)
Vintage Stamping Challenge #38--traditional Christmas
Cas-ual Fridays #145--precious metals (gold embossing powder and pearls)
Unicorn Challenge #3--Christmas is coming
Aud Sentiments #144--bingo (I used the diagonal row: embossing, stamp or digi, die cuts)
Lacy Sunshine #71--bingo (I used the row colored image, die cuts, digi)
Holly Jolly--ribbons & pearls
Fab n Funky #281--CAS
Addicted To Stamps #170--inspiration photo

Penny's Paper #253--use 3 of something (2 sets of 3 pearls)
Little Miss Muffet #124--anything goes
C.R.A.F.T. #337--Christmas
Christmas Stampin' All Year Long #60--anything goes
Brown Sugar #172--no patterned paper
Jo's Scrap Shack #114--anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #233--red & green must be seen
Wags 'n Whiskers #166--embossing

Supplies:

Stamps: Verve "Peace on Earth" sentiment; Floppy Latte Designs: Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet "Poinsettia Frame"; Hero Arts musical score background stamp

Dies: MFT "Blueprints 13"