Pink Christmas

 Happy Thursday!  I have the honor of being a Guest Designer for the Krafty Chicks Challenge for the month of February!  

This week, the challenge is:

Christmas

And here is my card:

Every year, I think it is such a same to throw out all the beautiful Christmas cards we receive in the mail, so I save them, thinking I will do something with them.  After a while, I decide I won't and I throw them away.  Well, this year, I actually decided to recycle them.  I created a post a couple weeks ago that showed 3 cards I had created out of pieces from one commercial card.  This card was also created from a card I received (though this time, I used all the elements that could be reused).  I die cut out the sentiment and matted it on red cardstock.  I found some card stock that coordinated with colors in the trees that I fussy cut out.  To keep the background from being too plain, I embossed the pink layer with a snowflake embossing folder before adhering it to the teal card base.  The sentiment and baubles on some of the trees are glittery, so in real life this is quite sparkly and shiny with the red sparkle and the gold element.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Dies: MFT "Blueprints 12" stitched rectangle (it only has stitching on one side, so I ran it through my die cutting machine again after flipping the die around so it would have stitching on both top and bottom of my sentiment panel)

Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder

Challenges:

Sparkles Christmas challenge #133--use some gold (gold on "Merry" and on elements on the trees)

Die Cut Divas--angle it

Creative Fingers Challenge #224--anything goes

Crafty Calendar--anything goes

Christmas Kickstart #59--sentiment takes center stage

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #175--anything goes

Peace On Earth #9--anything Christmas goes with the optional challenge of this mood board (I used the color pink and Christmas trees)