Noel

Happy Friday!!!  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.  This week, the challenge is: Add Embellishments

Here is my card for your inspiration:

It's getting chilly, so I'm in the mood for Christmas!!  Actually, my cats knocked over a box of stuff on one of my work stations a while ago and I just got around to picking the things up this week.  Most of the stuff was Christmas cards that were waiting to be recycled and there were also these metals letter stickers (which I have had so long that the adhesive has dried up!)

Anyway, I picked a card with this pretty little cardinal couple and decided to create a card around them.  After picking my papers and matting them with a blue cardstock that pulled out the blue in the scarf, I added some metal letters with glue and then added my embellishments.  I consider the letters as embellishments since they add a great bit of texture and were something I had to glue on.  I also added a bunch of (previously die cut) holographic snowflakes and little dots (that are kind of like enamel dots, but flat) to add interest and I finished it off with a die cut snowflake border that someone had given me years and years ago after I commented how pretty their's was.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the Cut It Up blog for the full details of the challenge and to see what the rest of the Design Team has created. 

Supplies:

Dies: PaperTrey Ink "Snow Globe" snowflakes and dots; the snowflake border is either from Memory Box or Whimsy Stamps (again, it was a gift)

Challenges:

ABC Christmas--U is for unusual Christmas colors and V is for velvet (I chose unusual Christmas colors of blue and grey)

Die Cut Divas--anything goes for World Card Making Day

Crafty Calendar--anything goes

Christmas with the Cuties--feature a creature

Triple B--anything goes with the optional twist: crimson (my cardinals are crimson colored)

Little Patch of Crafty Friends #239--anything goes

Fab n' Funky #602--Fur or feathers (feathers for this one)

Word Art Wednesday #670--anything goes with uplifting sentiment

Creative Knockouts #532--use your favorite embellishments (I love to embellish using die cuts, specially small ones.  They add interest but no bulk, so perfect for mailing)

Tuesday Morning Sketches #778--sketch (I turned the sketch on it's side)