Guest Designing for 52 Christmas Card Challenge

I'm thrilled to be Guest Designing for Two Different Challenges, but both of them go live on the same day so I have to subject you to two blog posts today!

This one is for 52 Christmas Card Challenge.  This week is a sketch:

Those of you who know me will know that I struggle with sketch challenges!  But I saw this one as a great opportunity to get out some decorative paper.  Here's my card:

I have a drawer full of scraps of decorative papers and the sketch lent itself to using up some small bits.

Steps:

• I started with a white card base, added the paler blue piece (it was almost the perfect size - just had to trim off about 1/4").  
• I had some scraps from a beautiful blue paper that had a border of silver foil snowflakes across one side - I die cut a square out of that that included one whole snowflake and also cut a smaller circle out of the solid blue area.  Heat embossed the sentiment in silver on the circle.
• Cut the next size up of the circle dies out of a scrap of silver foil cs and used it to border the blue circle.
• Cut some tiny snowflakes out of the silver foil cs and added them as the three small banners below the circle in the sketch.

I then spent a very frustrating time photographing the card - anything shiny like the silver foil is so darn hard to photograph.

I'm looking forward to seeing what others do with this sketch over at the 52 Christmas Card Challenge. 

 

Supplies:
Stamps - unknown sentiment
Ink - ColorBox silver
Paper - white cs, various scraps of dp, silver foil (mirri) cs
Size - 5" square
Accessories - Spellbinders square and circle dies, SSS and Cheery Lynn small snowflake dies