Christmas Magic

I woke up this morning wanting to make a Christmas card. I looked 

online and found this sketch at 52 (Christmas)Card Throwdown and 

knew right away what I wanted to do. It paired perfectly with the 

challenge at Less is More to use jewel colors. I chose to use blues as they reminded me of the blue topaz jewelry my sis-in-law's mom 

always wore.

You know when you make a card and you love it so much that you 

want to share it with everyone - well that's how I feel about this one.

It's so simple, yet there's still so much going on! I lucked out with the

weather today and was able to take the picture outside with the sun

bringing the glitter from the Wink of Stella glitter pen and the sequins

to life.

My card is not completely true to the sketch but it's close. I moved the 

sentiment up and added sequins to draw the eye down to where the

sentiment was originally intended to go. 

I used the Simon Says Stitched Circle Dies finally. I've had them for at

least a month but for whatever reason I forgot about them until today???

I love the little extra detail the stitching gives to the card - there's two

rows of stitching - one on the circle piece itself and one on the piece the

circle is cut from (I hope that makes sense). I sponged the

circle piece with some Tim Holtz distress inks (peacock feathers,

salty ocean, broken china and chipped sapphire) and then decided to do 

the inlaid die-cutting technique - again :) 

The deer image is from the Stampin' Up's Jolly Christmas stamp set. 

I've made a few cards with this set and will be sharing them with you

soon.

Happy Stampin'

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