CHNC Challenge - Use Your Favourite Embellishments

Happy Sunday Afternoon,

Hazel, over at Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge #127, has asked almost the impossible this week. She has challenged us to use our favourite embellishments ... help! I have so many favourites!

I thought long and hard and finally opted for my favourite die-cut poinsettia flower and a very fine white glitter I found at my local craft shop, it's just perfect for winter scenes. Sadly, it's hard to see in the photos but you can just about see the occasional glint in this enlargement.

This super digi stamp, Nell's Cottage, can be downloaded for free on Beccy's Place blogspot. The cottage looks like the perfect country retreat, don't you think :) It's been coloured with ProMarkers - I tried to give it a well weathered look with several shades of brown and I thought the doors just had to be a cheery red.

Once again, I've reduced the digi to miniature and printed it out on white printer paper to create the insert.

Materials used:

• white Papermania textured cardstock, trimmed to create an A6 size card 
• stamps - Nell's Cottage from Beccy's Place printed out in black, greeting from Hot Of The Press's Magical Christmas set 
• ProMarkers in browns, greens, greys, reds and yellows - too many to list. However, if you would like a list of the colours drop me a line and I'll be happy to provide one 
• ink pad - Archival Jet Black 
• snippets of red and green cardstock for the poinsettia and leaves
• dies - Spellbinders Layered Poinsettia (the two smallest dies) and Marianne Creatables Chinese Rose for the two leaves 
• insert - white printer paper cut to A5 and printed with Nell's cottage reduced in size 
• embellishments - glue pen and fine white glitter; a topaz coloured rhinestone

Apart from submitting to CHNC #127 as already mentioned, I'm also going to submit this card to Hazel's challenge extra:

CHNC Challenge Extra for June - where the challenge is always anything goes as long as it's Christmas

and, of course,

Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground #75 - where all that Di asks is that we use up some of our snippets on our projects ... here it's the poinsettia and leaves that are made from snippets.

I am happy to report that I'm feeling heaps better and Mr Mojo is back - yes! :) I'm off now to watch Barbara Gray's afternoon slot on C&C - she's going to be using alcohol inks, something I keep forgetting I have in my stash. It was the gelli plate this morning - another item I have yet to really put through it's paces. So many lovely crafting techniques to try and so little time :)

Have a lovely afternoon, what's left of it, and take care everyone.

Happy crafting,