Christmas Card Challenges #2

Hey Everyone I am so happy to be back with you again.  With Christmas just around the corner I haven't been on here that often and for that I truly do apologize.  I will do my best to get at least another card posted this week, but I make no promises.  I hope that you are all enjoying this beautiful season and that you are getting a chance to spend some time with your loved ones and friends.  

This week the challenge at Christmas Card Challenges is a photo challenge.

I would love to see you join us and play along with the Design Team for this challenge.  You can find a link to the challenge at the top of this post.  

For this challenge I tossed around the idea of 2 images that I had that I knew would work perfectly for this.  I finally settled on one and decided that I was going to make this card in Non-traditional colours.  For those of you who follow my blog you can see that I usually LOVE to stick to traditional colours, but I thought changing it up would be a challenge for myself too.  

I started with colouring the image, and then selected pattern papers to go along with it.  I also figured out the card layout after choosing the pattern papers.

Here's the image that I used on the card...

Here's the front view of my card...

Here's the side view of my card...

Supplies Used

Paper Trimmer -  used for cutting various layers to the card
Tim Holtz Scissors - used to trim the sentiment down and the black boarder on the card.
Bone Folder - used to help fold and crease the spine of the card base
Double Sided Tape - used for attaching all the layers together
Mono Multi Glue - used to attach the sentiment to the card
Quickie Glue -  used to attach the fine glitter to the card
Tweezers - used to help position various parts of the card and the sprinkles.
Stamp Press  - used to attach the stamps to and stamp the image and sentiment
MFT Black Ink - used to stamp the image in
Stamping Bella - Signin So Beautiful stamps - used for the image and the sentiment
Close to My Heart Boarders - inked these boarders up with MFT Black ink
Loose Glitter -  used on the cats hats, and the bells on the cat's collar
Cuttlebug Machine -  used with the dies to cut out the image and the sentiment
Spellbinders - Label Twenty Two Die - used to cut out the main image
Fishtail Flag Die - used to cut out the sentient for this card
Doodle Bug Sprinkles - used for the white and red embellishments
Prisma Colour Pencil Crayons - colouring medium used for the cats
Gamsol - solution used with the blending stumps to smooth and blend the pencil crayons
Blending Stumps - used with the gambol to smooth out the pencil crayons and blend colours
Embossing Powder - Detailed Fine White - used on the sentiment
Powder Tool -  used to prevent the embossing powder to sticking to undesired places
Clear Embossing Ink - used to stamp the sentiment in
Heat Tool - used to melt the embossing powder for the sentiment
White Cardstock - used for the card base
Watercolour Paper - paper that the image is stamped on to help with colouring
Red Plaid Paper - for the background on the card - I cannot find an exact link, however I've linked to similar papers.
Music Paper - used for the boarder along the edge of the card - I cannot find an exact link, however I've linked to similar papers and products.
Black Paper -  used to stamp the sentiment on


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