Pastel Winter Wishes

Here's a card I made a while ago but haven't gotten around to sharing with you. The stamp is by Nellie's Choice called sharing a present - I don't think they are available anymore but there are similar designs at Funky Kits/Sugar Nellie.

I've coloured her with my Copics and added touches of glitter, then cut her out with one of the dies in Marianne Design set LRO279 - Petra's Ornaments. I must admit that it is a die set that I rarely use, I got it because I loved the samples that I saw .. .. but then it's stuck at the back of the box.  This is the plainer backing die I've used here, and I think works and gives a bit of added interest without having to do lots of matting and layering.  What do you think?

Here's the card so you can see better:

It's another 5"x7" in landscape and I've used a rather busy paper matted with plain green card then kept embellishments to a minimum in the hope it'll go through the narrow post slot.  The ric rac is the last sparkly bit in my stash so I will have to look out for some more, then I've die cut the trees, holly sprays and flowers, and finished off with lots of pink gems. Oh, and I nearly forgot the little die cut bow, it and the flowers are cut from pearl paper so have some shimmer to them too.

The Marianne Design dies I used to embellish this card were:

trees - LR0136

holly spray - LR0244

flowers - CR1202

little bow - LR0328

I am still feeling very under the weather, just can't seem to shift the cough and now have what seems like a second head cold starting up .. .. really I need a holiday but that ain't going to happen.  So far my almost obsessive hand washing has saved Mum from the bugs, but it's hard work looking after someone 24/7 when you aren't feeling on form.  The housework has gone by the by .. .. and so has the garden although I have managed to dead head the roses as it's been lovely and sunny here in Cornwall - just wish I could enjoy it more.

Righteo, I have found a couple of challenges I can enter with my card, Fab 'n' Funky is anything Christmas, and at Die Cutting Divas it's anything goes. Oh! and Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge theme is 'stick it down' - yep, it's all stuck down!

Thank you for stopping by to take a peek, I hope you will come back again!