Christmas Friends!!

HAPPY WINTER EVERYONE~~~Meet DD Christmas Belle and PB Christmas Mouse! We are having a humongo snowstorm here in NE Wisconsin~~12+ inches. Snowday for me means time for work and of course time for play :D

CHALLENGE ENTRIES:
MMSC31: Follow a sketch
Penny Black: Week 78 Christmas for the Girls!
Simon Says: Let It Snow!
Stamp Something: Glitzy Something!
Cuttlebug Spot: Christmas Gift
Lexi's Creations: A Shaped Card
Whimsy Stamps: Use Die Cuts
Creatalicious: Christmas using snowflakes and lots of sparkle/glitter
Just Magnolia:  Make a card for someone special! I used Magnolia Snowy circle on ornament!!

Today I chose to do an Easel Card. Wow it really was fun and easy! This is the front or top of the card which I used the sketch from MMSC31

Close up of images: Christmas Belle from Digital Doodling and Christmas Mouse from PB Holly Jolly Collection. Colored both with copics and used pearly sparkle jelly glitter on Belle's muff and coat as well as mouse's hat. Crystal lace stickles used on Belle's skates and X-mas red and green stickles used on holly in her hair and the present mouse is offering her. Added stardust stickles to outline image :-) Secured with ribbon. Mouse is popped up with foam tape for dimension and if you look close at font view you can actually see his shadow when I took picture.

Below is a full view of my easel card and the ornament I made to go with the card that I will be giving to a friend for christmas! The ornament is a piece of round chipboard covered with Archiver's cardstock in green and Layered with a stamped image of Magnolia's Snowy Circle glistened with stardust and crystal stickles.  You can barely see it but I dobbered Soft blue ink onto the white snowy circle also.  Belle is slightly smaller in size than on the card but colored and jazzed up the same way :)  Belle is popped up with foam tape.  Threaded the ornament with the same ribbon I used on the card and secured with a metal snowflake slide!! 

Below is the bottom or inside view of card.  BG Eskimo Kisses dp used again (reverse side).  Sentiment punched with SU sizzlets tag and popped up with foam tape for dimension and secured with ribbon.  Added the holly leaf border on bottom as finished follow through :D

Side view of my very first easel card!!!! Very satisfied with results :-)

GOD BLESS

MARY LOU

Mrs. Tilly Claus

Hope you all had a Great Thanksgiving!!! I had tons of FUN making this card :D

Challenges:
Digital Doodling #2~~ Use freebie digi image, glittery and sketch from existing challenge Dec 7
Creatalicious #4~~ Christmas including lots of snowflakes and sparkle/glitter (Dec 15)Create4Fun Week 47~~ Sketch below (Nov 28)
Lexi's Creations #1~~ Use blue and silver (Dec 14)
Charisma Cardz ~~ Anything Christmas (Dec 3) Meet Mrs Tilly Claus!! Thank You Wendy for the freebie Image~~absolutely adorable!! Started with Brown Cardstock and used lighter brown for matting. Sponged edges of matting with Tim Holtz tea dye ink. Finished corners using SU ticket corner punch and pierced the matting. The dp was from my daughter~~ added sparkly ribbon and pearls and rhinestones onto the snowflakes.
Close up of Mrs. Tilly. Colored her with copics. Used pearly sparkle gelly glitter on muff and cuffs of coat. Topped buttons and holly leaves and snowballs with stardust stickles. Polar white flower soft for ground snow :-) Outlined matting with stardust stickles also.
Here are the gorgeous snowflakes!! In person they really really sparkle!! They have 3 layers~~used MS snowflake punches and added diamond stickles to the white snowflakes. There are also silver snowflakes using foil paper (hard to see) along with a snowflake crystal topped with a blue rhinestone or a pearl. Added christmas branches using MS punch with dp and foil papers.
Sentiment from SU Teeny Tiny Wishes on dp with matting finished with tea dye ink and stardust stickles. Added snowflakes and christmas branches for a polished look :D
Another view trying to capture the true sparkle and glitz!!!!
Recipe:
Stamps: Digital doodling digi image~~Mrs. Tilly Claus and SU Teeny Tiny Wishes Ink: Copics and Tim Holtz Tea dye distress ink Paper: SU, DCWV matstack and AC Specialty Foil paper Tools: Computer digi, MS branch and snowflake punches, Spellbinders pierceabilities scallopped border, SU ticket corner punch and piercing tool Embellishments: pearly sparkle gelly glitter, Polar white flower soft, stardust stickles, rhinestones, pearls, ribbon and crystal snowflakes