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Monday 21 November 2011

MMM #25 - Winter Foliage

Yes, yes and yes - back on familar ground this week with the MAKE my MONDAY challenge.  Suzi B's next Christmas challenge is:

Winter / Christmas Foliage
Holly, Ivy, Snowflakes, Pointsettas - the list is endless just follow a Christmas theme and include some foliage!
I have gone the traditional route and decided to work with holly and mistletoe.  My foliage stamps are from a Papermania plate of clear stamps, I have stamed in Versafine and then coloured with distress inks and water.   These were then painstakingly cut out - I find this quite relaxing!
My Tunisia Bird Cage LR0147 from Marianne Design has been cut using gold mirrir card.  I sanded this down to take off the glare and show the white.  The bird is from a PaperArtsy plate of stamps which I have embossed with claret and gold embossing powder to make it look like a robin.  Machine stitching was added around the Marianne Design Let it Snow papers.  Sentiment and ribbon added.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:-



I have enjoyed making this card ...its one of my favourites to date.  Hope it helps inspire you to play along with us at Make My Monday - I have to say that I love being on this particular design team...thanks ladies!


17 comments:

Suzi B said...

Suze this is fabulous love it all!
Suzi B xx

Aquarius said...

I love this traditional card and all that detailed cutting out has paid off - lovely result

Nigel said...

I'm impressed :)

Lovely card, plenty of detail.

tea_bag said...

fab card very yummy hugs alma xx

Debbie said...

Oooh stunning card and love all the detail you have used. :)
Thanks for sharing with us at The Crafty Pad this week. :)
Debbiex

Craft Addicts - Tracy Evans said...

Lovely Christmas card, I love all the foliage. Tracy x

Mynn xx said...

Oh, this is stunning!!! LOVE the use of two embossing powders for your robin--sheer brilliance!!! Fabulous card! :)

Brenda Brown said...

Superb Suz, great patterns, colours, images and dimension - love it.
luv and hugs {brenda} xoxxo

Fliss said...

A real stunner Suz. Love the background and the bird and cage are fabulous. The foliage looks so beautiful too.
Hugs, Fliss xx

shaz earl said...

Fabulous card

Thanks for joining us at Sparkles hope you will join us again soon. good luck xx

Diane said...

Your card is lovely Suzanne !! Love the warm feel it has and all the fab decoupage !!

thanks for playing along with us this week at The Crafty Pad !!

hugs Diane xx

Basslady said...

wow! what a gorgeous creation!

hugs and kisses from germany,
silvi xoxo

Vicky Hayes said...

This has to be my favourite of your cards ever Suze! I love the weathered-looking bird cage and that gorgeous robin, and the cut out foliage was SO worth it! Vx

Lin said...

Wow I love this. The background paper looks perfect with your gorgeous bird and cage image.

Thanks for joining us at Dream Valley for our stitching challenge.

Lin

Ali Manning said...

Such a pretty card -I love it!

Silvia(Barnie) said...

A wonderful Christmas card.

Juls said...

oooh wow!!! everything about this is just gorgeous!!! Hugs Juls

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