Cottonberry Creations: Christmas card

Christmas card

The challenge at Kaboodledoodles http://kaboodledoodles.blogspot.com/ this week is to use torn paper or card. The sponsor for the challenge is Shelly from http://shellysimages.com/ and the prize up for grabs is 3 digi images. I loved the look of this digi stamp by Shelly and decided to keep it quite plain and to make it stand out on my card. I did some distressing around my circle die cut with black chalk. I tried to make it look as though it was night with the chalking and the inner white would represent the brightness of snow. I used torn and distressed paper in the beckground and finished it off with a die cut and embossed edge, some ribbon and embellishments. I really liked the finished effect.

I managed to find a few challenges to enter which are listed below.

http://sukkersott.blogspot.com/ Light in the dark

http://forfunchallenges.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

http://www.bellichallenge.blogspot.com/ Xmas

http://www.dutchdare-cardchallenges.blogspot.com/ Winter

http://frosteddesigns.blogspot.com/ Xmas song inspired ( Pine cones and holly berries )

http://craftyannschallengeblog.blogspot.com/ Anything goes

16 comments:

Kym Weber said...: Very pretty card! Absolutely love the pinecone image! The colors are fabulous! Thanks so much for playing along with us at For Fun Challenges. Hope you’ll be joining us for the next challenge.

~Hugs~Kym; 27 December 2010 at 18:18
Riet said...: What a wonderful card Shirley.

Hugs Riet.x; 27 December 2010 at 18:52
Patricia St Martin said...: I love your card. The pinecones are wonderful. Perfect with the colors. Thanks for joining us at For Fun Challenges. Good luck on the challenge. Happy New Year!
Hugs, Patricia; 27 December 2010 at 19:13
Jill said...: Wow just love those clean lines Shirley and that image is so nice. Jill x; 27 December 2010 at 19:49
Unknown said...: Your card is beautiful! I love the inking around your pinecone image!!

Thanks for playing with us at Frosted Designs!

Love your pet cat too!!; 27 December 2010 at 19:53
shortywithastory said...: This is a beautiful card. Well done! thanks so much for joining us at Frosted Designs. ;); 27 December 2010 at 20:18
Jules said...: Hi Shirley

Love what you have done here.

Gorgeous image, colours and layout.

I hope you had a lovely Christmas.

Love Jules xx; 27 December 2010 at 21:15
Pauline said...: Hi - I love the your colour palette and the details! Thanks for sharing with us at For Fun this week!
hugs and blessings,
Pauline; 27 December 2010 at 23:36
all the days of our life said...: Gorgeous!!!! I Love the colors and pps you used. Thank's for playing with us at Frosted Designs.; 28 December 2010 at 02:16
Helen Dooley said...: how elegant. thanks for sharing with us at ForFun; 28 December 2010 at 06:25
Ann Whitfield said...: Hi Shirley, I'm so glad that you didn't let your firewall not liking my linky too put you off entering. This is a gorgeous card, thank you for joining us at Crafty Ann's
Ann x; 28 December 2010 at 10:50
iReneM said...: This is such a striking and elegant card, Shirley - the B,W & red are such a good choice for this lovely pine cone image
Thank you for sharing it with us at Crafty Ann's

x; 28 December 2010 at 14:41
Maria Matter said...: Beautiful Shirley! what a lovely image!!
Thanks for playing along @ Creative Belli!; 28 December 2010 at 23:19
Ellibelle said...: What a beautiful card Shirley! Love the color theme!!; 29 December 2010 at 06:45
Meretekj said...: Beautiful card.
Thank you for sharing it with us at Sukkersøtt.; 29 December 2010 at 10:54
Nancy said...: This is so beautiful, Shirley:O) Love how the image stands out from your card! Great design, pretty colour combo.
Thank you for joining Sukkersött, good luck!
Hugs, Nancy;O); 2 January 2011 at 14:38