My first Christmas card this year!!!!

Happy Saturday to you all!

I've finally made my first Xmas card this year.  It's a CAS styled card and it's ok for the start... to see if I finally get the mood for Xmas... 'cause every time I start, my project evolves to something else... LOL!

So, I'm entering this one to the C4C current challenge which is about using a bow in your project.  Label is C4C164.  I've been thinking for a while on using a little felt bow in a project.  I actually had other ideas in mind... more towards birthday banner in a card... which I probably will put in practice in future projects... but when I started to make the card, the idea evolved and ended up making a Christmas card.

Well... sometimes it's the mood, or whatever is called in our minds that set the  path of creativity.  But as I mentioned,  I needed to start making some Xmas cards anyway...

I also used a winged friend and I will share this card with the Outlawz CAS challenge group.

The bow was made cutting a 1"x 1 3/4" rectangle, sewing the center and tying with a felt strip.  I thought of also using a button in the center but went with a more delicate touch with the strip.

The stamp is from The Angel Company.  It's a stamp I've had for a while.

Patterned paper is from DCWV (It's Cafe Mediterranean collection... nothing to do with Christmas... that's why I used it for this card... LOL).

Hope you liked my card... and now I can finally say I made a Christmas card this year.  :)

Playing with Chalk

I played with chalk again.  I usually don't paint with chalk but I'm trying to use all the tools I have and chalk is one of those I don't use that much.  So, I'm taking advantage of the Chalk N' Stock challenges to make me practice. 

The challenge this month is with the "get well" theme.  People associate sunflowers with this theme so I went with the flow and worked with this stamp from Unity, that I hadn't used before.

I colored the image with chalk, and then cover with a mask and color the surroundings with chalk too.  

So I ended up with the image and a nice soft chalky background.

I used the image to make a card and followed this sketch from Crazy 4 Challenges.  I've never participated with C4C before (not that I remember)... but always receive the updates and get inspiration from others' work.  So this time I decided to submit my card.

And this is the card.

After I made it I felt it had too much "air" or empty space in the blue background, so I used some sand paper to rough it out and painted with more chalk and stamped dots in the areas for a final touch.

The butterflies stamp is from TAC, and the sentiment stamp from Inkadinkado.

I really hope you liked my card.

Thanks for your comments.

Happy Sunday.