Christmas elf

My quest to make a couple of Christmas cards each month continues. This card uses a sweet image from Mo's Digital Pencil along with an interesting folded frame that I found on a challenge site. You can find the tutorial here.

I used a double-sided paper from my scrap bin for the frame but the larger backing paper is from Basic Grey. If you were looking at the entire sheet, you would see that the letters Christmas are spelled out using lines of tiny text. Of course I wasn't thinking and cut the paper the wrong way so the lines of text are running vertically. Well, at least the text is so small that it isn't obvious!

After colouring the little elf, I added some white fun flock to the pom poms and hat brim. There are also some gold Stickles on the bell at the end of his hat. I contemplated adding Glossy Accents to the candy cane but decided against it because I worried that the shine would look too splashy for such a vintage/muted card.

I used a sketch from Pixie Cottage although I have to admit to leaving out the corner adornments. I tried a lot of different things but they all just looked too busy. Probably should have made the card square so that there would've been room. Even without, I quite like this card. It's simple but interesting. And the folded frame gives it great dimension.


Challenges:

• ABC Christmas Challenge - use a digi, 2 patterned papers and 2 or more embellishments
• Cards For Men - MASCULINE and a Recipe: 1 Image, 2 Design Papers, 3 Embellishments (I used brads, ribbon and fun flock)
• Catch The Bug - different fold
• Christmas Inspirations - Christmas
• Do You Stack Up? - dots
• Fairy Fun Fridays - use fine print (the large pp has text forming the pattern)
• Karber Christmas - use a digital stamp
• Pixie Cottage - Sketch