My 1st Christmas card for 2014

Well hello and I hope you are having a grand weekend. Sorry for lack of posts but have been doing other things but I do have a card for you today. My first Christmas card of the yearI saw the image last time I was shopping at this etsy shop and new I would ge her at some stage so last week I brought her hehehe.
Now my mojo is playing silly beggars with at the moment and is only here on fleeting visits so it took me a while to design  it and Christmas cards always wear me out for some strange reason instead of keeping them simple I try to put as much into them as I do with other cards but when have quite a few to make that then takes forever (Oh well)
Anyhoo for my card I decided I didn't want to use any christmas papers (I know shock horror how can it be a Christmas card with out Christmas papers)
Here it is

It's another 8 x8" card and the papers are from CraftsUprint and Nothing but freebies I distressed them and inked with festive berries DI then matted onto white distressed card which I went around the edges of with a metallic gold pen

This is the sketch I followed for LO it's the same talented lady that did then image and you can find her here

the image is called pretty winter friends and has been coloured with a mix of pro markers and Créa markers (which I am still getting the hang of)

Red sweater, chilli red, red rooster,

Burgundy, ruby, crimson (clothes)

Light fawn, blush, satin, soft peach (skin)

Warm  grey 1-6 (Créa pens)

 Créa pens 94, 91, 98, 103 (hair)

Then for rabbit and birdie 96, 102, 15, 32,

26, 29, 104

I then glittered all the furry bits of her clothes using an iridescence glitter

The snow flakes are made from dies that were free with magazines I cut them out of thin cardboard then glittered and added a pearl once dry
I made the double fussy bow from dark gold organza ribbon and a bright red satin ribbon all from my stash oh and I also added lace to one of the papers. (nearly forgot about that) To the bow I added a tiny tag I made with 'Merry & Bright' on just for a little something else as I had put the sentiment on the image.
Then to finish off the card I added the insert

using  matching papers from the card I used a digital punch to punch the centre out in a similar style to one of the papers on card, and then I brought the image in to the left hand page with a small sentiment then on the other page a short verse.
So there you have it I think I can say that not using Christmas papers worked well for this card, now I just have another 20 or more to do hahaha
Right I will leave you with another view of the adorable image and a list of challenges I would like to enter it into

http://craftingattheweekend.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG

http://aagwat.blogspot.co.uk/ ATG with a twist shimmer and sparkle (I think she does with all the glitter)

http://polkadoodle.blogspot.ca/2014/10/week-42-christmas-fun-polkadoodles.html

http://christmascardsallyearround.blogspot.co.uk/ embellish it

http://memascrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/october-tic-tac-toe-challenge.html (die cuts , pearls, digi)