Wing your flight o'er all the earth

It’s sketch challenge time over at Outlawz and my card today features Angel from this month’s sponsor, Polkadoodles.

And here’s this week’s sketch.

As the image I chose was an angel I figured I’d make a Christmas card, something I always leave to the last minute!  It’s hard to tell in the photo but to add some sparkle to the angel I used Twinkling H2O’s and Glamour Dust on her wings.  I wanted the ornament to shine also so I outlined it with a Gold Gelato, the rich colour doesn’t show so well in the photo, and also sprinkled on some white Fran-tage, also difficult to see in the photo.  The lace accents were the perfect shape, they are actually two thirds of the actual piece of lace, I cut out the middle section as it was just too much for the card.  It’s a beautiful lace though and one of the many laces I received as a gift from two special friends while on my big American adventure.

I love my embellies and dug deep into my stash for the ones on my card, I knew I had Christmas themed ones somewhere, just had to find them, including the holly and berry buttons.  I find the shank on the buttons mean they are hard to adhere to a card so I cut them off with pliers so hopefully that doesn’t mean I’ve cut off my chance to enter the current Brown Sugar challenge.

With my Christmas theme and embellies I’m also entering this in the current challenge over at Christmas Cards All Year ’Round.  And, as I am using a Polkadoodles’ image (although a now retired one), I’m also linking this up at Polkadoodles where they also have a Christmas challenge going on.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E000, E00, E11, E21 (E02 cheeks)

Eyes BG01

Hair Y00, Y13, Y15, Y17

Outfit C00, N0, N1, N2, Y21, Y23, Y26, Y28

Chalks & Powders etc

DecoArt ~ Glamour Dust

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Chunky White

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ 2012 Heirloom Ornaments

Embellishments

Creative Memories Stickers ~ Enchanted

Holly and Berry Buttons from stash

Poinsettia Paper Bloom from stash

Inks & Paints etc

Faber-Castell Gelato ~ Gold

Spica ~ Gold

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Pine Needles

Twinkling H2O’s ~ African Jade

Papers

BoBunny Silver & Gold ~ Festivities

Kaisercraft Cardstock ~ Scarlet

Ribbons & Trims etc

Red Velvet Ribbon from stash

White Lace from stash

Stamps

Polkadoodles ~ Angel (retired)

Challenges

Brown Sugar #116 ~ Ribbon & Buttons

Christmas Cards All Year ’Round ~ Embellish It!

Polkadoodles #42 ~ Christmas Fun

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Monster Candy

Today’s offering features an image from this year’s Jude and the Rockers’ Halloween collection from Simply B Stamps, meet the adorable Jude-stein.

I’m on a bit of a Jude roll at the moment, I haven’t coloured many of these little cuties but am making up for it this month!  I’m also on an ATC journey as I scramble to finish my Halloween album on time for this year’s Halloween!  This ATC will feature in another layout of the album.

To make up my ATC I followed the current sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches.  The album is meant for a little boy who’s only just started in our preschool so I hope it is more cute than scary, which also makes this just right for the current challenge at Party Time Tuesday.  Being an ATC, I’m also linking this project at Craft-room Challenge.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E50, E51, E53, YG41 (cheeks R02)

Eyes E29, E37, 0

Hair & Shoes T3, T5, T7, 100

Shirt & Shoe Soles W00, W1, W3

Pants B91, B93, B95, B97, B99

Embellishments

Jesse James Dress It Up Buttons – Trick or Treat

Inks & Paints etc

Gelatos – Gold Champagne & Silver Ice

Wink of Stella – Blue,  Clear, Green, Orange, Pink & Purple

Papers

DCWV Witches’ Brew

Kaisercraft Cardstock – Black

Stamps

Simply B Stamps Jude-stein

Challenges

Craft-room Challenge – ATCs

Party Time Tuesday #140 – Spooky Little Monsters

Tuesday Morning Sketches #218

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