Merry Christmas in July

I’ve had this image, Merry Betty, from Simply B Stamps coloured since Christmas last year but just never got around to getting her on a card.  I was so late with my Christmas presents for friends overseas that I was embarrassed to send them in March so decided I’d send them for the traditional Australian Christmas in July.  Well it’s late June and I only just got the card done on the weekend and the gift in the mail, nearly missed this one too!

I headed over to the 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown site for some inspiration, the current challenge was to use some pearls so I raided my trim stash for some pearl trim and added some pearls to Betty’s hat to cover the spiders (not sure if the Japanese friends this is heading too would appreciate a Steampunk type Christmas card!).  The layout is from the CTMH cardmaking kit the papers are from, it’s good to have all the colouring matching taken care of by professionals and the layout designs help too.  I did make my card larger than the sample though although when it came to paying postage today I did regret that choice!

Ingredients:

Copics

Forgot to write them down :-(

Dies

Spellbinders Nestabilities 5x7 Matting Basics

Spellbinders Nestabilities Deckled Rectangles Large

Embellishments

Kaisercraft Pearls

Papers

CTMH Pear and Partridge collection

Stamps

Simply B Stamps Merry Betty

Stampin’ Up Snow Swirled

Trims

Green Tara Bead Garland Gold

Challenges

52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown – June Embellishment Challenge: Sequins and/or pearls
Simply B Stamps Birthday Celebrations Anything Goes with any Emo

Thanks for stopping by :-)