Beccy's Place runs a month of Holiday Cards challenge throughout November. Most days are a prompt with the letter of the alphabet but as there are only 26 then we get a random prompt too.
The prompt for Day 27 is X - My card is X for Xmas
Right, I have to be honest and say I really, really dislike the word Xmas.
I am not religious in any way so the whole Christ in Christmas thing is not something I really think about. For those that do fine, but not for me.
However, Xmas to me is like text speak which I definitely don't do. I would never write it in a card to someone, Christmas is Christmas. It always was for me as a child and it always will be.
I didn't have any cross stitch to make a card with this year and other than xxx for kisses I could not think of another X. I was rifling through a bag of assorted sentiments I had rescued from a recycling death and found this lovely glittery Xmas and knew that could be my X.
A few days ago Beccy announced a random challenge of Black, White plus one colour and I nearly used it for that as this is pretty much what this card ended up being.
The dimensions of the sentiment made it quite difficult to place on a normal card shape so I opted for a DL card. I don't make them often but once I got my things together it only took me about 15 minutes to make this card.
The card base was covered with a thin black card. I used a lovely monochrome snowflake paper as the background. The sentiment was matted onto a scrap of silver holographic star cardstock left over from another project.
I went through my crafty stuff and had intended to add some glittery snowflakes but came across these cute snowmen stickers which are semi clear, full of glitter and sparkly gems and they are perfect and quite masculine.
Card Details -
Size - DL
Designer Paper - Merry Christmas Icy (Craft Sensations)
Embellishments - Glitter snowmen stickers (The Works)
I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)
Beccy’s Place Challenges - Month of Holiday Cards Day 27 - X is for Xmas
Beautiful monochrome card Mandy, I don't like the word Xmas either and same reason really
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I’m totally with you on the “Xmas” Mandy, but it sure does come in handy for the X-prompt! The little snowmen you added are adorable and the slimline design looks great!
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Beccy