Christmas Botanicals

Over at The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up it is the Merry Maidens turn to showcase some fabulous Christmas cards.

The optional Twist for this challenge is "Blooming Botanicals" inspired by the prize paper pack on offer for the winner Christmas Botanicals designed by Decosse's Dynamite Doodles. 

If you want the chance to win this month's featured paper pack, be sure to create a card that features any type of Christmas FLOWER or GREENERY such as pine boughs, poinsettias, holly and berries, Christmas Cactus, wreaths, etc. 

This month we are sponsored by Beccy's Place. Beccy has a huge selection of digital images in her store and is also extremely generous with offering lots of free images for you to download. I absolutely love Beccy's images :)

For my card I have used one of the freebies Berry Wreath. I have coloured it with Promarkers, red glitter gel pen and a gold gel pen for the ribbon.

As I don't have access to a colour printer at the moment I have scanned in the image and used it to make a digital card.

I use a program called Affinity Photo on the Mac and created an A5 portrait card. The base layer is Deck the Halls from Holiday Hoopla Patterned Papers 1 by Decosse's Dynamite Doodles.

Layer 2 is Holly Berries from Holiday Hoopla Patterned Papers 2 also by Decosse's Dynamite Doodles.

The stamped image has been layered on a plain green circle layer. The sentiment is from Holiday Hoopla Wordart by Decosse's Dynamite Doodles. I have split it into 2 separate words so it would fit better inside the wreath.

The snowflake border is from an old set Snow Much Fun from Decosse's Dynamite Doodles. I have re-coloured it in red to suit the colour of the image. Finally the last element is a flower that I have coloured in gold to co-ordinate with the ribbon.

I do hope you will take part in our challenge and look forward to seeing your creations.

Digital Supplies Used :  

Image :  Berry Wreath Freebie from Beccy's Place

Coloured with Promarkers & Sakura Red Glitter Pen & Pentel Gold Gel Pen

Papers - Holiday Hoopla Patterned Papers pack 1 & 2 from Decosse's Dynamite Doodles

Embellishment - Glitter Edge Snowflake from Snow Much Fun - Decosse's Dynamite Doodles

Sentiment - Holiday Hoopla Word Art from Decosse's Dynamite Doodles

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

• 613 Avenue Create – #232 Anything Goes
• A Bit More Time To Craft - #114 Anything Goes
• All Fun Challenges - #6 Anything Goes
• Angie’s Digital Stamps - #41 Anything Goes
• Arty Divas - #19 Anything Goes
• Beccy’s Place - Anything Goes with Option of Flower or Foliage
• CD Sunday Plus - # 33 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - #4 Anything Goes
• Corrosive Challenge - #4 Anything Goes
• Crafter’s Castle - #28 Anything Goes
• Crafts Galore Encore – #74 Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz - #501 Anything Goes
• Crafty Creations  – #408 Anything Goes
• Crafty Friends - #133 Anything Goes
• Crafty Hazelnut’s Christmas Challenge - #485 Anything Goes
• Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
• Crimbo Crackers - #208 Sentiments
• Digi Choosday - #15 Anything Goes 
• Gem of A Challenge - #8 Anything Goes
• Ike’s World Challenge - #131 Anything Goes
• Jan’s Digi Stamps - #11 Anything Goes
• Outlawz Festive Fridays – Christmas
• {Pin}spirational - #260 Green & red colours from image as inspiration
• Polkadoodles - #15 Anything Goes
• QKR Stampede – #393 Anything Goes
• Stamper’s Delights – Anything Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
• Through The Purple Haze - #166 Anything Goes
• Your Scrapbook Place - Anything Goes
• World Wide Open Design Team Challenge - #04 Anything Goes