Morning and welcome to the start of another week ...

Morning peeps,

Hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was quite creative on the Christmas card front! I am LOVING these little 10cm square cards and have another to share with you this morning. A pal set a challenge of "festive birds" and I couldn't resist cracking the seal on my Sparkle 'n Sprinkle set once more after all, it's been a while .....

My card

And a closer view of the doodled borders and "snowflakes"

The front and back of my card and reverse of my envelope

The inside of my card and front of my envelope

Materials used:

• 10cm square, white,250gsm card blank and matching sized envelope
• Two pieces of white card, cut to 9 and 9½cm square
• One piece of red card cut to 9½cm square
• Sparkle 'n Sprinkle crows stamped using Ranger Archival jet black ink
• Copic Atyou Spica glitter pens in black and red to add a touch of colour and twinkle
• My Favourite Things "snowflakes" stamped using Ranger Archival jet black
• White gel pen used to doodle border on red matting layer
• Black Faber Castell pitt pen used to doodle border on white image panel and insert
• Stardust stickles used to highlight the stars, pom poms and "snow"

I'll be entering the above for the following challenges:-

1. Craftbubble2½ (membership required) - Rudolph Day Challenge - FESTIVE BIRDS
2. Weekly Christmas card challenge - challenge No. 42 - ANYTHING (Christmas) GOES
3. Dragonfly journey - challenge No. 75 - SHAKE YOUR TAIL FEATHER (or, in this case 5 sets of tail feathers!!)
4. Lil Patch of crafty friends - challenge No. 42 - ANYTHING GOES
5. Take a word challenge - September 25th challenge - HEADGEAR .. crows in hats - CHECK!

Have a great week all