4 more sleeps

There are just 4 more sleeps until the Man in the red suit comes down the chimney. I just love the final few days of the countdown to Christmas. It is also the first day of Winter.
The house is looking very festive and I have been sent some more photos of elf
misbehaviour in my daughter's household. Daisy, my 3 year old granddaughter is loving this! They must have got out the Cheerios in the night 😉

I am here today to share my 2nd DT piece for Country View Challenges where our theme is Christmas. All the details can be found here.
For my 1 December post I shared this card made using one of my favourite ever Christmas stamps by Stampendous. I love the way it looks like a vintage post card.

Today I am using the same stamp but giving my card a very different feel.

This time I coloured some of the image and then added lots of Vintage Photo distress ink to give a very vintage feel. I tore the edges.
I also tore a page from my trusty Tale of 2 cities paperback.

 I added more ink.

 I die cut some greenery using Tim's winter greens die and a Marianne pine branch die.

Then I put on my creative hat to put together my snowy scene, adding a couple of pops of red.

Here it is.

I love how one stamp can make such different cards. The sentiment is LOTV. The bauble is a stamp and die set by Tim Holtz.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

A vintage journey winter magic

Emerald  Creek Dare Winter Wishes

Fashionable Stamping 1/3 anything goes

Mixed media world winter wonderland

Fussy and fancy 2/3 angels/fairies or winter

The Ribbon Girl 1/3 any image

Happy Little stampers anything goes with dies

Crafty card makers 2/3 Christmas with a twist

Deep Ocean silent night

We love to create 2/2 #25

Thanks for visiting today and remember that you still have until 31 December to enter your Christmas crafts into our December challenge over at County View challenges here You might even win the £20 voucher. If Father Christmas forgets a few crafting bits you can treat yourself....

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x