Flying through October

I cannot believe how quickly October is flying by. The nights are really closing now but Mother Nature is looking beautiful.

 My walk down to Dotty's is always such a joy. The colours of the foliage at the moment is stunning.

I have been busy working on Daisy's 3rd birthday cake and also trying to keep up with some of my favourite challenges including the Funkie Junkie's 12 tags of Christmas. I have got up to week 3.
I was inspired by Linda's use of embossing paste through the TH music stencil, the black background and the gold snowflake.
If you would like to play along please check out her post here which gives all the details of the challenge requirements. The challenge is sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique and you could even win one of the prize vouchers if you complete all 12 weeks.
This is what I got up to with my #3 Christmas card;

I used silver embossing paste through my stencil.

Sorry about the blurry photo but I take all my studio photos with my old camera and in not such bright light.

The silver embossing paste gave such a cool effect. I cut this into 2 pieces as I want to use a piece on a couple of Christmas cards.

I used my holly stencil and Picket Fence DI to create a background on black card















and then using my Visible image snowflakes set I embossed a gold glitter layer

 I love this shine

Then I gathered the rest of my elements together and came up with this card design, another for selling at Dotty's Teahouse. My die cut snowflake is by MB. 

and a close up 

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

The Funkie Junkie's 12 tags of Christmas card 3

                                                            Card Mania  1/3 let it shine
                                                  Christmas card challenges #45 anything goes

The Artistic stamper 3/3 patterns
Winter Wonderland 1/3 frosty or well wrapped up
Crimbo crackers die cuts
Crafty Catz 1/3 anything goes with option of embossing
Noor UK CAS or fully loaded I've gone for fully loaded this time!

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Have a lovely weekend.

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Bye for now,

Jane x