Holly for Christmas

Good morning  it's my turn to share some more inspiration for our November stencils challenge over at Country View. For my first card I shared a snowflake card here. I used more contemporary colours of blue and silver

For today's card I have gone very traditional.
I love reds and greens and to me Holly epitomizes the spirit of Christmas

 I used one of Tim Holtz' traditional Santa stamps....to me this is the image of Father Christmas 😃 I added some colour with distress markers

 and used these Christmassy distress oxides for my background

I added holly stencilling...

I didn't want to cover up all the background so I kept my design very simple. The sentiment is also Tim Holtz' 

You still have until 30 November to enter our Stencils challenge...I really hope that you can join us.

Remember that you can enter as many times as you like and combine with any other challenges. Your make can be anything creative! You may even be the lucky random winner of the £20 CVC voucher.

 You will find all the details here

I would like to add my card to the following challenges;

Happy Little Stampers anything goes
We love to Create 3/3 anything mixed media
Crafting with an attitude 3/3 anything goes
Creative Artiste 3/3 anything mixed media
Mix it up 3/3 anything goes, optional stencilling
Noor UK Winter
The Ribbon Girl 1/3 November any card challenge
That's Crafty 1/3 stencils

Thanks for stopping by today, I have a very important date today with a special birthday girl....yes my darling granddaughter Daisy is 4 today and we are heading off to her celebrations...with my Frozen birthday cake...here's a sneak peek...

all will be revealed soon!

Bye for now,

Have a lovely weekend,

Jane x