Christmas Bokeh inspiration

Good morning I am here with a 2nd dose of inspiration for our current October Bokeh challenge over at  Country View Challenges. I explain the concept of bokeh in my first DT post and if you missed that do check it out here.

As we are getting nearer to Christmas and I am sure most of you are gearing up to making your Christmas cards my card today is a Christmas one. I am certainly seeing signs of the colder weather all around me including the ripening of the holly.

I used a photo editor to add a bokeh effect to this photo

Fun isn't it!

My first project was full of colour and this time I went for more festive colours; black, white and gold.

This is what I got up to. I used the distress ink to make my background.

I die cut my leaping deer and stamped them using white pigment and the tiny heart from the Visible Image sentimental Christmas stamp set

I also used the Merry Christmas sentiment from this set on the card.

I used my same hand made circle die cut stencil as show in my first post  here to add the pigment ink.

Here is my finished card.

And a close up.

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

Winter wonderland 1/3 merry and bright
ABC Christmas 1/3 U for upcycle and V for velocity mine is V for velocity, my deer are leaping into the snowy sky!
Pixie's snippets playground #363
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge #460
Sweet stampin Christmas 1/3 anything goes opt stars
Double D 1/3 silhouettes
Cute card Thursday 1/3 spots/dots

I really enjoy using the bokeh technique and I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

You can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with other challenges. There is also a £20 crafting voucher up for grabs to the lucky randomly selected winner to spend over on the Country View Crafts on line store. Remember that UK postage and packing is absolutely FREE! All the details for the October challenge can be found here.

Thanks for stopping by, back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x