Wednesday 13 July 2016

Nice and cosy


Starting to really get going with the Christmas cards now. I don't know about you but one of the hardest things with blogging is thinking up the post title. Anyway on to my card. I have always wanted this stamp and when I spotted her for sale on Ebay she came home to live with me.
Image - Elisabeth Bell for Sugar Nellie
Medium - Copics, white gel pen, Sakura gold star pen
Papers and sentiment - Bo Bunny silver and gold
Dies - Joy and Frantic stamper trees covered in White Wink of Stella pen
Punch - Crafts Too snowflake with white glitter card

Challenges
ABC Christmas N is for no rules 
Di's Digis Christmas in July
Elisabeth Bell's World holiday
Winter Wonderland Christmas tree or make it cute (I have both)
Deep Ocean Christmas in July

My tonic die giveaway ends soon, check out my giveaway page to enter.

29 comments:

CRAZYCRAFTSHED said...

Gorgeous and beautiful card Marianne love the image you have used
Dianne xx :)

meg said...

She looks lovely and cosy against the cool tones in the paper great card

misteejay said...

What an adorable image Marianne and a fabulous card - love those PPs.
Toni xx

Diane said...

Lovely Marianne

hugs Diane xx

Sandra H said...

Wow!! the image is truly lovely and l can see why you couldn't resist buying it and the colouring is stunning loving the papers too your card Marianne is so pretty as always your so talented xx

Pen Sunshinepen said...

Morning, love this card and anyone would be pleased to receive it. Love the background.

x

Fikreta said...

pretty card!

Pop's Cards said...

Oh wow this was my first ever stamp, I still love her today, I am thinking about Christmas already too, I have a few to make, and I do love Red, I love this and love the little tress too, hugs Pops x

Unknown said...

Love, love, love this card. She is without doubt my favourite Christmas image. Hugs xxxx

Linda Simpson said...

Beautiful card and adore the sweet image.
Hugs
Linda xxx

Janice said...

Lovely card, great colours and lovely backing papers.
Janice x

Valerija said...

wow, this is amazing card. Love the image and your fantastic coloring.
Valerija xx

Unknown said...

Beautiful card,the die is perfect shape for the little image love it Debbs xx

Alice (scrAPpamondo) said...

Fab Christmas card, a bit vintage. Love the cute baby girl

cuilliesocks said...

Gorgeous card Marianne, no wonder you wanted this image, she is so lovely. Fabulous colouring and layout, great embellishments too, Kate x

Zw@@n said...

Oh my, this card is stunning, Marianne. I can imagine that you wanted this stamp: she is gorgeous and your colouring is fab. Pretty papers too. Thank you again for joining us at ABC Christmas Challenge. Luv, Wilma

cotnob said...

A fabulous Christmas card Marianne, such a sweet image and great papers.
I know what you mean about post titles - some cards are easy but others are so difficult!
Pauline
x

Chrissy said...

Beautiful Marianne..love the trees and papers and gorgeous colouring..I find titles hard too sometimes and other times I think up too many..

luv CHRISSYxx

Carole Pollard said...

so pretty this is gorgeous love the papers and your fab design Love and hugs Carole x

Carol S. said...

She's adorable and love the colours. Lovely papers and design. Hugs, Carol S.xx

Anet's Crafting said...

Beautiful Christmas card Marianne, love the cute little girl. Thank you for playing along with our Challenge at Elisabeth Bell’s World. We would love to see you again ... Anet DTx

Tinka's paper wonderlland said...

Sutch an adorable card!!
Beautiful desigin, lovely papers and adorable image!!
♥Hugs Valentina♥

Whisper said...

Oooo fabby and i would use those papers for every Xmas card, if i could !!, Luv Sam x

Lynda Nielsen said...

WOWEE Marriane, This is AMAZING.... Just gorgeous.... Thanks so much for sharing your talents with us over at EBWorld this month...
Best of luck with the drawing...
Hugs,
Lynda - EBW DT

Kat W said...

H ah...I know what you mean about the blog titles, but then you have to come up with one every day!
I can see you are properly in Christmas mode now and in gorgeous traditional style today with this cute image :-)
Big hugs, Kat xx

julie_woolston said...

Aww so sweet Marianne gorgeous card.
Hugs Julie xxx

Sue said...

Hi Marianne, I love this card. Your colouring is beautiful and your card design is just perfect - I have a real soft spot for traditional colour Christmas cards - gorgeous. Thank you for joining in the fun with us this time at ABC Christmas Challenge too.
Sue...xxx

Plony said...

Hi Marianne....I am sorry to be so late....there's already a new challenge at Winter Wonderland but....I had to come to your blog to say how much I love your christmascard. It's beautiful!
Have a great weekend, xxx Plony

Pysselbus said...

Wowzers!! Such a pretty card! Thank you for joining us at Elisabeth Bell's world and hope to see you again soon!

Hugs
Linda
DT