Full of Sparkle with the Winter Wonderland

Good morning to you all in the land of blog

Today being Friday is the day closer to the fabulous weekend, oh cannot wait this week :) but before I move on to today's challenge I would like to thank the ladies at the Sparkles Christmas Challenge for choosing me as the 2nd winner for their Song Related Challenge - thank you :)

and to say thank you to the ladies at Charisma Cardz for my Top Three Placement

So today's challenge is for the new challenge at the 

Winter Wonderland

with the great theme of 

Make Your Card Sparkle

chosen by the very talented Sally

So here is my design team inspirational piece for this week, but don't forget to hop over and check out the rest of the teams fabulous inspirational pieces.

The base colour and contrast is a lovely pearlescent ruby burgundy card with matching ribbon from stash and pearls from the Hobby House, the papers so sorry I have so many Christmas stacks that I cannot remember which stack this came from but they are sparkly:)  The flowers in the main are from Wild Orchid with a couple from the local department store, these have been airbrushed to soften them and make them feel more natural and distressed, stickles added for the theme.  The next to smallest of the grand scallop and circle nestie dies have been used and over stamping on the image plate has been done with Tim Holtz antique linen.  The image of course is one of the new digital Tickled Pink Christmas images and wow is she fabulous to colour a real vintage feel to her too.

Here is a close up

Coloured in copics as always.

I would like to welcome all my new followers and wish you all well in the 500 follower candy.   For those of you that have not yet entered the 500 follower candy you can do so here, although it ends today so don't miss out and I would like to thank Feline for advertising my candy for me.

Thank you so much :) 663 followers, if you are already follow me please don't forget to put your name in the hat :) I currently have 206 entrants so at least 400+ could enter if you wanted to.

I am going to Grimsby Crafts :) on Saturday morning to get the 600 follower candy in - oh I do so love shopping for candy :)

As always and very importantly I would like to say thank you to all my wonderful visitors who take the time to leave such inspirational comments on my blog, allowing me to hop back over to see your own beautiful work. THANK YOU!! 

I would like to enter this creation into the following challenges and thank you to Feline for assisting with this

Clear it Out - Your Favourite Holiday

Deep Ocean - Sweet

Ladybug Crafts - Non Traditional Christmas or distressed

Papertake Weekly - anything goes and bling if you like

Always Something Creative - Sparkle

By The Cute and Girly - Christmas Girls

Cupcake Craftroom - Sweet Christmas

Marianne Design Divas - Dying to Die Cut

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Christmas

Craft Your Passion - Bingo Ribbon/Pearls/ free glitter

Christmas Inspirations - Die Cuts

Kenny K - Glitter and Bling

Tickled Pink Stamps - Anything Goes

Crafty Purple Frog - Sparkle

Delightful Challenges - A very sparkly Christmas

Tickled Pink Stamps are also having a Guest Design Team Member call, so thought I would put my name in the hat and cross my fingers, and as I love this new image thought this should be the card I enter it with.

think that about does it, will be linking up when I get home, my new job role does not allow me the luxury or time during the day to find a break to link up like I use to

anyway enjoy your day 

Hugs

Kate

xxx