Card Design: DS4J Progressive Christmas Card Challenge...February

Have you ever had one of those days where you finish off a post and are just editing it to make sure it looks okay and you do one backspace and suddenly EVERYTHING disappears?  I mean EVERYTHING.  Not one little letter is left?  Well all I can say is thank goodness that I had previewed it.  At least that allowed me the option of selecting all and copying and pasting it into a new post to then try and copy out the bits I needed to copy and past into yet another new post.  And while it added yet another 20 minutes onto creating this post, at least I didn't have to do it from scratch which would have meant at least another 70 minutes minimum.  Not sure I'd have been able to since I probably wouldn't have seen the screen through all the tears running down my face.  So with that being said...

It is time to submit my card for this month's Progressive Christmas Challenge taking place over at DigiStamps4Joy.  Yay, one more card to add to the Christmas Card Pot to help me avoid the yearly Christmas Card Panic.

Christmas Card Count to date: 3

Yeah, it isn't much yet but then we are only the second month into the year.  In fact, if everything goes according to plan, that number will be up to four as soon as I can get my next post out.

Here is the image we get to use this month:

...and here is my card, I hope that I haven't forgotten any details: 

General Info:

• I came across this great idea for a card layout.  Now I wrote down that it was a colleague of mine from Fresh Brewed Designs whose card I had seen it on, Linda Anderson, but I can't remember if it was her personal blog or the main FBD blog where I actually saw it.  I guess it doesn't really matter as long as I give a shout out to her for the inspiration. Thanks Linda, it was perfect for this particular card.  I'm sure I'll be using it again.
  

FRONT

Digital Image: 

• This image has been coloured in with Copic Markers. 
• Copics used...Dragon: YG00, YG03, YG06, YG09.  Unfortunately the glitter glue had a mind of its own and squelched out all over the place. Oops.  I tried to clean it up as best as I could but it isn't as nice as I'd have liked.  Hat and ball: R22, R24, R29.  B00 and the colourless blender was used to ground the overall image.

Digital Sentiment: 

• One I created.

Embellishments: 

• The ribbon is Offray brand and purchased at Michael's.

Embossing Folder:

• Awhile back I had done a card with a red piece of cardstock that had been embossed with the large dot pattern.  I had some leftover and thankfully used part of it for this project.  It is always great to be able to use bits and pieces from my stash.  It was originally created with a Goosebumpz embossing folder.

INSIDE

Digital Sentiment: 

• One I created.

Other Notes:

• I Kept the inside extremely CAS, as I didn't even mat the sentiment.  I thought about going with either the same shade of blue or green from the front but it just didn't look right and I think that the contrast of the white on red is sufficient.
  

OVERALL
Paper Products: 

• Card base and matting: Michael's Recollection's cardstock, red.
• The designer paper is from Recollection's Signature Festivus paper pad.

 Challenges I hope to enter...

• http://digistamps4joy-sa.blogspot.ca/2014/02/monthly-christmas-challenge-february.html -- Progressive Christmas Challenge
• http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge.blogspot.ca/ -- Use a Sentiment
• http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge2.blogspot.co.uk/ -- Anything Goes:  Christmas
• http://craftyhazelnutspatternedpaper.blogspot.ca/ -- Anything Goes:  Patterned Paper
• http://www.craftindesertdivas.com/ (UL) -- Glitter
• http://kaboodledoodles.blogspot.ca/ (3E) -- Use Ribbon
• http://christmascardchallenges.blogspot.ca/ -- Anything Goes
• http://www.myperfectlifeuk.blogspot.co.uk/ -- Christmas 
• http://glitternsparklechallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ -- Bright Funky Colours (I think that the combination of blue and green and red and orange on the same card is a bit funky and my dragon and the red background are definitely bright)

If you are interested in joining the DS4J progressive Christmas card challenge you will need to contact Desíre (her details are at the bottom of the post).  I've linked the badge above to take you to that post.

 

Well, one more is finally done. Now I'm off to work on my post for the next one.  Remember I have a 12 months of Christmas link up going on right now that you can add your own Christmas cards to as well.  Click HERE for all the details.  There is still two days to link up your two cards for February in order to get your free paper for the month. 

See you again very soon--hopefully!