The Other Side Of Me

I really liked the sketch over at Sketch Saturday this week, and again I've decided to use it to get a Christmas card done.  Here we are: The sketch is quite unusual and I really had to think about how to do the bit in the middle that's in red.  In the end I cut it out with a little tiny join in the middle which you can't see as it's under the stamped image.  I followed the sketch very closely and instead of getting things ready beforehand I just decided to go with the flow.  Each time I saw an element on the sketch I decided to add something to my card to represent it, hence the snowflakes and the two little tags with stockings stamped on.  I just felt it worked really well that the little girl is looking at a robin and the backing papers have robins on.  My favourite bit was making the snowflakes.  I wiped a Versamark ink pad all over a big section of card, then sprinkled white embossing powder all over it.  I heated the powder until it set, ...

I have decided to enter this card in two challenges, the Penny Black Saturday Challenge Week 157 and Sketch Saturday  Week 161.  I decided to use Penny Black as my starting point.  The image you can see is a Penny Black stickeroo and it's absolutely beautiful (and it's taken me months to track them down!)  The 'problem' came with the paper, in that I've used The Linen Closet from DCWV.  The papers are so lovely and work so well together, that I must have spent an hour laying the stickeroo on different papers and laying papers alongside, to find a combination I really liked, but I got there in the end, and you can see the result above.  The narrow vertical strip has been stamped with the Penny Black letter stamp, then I've added the three little roses  from Wild Orchid Crafts, but I had a lot of options of what to put there to comply with the sketch (buttons? brads?)  So many decisions, so little time! Penny Black want us...