Rustic style Christmas Card

Good Morning Ladies,

Here is my Challenge card for this week, I am really loving Kraft card at the moment and the 'Rustic' feel it gives, so that's the direction I went with my card, using Kraft Card as the base card and cream card toned down with Tea Dye Distress ink as the accent colour, The Bauble is a Spellbinders Die and stamp. I decided to go with a Crocheted Lace across the card to soften the look slightly, I wove the 'garden twine' through the lace and added a bow to the top of my bauble.
The Sentiment I used is a Stampin Up set called 'Curly Cute', I absolutely love it but sadly its a discontinued set, I managed to grab one on eBay!!  The discontinued ones can be very expensive though, mine wasn't too bad, thankfully!
I added a few gold pearls to give a hint of Festive Elegance, I hope you like it xx

Sue, Pat and I had a lovely chat yesterday, we didn't get to craft at Pats as planned though as Pete had been offered a hospital appointment in the afternoon, so we stayed and had a bit of lunch with Pat and then came back here to craft.
I was sat stamping, because I can now that i have my new tool, its opened up a whole new world for me, I've routed loads of stamps out to play with.
Sue got the basics of her card started too, we got plenty of chatting in too!

Now you ladies seem to have your blood test days synchronized, I hope all went well Lynda and Brenda xxx
Val has sent in some photos of her Christmas Card Display at the shop, I will share that with you as well as the new craft shopping for this past two weeks too, so let me know if you have any!

Michele, I hope your mouth is feeling less sore, how was your trip to Crazy, Cluttered Land,??? Did you get to sit down, I am excited to hear what you picked up!!! Xx

I hope you all have a great day ladies,

Love and hugs,
Sandra
xxxxxxx