My Final Freebie Challenge Card and Next Weeks Challenge

Good Friday Morning Ladies,

Well it's that time of the week again, Friday's seem to be arriving faster each week!! (not that I'm complaining)!  After today there are Four more Fridays before Christmas, now that does sound concerning, we haven't really thought about it in our house, oh actually I did buy a few baubles a couple of weeks ago when we had a quick trip to the Range, we have had the same Bauble Colour/Theme on our tree for as long as I can remember and have been happy with them until I saw these lovely baubles in the Range in subtle shades of Green, they were so reasonably priced too, so we picked a few out, now my dilemma is....do I just replace the burgundy baubles and keep the gold OR do I have a total change and go for Green & White???  

Today's card is the last of the cards that I made on Monday with the stamp set I got free with me Creative Stamping Magazine, I think that I will be pulling set out time and time again, there are lots of elements that aren't strictly Christmas on there too.  

For this card I used a slightly bigger Sprig than I used on the Blue and Silver version of this card, I embossed the stamped Sprigs with Gold Embossing powder and then I sat and coloured them in with the same colours as I used on the first card I made,  After completing the colouring I cut a piece of Vellum and stamped the sentiment on it in versamark and embossed in Gold E Powder. I attached it to the front of my card with Brads.

I am really pleased with these four cards that I made with this set.

Your Next Challenge

 I spent the whole of yesterday trying to think of something different for a Challenge for this week (I would hate for any of you to get bored)!!
At times like these I always reach for a Tic Tac Toe or a Sketch so I didn't want to do that, so I decided that I would Challenge you all to 'Add Something Different to you cards as part of the Design'
I was thinking of things like Vellum or Acetate, so you could do a similar thing to what I have done with today's card, or it could simply be a torn piece of vellum with a sentiment on.
You could use Acetate to make a window or cover an aperture.
Use Vellum of Tissue paper to make flowers to add to your card, or use tissue to create a background, like we do in the 'Caught in Crystal' technique.
You could add Hessian or Burlap (same thing didn't want to confuse)
Felt would be another great addition, you could make flowers, scenes and all sorts of things with felt, (I still have a hoard of felt from the Sue Wilson Felt craze a few years back, I ordered loads from Sam Poole who is Sue's step daughter, I wonder if she still crafts?)
Corrugated card, Cork, Foil etc etc
The options are endless, I want you to just have fun trying something new!
I hope you enjoy it my lovelies,

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra
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