Christmas Card Club - Hearts or Red Challenge

Hello and today it was my turn to select a theme for our bi-monthly Christmas Card Club Challenge. Since the month of February has just started, and thinking that February is usually associated with Valentine's day, my first thought was hearts. Well, this is a Christmas Club, so yep, needed to be Christmas-y too, so I picked Red as well.

The image I thought about for my card is a cute little Mulberry Wood Lovebird stamp, {kinda  romantic for the Hearts part of the theme  :-) } & I used Red!

- Mulberry Wood - A Christmas gift, and there's a sentiment to stamp inside that reads "All I Want for Christmas is You". You know who will get this one! Used a white snippet, colored with copics, touches of clear Wink of Stella, and hand cut the image. Applied brushable glue to fur areas and  some Sparkle n Sprinkle Twinkling Clouds over the glue. (there's a sad story below the specs*). 

- Cheery Lynn English Tea Party Doily (DL101) diecut from textured red Bazzill, edged with Viva Inca Gold, which was also dabbed along the holly leaves.

- Cheery Lynn Holly Flourish (B148) diecut from a green snippet which was just large enough with  creative placement. Cut the flourish so it could be placed as shown.

- Dylusions background using green family with just a bit of turquoise & yellow spritzed around on the paper.

- EK Success border punch from 6x6 Kaisercraft Be Merry Collection.

- Elizabeth Craft Joy sentiment from a snippet left from cutting the doily.

*Sad story: Stamped & colored this image twice...but not intentionally. Colored the first one, and thought it was The Best Effort I'd done on an image. Trotted upstairs to show  Mr. who said "What are they? Tomatoes?". Told him to put on his glasses, they are Red LOVEbirds".  After he admired my copic skills, back downstairs, to apply the brushable glue & glitter so it would dry well overnight. The glue tip seemed clogged, so poked a pin in it, squeezed, still no glue coming from the tip. Removed the cap, cleaned out a glob from the cap too. Replaced the cap - I thought pretty well - squeezed real hard & PLOP! The cap came off with the pressure of my squeeze, and blobbed glue all over my great coloring! Oh...bet you can guess what I said. Was able to clean off the glue, but didn't feel like the image was usable. Redid it again, and of course, 2nd coloring effort was not nearly as good as the first one. Next time, put a glue puddle on an old cd, and used a toothpick to appy it, rather than squeezing directly from the bottle. Call this Operator Error & Lesson Learned! Decided the #1 image leaves were salvageable, so trimmed out some. Applied with dimensional foam over #2 image. Also dabbed some Inca Gold around the top part of the image after I saw it on the doily.

Thanks for joining me this afternoon, and I hope that your weekend was just wonderful. Many hugs.