It's been too long!

Oh my goodness!  It's been way too long since I last posted!  Sorry about that.  You know how life sometimes gets in the way.  Plus, I've been using any spare time I have for crafting to work on submissions for the current call at Paper Crafts.  I'm making Halloween cards.  :-).  So fun!  Anyway, I finally got a chance to make a card for a few challenges.  Since the snow just won't go away it's a Christmas card.  Well, I would have made it regardless of the snow.  :-).  Speaking of snow we are going to have a blizzard today.  At the end of March!!  We haven't had a blizzard all winter.  What is up with this weather?!  So. Tired. Of. Snow.  Anyway, back to a more pleasant subject.  Here's my card..

So, I used some hoarded birch bark paper I got from Michaels and stamped my evergreen bough (Inkadinkado) several times in forest moss distress ink and mellow moss dye ink by SU!.  Then I added some highlighting and shading using my white gel pen and and a dark green alcohol marker.  Next I stamped my sentiment (Hero Arts) in black StazOn.  I used two of my clear snowflakes from my box that I found at the Dollarama.  I added some clear glitter to the top and using an oil base sharpie pen coloured the bottom silver.  This made it show up a bit more.  Once I attached my panel to my brown card base and adhered the snowflakes I felt like it was missing something.  So I added a bit of jute twine to the bottom.  Quite pleased with the results.

I am linking up to the following challenges:

Festive Friday #27 - here's the inspiration photo.  It's so pretty!

Jingle Belles - the theme is "the Holly and the ivy". Create a card with any kind of festive foliage.
Addicted to Stamps and More - it's their "Holiday" challenge again.

That's all for now.  I'm going to try and get into my craft room and make some more cards.  Thanks for visiting and hope you have a blizzard free day!