Friends Through Every Season

Today's card image is from Stamping Bella named Winter Friends featuring the Bundle Girls.

I love this sweet Bundle Girl winter image.  For this occasion, I used this as a Birthday/Christmas card combo.  Yes, sometimes those December birthdays get shorted don't they!

 

After stamping the image on 110# Neenah card stock, I used my Copic markers for coloring.  I wanted to use colors in the Christmas family but not the normal red and green combinations.   For the girl on the left I selected R20 - R24 and the girl on the right BG49, BG57, and BG23.  Of course I alternated those colors on the scarves.  For the berries and holly I did stay 'traditional' and used R46 and YG63/YG61.  For the snow mounds, I drew across the lines with B63 pulling down and then repeated using B60.

For the decorative edge I used Spellbinders Labels 15 and highlighted the edge with Copic R24.  I had already selected my hunter green card base and the brown patterned paper for the background matting.  After stamping the sentiment I realized it wasn't going to fit beside the image, but needed to overlap.  Overlapping the 'white on white' didn't work and I certainly didn't want to cover up the berry tree.  I found a scrap of brown that matched closely to the background paper and carefully added a partial mat (only to the left side where it's on the image) behind the sentiment.  Perfect - that gave it the contrast it needed.  Lastly I tied a mint ribbon at the fold and knotted it to the right.  No room for a bow on this one! 

This one went to my Florida friend Linda as TODAY is her Birthday! 

Happy Birthday LINDA! Have a Blessed 

and Merry Christmas!

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I will be entering this card in the following challenges:  

Cardz4galz ~ Challenge 214 ~ Christmas Card 

Word Art Wednesday ~ Annual Blog Hop  

Cards Galore Encore ~ December  

Pinspirational Challenge ~ December  

 

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Products 

Stamping Bella, Bundle Girls Winter Friends

Spellbinders, Label 15