Christmas Bells are Ringing!

Hello there! It's the beginning of a new month, which means a new challenge has begun at the Mixed Media Card challenge. We are very lucky this month that Shery, the creator of this challenge, also owns a fantastic stamp company called Stamplorations. Shery has provided the DT with this gorgeous stamp set - Holiday Sketches Christmas Bells. So the theme this month is Christmas, with the optional element being *bells*.

I had the die cut panel left over from my WCMD weekend away and thought it would be a great backdrop for the bells. I stamped the Stampendous script background stamp over the die-cut panel. Next I coloured another piece of card stock to go beneath the die-cut and mounted them both on a white card base. The bells were stamped twice in black and heat embossed. the first I coloured with a silver paint pen and then touched up some of the black lines. then  coloured the bow and berries with distress markers and glitter pen and fussy cut the image and placed on the bell.  I stamped the sentiment is from the same stamp set on a white panel and then inked the edges with silver and heat embossed. I finished it all off by adding the rhinestone flourish and mounting bells with foam tape for some dimension.

This stamp set is so versatile - I have lots of ideas of how to use it and if you want to see more, pop on over to the Mixed Media Card Challenge to see what the rest of the design Team have created - you will be wowed! I hope you join us in the challenge again this month! Oh and guess what!? You have 2 chances to win a prize from Stamplorations, this month's Sponsor.

ETA: I am entering this in Virginia's View #9 All Things Metallic I've used silver embossing powder, silver metallic paint pen and metallic glitter pens for the leaves and berries.