Hello crafty friends. Here we are at Saturday again and yet another seasonal card from me (I am on a bit of a roll at the moment!) Our new challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown is a great colour palette from Gill. The Christmas Animals collection still haven’t wandered far from my desk, so this time I decided to put the pine bough from the Elk set to use with one of the Elements Skies toppers.

I found one of the small sky images in about the right shade of blue and simply stamped the bough across the bottom of it in ‘peat moss’ Archival ink.

I then decided to extend the bough onto my 5×5 card blank too, stamping each end again in the ‘peat moss’. It took a bit of lining up against the topper to get it in the right place, not least because I hadn’t planned to do this when I first stamped the topper!

I shaded in the pine cones and berries with a ‘sanguine’ Polychromo pencil, then simply added the sentiment, ran a black Sharpie around the topper and attached it to the card.

I think this could be another good design for batch making – there are so many lovely sky images in the Elements set.

I’m off to share this with a couple of other challenges too, for the winter moodboard at Allsorts and the ‘anything goes’ theme at Merry Little Christmas.