Fetch A Sketch Challenge 40

Good morning and Happy Christmas Eve!  It's time for a new Fetch A Sketch challenge and here is the sketch for this fortnight:

And I've made not one but two samples!  I bought some rather lovely felt Christmas tree decorations from Sainsburys when they first got all the Christmas stuff in - there are 16 different items and two of each and some can be used for other occasions so I just had to buy a pack!

All the papers are from Printable Heaven - Christmas Vintage set for £2.75 (38 papers!) and I've had the set for quite a few years and its always one I like to use!  I've added a faux running stitch around the edges and attempted a swish folding thing with the papers but didn't quite get it how I wanted on either card so I'll need to practice that a bit more!

I've added some chocolate brown ribbon across the centre and then some fancy gold braid which I got free with a magazine I think last year.  Two half pearls to the top of the card and one to each of the felt embellishments (hides the little hole where the string was!) and the cards are complete!

Good luck with the challenge - for more details, please pop over to Fetch A Sketch!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenges:  Christmas
Gingerloft:  Christmas or Winter
Pile It On:  Embellishments
Quirky Crafts:  Last Minute Christmas
The Squirrel and The Fox:  Christmas
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge:  Christmas
Craftymess:  Vintage Christmas
Winter Wonderland:  Wish Upon A Star

Papers:  Download from Printable Heaven
Felt Embellishment:  Christmas decoration set from Sainsburys
Everything else:  My stash 

Simply Create Too Challenge 21 - Midway Extra - So Old / Vintage

It's the Midway post for the Simply Create Too challenge where we provide (hopefully!) a little more inspiration for the current challenge which is:

So Old / Vintage 

I've gone for a retro feel and used a fab download set - Women with Attitude from Printable Heaven.  I printed the A4 sheet onto white card, cut out the image and sentiment, inked it up a little and added a dotted line around the edge.

Red card is from my stash (I keep offcuts cos you just don't know when you'll need them!) and the printed papers are Circa 1934 from Cosmo Cricket plus some organza black ribbon.

Hope you can join in with the challenge!

I'd like to enter the following challenges:

Fresh Brewed Designs:  Humour
Everybody Art:  Vintage
Going Grey With Scrap Creations:  Humour

• Image and Sentiment:  Women With Attitude download from Printable Heaven
• Papers:  Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934
• Dies:  Nestablilities Spellbinders
• Everything else:  My stash