Ding dong merrily on high

Hello

Good Sunday afternoon to you all. I hope you are all enjoying this beautiful weather we are having today. Winter seems an awful long way off but to bring things back to earth here is another Christmas card -

Today's card uses an image from Crafter's companions Makey Bakey mouse range and is called Christams carols. He is so cute. It has been coloured with the following Promarkers -

• mouse - ivory, oatmeal, spice, burnt orange, terracotta, baby pink, pastel pink, warm grey 1 and warm grey 2
• coat and hat - red, poppy, berry red, ice grey 1 and ice grey 2
• song sheet - cool grey 1, pine green and berry red
• sky - pastel blue
• shadow - cool grey 1

I cut the image out using Spellbinder's decorative labels 22 and inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink. Once I'd removed the image from the die I inked around the edge with antique linen distress ink. I cut a border using Die'sire Lace border 6 on a piece of red paper from a Boofle paper pad and matted it onto another piece of paper from the same pad. I embossed a piece of red card stcok with a music Embossalicious embossing folder and rubbed over with some gold gilding wax. I then added the image as shown.

I then cut several pieces of holly using a Dies'sire die and some green core'dinations and several pieces of ivy using a Marianne die and the same green Core'dinations.

I arranged them on the card as shown and added some red dew drops (from The Ribbon Girl).

I stamped one of the sentiments from the stamp set with versamark and heat embossed with gold embossing powder. I then cut the sentiment out using Spellbinder's Marvelous squares and inked whilst still in the die with tumbled glass distress ink. Once I had removed it from the die I inked around the edge with antique linen distress ink.

To finish I added some pearls again from The Ribbon Girl.

 I would like to enter this card into the following challenge -

http://ilovepromarkers.blogspot.co.uk - challenge 188 - songs - which is of course the carol Ding Dong Merrily on High.

Thank you very much for stopping by.

Lesley