Creative Belli Challenge #122

Happy Wednesday and thanks for taking the time to visit the charmed life blog. I cant believe that it's the 20th of July already. this month is just flying by.

It's time for another Creative Belli Challenge.

This challenge is a Christmas inspiration challenge. Our inspiration piece is this beautiful Christmas china that belongs to our design team member, Karen Wallace.

Thank you Karen for providing us with such lovely inspiration to create our cards and projects. 


The spirit of the Belli challenges is to encourage you to use your OLD and FORGOTTEN embellishments! 

Everyone is welcome to play along! Challenge a stamping friend!! Just follow the theme-simple right??

Click here to check out the samples from the Creative Belli design team. 

For my card the inspiration was the cardinal & the bow on the china pattern. My cardinal is a old stamp from Rubber Stampede. I colored him with prismacolor pencils and gamsol. Used an oval spellbinder die to cut it out and then sponged crumb cake in the frame to match the patterned paper.

My background paper is last years Christmas paper from Stampin-Up - "deck the halls" collection. My ribbon treatment is Stampin-Up cherry cobbler seam binding. I used a bow easy to make a triple bow and a button for the center.

That completes my card for this challenge. Hope to see you play along with us. So until next time......

Some other challenges:

1.  The ABC Christmas challenge wants us to use a stamp that is older than a year. I bought this cardinal at Christmas 2008.
2.  The crazy challenge blog has a Christmas in July challenge.
3.   Paper creations ink also has a Christmas in July challenge.

card recipe:
stamps: cardinal (rubber stampede)
paper: su cherry cobbler, neenah white, deck the halls dsp
ink: memento tuxedo black
accessories: cherry cobbler seam binding, button, spellbinders oval dies