Quilted Christmas

      It's time for the dreaded "Q" day at 30 Days of Holidays - Beccy's Place and I'm doing another "Quilt" theme.  Last year, I used an image of a quilted stuffed animal for this card but this year I decided on the spice-filled mitten, one of Beccy's images, and a Quilt die from Gina Marie to make the background.  

     I have a crafting friend who loves making quilts (as did I for many years) and she has even made quilt-pattern stencils for her scrapbooking.  I don't have that kind of patience and would much rather use a die (especially since I only have less than half a dozen stencils in my entire collection!)

     I cut two different colors of CS, plus two different scraps of Christmas dp which I had in my stash.  Unfortunately, one of those scraps was only big enough for a single cut and I needed a total of three full die cuts of each dp to complete the background.  Consequently, the left side of the card has more of the lighter dp in places where I would have used the darker dp if I'd had enough of it.  Sigh...

     The image was cut with a QuicKutz die and layered onto the quilt.  I added a hand tied bow made from lace and wrapped with satin ribbon in the middle.

     Challenges:

As You Like It

Christmas Kickstart

Crafty Creations

Creative Inspirations

Digi Choosday

Outlawz Festive Fri

TTCRD

     We're getting close to the end of the 30 Days challenge and I still haven't done all the letters of the alphabet but I keep plugging away.  I'll get as many of them as possible before the daily challenges close including the 4 with no alphabetical letter to follow.  Beccy gives us the theme for those as we go along so it could be anything.

     In view of playing catch up, I'll have a second post later today nd I hope you'll stop by to see that one, too.  :-D  Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie