Cosy Christmas Tilda & Apple Basket.

Hello, Crafty bloggers.

Welcome to my blog and  a big thank you to all my new followers.

I hope you are well?

I am feeling sad. My eleven year old Pug named George is very poorly.

To take my mind of things I have made a shaped Christmas card. My second one this year. Lol!!!

I have chosen Cosy Christmas Tilda and masked Cosy Christmas Apple Basket from the Winter Wonderland Collection 2013.

I have die cut a Spellbinders Nestibilites Opulent Oval with Neenah cardstock and stamped Cosy Christmas Tilda and Cosy Christmas Apple Basket from Sirstampalot onto the oval with Memento rich cocoa ink.

I have coloured the images with Prismacolor and Polychromos pencils.

For the shaped card I have used 300gsm white Conqueror card and GoKreate large frames frilly #2.

The papers are Maja Design Vntage Summer Basics from Live & Love Crafts. 

The doily is Cheery Lynn Nautical Wheeler. I have inked around the edge with Tim Holtz tea dye distress ink.

The pretty lace is from Ebay and can be found  HERE. 

I have used Doohickey dies. Spruce firs and lovely fence. I have inked the edges of the dies with tea dye distress ink and coated both with Snow-Tex from Live & Love Crafts. 

I stamped Magnolia Vintage Merry Christmas Postmark from Sirstampalot with Memento rich cocoa ink, cut around it and adhered it to the removable centre piece of the Nautical Wheeler doily.

I have also inked around the edges of both the sentiment and centre piece with tea dye distress ink.

The wooden stars on the bottom of the card are from Live & Love Crafts. 

I have used a selection of flowers for the arrangement.

They are blue Kort & godt rolled roses and chrysanthemums from The Ribbon Girl. 

A 25mm ivory wild rose from Wild Orchid Crafts and marshmallow frosted berries from

 Live & Love Crafts. 

For the foliage between the arrangement I have used Cheery Lynn pine branches and Martha Stewart woodland branches. I inked the edges of the branches with tea dye distress ink.

I have adhered a 5mm white pearl to the centre of each of the rolled roses.

Here is a close up of Cosy Christmas Tilda with Apple Basket.

Do you think those apples look good enough to eat?

I sprinkled Frantage shabby white embossing enamel from  Live & Love Crafts and adhered a few 2mm white pearls around the image. I have used ArtDeco glamour dust on Tilda's pom-pom and dotted Tilda's cheeks with a Inkssentials opaque white pen.

Inside the card is decorated with Maja Design paper and a Spellbinders Opulent Oval.

I hope you like what you see?

I am entering my creation into the following super challenges:

Tilda's Town Challenge #89. CELEBRATE. 

The Ribbon Girl Challenge Blog. ANYTHING GOES. 

Midweek Magnolias Challenge #81. WINTER BLUES - USE THE COLOUR BLUE. 

Magnolia-licious Tuesday Challenge. ANYTHING GOES. 

Simply Magnolia Challenge. FRUITY FAVOURITES AND A DT CALL. 

Thank you for stopping by to visit today and huge thanks for all the lovely comments.

They make me very happy.

Crafty hugs.

Donna xx