Believe...Christmas Challenges {with sketches} # 17

Hi everybody!

First of all I want to wish you a Happy Newyear. 

Secondly I really want to thank you all for your comments the past year. I enjoyed reading each and every one :o)

And now we go back to daily life. After little over a week we are in our regular pattern again. 

So what do we do? Yes, we make Christmas cards :o) What better way to start the new year, don't you think?  At Christmas Challenges {with sketches} we have a new sketch for you. Made for you by our talented Claire. 

This is my card as inspiration for you all. I rotated the sketch to get more of a balanse in it. 

In this challenge we want you to use dies or punches. Well I have used both. Here you can see I used my Martha Stewart punch. The sentiment is a rubbon from Hot off the Press. 

Behind Santa you can see my die from Docraft Dielicious. The circle was cut out with my Curvy Cutter from EK success.

Santa was coloured with Derwent coloursoft pencils:

skin: 170-190-620

hair: 710

clothes: 130

gift: 480-010

shoes: 520-530-010

and stickles, frosted lace

Furthermore, I used paper from Imaginisce and ribbon from Craft Essentials.

This swirl is from Little Yellow Bicycle and the brads I bought at Nille (a Norwegian household-shop with some scrappingstuff). 

Yes, I know, we just had Christmas. But you do want to send cards this year too, don't you? 

Well, let's continue making those cards, OK? 

Especially when you can win an amazing prize again. This time our sponsor is 

So I hope to see a lot of cards again at Christmas Challenges {with sketches}.

Happy cardmaking!