The holly bears a berry as white as the milk

'The holly bears a berry ...'  (Sans Day Carol) is a beautiful Christmas carol that isn't sung very often. For this card I've used offcuts of the stitched paper with stars (originally wrapping paper), some Papermania red and white paper and a small piece of card rescued from a cracker two or three years ago (not much of this left now). The holy was upcycled from a card received. Spotty grosgrain ribbon from stash.

This is for:

Always playing with paper 80: use music or create a carol inspired card
Simon says Wednesday challenge: Christmas/happy holiday
CRAFT 229: Christmas
Polka doodles 42: Christmas is coming
Unstampabelles 28: stitching
Crafty ribbons  66: anything goes with ribbon
Bunny Zoe October: ribbon
Squigglefly 4213: leave me be - incorporate leaves
Creative belli 180: leaves
MilkCoffee: spots and dots
Artistic inspirations 64: anything goes
613 avenue create 42: anything goes
One stitch at a time 186: anything goes
Jo's scrap shack funday 22: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Pinspirational 79: anything goes
DL.ART Thursday October linky: anything goes
Sister act 29
Make it Monday 163
Inspire me Fridays 125

Cheerful Stamp Pad challenge 71: let's stencil continued

Cheerful Stamp Pad challenge 71: let's stencil continues today with some more inspiration from the team. To enter the challenge and see the inspiration from last week please click here. We would love to see the creations you make using a stencil or mask. The challenge is being sponsored by Stencilgirl products.

So this is my design team card for Let's stencil. Background created by first dabbing scrunched paper on to acrylic paint on a gelli plate creating a mottled effect, then using two Clarity Stamp stencils to finish the background with different colours of acrylic. Stamps were inked with stazon black - the collage at the bottom is a Paper Artsy stamp, other stamps are My Mind's Eye.

Colours are for Party time Tuesday 142:

This is also for:

Facebook A card a day
Creative inspirations paint: anything goes
Fashionable stamping 59: make a card
Woodware: circles
Catered crop: orange is the new black
By Lori design 57: black, orange and your choice (yellow)
Pattie's 78: orange & black
Scribbles designs 10: shades of orange
Take a word: orange
PanPastel UK 42: autumn colours
Divas by design|: autumn colours
Mema's crafts October: a coat of colours - fall/autumn
Robyn's fetish 182: fall
Loves rubber stamps 74: fall leaves
Inky impressions 130: fall
Rhedd and rosies 17: shades of autumn
Chocolate, coffee & cards 50: autumn
Crafts4eternity R146: autumn leaves
Scrap-cards 53: fall or halloween
AnMaCreatief 25: autumn
Feeling crafty 21: autumn
Stamp and create October: fall or halloween
Allways something creative 61: fall & halloween
Kreativeinkauf 8: fall or halloween
Little blue button 10: fall, halloween
Creative belli 180: leaves (the stamps are old and had been almost forgotten!)
Squigglefly 4213: leave me be - incorporate leaves
Craft room: our feathered friends
Sugar creek hollow 72: birds of a feather
Ooh-la-la: things with wings
Artistic inspirations 64: anything goes
613 avenue create 42: anything goes
One stitch at a time 186: anything goes
My heart pieces: anything goes
Jo's scrap shack funday 22: anything goes
Crafting by designs: anything goes
Pinspirational 79: anything goes
Inky linky 33
DL.ART Thursday October linky: anything goes
Sister act 29
Make it Monday 163
Inspire me Fridays 125