R is for Ready, Set, Go, it's Race Time

It's that time of year again . . .

we all need to get our Christmas cards sorted and

what better way to do it than playing along with the

Seventh Annual Month Of Holiday Cards

at

Beccy's Place

The prompt for Day 20 is "R"

R is for Ready, Set, Go, it's Red Race Time
I confess, instead of making a Round card with "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer" and lots of Red Rhinestones, my heart is Racing from Beccy's surprise Race to the fill gallery!  Here is a quick Race time card using lots of sparkling Red and a pretty plaid paper with a touch of Red!

. . . MORE details to follow . . . 
I'm racing so fast that the ink on my watermark is still drying

. . . I'm back . . . 

I sized a plaid digital paper (details below) to make the front panel for my card, I printed the panel on smooth cardstock, trimmed to size then adhered to a 6" x 6" card base.  I pulled out one of my absolute favourite Christmas sentiment dies (details below) and die cut the flourished Merry Christmas sentiment and snowflakes from sparkling red glitter cardstock, another "precious" from my stash.  It was from an American Crafts Christmas pad several years ago and not seen any with so much sparkle since then, so each sheet is precious.  I die cut the sentiment from plain white cardstock twice and adhered them under the sparkling die cuts to give extra dimension and contrast against the background paper.  Yes, it's a simple card but I thought the sparkling die cuts had so much "WOW" and the plaid elegant yet festive, that together they were enough.  What do you think?



   

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*** INGREDIENTS ***
smooth white cardstock

glitter cardstock

Silhouette Design Store - Design ID #307410
Christmas Plaid Seamless Pattern by Kristen Magee
Sizzix Big Shot
Ultimate Crafts - Merry Christmas Script Die
(Ultimate Crafts are the parent company of Couture Creations)
Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the layers

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the sentiment & snowflakes

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges:

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Beccy's 7th Annual Month of Holiday Cards
Day 20 - R is for Red Race Time
Cardz 4 Galz  - Challenge #110 – Get Ready For Christmas
CCC Digi Creations - Challenge #109 – Christmas

Crafty Catz - Challenge #484 – Anything Goes – optional twist: Spots and/or Stripes

(my stripes have gone a little cross-eyed and become a plaid pattern)
International Art & Soul - Challenge #72 - Christmas With No Image
Fab ‘n’ Funky Challenges - Challenge #459 – Christmas