Christmas Words for CI#198

Happy Sunday everyone and welcome!! 
It's been our hottest day in Melbourne since March and it's still quite a warm evening. We see the Christmas decorations are out in the shopping centres with signs announcing that "Santa will arrive in 6 days!" So that was all the inspiration I needed to come home and get to work on another Christmas card! 

  Colour Inkspiration is a fortnightly Facebook based Colour Challenge. I saw the current colour combination but I confess I didn't check it again until I had completed my card today. Which means that instead of Very Vanilla, I've used Basic White, my standard go-to so I hope that is ok? 

The embossed image is the lovely Christmas Words Hybrid EF. It's such a versatile product that I adore as it's so textural and I'll be using it with it's matching die a lot in an upcoming class.

I already had the ribbon on my desk. Usually I will tie a bow - but this time I wanted to give a "No Tie" method a go. So I layered the ribbon onto itself and used some silver trim around the middle to pull it tight and secured it with glue dots. I'll have to have a few more goes before I decide if its easier and speedier than tying or not.

Thanks for taking the time to come and visit and see my entry for Colour Inkspiration this week.

Do pop on over to Facebook and check out the design teams and other entrants projects and there is still time for you to join in too.

Card stock: Pool Party, Coastal Cabana, Real Red, Basic White, Silver Glimmer

Ink: Versamark

Stamps: Christmas Classics (retired)

Accessories: Die Cutting machine, Christmas Words Hybrid EF, Christmas Classics Dies, Stitched Nested Essential Dies, Brights Enamel Dots, Metallic Sequins assortment, Silver Trim, Silver EP, Pool Party Ribbon

'Til next time,

Jan