ABC Christmas Challenge A or B

I decided to once in a while join in on a few other Christmas Challenges out there to help motivate me.  I want to continue creating Christmas cards throughout the year to beat the rush at the end of the year.  I had time today to join in with the ABC Christmas Challenge.  The challenges are based on one or more letters of the alphabet.  This month it is "A" is for Anything and "B" is for Bingo

Here is my "B" card.  I went with diagonal Ribbon, Christmas Sentiment and Die cut. My colorful background was extra from my card I created-->here.    The die is an EK snowflake punch and it was punched from a Recollections "Miss Claus" Christmas Paper Pak.  The sentiment across the top is a free stamp from a magazine (which I seem to have misplaced!).

Another card for my Christmas stash.  

I am submitting this card to the ABC Christmas Challenge.

Netta

Christmas Sparkle

I think I have said this before but I really need to step up how many cards I make for Christmas.  I have 15 weeks left for the deadline and I need at least 2 a week.  For inspiration, I turned to ABC Christmas Challenge.  I had forgotten about this gem of a blog!  The challenge going on right now is S and T.  S for sparkle and T for texture.  I decided to go with sparkle for now and maybe texture next. 

It's so hard for me and I find it so difficult to get sparkle to show on camera so if anyone has a clue what to do, please let me know!  

This card has a lot of nice sparkle to it.  It started with a bridge fold card.  I pulled it out of my "junk box" where I put all my pieces that are mistakes.  I always find a way to use the mistake.  

I struggled with this card because I had no idea what I wanted to do. It took me 3 days to get this together (lol) but I think it came together nicely.  I am pleased.

Isn't that little elf cute?  After I colored him, I backed him with another piece of cardstock to make him sturdy as does not have any support on most of his body.

The next two pictures show how you can fold this down to place in an A2 card.  You should be able to press it down either way easily.

The back of the card is a great place to write what you want and to place your signature stamp.  I have to give kuddos to my big brother for coming up with my stamp aNettacard many many years ago.  He told me one day he opened a card from me and said "Oh look it's anotherNettacard.  He shortened it down "a Netta card".  My original stamp finally wore down so I just recently got this stamp from Rubber Stamps.

Thank you for stopping by.  I am off to go add this card to the ABC Christmas Challenge blog.

Netta

Stampendous:

Seated Elf Stamp

Stamping Up Dies:

Flourish and Quilt Builder

Free Die from Papercrafter Magazine #112:

Christmas Snow Globe

Cardstock:

Teal Blue Glitter paper

White Cardstock

Reminisce Snowflake Ridge Paper Kit

Copic Colors:

B0000, B00,B02, E000, E02, E13, R00

Stickles:

Turquoise