Christmas card with Attitude

Hi everyone...Robin here with a Christmas card for you. My card features two Altered Pages Colorful Christmas collage images which were printed on Craft Attitude and then adhered to cardstock. I printed on the Craft Attitude film instead of directly on the paper because it gives the card a silky finish.

The background of the card is made with a piece of plastic film in the rattlesnake pattern. There is a piece of red Punchinella on top. The Punchinella came in one of the Mailbox Muse kits. They are always filled with artsy treasures! I took a glue stick and daubed here and there all over the back of the Punchinella ribbon to hold in place.

Once the plastic background panel was attached, I glued on two paper borders which help hold the Punchinella firmly in place. Then the main image was attached with a strong double-sided tape.

I searched my stash of embellishments and came up with two unorthodox baubles for Christmas. I chose a red and white dotted gemstone from a package of Valentine Glitz, a red strip with circles and a red feather from one of the Altered Pages color kits. A second Santa image was glued on top of the feather.

It's an unconventional Christmas card, for sure. I hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have been checking out the other projects this month. Remember to leave a comment to be entered into a weekly drawing for a great artsy prize!

Scanned copy of card

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