Pretty in pink

This weekend I allowed myself to be challenged into creating a pink Christmas card. It turned out like so much fun that I actually made two. And to make sure these cards in pink would not be lonely this Christmas, I used the scrap of  patterned paper that was left after creating the cards to create two tags.

For the layout I used this week's great sketch from Christmas Challenges {with sketches}

I also created these cards and tags with the following challenges in mind:

ABC Christmas Challenge – M for Monochrome

Jingle Belles – Lonely this Christmas (aka Tagging Along) >> card + tag
Opus Gluei who are Tagging along with Jingle Belles (or the other way around)

Sew Many Challenges – #58 Dry embossing

Charisma Cardz Challenges – White plus one colour

Winter Wonderland – Pretty in pink

Totally Paper Crafts – #72 Spots and Stripes
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge– #140 Embossing (dry or heat or both; I used both – dry for the background squares and ribbon and heat for the trees in silver on the tags & the card on the right)

CHNC – #26 Anything goes

CCAYR – June Challenge: Anything goes; 4 down, 1 to go, so I'd better hurry

Materials used:

The papers came from a stack of papers I bought through a second-hand market site on the Internet a few years back; no idea what brand they are

Spellbinders scalloped circles

Cuttlebug embossing folders (Swiss Dots & Frills)

The scalloped doily is a Silhouette design; I thought the punched-out holes of the inner circle would be perfect for weaving a ribbon through

The tree stamps are from Imaginisce (the one on the left in smoke-blue Versamark ink, which is more of a light grey; for the one on the right I used embossing powder in silver) and Studio g (I used masking to only get the tree without the entire label).
The pearls are made with different Viva Perlen-Pens. I really love these.

I applied Ranger's disstress ink (milled lavender) on the embossed pieces of white cardstock

The ribbons are from my stash.

The sentiment I created with the Silhouette software and then sent it to my printer.