Happy Hybrid Holiday 2012

This fortnight, the Jingle Belles have challenged us to use digital elements on our Christmas cards. After seeing their gorgeous paper piecing examples, I decided to follow their example and make a super hybrid card, involving digital papers, a digital image (kindly "donated" for this challenge by Robyn's Fetish, who are sponsoring the challenge this fortnight), 3D layering (did not want thick layers, so I did not use dimensionals), paper-piecing, colouring with Spectrum Noirs, both on the base layer and for adding extra dimension on the paper-pieced elements. To finish it off, I added some tiny pearls with a Viva pearl pen. I also used a few more of my tiny stickers for the sentiment and corner embellishment.

I first printed the digital image on white colouring paper and coloured the holly leaves, berries and bell with Spectrum Noirs. I then printed the image again on on digital freebie paper from Create with TLC and then fussy cut the green stuff. The ribbon and the three background layers are from a digital paper set that I selected at My Grafico after winning a challenge that they were sponsoring. I cropped the digital background layers in Word, added the green and red outlines and printed this in one go. I really like this background, so it's a good thing I saved it to be used again for other cards.

Below is a close-up of the image:

This week, I actually managed to stick to the (optional) theme over at Christmas Card Challenge, which was the following sketch:

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Jingle Belles - Happy Hybrid Holiday 2012

Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - Feelin' sketchy (use sketch provided or any other sketch)

CHNC - #66 Get sentimental (my sentiment may be tiny, but it's there!)

52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown - Anything goes

Christmas Card Challenge - #18 Sketch (theme always optional)

Papertake Weekly - Anything goes