Brown and orange Christmas wishes for ewe

When I started with today's image and papers a couple of weeks ago, I wanted to use a sketch I had seen but was unable to finish the card in time for the relevant challenge. When I went back to the image and papers, I could not for the life of me remember which sketch I had had in mind, so I simply selected another recent sketch that worked for me and finally finished my brown and orange Christmas card. After last week's success with my inking adventure, I thought I would try a little inking, distressing and tearing this week. Although I found the distressing and tearing quite scary I think those distressed edges are exactly what this card needed to finish it off. When I showed the card to my husband, he immediately pointed at one of the teared bits, but quickly noticed it was apprarently intentional LOL. In fact, he liked the card a lot. Hope you also like what you see.

Below is a close-up of the coloured image:

 



And here's the sketch I used:

Materials used:
Core'dinations cardstock
PPs from a Vintage paper pad from a Dutch bargain store (Action)
Ranger's Vintage Photo distress ink
Ranger's paper distressing tool
Cuddly Buddly digital image
Spectrum Noir pens (also used them to colour the stars)
Viva Decor pearl pen
Gold glitter glue
Marianne Design die
Cuttlebug snowflakes die (stars)

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Crafty Catz - #150 Brown and orange

Cute Card Thursday - #234 Christmas in September

Bearly Mine - #52 Anything goes

Sketch Saturday - Sketch #225

Simply Create Too - #22 Anything goes

Crafty Ann's - (Sketch and/or) autumn colours

Aud Sentiments - #63 Something funny, hunny!

Crafter's Companion - #28 Gold

Spectrum Noir - Holiday card using Spectrum Noirs as the colouring medium

Benny Zoe's Craft - #28 Distressing

Squiggle Stamps - Punches and dies