Sparkle and shine Christmas card

Hello and welcome to the blog. I hope you all had lovely holidays despite any restrictions in your area. Our Christmas was nice and quiet with plenty of sunshine. 

Although I still need to share several cards that I created for the current year, this hasn't stopped me for starting on next year's batch.

This card came together quickly, because I used a snippet from a panel I had created over a year ago for a different card, using a Uniko stencil (In the forest) and glitter paste in gold and green. I used glitter tape in copper and gold to set off my panel and heat embossed a sentiment from an retired Uniko set (Label Love: Christmas) in gold ep. The layout was inspired by the current sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch.

I'm playing at:

CAS(E) this Sketch #402

Uniko Christmas Party - AG Christmas with a Uniko product

Uniko challenge - #62 'Tis the season 

(optional: Sparkle & Shine)

SSS Wednesday - Sparkle and shine

Pixie's Snippets Playground #393

Allsorts - #603/4 Sparkle and shine

AAA Cards - #180 Made in minutes 

(optional: Christmas)

CCC Reveal November

Hello crafty friends! It's time for the monthly reveal of the international Card Chain Challenge, where you link up to send a card to someone and then receive a card from the next person in the list. 

My card went to Hilary in the UK. 
I know she has not received it yet, so I hope I'm not ruining the surprise here.

I combined the card sketch with the optional aperture, glitter and friendship themes to create a shaker card. I stamped my background using my NBUS Studio Katia stamp that I snagged during the STAMPtember at Simon Says Stamp. The SSS ink-blended butterfly die cut was in my UFO box.

I'm also linking up my card at:

SSS Wednesday - Anything goes