Winter Bird with Plaid

Hi everyone - I'm back with a second card for the current Christmas Kickstart Challenge #86 where Jo & Gail are playing with plaid!

Supplies: Paper - Neenah white; Paper Studio Holiday (red), 

Patterned paper behind NOEL unk; Co'redinations plaid

Embossing folder - Spellbinders Criss Cross Motif (3EOM-Nov23)

Stamps with Dies - My Favorite Things Winter Songbird (retired)

Dies - Tim Holtz Sizzix Big Tidings;

A Jillian Vance Design Stitched Dot Rectangle Backdrop Set

Other - Copic Markers; white gel pen; foam tape

I had embossed an extra panel and die cut an extra NOEL when I made an April Kickstart card (see it HERE, if you missed it). This embossed panel got very cracked so I used the debossed side. I inked the edges with black & matted it with white. The NOEL outline was die cut using the plaid paper I used on the NOEL for the previous card. I found some beautiful plaid Co'redinations paper at Joann last week, thinking specifically of this challenge. Glad I had the chance to use it as the background, layered atop an A2 card formed from Neenah white. 

I stamped one of the birdies and one of the branches from MFT's Winter Songbird set (sadly retired). Colored them with Copics and detailed with a white gel pen, then added to the O. Done! You can see another use of the NOEL die here if you missed it.

It's Anything Goes week for Darnell's IDEA program so I'm playing along; see her gorgeous inspiration HERE. I'm also adding my card to Merry Little Christmas #56 where Anything Goes for Christmas.

That's it for today - thanks for stopping by & happy crafting!!