Merry Monday Challenge # 3

Hi Everyone. Happy Monday.

I hope you all had a fabulous weekend.  We certainly did!

You may remember that my good friend Lesley chose this card as the card of the week in the first Merry Monday challenge.  I was thrilled when Lesley sent me an email this weekend and asked if I would be the guest designer for challenge #3.  It is such a gorgeous sketch and I couldn't wait to play with it.  I know that Lesley will be thrilled if you would pop along to her challenge and play along this week.  Remember… if you play along every week, then you will have 52 cards already to go for Christmas. 

Here's the sketch:

For my version, I turned it on its side.  I used the Alleluiah Angel from Flourishes and it needed just a little more space than I had on the vertical.

As per my resolution to use things I don't often use, I pulled out the fabulous Well Worn DSP.  Who would have thought you could use Well Worn DSP for Christmas.  But it certainly fit the bill.

I added a background Christmas Music stamp from Hero Arts over the DSP and also over the vertical River Rock layer.

I colored the Angel using Copic markers and used a little SU tea stain ink to distress the edges of the oval.  The oval was cut out using my nesties.

Here's what I came up with

I know you can't see it, but the angel wings and trumpet were colored using a jelly roll pen to give those areas lots of shine.  It really is such a pretty card in real life.

I told you it was a great sketch – and it is really versatile.  So pop along to Lesley's blog and join us this week.

On a personal note:

Poor Sam.  As though it wasn't bad enough having a urinary tract infection and blood in the urine, today he developed an allergic reaction to the pills he was on and now has diarrhea.  Sam is a Norwegian Forest Cat and the wegies are VERY hairy.  The hair is also very, very soft and sticky. Mmmmmm… not so great when you have an upset tummy! So we had to change out his meds and hope that this now fixes both issues!  He really is such an incredibly sweet cat and he is, as Brenda said, very dog-like in nature and because he is so uncomplaining it really makes me sad when he is not well.

Lou and I visited our new home today we also took some pictures.  But that's for another night!

As always, thank you for visiting my little area of the stamping blogosphere.  Your visits and comments are always greatly appreciated.

Warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight.

Hugs

Jaydee