Blessed Christmas

I haven't posted for a week while I was working on preparations for my last craft fair this year. I hope to post some of the craft items later this week. I did finally get an extra printer to use in case I have another printer emergency at the last minute like I did last week. Now it's time to get really serious about more Christmas cards for my husband and I to send and more for my elderly mother-in-law to send. I have a strong conviction that I want to keep Christ in Christmas, even though the media and stores want me to focus on gift-buying, parties and decorations.

This Christmas card was inspired by the image at Doodle Pantry, "Blessed Christmas." I printed the image of the Christ child, then printed again adding the beautiful sentiment Scripture above the image. I wanted to keep it simple to draw the attention to the image and sentiment.

I used two types of glitter details on this card: the red glittery patterned paper and the glitter gems in the corner of the Spellbinder's mat. Here's a close-up:

I'm sharing this card with the following challenges:
Creative Knockouts #14 - Christmas Splendor
Cupcake Inspirations #240 - red, green, gold color inspiration
Delightful challenge - You're a Gem ( added glitter gems)
Happy Campers #24 - Glitter It
My Heart Pieces - Sparkle
Paper Pretties #287 - Looking like Christmas
Scribble and Scrap Challenge #7 - anything goes
Word Art Wednesday #109 - anything goes with Scripture or uplifting verse