Christmas Card Club - Festive Foods Theme

This is the first Christmas Card Club challenge of 2016. We are a group of card making bloggers who make a Xmas card every two weeks. We all take turns choosing the theme, and it really is a lot of fun.  I have all the members listed on my sideboard...drop by and check out their cards too if you like. If you are interested in joining us, let me know.

This fortnight's theme was chosen by Margaret of Dutchess blog. Margaret always has the most gorgeous cards on her blog and I think she is the diecut queen. Her layered cards are gorgeous!

My card today contains two festive food items that bring me warm childhood Christmas memories. My Mum always had a candy wreath on the front door. A friend of hers made them and took orders. The candies were wrapped in cello and each one was tied onto the wire frame. A wee pair of scissors hung from a bow and you used them to take a candy off...what a treat!

My DP is Martha Stewart and is just like the candies on our first wreaths. The pink snowflake DP is a couple of years and is a snippet from a scrapbook page. I managed to find just the right shade of green and pink card for the  mats and the snowflakes... That was quite lucky as usually I can never find just the right shade...lol I am sure you all know what I mean!

The snowflakes are Impression Obsession...these are my fave snowflake dies. I had some K & Co baubles and I pulled them apart to make embellies for the center of the snowflakes. Once assembled, I coated them quite generously with Stardust Stickles.

The Gingerbread images are Studio G, I think.  Years ago, I corralled my teensy stamps into baseball card sleeves, I was not a card maker then and so did not think to save the packaging that advised of the manufacturer.  This little couple are actually two stamps and I just lined them up to look like a couple. It seemed too plain, so I added tons of stickles on the image edges and the mats. The image edge is Diamond Stickles and once that was dry, I went over it and the mats with Stardust Stickles.

The inside is  fairly simple. Just a snippet of pink card framing a bit of white card with a Stampin up Xmas sentiment from 1999.

Recipe
Card base- 5 1/2 inch precut pink card base and envelope (Xmas gift)
DP - Candy DP Martha Stewart, pink snowflake DP unknown snippet
Cardstock - green and pink card snippets
Dies - Spellbinders petite circles and petite scalloped circles; Impression Obsession snowflake dies
Embellies - K & Co
Bling - diamond bling
Sentiment Stamp - Stampin Up 1999
Stamp - Gingerbread men Studio G I think;



I am entering this card in the following challenges
1. Christmas Card Club - Festive Foods
2.. Pixies Crafty Workshop - must use snippets