ABC Christmas Challenge: J & K

It's time for the May ABC Christmas Challenge! As we get closer to the halfway point of 2020 (really???), we are up to J and K. This time, J is for JOY! I have lots of Joy sentiments, and went with one of my favourites:

This was a easy card to make, as I pulled some inspiration from the very first card I made as a design team member for ABC. I really like this Hero Arts background stamp as it looks after an artistic collage look with no effort on my part. I knew I wanted to use this Papertrey Ink Joy stamp and die, as well as one of the secondary sentiments. It looked a little lost on its own against the background, so I added a strip of silver glitter paper to set it off a bit. 

And now we come to K is for KINGS. I don't have any Christmas kings or magi, so I improvised...

This was a lot of fun to make! I found this fab cartoon of Elvis using Google images, and fussy cut him. For the background, I grabbed blue and red watercolour powders. Being Elvis, I thought he needed some stars in the background. They are embossed in silver, and the sentiment in red. 

So sure, it's May, but it's also the pandemic - why not spend a little time getting ahead on your Christmas cards? Lots of inspiration on the ABC Challenge website. I hope you'll join us! 

Supplies: (Christmas Joy) Stampin' Up very vanilla & garden green, (?) blue & American Crafts silver glitter cardstock, PTI Wonderful Words: Joy stamps & die, Hero Arts Collage Music stamp, Versamark, Memento Luxe love letter & Stampin' Up garden green inks, Wow super fine white & Ranger super fine red embossing powder, WRMK corner-rounding punch; (joy to the world) Neenah white cardstock, Canson mixed media paper, Unity Greetings of Christmas & Ellen Hutson Reason to Sparkle stamps, Versamark & Memento Luxe love letter ink, Ranger silver & red embossing powder, Magenta Nuance watercolour powders, Elvis clipart