WOW! that's a *really* pink card!!!

you may want to don protective eyewear before looking at this one. or you could poke a small hole in a piece of patterned paper and view it that way, like a solar eclipse. it's just that this card is a bit......ummmmm......bright. but you know MONSTAS--they have their own ideas with regard to graphic design, and once they get goin' you pretty much just have to leave 'em to it! (the pink ones are BY FAR the most headstrong, i've found.)

but as usual i've gone about this completely backwards. it'd help if i showed you the sketch i used first, wouldn't it?

don't you just *LOVE* this one? it's from a challenge site called friday sketchers; i had never been there before, but i'll definitely be going back! i saw it on linda's blog, she made this awesome & hilarious card with it! i finished too late to submit mine, but my main objective was to be one xmas card closer to finished, and in this i have succeeded!

(monsta cut from paperchase giftwrap; patterned paper: doodlebug, scrapbook wizard, sei, creative imaginations; glossy white cardstock: ranger; ink: colorbox; pen: zig; snowflake punches: paper source & marvy; other: dymo labels, sewing machine; adhesives: xyron, uhu gluestick, 3m foam tape)

a big shout out to my main man and primary scrappin' buddy LHJ who not only puts up with being called my primary scrappin' buddy a nightly basis, (well... he's kind of *right there* watching telly whilst i work...) in this case he also dymo-ed the text, punched the snowflakes, and performed the herculean & fiddly task of peeling the backs off the pre-xyroned snowflakes! (lesson learned: for tiny intricate shapes, punch first, xyron LATER!!!) if there's a nicer man alive, i certainly haven't met him--thanks, honey! ♥♥♥