James the Bear and Christmas Ribbon

Hi friends,

Thanks for popping by.  I have another Christmas card to share with you today and it is nothing like what I envisioned when I started!  I wanted to play along with the Merry Monday Challenge - Add a Ribbon but wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do! Initially I thought maybe I'll make a card without a stamped image (big challenge for me!) and had thought of purple and silver! I sat at my desk for over an hour, while bubs was having her nap, and nothing came to me so I gave up.  Then when she went to bed for the night I started going through some old stamped and coloured images and found this one. Poor James the Bear has been sitting in a folder for years...I'm not sure how many..three at least! I thought it was about time is was put on a card. I knew I had quite a stash of green and red ribbon so thought I would give the challenge a go.

 Here is what I came up with. 

Supplies:

LOTV Rubber Stamp - James the Bear Pile of Presents

MFT Stamps - Gift Tag Greetings

PaperTrey Ink  Impression Plate - Linen and Canvas

Ribbon Girl - Olive Green Teeny Tiny Pom Pom Trim

Ribbon Girl - 16mm Red Saddlestitch  Ribbon

Ranger Stickles - Diamond

Ranger Enamel Accents - Black

It was good to use up some of my ribbon.  I bought a tonne of it years ago for cards and then wasn't sure how to use it and decided it wasn't really my thing! I'm actually surprised I managed to find the name/type of ribbon I used on this card, it's so old.  

The stamp I used is no longer available in rubber but I checked the website and it can purchase it as a digi stamp now :)

I would also like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes 
• Winter Wonderland - Cute Christmas Critters
• ABC Christmas Challenge - H is for Hats

Thanks for visiting, have a great day.
Andrea