CD Sunday - Christmas Things With Wings

I decided to use the new theme at CD Sunday to make hubby's Christmas card. It's Jane's turn to pick the theme and she's chosen 'Christmas Things With Wings'. My first thoughts were angels/fairies but I was having a look through Craft Artist and came across a pre-made card design/layout with 2 owls. All the items on my card are from the digikit 'Cosy Up Christmas'. CD Sunday allow the use of Craft Artist in their challenges as it was originally available on CD.
I changed a few things in the pre-made design and came up with this:

I opened 2 pages in Craft Artist so that I could print elements off to cut them out and 3D them instead of having a totally flat, printed card. The first page was the blue backing paper with the owls on the branch. I glued ribbon from my stash to the lower part and then stuck the page to the front of an A4 card. The second page was used to print off the paler backing paper and the Merry Christmas banner. I die cut an aperture using an outer edge die from Tonic's Jasmine Sunset Layering die set. This was then raised up on foam tape. 

The Merry Christmas banner originally had a green layer around it but I wasn't happy with the shade of green so cut it off. I found some green glitter card in my stash and used it as a mat around the sentiment. This was also raised up from the ribbon.

I then needed to add something to the paler aperture layer as it looked very bare. I used Tonic's Falling Snowflakes Trio die set to cut snowflakes from plain white card. The small snowflakes are from another die that was free in a craft magazine. In order to make the snowflakes fit in I coloured the white card with Cosmic Shimmers Glitter Kiss in Sea Green Kiss. They turned out almost identically in colour to the green glitter mat around the sentiment! I finished off by adding Tonic's Nuvo Drops in Buttermilk to the snowflakes 

I then used glaze on the eyes and the stars on the blue backing paper were highlighted with a Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen in clear and then a clear gem put in the centres. 

Don't forget that the CD Sunday challenge is all about making items using craft CD Roms. You can use other craft items on your card/project, such as a stamp or digi image, but you must also include something from a CD. So if you like colouring stamped images or digis you can still enter the challenge but you must include something from a CD such as a backing paper, a sentiment or a butterfly for example. In your blog post you must give the name of the CD you've used. This is especially important if the items you've used can be bought as a download as well as a CD as the Design Team can't tell which has been used unless you tell us. Your card can't be considered for a prize if you haven't used a CD or if you haven't told us the name of the CD in your post. The Design Team still leave comments on the blogs but there's no chance of winning if the above hasn't been followed.

And we now have three ways of entering the challenges - the blog, by email and now a new Facebook page!
This theme, 'Christmas Things With Wings', will run until Saturday 2nd December. I'm sure everyone has their Christmas stash out frantically making their own Christmas cards so hopefully you'll make one that fits in with this theme and can join in - good luck!