WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT CHRISTMAS

The Challenge over at As You See It is asking us to show, on a card or project, what brings us Joy about the Festive Season.  There are many things I love about it and most of all it's a time of nostalgia - my mum is no longer with us and she made Christmas magical for my childhood.  Not in buying loads of presents but in the things she did, how she made our home feel, what she baked and these are the things I remember about Christmas and have carried on with my own children and, now they are grown, they are continuing our traditions also

 I'm very much a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas so for my card today I've gone outside my comfort zone and done a purple card!!!

I've used the Christmas Backgrounds stamp set from Visible Image and silver embossed it on purple card stock.  I then fussy cut out all the words from the large stamp which meant the most to me at this time of the year.  I added them to the holly background which was gifted to me by one of my Joy of Sets members so I'm not sure where it came from.  I added some bright red jewels for the holly berries and to give the card a touch of red.