Christmas Kickstart Challenge #4 - Always with a Heart!

It's Challenge #4 over at The Christmas Kickstart Challenge.

Once again we have a gorgeous Guest Elf to delight and inspire, and during this fortnight we are in the company of the lovely Julie from Always with a Heart.

     

For this challenge (which covers Valentines Day) we'd like to see a heart somewhere on your card. The heart can be stamped, die cut. embossed or stenciled - it's all good! In addition, Julie has very kindly agreed to share a sketch for you to use as an optional extra.

Here's how Julie used the sketch to create her breathtakingly beautiful card. You can see other pictures of her creation and find out how she made it by visiting her blog Always with A Heart.

I decided to tackle the sketch too which is very unusual for me as I am ever-so slightly sketch-a-phobic.

I opted to use this gorgeous pad called Celebrate Winter from Echo Park. This meant that everything matched without my having to hunt out coordinating papers. The die cut snowflake is actually beautifully sparkly as it is cut from glitter paper.

In addition to using Julie's sketch I made these little cards using the Scandi Christmas set from Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine.

I very much hope you'll head over to The Christmas Kickstart Challenge to play along.