Card Mania Challenge: Your Favourite Colour Combo

There's a new challenge starting today over at the Card Mania Challenge, the theme is "Your Favourite Colour Combo".  Now, I will be totally honest and tell you I got a little mixed up with challenge themes, and wouldn't consider the red and green I've used on my card as my all time Favourite Colour Combo, BUT.... I LOVE Christmas, I've made a Christmas card and my Favourite Colour Combo for Christmas cards is.... this traditional blend, so I sorta, kinda, got it :-)

The image is from Crafts and Me, she is called Poinsettia and I think she's gorgeous - very classy indeed!!  I coloured her with Copics, adding some detail shading and highlights with Prismacolor pencils.  I then added a lot of gold Stickles to the wings, her ribbon and the centre of the poinsettia.
The papers are from Kaisercraft, the card base is actually white, I covered it with more of the paper from the Kaisercraft pad as the subtle pattern on it looked better than plain cardstock.  The flourish is Memory Box Snowflake Corner cut from glittered cardstock, the pearls on the front are mounted on some gold glittery flat backs that I sanded down a bit with an emery board!  On the inside I just cut some very small circles (using the smallest of my Quickutz Circle dies) and stuck the pearls on them... much easier, lol.  The metal flatbacks on the corners of each panel are from my stash.... I bought a thousand of them on the internet and can actually see my supply dropping; I must use them a lot!

I finished the inside of the card to match the outside, it's how I roll, lol. The sentiment is from Tickled Pink Stamps.
Pop on over to Card Mania and check out the rest of the team's work, very inspiring indeed.  I hope you get a chance to enter the challenge, there's a great prize on offer from Digital Delights - I'm actually colouring one of their cute images for a Christmas card I'm working on, with any luck I'll have it posted on here soon - I have just about given up on the idea of getting anything out of my drafts, lol.
As with most people at this time of the year I am very busy... adding in trips to Orthopedic Surgeons and Physiotherapists for my hip is not making my Christmas Shopping any easier, I can tell ya!  I see the Physio again on Friday, and the OS in two weeks; hopefully that will be the end of the intense recovery phase... I'm not even going to discuss my other hip (which apparently needs doing, but isn't bothering me and doesnt' seem to have the Necrosis that all the fuss was about with this one) until next year at least!!
I am entering my card in the following challenges

The Paper Shelter	Metal Somewhere (flatbacks )
As You Like It	Fave Xmas Style (Traditional Colours) and Why (They just say "Christmas" to me!)
Moving Along With The Times	Inspired by a Song (Joy to the World)
Addicted to  Stamps	Lots of Layers
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge	Use Patterned Paper
Digi Sketch Challenge	Theme; Die cuts/punch
Winter Wonderland	Dies and Punches
Fab'n'funky Challenges	Anything with Die Cuts
Outlawz Friday Colouring Challenge	Anything Goes (Christmas Twist)
Paper Creator Crafts	All About Christmas
Crafty Calendar	It's All About Christmas
Stamping Sensations	Simply Christmas
Corrosive Challenge	Happy Everything (pick a holiday)  Christmas!!
Through the Craftroom Door	Anything Goes
That Craft Place	Anything Goes
Art by Miran	Anything Goes
Hiding in my Craft Room	Anything Goes
Simon Says Challenge	Anything Goes

I will be back in a few days, I absolutely WILLLLLL, Until then, Happy Crafting, Donna