ABC Christmas Challenge - P, Q & R are for?

It's the first Wednesday of a new month, so that means it's time for a new ABC Christmas Challenge! Lindsey is the host, and the themes are:

'P is for Plump'

'Q is for Quality Street'

&

'R is for Ribbon'

There's a wonderful prize on offer for the lucky winner:

For my 'P is for Plump' card, I picked a cute Stamping Bella image called 'Caroling Chicks'...just look at those round little bellies! I stamped it directly on to a kraft card blank, along with the matching sentiment, then coloured it using watercolour pencils.

For my 'Q is for Quality Street' card, I took inspiration from the colours on some of the sweets...specifically, the blue (coconut), pink (fudge) and of course the purple one (hazelnut caramel).

I heat embossed my 'Mod Trees' background stamp (from Simon Says Stamp) on to blue, pink and purple card, using coordinating WOW embossing glitters (Coral Reef on pink, Pacific Wave on Blue and Magical Mauve on purple). I made a ptachwork from little squares of the embossed card, mounting them on to gold mirror card, and cutting a sentiment from more of the mirror card using a Creative Expressions die.

As always, being so sparkly and shiny, it's difficult to get a good photo, but here's another angle:

Finally, on my 'R is for Ribbon' card. I decided to try to make a bit of a feature of the ribbon, as it's not somehting I often use on my cards. I made a 'gift box' from red card...embossing part of it using my 'Outline Snowflakes' background stamp (from Simon Says Stamp) in white. The tied some spotty ribbon around it before adding it to a kraft card blank. The sentiment stamp is from the 'Wintertime Messages' set by Hero Arts.

I'm also entering these cards into the following challenges:

• Christmas with the Cuties - CAS (first card only)
• Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes
• Creative Knockouts - Christmas in July
• Cut it Up - Make Your Own Background Paper (second card only)
• Merry Little Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes
• Perfectly CAS - Embossing (last card only)
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Anything Goes
• Sparkles Christmas Forum - Christmas Music (first card only)
• Stamping Sensations - Any Celebration

For more inspiration from my lovely DT buddies, please pop over to the ABC Christmas Challenge.