A veritable bouquet of Lili of the Valley

I have been making little posies of Lili of the Valley from pre-coloured images purchased at the NEC.  See my last three posts.  Having finished my last 5 cards, I now find myself with a veritable bouquet.

Lili of the Valley have a blog hop this week and an "Anything Goes" theme.   I have been promoting this pack of pre-coloured image for the last five days and I have been entering my previous cards in various challenges.  This most recent set is the one I am entering into the blog hop challenge.  I think it's my favourite of the images although I love all of them and I am very happy with all of my cards.

Because the LOTV pre-coloured images are printed on really good quality light card, it enabled me to colour a Copic halo around the little girl's candle flame and then I added some stickles to the flame itself.   This is mirrored in my die cut of the candle at the top of the page.  My Cricut was behaving itself when I cut these candles and although they are very small and rather fiddly, I was delighted with how they turned out.     
Smaller still are the holly leaves which are the result of some punchings taken from a Christmas corner punch and even smaller are the berries which, believe it or not, are the punchings from a little dotty border punch, glued on to the holly.  I took a picture of the candle with my little (pinky) finger nail in it to show just how small the berries are. They are about the size of a standard pin head.   Of course creating these toppers somewhat lengthened the time it took to make the cards but even so, I can't recommend these pre-coloured images highly enough.   Last year I made 25 Christmas cards in total and laboured over every last one of them.  This year I have already made 20 in just four days!

The backing papers are by DCWV.  I used the Swiss Dots cuttlebug embossing folder for the snow background.   My sentiment is Papermania I think and the candy is Craft Works.  A little extra Stickles on her coat fur and the ground beneath her feet complete the picture.
The DT over at Lili of the Valley have produced the most magnificent cards using a newly released stamp set and each DT member is giving away one of the new stamps in the hop.  There is a grand prize too of some new absolutely gorgeous sentiment stamps so do visit their blog.