Cuttlebug Christmas for Papertake

I am slowly starting to do a few Christmas cards, if I leave it until the last minute, I get so bored, I really am no good at mass-producing. I have the concentration span of a mosquito. So it works well for me to just make a card here and there. This one uses the cuttlebug treetop dies, and is a variation on a card I made a couple of years ago. I did have vague ideas about doing a lot of these this year, but after faffing around with this one...........well, I don't think so. The card measures 8" x 3, the snow drifts were randomly cut by hand. The stitching was a happy accident, I didn't thread it properly so it just made the holes for a feather stitch, I really like the look and will use it again. Lots of ice diamond glitter to finish it off, the beauty of this type of card being that you can have stray glitter all over the place and it just adds to the effect. I inked the edges in ice blue, and added some snowflake brads. I made this card for this week's Papertake Weekly Challenge where they asked for a card with no stamping, now if I do a Christmas card for every challenge for the next few weeks, I may even get Christmas sewn up.

Talking of bugs, I planted some oleander shrubs a month ago and have been nuturing them ever since. When I got back from Orlando, one of them was looking a bit sick and when I went to investigate, the underside of EVERY leaf had some caterpillary things on them. Bright orange with little black bristles sticking out. I brushed them all off and sprayed them with flying insect spray, on the assumption that they would have flown someday if they had chosen somewhere else to graduate from buggy kindergarten instead of my oleander shrub. It seemed to do the trick, but this morning their brothers and sisters have hatched...............................off to Home Depot to ask a bemused sales associate what I can get to kill orange caterpillary things with black bristles.