Wishing You a Sweet Holiday

At last I have had the inspiration to use the Martha Stewart Gingerbread Men stamps I purchased at least a year ago and although the photo doesn't do the colours justice, I am inclined to think that I have found THE Christmas card design I will reproduce to send to a lot of my friends. I looove them !!

I have based my design on a sketch at Waltzing Mouse but I also hope to enter other challenges too.

I don't do a lot of stamping mainly because I am still learning and I don't always get the results I want as you can probably tell with this effort and it puts me 'off '. Other reason's are my lack of stamps and inks - crucial you will know for this technique lol x However, I am hoping the subject justifies using far from perfect images - since when where gingerbread men expected to be perfect !
Now for the details.I have used Kraft Card for the card base,the mat and the tags. I distressed/inked the edges with Rangers Distress Ink (Brushed corduroy) and stamped with Archival Ink (Coffee). I cut,frayed and machine stitched red and white cotton Gingham to the base with red embroidery thread. To complete the design I added RED stitched ribbon and RED and GREEN bead gems to the tags - contrary to the colours in the photos!
I would like to enter this card into the following challenges :
1.Waltzing Mouse Sketch Challenge - 22
2.Totally Papercrafts Challenge  41 - Tag it ..
3.Delightful Challenges - Stitching
4.Charisma Cardz Challenge 44 - With love @ Christmas
5.Dutch Care Card Challenge - 90 - Clean and Simple