Iris Fold Ornament (DS4J image and DDD paper)

Hello, everyone!  What fun I had making this card!  I won this gorgeous Christmas Kitty paper over at The 12 Months of Christmas Link-up for being their very first follower!  It's a brand new challenge blog so I think you should head over and follow along - there are more prizes to come, and you definitely want to link up in 2015 when the challenges start!  Lisa Decosse of Decosse's Dynamite Doodles designed this Christmas Kitty paper especially for me as my 1st Follower's prize because she knows I love kitties!  Thank you, Lisa - I love it and couldn't wait to use it!

I decided to make an iris fold ornament! I haven't done iris folding for quite a while and it's one of the first techniques I learned as a card maker!  The papers were recycled from last year's Christmas gifts - I save everything if it can be used on a card LOL!  I cut the circles with my Nellie's Multiframe Circles, and the top of the ornament is die cut from gold cardstock using Memory Box Luca Ornament. Here's a close-up of my iris fold:

  

I really wanted to incorporate the Christmas Tag from Digi Stamps 4 Joy, which is their November Christmas Challenge image, on my card.  Actually there are two tags but I only needed one!  I made it quite tiny and attached it to this little 3-D shaker gift sticker.  Here's a close-up:

I inked all around the edges of the tag and stamped a tiny cat - because the gift is for kitty!  I coloured it with my Prismacolor pencils and tied it with gold twine.  

The sentiment  is a rubber stamp from Impression Obsession, and I added the holly leaves and berries (also Impression Obsession), which I inked around the edges with distress ink.   Lastly I embellished the edges of the card with a string of gems.

I would like to support the following challenges:

A Crafty Mess AG UE

A Creative Romance Winter Warmers (hat) 1/3

Beccy's Place A Month of Holiday Cards UE

Bunny Zoe's Animals UE

Card and Scrap Layers UE

CRAFT Winter 1/5

Crafting by Designs November AG UE

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra November AG Christmas UE

Creative Corner Christmas 1/3

Creative Moments AG/Celebration (Christmas) 3/3

Decosse's Dynamite Doodles 12 Days of Christmas Cards Link-up UE

Digi Stamps 4 Joy November Christmas Challenge 1E

Digitally Sweet Cozy Winter Moments 1/3

DL.ART November AG UE 1/day

Fab n Funky 3 Different Embellishments (die cuts, gems, sticker) UE

Hiding in My Craftroom Super Scraps Saturday 1/3

Incy Wincy Inspired by Song, Book or Movie - Jingle Cats Meowy Christmas 5/5

Inspiration Destination AG UE

Let's Craft and Create Animal Antics UE

Loves Rubberstamps AG UE

Moving Along with the Times Sparkle and/or Shine (gems, iris fold, prezzie) 2/3

My Craft Creations AG UE

Not Just Cards AG UE
Papertake Weekly AG 5/5

Pile it On Feeling Cool UE

Polkadoodles Recycle It (recycled Christmas wrapping paper for iris fold) 1/2

QKR Stampede Let's Talk Christmas 1/3
Scrapy Land AG (Memory Box and Impression Obsession dies available at Scrapy Land here and here) 2/3
Simon Says Stamp Monday Good Ol' Days (iris folding was one of the first techniques I learned as a cardmaker many years ago) 5/5

Sister Act (Cards Only) AG UE

The Stamping Boutique Use 3 Embellishments (gems, die-cuts, sticker) 1E

Whoopsi Daisy Add a Sentiment UE

Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment 5/5

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!

P.S. I'm celebrating 200 followers with candy!  Help me celebrate! My candy is here.