Holiday Sparkle

I've been neglecting my card making lately while I've been helping some friends with their wedding plans.  Now that the amazing day is behind us it's time to play catch up!  So I've been doing a few quick and easy cards to get back up to date with all the challenges I like to enter.  This was the only suitable image I had but it's quite intricate and I didn't want to do a big 8 x 8 card.  So I thought I'd have a do at a monochrome image, less swapping pens means it's faster to colour.  I was a bit dubious when I first put pen to paper but when it was done, I'm actually quite pleased with the unusual result.





I am entering this card into the following challenges:

And here's the sketch: