Die Cut Christmas

I wanted to get a couple more Christmas cards done to link up

with the Beccy's Place A Month of Christmas Cards Challenge.

Today Beccy has a card posted in which she used several die cuts 

and challenges everyone else to do so.

Here's my take.

I used some Cricut die cuts. Some Sizzix originals die cuts

and Sizzix sizzlits die cuts. I threw in some punched snowflakes too.

I added some stickles to the center of the snowflakes

and used a white gel pen to add snow on the trees and the background.

Although it's not a pretty card like Beccy's I enjoyed putting

it together and think it turned out rather cute!

I'm also linking up to:

Winter Wonderland - Dies and Punches
Simply Create Too - Snow, Snow, Snow

Thanks for taking a look!

Season's Greetings

I love the current color combo at Color Throwdown for Christmas cards.

So I decided to combine it with the sketch challenge

at Freshly Made Sketches.

The poinsettia is a free printable from Beccy's Place, which I'm
also linking up to for the Month of Holiday Cards Challenge.
I printed it twice on red card stock, highlighted with a silver paint pen,
fussy cut and layered on top of the DP from DCWV's
Foiled Elegant Stack. The greeting was stamped with a Hero Arts stamp.
I added the silver corner stickers which are from the Paper Studio
and ribbon from Michaels.

Thanks for taking a look!

Santa and Rudolph

 Beccy's Place is running a Month of Holiday Cards Challenge
and there is a different theme each day.
Today the theme is to "Construct a Card"
using pre-colored cut outs, printables or purchased kits.
You should check out Beccy's card. It is beautiful.

But I didn't go the beautiful route. I decided to go with
cute and fun!

I found this Echo Park digital kit by Lori Whitlock called "Christmas Day"

and had a great time printing out each element 

and fussy cutting to create this scene.

I'm also linking up to:

Hiding In My Craft Room - Any Holiday

Try It On Tuesday - Christmas is Coming

Crafting For All Seasons - Tis the Season

Thanks for taking a look!

Wedding Day

I have an obsession with weddings. Always have, always will.

So I decided to make a wedding card using the current sketch at

Tuesday Morning Sketches.

The image of the couple is a free printable from Beccy's Place.
I colored the image with a combination of pencil colors,
 spectrum noir markers and smooch ink and fussy cut.
The purple panel was embossed with a Cuttlebug
border embossing folder. The ribbon slide is from
my stash, can't remember where I purchased it.
I added 3 gems to finish up.

I'm also linking up to:
Card Mania - use a digi
Stampin' Royalty - photo inspiration

Thanks for taking a look!

Snow Globe Wishes

Shaped cards are usually not my thing but I had some fun creating this one

so maybe I need to break out of my comfort zone and do some more!

I wanted to participate in the color challenge at the

Cosmic Colours challenge and felt like snowmen

would go well with the color combo, so when 

I saw the current challenge at Die Cuttin' Diva's was to create 

shaped cards a snow globe came to mind.

I cut the snow globe with the Christmas Cheer
Cricut cartridge. The snow family was stamped
with a Deep Red stamp, colored with pencil colors and fussy cut
I dry embossed the top part of the background,
tore a couple pieces of paper for the snow bank
and added glitter. The 3 blue snowflakes were some
I've had in my stash for quite a while. I used a Hero Arts
stamp for the greeting.

I'm also linking up to:
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Favorite Holiday
Beccy's Place - A Month of Holiday Cards Challenge
Christmas Cards All Year 'Round - No Patterned Paper
Inkspirational - Christmas with a Twist (no red or green)
Sweet Stampin' Christmas - Snow People

Thanks for taking a look!

Rustic Christmas

Okay I'm calling this card "Rustic Christmas" even though

I'm not sure it's really rustic, but it's about as close as I get to being "rustic".

It was inspired by the photo challenge over at

Just Us Girls.

The tree was die cut twice with the Christmas Cheer
Cricut cartridge and layered. I added copper and antique gold brads.
The large ivory panel was embossed with a Darice embossing folder.
Square copper brads were added to the green strips.
The Stickabilities sticker greeting was placed on a label die cut
with a Taylored Expressions die.
And there you have it, "Rustic Christmas"?

Thanks for taking a look!

Holiday Wishes

Here's my take on this week's sketch over at

Freshly Made Sketches.

The ornaments and sentiment were stamped with a Fiskars
stamp set called "Twas the Night Before" and embossed.
The pine fronds were punched with a Martha Stewart punch.
I used black and silver metallic papers from DCWV.

I'm also linking up to:
Beccy's Place - A Month of Holiday Cards Challenge
Inkspirational - Christmas with a Twist (no red or green)

Thanks for thing a look!