Santa Christmas

Got my turkey in the oven this morning and decided to sit down and get another

card done.  I really like the current sketch at The Deconstructed Sketch and thought 

it would work well for a new stamp and die set I have.

This is the sketch...

and what I came up with.

So, I think it came out okay.  The stamp and die set is the Tim Holtz Alterations

collection called "Retro Christmas".  The papers I used are from My Mind's Eye

called "Lost & Found Christmas.  Thanks for taking a look and have a great

Thanksgiving!

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I've been so busy making Christmas cards recently that I decided I needed a change of pace

and would do a birthday card when I saw the Freshly Made Sketches challenge for this
week. I will also enter this card in the Dynamic Duos "Triple Threat Challenge" and the
Seize the Birthday challenge as well.

I went shopping at Joann's the other day and found a couple of Sizzix stamp & die cut

sets I've been wanting, so I used one of them on this card.  I stamped the floral image

twice, first with the green ink and then with the pink.  I fussy cut the pink flowers and

layered them on top of the green, which was die cut.  I did some embossing on the white

panel and the dark red strip, punched out the butterfly and added some sparkle to it and

the flowers.  Thanks for taking a look!

Snow Family

I wanted to get one more card done today that I think will work for a couple of

challenges.  I used the sketch from retrosketches and the color combo from

Dynamic Duos, which is actually using 3 colors this week instead of the normal 2.
I think this will work for the Just Us Girls challenge as well.

Here's what I came up with...

using this sketch...

 this color combo...

and this photo as inspiration.

I used a Cricut cartridge called Snow Friends to cut the little snow family.  The

printed paper is from the Merry Little Christmas paper pad from My Mind's Eye.

I used some tiny pearls for the eyes and clothes embellishments.  I stamped, heat

embossed and cut the snowflake with the Tim Holtz Holiday Joy set from Sizzix.

Thanks for taking a look! 

Snowflake Christmas

Oh the ladies at 52 {Christmas} Card Throwdown are really challenging me.  I am

learning so many new techniques playing along with them.  The technique challenge

for November is acrylic block background.  So, once again this is my first attempt at

something!  

Here's my card.

How appropriate that when I took my card outside to photograph it was starting to snow! I

didn't even know it was supposed to do that today.  Anyway, I inked my acrylic block with

pearlescent sky blue ink, spritzed it with water and stamped on a heavyweight card stock.

I used the Lacy Labels Cricut Lite cartridge for the die cutting and added the large snowflake

brad to the center of the label.  I stamped the greeting with the same ink I used for the

background, cut it into a banner and adhered to another piece of the background paper and

added a little more bling to the 4 small snowflakes.  Thanks for taking a look! 

Christmas Angel

I was able to get to get yet another Christmas card made with inspiration from 2

challenges.  I used the sketch from Mojo Monday and the theme from CAS-ual Fridays
which is to create with 8.

I really like these foiled papers from DCWV and this little angel stamp I got from Hot off
the Press.  The angel was heat embossed with red embossing tinsel and colored with
smooch inks to match the ribbon.  I added 8 dazzles stars and finished with the greeting.
Thanks for taking a look!

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I made a card using the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches to share.

This is the card I made...

using this sketch.

I used the border piece I had left from the Warm and Cozy 3-D papier tole die cuts

from Hot off the Press.  The printed papers are from the same collection.  After

layering the die cut pieces with foam tape and adhering to the horizonal strip all I

had to do was stamp the greeting.  Thanks for taking a look!

'Tis the Season

Yay! I'm so happy to be on vacation now until December 2nd.  That means I get

to spend extra time crafting.  I can't ever seem to get enough.  Although, I'm sure

my husband would beg to differ!  Anyway, we've got snow on the ground here 

in Colorado and it's about 20 degrees so when I saw the current sketch at retrosketches
I thought a cute little snowman would be a good choice for this project.

Here's the sketch...

and my card.

I pulled out my Cricut Snow Friends cartridge to create the snowman or should I say

snow person?  Embossed the white panel with a Paper Studio embossing folder and

border punched the pink vellum with a Fiskars punch.  Stamped and heat embossed the

 greeting, although I'm not really happy with the way it turned out.  And there you

have it. 'Tis the Season!  Thanks for taking a look.