Vintage Christmas Pair

Hi everyone!  It's Monday, and I have a dentist appointment first thing....why in the world did I ever schedule that on a Monday???  Anyway, I have two cards today for the Jingle Belles challenge, which is vintage Christmas!  I peeking into my vintage Christmas stash and found some cute Crafty Secrets pages and cut a couple apart to make some notecard-sized cards:

The background of these images seemed to match Soft Seafoam perfectly!  On my Santa one, I embossed the front with a knit-type embossing folder, then added a Poppy Parade mat, some glimmer paper stars and a little diecut sentiment:

I backed the sentiment with some glimmer paper too: 

For my snowman card, I randomly stamped some snowflakes on the card front, added a little sentiment flag and some Pistachio Pudding twine:

And the inside uses some Paper Pumpkins sentiments and snowflakes:

Thanks for popping in today!  No pictures, but I'll have some interesting ones tomorrow!!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Paper Pumpkin (ret), Northern Hearts (ret), Mini Tag Sentiments (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Poppy Parade, Soft Seafoam, Very Vanilla, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper, Crafty Secrets Creative Scraps
Ink	Soft Seafoam, Poppy Parade
Accessories	Dimensionals, Pistachio Pudding Thick Twine (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Season of Cheer Dies ( Concord and 9th), Layering Square Dies, Stitched Tag Dies (Pretty Pink Posh), Cozy Knit EF (Fun Stampers Journey), Star Punch (ret)

Scandinavian Christmas

Hi peeps!  Brrrr....it's really, really cold here today!  Staying inside as much as I can!  I made this card for our pastor and his wife; she is of Scandinavian descent and loves Christmas things in red and white, so I made this for their Christmas card:

I embossed the white panel with a Tim Holtz EF called Deer Knit, and used the same EF to emboss just a section of it in Real Red, then layered and adhered them together.  The wreath (retired SU Northern Hearts) was stamped in Real Red, mounted on a Stitched Rectangle die (Lil'Inkers) and since the top panel was a little short, I added a scallop of Dazzling Diamonds at the bottom, although the shimmer doesn't really show here!  My final touch was some Cherry Cobbler ribbon and some pearls:

The sentiment is from Verve (Joyous Noel).  I think this is very clean and crisp!!  Thanks for popping in today!

Last Friday, Cassidy's Advent Calendar gift was a little stuffed reindeer:

Since it was Uncle Raymond's birthday (my brother), Mommy thought the reindeer should be named after him, Raymond the Reindeer, but Cassidy nixed that for "Frosty"!!

I imagine my brother would be relieved!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Snowflakes in April

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  My Christmas card this week uses three challenges!!  The first is from  52 (Christmas) Card Throwdown:

As well as Merry Monday's snowy theme:

And the beautiful color challenge from In{k}spire Me:

Because the colors are a little unusual for a snowy Christmas card, I went "light" on the snowflakes, using several different sets, stamping them in the challenge colors on a Whisper White base.  I added a sentiment from Paper Pumpkin in Blackberry Bliss, a retired metal frame from waaaaaaay back, some glimmer ribbon and linen thread:

The frame actually had eyelets on both sides, but I trimmed one end off to make it look more like a tag!  The sentiment is from Papertrey's Believe set, and you can't see it, but the letters are sparkly because I used Wink of Stella on them!

The white panel was simply mounted on a mat of Blackberry Bliss and adhered to a Sahara Sand card base!  Another for my stash!

Enjoy your day!

Merry Monday 46

Happy Monday!  We made it through the weekend….brrrr, it’s sure cold here in PA!  Let’s warm up by thinking Christmas!!!  It’s time for another Merry Monday challenge, and this week’s is a theme!

Oooh, I LOVE birds, and this challenge fit perfectly with the Jingle Belles challenge this week, too, which is Scandinavian Christmas:

Squeal!!!  Love it!  So here we go:

Looks a bit like a Valentine’s card, doesn’t it?  But the image is from a retired winter mini hostess set called Northern Hearts; I added a little “joy” at the bottom and “noel” just to make sure everyone knows it’s NOT a Valentine’s, LOL!  The gingham is computer-generated; the embossed panel is SU’s Delicate Designs; the felt hearts are cut from a die, and the stitched ribbon is from SU as well.  Such a clean, crisp feel, I love it!  Of course, I added some pearls for fun:

And since I love birds so much, I made another card using the sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch:

This one uses a beautiful embossing folder (thanks, Carol!) and a bird sticker:

I even used some of the packaging to make the little background piece!! 

I hope you’ll play along with us this week at Lesley’s blog, Always Playing with Paper, where you’ll find the other beautiful bird-themed Christmas cards from our designers!  We can’t wait to see what you come up with!