Merry Monday 57

Happy Monday, all!  Back to the work week!   Lesley has a nice easy sketch for us today to get your Christmas card-making in gear:

This went together so quickly!!!  I started with a square Pool Party card:

I added a sweet little banner that was already pre-printed on some beautiful MME papers.  I just snipped it out, added some background papers from the same tablet and embossed the bottom portion of my card.   An MME brad and a glimmer snowflake provided some additional interest:

and to keep with the little circular theme I had going, I punched out my sentiment with a little circle punch!

It’s hard to tell from the photo, but the velveteen ribbon extends a bit off the edge, but since the card is only 4 1/4” wide, it will still fit into a standard envelope.  This also qualifies (I hope—there’s a wee bit of green on the banner!) for the Dynamic Duos color challenge this week:

And this also qualifies for the Christmas Card Challenge #19--vintage!

I thought this was a marvelous sketch….I hope you will too!  Can’t wait to see what you do with it!  And as always, be sure to check out Always Playing with Paper to see the other wonderful samples from the DT!

I did manage to get the photos from my friend’s camera of the little Easter party she had for her daycare kids….and she invited Cassidy too.  Here they are, doing their craft.  Let me explain it first, then you can understand the progress!  Athena traced their hand on a piece of green construction paper and cut it out four times to make “grass”.  A paper plate served as a bunny face and she had ears, eyes and eggs all pre-cut out of construction paper.  They glued the grass to the front of the plate, ears to the back (sticking up) and then the eyes and eggs.  Aside from the fact that Cassidy wanted to glue her eggs on top of the bunny’s eyes, she did really well!  I wish I had a picture of her standing up with the completed bunny, but she wouldn’t hold still long enough!  Here ya go:

OH BOY!  Glue sticks!!!

Miss “Afeena” gets her started:

Picking out the eyes:

Gluing the ears to the back:

A few more steps and we’re done!  A pretty good job, I’d say!  The little boy with the bunny mask is our youth pastor’s son….he just turned four!  He’s eyeing that glue stick himself……

Thanks for indulging me!  And remember, today is the last day for FREE SHIPPING at SU!