Sunday, August 28, 2016

Paper Players 310 Christmas Blessings


Happy Sunday, everyone!  I am back from my vacation and ready to stamp!  I missed everyone!  I have to admit that I did a whole lot of nothin' while on vacation, so I am happy to get back into my craft room!  Nance is our talented hostess today for the Paper Players, and blessedly, she had a wonderful, simple sketch for us!  


I had a few new goodies waiting for me when I got home, so I went to work creating a Christmas card:


I used This Christmas specialty paper and the new set, Christmas Pines, along with its companion thinlits die, Pretty Pines.  I diecut several pine boughs from Garden Green, a bow from Cherry Cobbler and arranged them under my banner, stamped in Cherry Cobbler as well:


I accented it with a little enamel star, too!  And the great thing about these pine boughs is that you can cut them to length!  

The inside was stamped with images and a sentiment from the same set:


The design team has some spectacular samples....they covered a wide range of occasions!  Check them out here:

And we hope you'll play along!  Can't wait to see your creations!

Cassidy starts school tomorrow, sporting a new 'do!  Here she is enjoying a word puzzle (just like her grammy!) while waiting for her breakfast at Perkins!   Enjoy your day!







13 comments:

Linda Callahan said...

Such a sweet holiday card! Love those patterns with the greenery! Glad you had a good vacation! And Miss C looks so grown up with her new do!

mudmaven said...

Cassidy looks so great with her new hair cut! I love this card and dang it, now I have more things to add to my "gotta get" list! ~chris

Colleen Begley said...

Very cute. I have my eye one these, but haven't ordered yet. This is a perfect creation for Nance's sketch. I really like that DSP too. Glad your vacation was relaxing. They are the best kind.

Nance Leedy said...

Love this LeAnne! I can't wait to play with these pin boughs. Love your mix of DSP-such a great use of the sketch. Cassidy looks so cute with her new haircut! Glad you were able to relax on your vacation--you deserved it!

Dawn Tidd said...

Great Christmas card, LeAnne! I love the pine boughs tied up with the cute bow, and one you didn't have to tie no less. :) Cassidy's new hair cute is adorable. She is really concentrating!

Carol L said...

WB from your vacation - I hope you had a nice time. I really like your card today with that pretty paper and the pretty swag of pine branches! Miss C looks adorable with her new haircut too :)

Brent Scheffer said...

Well I definitely liked your card enough to be inspiration my entry in PP310. I really like to look at patterns and created patterns. I have far to go as far as crating new patterns. Superb card!

Maybe my card will upload to SCS tonight or tomorrow to allow me add it to link.

Lisa Elton said...

WELCOME BACK!! What a pretty Christmas card LeAnne! I like the paper and those fun pine sprigs. But HOLY SMOKES is Cassidy's hair ever CUTE!! Hope she has a good first day tomorrow ;)

stampwithsandy said...

Such a pretty card! Love the patterned paper and those pine branch die cuts. Cassidy looks so grown up with her new haircut!

Claire Broadwater said...

I am so happy you had a vacation and are back with us! Your card is just perfect! Love the traditional Christmas colors! Those pines beaches are amazing! I need to order those! Thanks for being any enabler!
I love Cassidy's hair cut! She is adorable! XXX

laurie said...

I just love Christmas cards!That pine bough spray is so pretty.Cute lil star on it too. I hope Cassidy has a great school year!

Joanne James - The Crafty Owl said...

Ok LeAnne, so I love this card! It inspired me to use this paper in my Holly Berry class next week and I might just have to CASE this card for a future stamp-a-stack! Love Cassidy's new hairdo and hope she has had a great start to the school year. I am so envious of her breakfast at Perkins - this is my most favourite place to eat breakfast when I'm Stateside. Oh and pie - Perkins does great pie too!!!

Jaydee said...

LeAnne, I love this card. The papers, the pine die-cuts. What a great take on the sketch. Love it.
Hugs
Jaydee