Merry Christmas

 WOW July 1 is already here and we are halfway thru the year!!! Well it's time for the next Merry Little Christmas Challenge. This challenge runs July 1 thru August 31. 

This challenge is a great place you to get ideas and enter the challenge and share your designs with others.

My project for this challenge is kind of simple. Just a corrugated piece from a box, some die cuts - pine trees a deer and a stamped sentiment. Pretty quick and easy. Hope you like this one

The card is a 5X7, 1st layer is using gold CS 4 3/4" X 6 3/4" The 2nd layer is 5 1/2" X 6 1/2" using that white/cream CS. Next is the corrugated piece and I placed the pine tree die cuts on top of that corrugated piece. Added a gold deer die cut. The sentiment is gold heat embossed on an oval white/cream CS and layered on a slightly larger oval using gold CS

Products used:

Paper/CS - Corrugated piece from a box lid, Gold CS, Cream/White CS

Dies - Creek Bank Creations - Woodland Animals Die; Sizzix Thinlits Tim Holtz Alterations -Woodlands; Spellbinders - Ovals

Stamp - Hero Arts - Christmas Messages Clear

Versa Mark - Clear

Embossing Powder - Gold

Thanks for stopping by today. Hope you enjoyed my project and gives you some ideas. I'll be back soon

Merry Christmas

Welcome back everyone,

I made this card about a month ago and it has sat on my table,

patiently waiting for me to share this with you. LOL

Last month I received a stamp set from MayMay Made it and it is the cutest set and I loved the wreath stamp in this set. I love all the stamps in this set but that wreath really caught my eye. (Its that twiggy looking stamp in the lower left of the set.) This set is called Happy Fall Y'all

Well, I want to share the simple card I made using that stamp.

What a cool card this turned out to be. I love the simplicity of this card.

Let me show you a closer view of that wreath

This stamp is a half of a wreath and is designed to stamp the image 2 times, once on the top half and then stamp again for the bottom half, connecting to the top half when you stamp it the 2nd time. This will make a wreath or circle if you will. There are branches that shoot out which gives you the ability to fill in the wreath with leaves to make a summer wreath or a fall wreath, depending on the color of ink you use on the leaves.

Well, I wanted to make my winter wreath to look like a grapevine wreath with berries.So to achieve my look, I stamped the wreath half in the north or top position. Next, stamped it in the south or the bottom position. I used green ink for both stampings. Next, I reinked the stamp in brown and placed the stamp on the left side of the wreath stamping over the green and reinked again one more time in brown and stamped it one last time on the right side of the wreath. This made a fuller wreath. Next, I stamped those red berries using red ink. Those berries are included in this stamp set. In fact, there are a lot of stamps in this set. Check it out.

I think this card is simple yet elegant. I also stamped those berries on the red CS but they are pretty faint so they don't show up in the picture.

The Merry Christmas is cut using an Elizabeth Crafts die. I cut it out using glitter paper.

Well, I hope you've enjoyed my project today.

I'm submitting my card in the following challenges:

• Crafty Friends Challenge  -Christmas (#143)
• Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - Anything Christmas Goes - optional theme: Reindeer (#19)
• Crafting-With-Friends -  No.54 - Anything Goes  (#127)
• Creative Fingers -   No. 140 - Anything Goes  (#125)
• Emerald City Crafts Challenge Blog -  No. 5 - Anything Goes (#37)
• Jo's Scrap Shack- No. 214 - Anything Goes (#28)
• Polkadoodles -  No.45 - Anything Goes (#16)

I will be back soon.

Merry Christmas to All

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick note to all my friends and followers!!!