Christmas Card Challenge #40 - Anything Goes

Happy Sunday friends!  I hope you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend, if you celebrate that holiday.  I have a card for this week's Christmas Card Anything Goes challenge.  It just has to be Christmas related.

 

I used all dies on this one.  Love my dies!  I just purchased this Memory Box die which says Merry Christmas in Polish.  I have several family members in Poland to whom I send Christmas cards each year.  This will be one of them.  I die cut the message from red cardstock, then backed it with green cardstock.  The wreath was die cut from the same green paper.  I mounted the wreath and added the bow and red stickles for the berries.  The bow, wreath, and words are all shimmery from Wink of Stella.  I added enamel dots and rounded the top corners.

 

I'm also entering this into the Merry Monday challenge.

 

I'm also entering it into the Festive Friday challenge.

 

Stop by the Christmas Card challenge blog to see more inspiration and play along!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Paper:  Recollections white, real red, garden green

Accessories:  Rustic wreath die (PTI), Basic bow die (Taylored Expressions), Grand wesolych swiat die (Memory Box), red stickles, Wink of Stella shimmer, enamel dots

 



Merry Monday and Mojo Monday

Happy Snow Day (again!)!  I didn't really want this snow day.  We are over our days and now they are taking from other vacation days.  This one will probably take away our Friday before Memorial Day, which is the day I go shopping at the local nurseries for my flowers.  But it was only 1 degree this morning and the wind chill was -25 degrees, so it was necessary.  So since I was home, I went to my craft room.  I made two cards, but I'll share one today and one tomorrow.

This one I love!  I love the Merry Monday Challenges and really want to play along more often to get some cards done.  This week their challenge is to use ornaments.  I've have these tag dies from MFT for a while and I purchased them because they look like ornaments to me.  I die cut them out of decorative paper and then just the tops from foil tape paper for the top of the ornament.  Love it! 

 

I'm also playing along with the Mojo Monday challenge.  They've changed up their round or square challenge (I don't like making round cards!) to tall and skinny!  This I like!  My card is 3.5" x 5.5" so it still fits into an A-2 envelope (but who cares if you have an envelope maker, right?), but it's so cute being so skinny!

 

Thanks for stopping in today!  Hopefully I'll be at work tomorrow!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Take a Bough (PTI)

Paper:  Neenah white, North Pole (Doodlebug), foil tape sheets (Ranger)

Ink:  Versafine onyx black

Accessories:  Decorative circle tag stax (MFT), enamel dots (Teresa Collins), washi tape, baker's twine