Christmas in July

 Hello friends.  I thought I had better get started on my Christmas cards and this was a good time to start as I had seen several on line recently.  This is only the 2nd Christmas card I have made so far this year.

I used a Hero Arts Stencil and die that I have had for a couple of years and I thought this would be good time to use it as I saw it was Stencil week at JUGS.

I love poinsettias and this makes a pretty frame.  I thought about using pinks but blended SU Lovely Lipstick and Cherry Cobbler for the poinsettias and Call Me Clover (ret.) and Shaded Spruce for the foliage. The die cuts out the center but only cuts around parts of the image so you can lift parts up.  I probably could have finished snipping the edges but left it as is and raised it with foam tape after stamping the sentiment from an older Recollections Christmas set in the center of the card base.

I will probably make more cards with this set as I do want to try it with pink poinsettias,

I will also link to Darnell's NBUS as this is actually the first card I have made with this set.

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Have a wonderful day.

Happy Stamping,

JoAnn

Christmas Card Challenges #28 - Anything Goes

Good Sunday Morning friends.  It is time for a new challenge at Christmas Card Challenges.  This week the theme is "anything goes".  

My card base and white panels are MFT Whip Cream CS and the black mats are Recollections.  I cut the image panel with Spellbinders Labels Seventeen and traced the die to hand cut the mat.   The pine springs are from SU Watercolor Winter (retied) and stamped in SU Olive Green.  The ornaments are from SU Ornament Keepsakes (also retired).  I stamped them in MFT Electric Red and SU Gumball Green.  I stamped the top rims in Versamark, heat embossed with Gold embossing powder, and cut them out.  The bow hangers are cut from gold foil paper with the small bow from Memory Box Precious Hearts.  The sentiment is from Recollections Winter Wonderland (from Michael's).  The image panel and sentiment are mounted with foam tape.

Now hop over to Christmas Card Challenges and check out all the fabulous cards by the DT.  I hope you will play along with us. 

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you have a wonderful week.

Happy Stamping,

JoAnn