Retired 4 Challenge Christmas fun

 

I thought I was had enough Christmas cards, but counted again today and am still way short.  I decided to dig out some of my favorite retired SU! images to play with some challenges.

 

The Dasher card is for the layout from RetroSketches.  The sentiment is from Lots of Thoughts.

The colors are from Paper Players - Cherry Cobbler, Pool Party and neutral (sahara sand & choc chip)

 

On this card I used the Snowboarder image (cut out and popped up) and the lovely Medallion stamp (embossed in white) and Many Merry Messages.  I really like this card and don't think the photo really shows it off very well.

 

The colors are from Fab Friday - pool party, gumball green, primrose petals, real red, white

The layout is from Clean & Simple Stamping - fall-to-layout #220.

Dashing through the snow!

Made this card for the clean and simple challenge today to "chill out!" I thought of making a nice snowy scene with Dasher. I have seen so many great cards with torn paper hills and glitter. Here's my attempt at it.



I stamped the medallion first, then Dasher with Staz On. I added two torn pieces of white and glitter. I pierced around the top part.

The sentiment is from Many Merry Messages and I used the word window and modern label punches and popped it up. I added brads and ribbon and some embossed dots in the background.

I'm all done Christmas shopping. Only 11 days till we leave for BC to visit family. We're going to have Christmas with our kids early before we go.
Hope you have a fantastic Christmas season!

2 Christmas this morning

I had some time this morning to play. I looked up some challenges. This first card did not come out as planned for the challenge, but I just loved how the stamped panel came out with Dasher in the Snow Swirled trees, so I altered my layout and just made the card anyways. I used a lot of dazzling details glitter glue on this scene.

Colors: Lucky Limeade, Soft Suede, Pool Party
Stamps: Dasher, Snow Swirled, Sincere Salutations

I decided to try again. This second card is for the sketch at Inkspirations (the first card was originally planned to go by this layout). I used my very neglected "Season of Joy" stamp set. The poinsettias were inked first with pink, then I rock n rolled the edges red. Notice that I scored all around the edge of the card.



The patterned paper and twine on both these cards are new!

The colors are from Hand Stamped Sentiments - Blushing Bride, Real Red, Pear Pizzaz, Pool Party (I added vanilla and suede)
Stamp Set: Season of Joy

I had thought that I made enough Christmas cards a long time ago, but, I recounted today and I needed 7 more. So now I only need 5. Yippee. It's not at all a hardship for me to make more!!! (And if I do have left-over I can use them next year!)

Second Christmas set

I made another set of Christmas cards. This time with Dasher!

I used the layout from Clean & Simple Stamping - Fall-to-Layout 145

The colors on 2 of the cards are from Inkspirations - 74 - Basic Gray, Melon Mambo, Old Olive and White






These cards will be for sale if you want them, or you can order any other cards.