Believe in Christmas for Merry Monday

Good Merry Monday morning.

Have a look at what we're doing this week....

Wendy (WeeBeeStampin4Fun) chose our challenge this week.

I love that box all dressed up for Christmas.

The believe kind of stumped me at first.

Then I remembered that I had bought a Tim Holtz die

with Christmas words.

Sure enough, believe was in there.

Yeah, Tim!

Be sure to check out what the rest of the design team has done.

Their designs always blow me away!

I hope you'll join us at

Merry Monday.

and get a head start on  your Christmas cards.

Since I die cut from snippets,

I can take this to

Pixies Snippet Playground

 April Rudolph Days

lasts until the end of the month.

It's ANYTHING GOES as long as it's Christmas.

Winter Wonderland

Twinkle, Twinkle (All Sparkly and Bright)

I'm so glad you stopped by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Ornamental Pine

Ink:  Soft Suede

Paper:  Naturals White, Snippets of green, white & gold foil

Other:  Pine Sprigs (Poppy Stamps), Holiday Words Script, Stitched Mats Rectangles (Lil' Inker), Red Cord (stash), Dazzling Details

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Ornamental Pine with Beauty of the Season

It's Merry Monday time again.

This card is a bit out of my normal CAS comfort range.

But it was so much fun to make!

I just started stamping pine boughs and pine cones.

Then I spotted this cardinal that I'd colored and it just came together.

Deanne is our hostess this week

and she chose one of my favorite subjects.

There's a lot of fussy cutting on this card.

These beautiful pine cones are from the Ornamental Pine set.
I stamped them in Soft Suede and fussy cut them out.

After curling them a bit with a bone folder, I adhered them with dimensionals.

Makes them look real doesn't it?

The bird was colored with Blendabilities and fussy cut and
 popped up on dimensionals too.

It's almost time to mail those Christmas cards out.

Hope you'll join us at  Merry Monday this week.

So glad you could stop by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Ornamental Pine, Beauty of the Season

Ink:  Mossy Meadow, Soft Suede, Tuxedo Black (Memento)

Paper:  Mossy Meadow, Naturals White, Whisper White

Other:  Blendabilities (Cherry Cobbler, Pumpkin Pie, Crumb Cake), SU Marker (Basic Black), White Gel Pen, Stampin' Dimensionals

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Ornamental Pine with Baubles

We're doing red, green and white for 

Merry Monday

this week.

I just happen to have a couple more with this color scheme.

Two different ornaments hanging from Ornamental Pin

And it's Sarn's last Rudolph Days Challenge

I wanted to be sure to play along.

Addicted to Stamps Challenge
HOLIDAY


Simon Says Wednesday Challenge
ANYTHING GOES


How do you like my new watermark?

I was very lucky to win this from Kylie.



Thank you so much Kylie.

I LOVE it!

I'm so glad you stopped by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps: Ornamental Pine, Christmas Bauble

Ink:  Mossy Meadow, Memento Tuxedo Black, 

Paper:  Mossy Meadow, Whisper White

Other:  Filigree Frame EF, Blendabilities (Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive sets), Basic Pearls, Gold Thread

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Ornamental Pine

Ink:  Handsome Hunter (retired), Cherry Cobbler, VersaMark

Paper:  Handsome Hunter (retired), Very Vanilla Textured

Other:  Stitched Circles Die (Lil' Inker), Holiday Ornament Die (retired), Corner Rounder Punch, Linen Thread

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Winter Birthday Wishes

I'm taking a little break from holiday cards today.

I love this sketch for Addicted to CAS

and I needed a birthday card for my BIL.

I think the two worked perfectly together.

Thanks for the visit.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Ornamental Pine, Four You

Ink:  Soft Suede

Paper:  Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Garden Green

Other:  Woodgrain EF, Pine Sprigs Die (Poppystamps), Simply Scored, Linen Thread

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Going Rustic with Ornamental Pine

Good morning peeps.

It's Merry Monday time.

Awesome Nina is our hostess this week.

What a perfect opportunity to use my favorite set

from the Holiday Mini Catalog, Ornamental Pine!

I even sponged around the edges for a vintage look

and didn't end up throwing it away!

LOL, I think I finally learned to use a light touch.

But I had to do a clean version too.

I got the idea of using the pine cones from Brian King

who was our awesome Guest Designer last month.

That post led me to Amy Whelan's blog for the how-to.

Thank you both for this idea.

I love it!

The Paper Players Challenge

is led by our friend LeAnne this week.

That first card looks vintage to me.

Karren said I should link this to Just Us Girls Challenge.

They're looking for wreaths.

I used Baked Brown Sugar ink and stamped the pine cones 3 times without re-inking.

Then I took out the masking circle and turned the pine cones around 

stamping around the circle again with the tops pointing in.

(When I made pine cone wreaths, I always had the pine cones going every which way.)

This was lots of fun and much easier than making a real wreath!

Which way do you like the best

Clean or dirty distressed?

I can't wait to see what you come up with for our rustic challenge this week.

Hope you join us at Merry Monday.

Thanks for the visit.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Ornamental Pine, Greetings of the Season (retired)

Ink:  Baked Brown Sugar

Paper:  Baked Brown Sugar, Very Vanilla

Other:  Simply Scored, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding, Stampin' Sponge (card 1), Basic Pearls colored with Cherry Cobbler Blendie (card 2)

All supplies are Stampin'  Up! unless otherwise noted