♫ ♪ ♫ It's Begining to Look a Lot Like Christmas ♪ ♫ ♪

Stamps: Santa's little Helper from Magnolia-licious
Paper: from the Magnolia So Jolly Collection
Other: 5/8" organdy ribbon; unknown teeny tiny buttons; Craft Boa; Polar White Flower Soft

Hello! Thanks for stopping by today!!
I hope that you don't mind that I decorated for the holidays around here! I usually try to keep the ol' blog fairly simple and uncluttered...but it just doesn't seem right not decorating it up for Christmas! :)

I have 2 cards to share with you today. Above is my card for this month's Magnolia-licious DT December DT sketch. Although, we have started to stray away from strictly sketches! This months hostess with the mostess is the oh so unbelievably talented Cheryl! Cheryl has challenge us to make a card in a shape other than squares or rectangles. You can read all the deets at the Magnolia-licious Highlites Blog about how you can participate.
Shaped cards are always a challenge for me. I never know what to do. As I mentioned last week, my inspiration at any given moment usually comes from me wanting to use a specific product or image and working the rest of the card around that. This is no different. I cleaned up my craft room a little over the weekend and found a few things that I forgot I had. One was this white fluffy boa. I know I bought this several years ago for a purpose...but forget what that purpose was! LOL! Anyhoooo, I was determined to use this. Finally I settled on a mitten. The great thing is that a mitten is such an easy shape that I could even draw the template freehand. Hahaha...I always say that if I could draw I wouldn't need to stamp! I would just draw up my own images. Unfortunately even my stick people leave a lot to be desired. HAHAHA. So I chose this ADORABLE Tilda to perch herself upon my mitten. Have I mentioned how much I {HEART} this Christmas line from Magnolia?! Each image is cuter than the last!

I am going to move right along to my next card. Because as usual it is after 3 am when I am typing this post up! And I rescheduled yesterday's appointment to today! (I know! I said I wouldn't...but it was snowing so heavy!)


Stamps: Retired SU! Snowflakes
Paper: Sugar Coated White from Doodlebug; Navy; Brushed Silver
Other: Navy Organdy; Martha Stewart Snowflake punch; blue and clear rhinestones; Silver pigment ink; Iridescent Ice embossing powder from SU!
Card Measures 5.5" sq


Today's 3CTC was a little hard for me. Most of the stamps I use these days are "line art". Meaning that they need to be colored in. ANd I was having a difficult time finding one that would be suitable using only the colors White, Blue and Silver. What was I thinking when I came up with this challenge?! LOL! I must have seen a card that I thought was pretty elsewhere that used these colors. :)



I thought about a card that I had made several years ago. And decided to "CASE" myself. But to somewhat improve on the original card. Jeesh! I hope that improved on a card that I made 5 years ago! The thing is: I thought I totally rocked that card back then!! LOL! Didn't we all?! LOL! You can see my original HERE.


As I mentioned in the recipe above, I used silver embossing ink...but Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder. (um, yeah, Christmas is about the only time I ever do any embossing...I am just too lazy the rest of the year to pull out that heat gun and all those little powders!) Iridescent Ice EP is a clear EP with sparkle to it. But because I used the silver ink, it maintains a silver color. In the close up picture I am trying to show that sparkle.

I hope that you enjoyed these cards today. I have to go to bed!

Have a Joyful Thursday!