The truth is I've been enjoying the holiday too much to blog. I've spent a lot of time in my craft room and the Christmas cards have all been sent, and most have arrived. I thought I'd do a mass blog post to share some of my favorites and to enter them in a few challenges. First off a new to me challenge called Day of the Month. This month's challenge is Poinsettia.
Although I posted a couple of cards earlier featuring the Altenew "Modern Poinsettia," this one is my favorite and I'll be entering it in the Poinsettia challenge as well as The Christmas Kickstart Challenge.
I found both of these challenges through Michele Ferguson's blog. I've been following her for awhile now, and was lucky enough to have coffee with her when she was in Rochester recently.
Here's another variation:
The Altenew "Modern Poinsettia" turned out to be one of my favorite new stamps this year. One of my favorite new dies was My Favorite Things "Joyful Wreath." I made several variations of this card:
I had a chance to craft with two friends in November, and borrowed a couple of stamps from one of them. It's an older (now retired) set from Waltzing Mouse, but I don't recall the actual name of the stamp set. There were several images, but I chose two--a bird and a reindeer.
Snowflakes were also a theme this year:
I'm entering this one in the CAS on Friday challenge: Christmas.
Finally a group of cards made with Ink to Paper's "Modern Gift Tag" set. It seemed like I waited forever to get this set of dies, but luckily, I was able to borrow a friend's set while I waited or most of these cards wouldn't have made it to the post office in time.
My favorite of the bunch is this wreath which combines the MFT's wreath with the die cuts from Modern Tag. I'm entering this is The Flower Challenge where the challenge is to Use a Die.
We celebrated Christmas with Matt, Betsy, the girls, and Betsy's family last night. On Christmas night, they'll be back for the early part of the Walker family Christmas. We'll have dinner too late for the little girls, but there will still be seventeen of us gathered around two tables. Best wishes for a wonderful holiday!
