52 Christmas Card Throwdown - 11.23

52 Christmas Card Throwdown was really a challenge this week.  I don't do a lot of scenes and have few critters but I did have one stamp set that worked for their 'Snowman and Deer' theme.

Both images are from Your Next Stamp's Snowglobe set but they were too big to both fit in that globe so I made my own using WaffleFlower Nested Domes.  The background was inked with Speckled Egg DI and the figures colored with PolyChromos pencils.  The snowflakes are from PPP.

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Addicted to CAS #124

Our host Carolyn has chosen 'bows' for our challenge at Addicted to CAS.  I have seen some wonderful layered bow stamps but not in my stash.  I went looking for any bows I had that would carry itself on a card and settled on this one.

The snow globe and gift are from Your Next Stamps, colored with Zigs.  I did add a few snowflakes from CASual Fridays that you can barely see, which was the idea.

I had a mis-stamp on my first card but I resurrected it into this card.

I took the bubble die from CF and cut the offending sentiment off, leaving this small panel which I mounted on some DSP.  The die cut was a gift from Concord and 9th with an order.

We'd love to see what you do with the code word "Bows".  The winner of this challenge will receive a $10 gift certificate to Stamplorations.  Why not go see what the Design Team has for your inspiration and then make card for the gallery.  We'd love to see you there.

Inspired By All the Little Things #37

I love gingerbread cookies and none are lovelier than those in the jar on the Inspired by All the Little Things challenge.

I took me a while to transfer the idea in my head to paper but I finally succeeded.

The snow globe is from Your Next Stamp, stamped in SSS Fog.  I used white heat embossing, Altenew Sand Dunes, Zig light gray, glitter glue and glitter to finish it off.   I chose  the background paper to simulate the striped ribbon and added the layered die cut from SSS.  I also layered the globe with all my rejects.

I'm typing this on my new Chromebook to see how it's going to work out and I'm so excited that I can now go away and still be able to keep up with all of you and my design team work.  No plans yet but I like to be prepared. As my husband just said "This has to be the best Christmas present ever." My kids are good to me.

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CASology #77 and Happy Little Stampers Sketch and Anything Goes

I originally made my card for Happy Little Stampers Sketch Challenge (see sketch below) but because I used one of their sentiments, I can enter it into their ongoing "Anything Goes" challenge, too.

The snowglobe and Santa are from Your Next Stamp, colored with Distress Inks, after embossing a few snowflakes with Sparkle ep.  I'm thinking this may qualify as a toy so I'm going to send it to CASology as well.