CAS Christmas - June

I am honored to be the guest designer for the CAS Christmas challenge for June.   I won in April with this card and was invited to be part of this month's challenge.  It's a masculine theme and I had an idea right away for my cards. 

I've used this PTI set before but never the die with the holes.  I used buttonhole thread to string them just like real snowshoes.  I wanted to add a little color so I heat embossed the PB sentiment on navy cs and added a strip of navy down both sides.

The Design Team has some wonderful masculine Christmas cards for your inspiration over on the blog.  We hope you'll join us for this challenge.  Just remember to make it CAS.

I'll see you back on the 17th with another card.

Addicted to Stamps and More #179

It's CAS week over at Addicted to Stamps and More.  Our sponsor is A Day for Daisies and the winner of the challenge will get a $12 gift certificate to their store.

I needed a card for a lovely lady who will be turning 95 next week and I made this for her.

Both the background and number paper are from PTI.  The 'fabulous' die is from Essentials by Ellen, cut from metallic paper and layered several times. It's mounted on some torn vellum and silver thread.  I didn't have an 'at' stamp or die so I cut the word Christmas from an E by E set, since they are both in Julie's handwriting, and cut it apart to spell the word,  I also layered the number dies from MFT.

What will you make for the challenge?  If you need inspiration, check out what the rest of the Design Team has for you and I hope to see you in the gallery.