Thursday, July 22, 2010

Santa Claus is Coming To Town

My next card uses this cute Christmas stamp from Whiff of Joy called Santa With Snack. I added a little dry embossing using Fiskars texture plates to the red card stock. My flowers were made using 2 different size daisy punches from EK Success.

I made this card for the following challenges:

Digi Doodles Shops Best: Anything Goes

Whiff of Joy: Sketch

Stampavie & More: Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments: Choose Your Own Christmas Sentiment

Practical Scrappers: Use Something From Your Stash That Is More Than 1 Year Old (Daisy Punches)

Ann's Creative Nook: Dry Embossing

Christmas Card Challenge: Photo Inspiration (Colors)

The Cuttlebug Spot: Christmas In July

The Shabby Tea Room: Photo Inspiration (I used the colors and created a Christmas card)

Project Tuesday: Handmade Flowers

Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club: Santa

Christmas Stampin All Year Long: Bling It Up


Card Recipe:
Image: Whiff of Joy Santa With Snack Stamp
Paper: Red Cardstock, White Cardstock, DCWV Linen Closet Cardstock Stack ~ Green
Embellishments: Nicole Crafts Red Gemstones, Nicole Crafts Yellow Gemstones
Tools: Fiskars Dot Texture Plate, EK Success Daisy Punch, EK Success Mini Daisy Punch, EK Success 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Martha Stewart Doily Lace Edge Punch
Other: Crayola Colored Pencils, Prisma Colored Pencils



30 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just adorable, I love how you made the flowers with daisy punches! Thanks for joing us for this weeks Christmas Card Challenge!

Audrey Pettit said...

What a super cute Christmas card this is! Fun Santa image and I like the red and green background stripes. The layered flowers are lovely, too. Thanks for playing along with us at TSTR.

Debbie said...

Adorable holiday card! I like how you thought out of the box and turned a garden theme into holiday!! Thanks for joining us this week in the Tea Room :)

Karen said...

Very nice Mary, thanks for joining us at DCD Christmas Club.
xx

Karen said...

Very nice again.... lol, thanks for joining us at Digi Doodle Shops Best.
xx

Dragonlady said...

HI there

Great christmas card, thanks for playing at Aud Sentiments.

Hugs Ali x

KymKreates said...

Your project is just cute as pie!!! I am so happy that you have joined us at the Digi Doodle Shop's Best this week and Good Luck!

KymKreates
DT Coordinator

Jayne Hayward said...

Lovely colours and image used.

Thanks for joining in with us on DDSB

Jayne xx

Lisa in Texas said...

Lovely Christmas card, love the dry embossed red strips! Thanks for joining us this week at Practical Scrappers!

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Julie said...

Great card!! Thanks for joining us at Aud Sentiments

Judy said...

Very very sweet Mary. Thank you so much for entering this in our challenge at Digi Doodle Shop's Best.

Hugs
Judy

Lori said...

Mary I love your paper flowers, they are the perfect touch, thanks for joining DCD Christmas Challenge this week, hope to see you again for our new challenge tomorrow!

Maria said...

Wonderful job on your card, Mary! I love the blings that you added . . .very pretty. Thank you for playing along with us at Christmas Stampin All Year Long. Hope you'll play along with us again this week.

Maria

Unknown said...

Lovely card, great colouring. Thanks for playing along at Aud Sentiments, hope to see you next time.

KimS said...

Such an adorable X-mas card, and great flowers!! Thanks for playing along with us at Project Tuesday!!!

Sparkplug17 said...

Such a darling card!

Evgenia Petzer said...

LOVELYYY!!! Thank you for playing with us Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club!

Harriet H said...

Love your Christmas card...thinking i need to get started soon.... thanks for joining us at Digi Doodle Shop's Best this week.....

Harriet

Anonymous said...

This is too cute! Love the image!

Audrey said...

Super cute! I love the embossing. Thanks for joining us at Aud Sentiments.

Audrey said...

Super cute! I love the embossing. Thanks for joining us at Aud Sentiments.

Corinna said...

This is very cute! Way to use a daisy punch!

Corinna
Practical Scrappers

Monika Reeck said...

Another great card from you dear Mary...Thanks for joining DDSB this week again hugs..Monika

PapierGirl said...

What an adorable Christmas Card - love the Santa image and you gotta love that cookie! Thanks so much for joining us this week at TSTR! :)

BA said...

wonderful xmas card mary
danke fürs mitamchen bei SAM
xoxo BA

merniebug said...

Sweet Santa. Darling card. Thanks for joining us here at DDSB for this weeks ANYTHING GOES challenge.

Bev said...

Gorgeous card, love the fun colours. Thanks so much for joining us at WOJ this week x

Kiki said...

Such a wonderful christmas card!

Thanks for playing with us at SAM this week.

Hugs, Kiki

Amber said...

Adorable Christmas card!
DDSB Hugs
Amber