CAS Sketch

Wow!  Who’d have thought it would take so long to get back into things after a holiday!! It is true what they say….you do need a holiday to recover from a holiday!!
Anyways….I was scooting around a few challenges last night looking for inspiration and decided to give the Clean and Simple Stamping sketch a go and because they are sponsored by Jingle Belles this week….another excuse to use my Stampin’ Up! Christmas stash!

I’ve used Lovely as a Tree and Welcome Christmas to make the image by heat embossing it using Versamark ink and clear embossing powder.  I’ve used dazzling diamond to add a bit of snow to the image.
The greeting is from Contempo Christmas and I’ve heat embossed it in the same way. 



I’ve matted and layered the image with  Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive textured card and 3d’d this onto Jolly Holiday DSP.


I’ve matted the greeting on to Cherry Cobbler and made it into a tag which I’ve tied to the side of the card.
So now I’ve started, I’m gonna find it hard not to keep making Christmas cards!! I love it! .
I’m also entering this in the following challenges:
CAS-ual Fridays {Embossing}
Craft Us Crazy {Anything Goes}

Hope you like it.
BFN
Linda
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Christmas in August

Woohoo!  What better way to celebrate the return of the good weather then with a Christmas card!!  Having just received my new stash from Stampin’ Up it was the first thing I thought of when checking the Less is More challenge this morning.  This week we need to use the colours of our country’s flag…so for me that’s red and white.

I’ve used an image from Welcome Christmas and a sentiment from Contempo Christmas in Poppy Red.  I’ve matted and layered the image using nestabilities and trimmed the card with 3 different ribbons from my stash….and I think the sentiment says it all really.
Hope you like it .
I’m planning to do a Christmas class towards the end of August.  I WILL get round to sorting this….honest!!!  But this week I’ll be out and about with the kids.  Lots of day trips planned and not much time for crafting ….boooo!!!
Enjoy your week….
BFN
Linda
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