MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas to all! Hope you're all enjoying the day with family and friends. We're having our family Christmas this morning and heading to Kenosha with the rest of the family in the afternoon. We're thankful for everyone and everything we have!
I'm sharing my last Christmas project for this year, a gift bag for my mom's presents. I was inspired by this card that I saw on Splitcoast.
The kraft bag was stamped with the snowflake from Patterned Pines in Real Red, Old Olive and Soft Suede. The panel has a piece of the flocked specialty paper from Christmas Cocoa. There's a piece of the 1 1/4 inch Old Olive striped grosgrain ribbon that's wrapped up with a Circle Fire brad. I punched a piece of Whisper White with the Ornament punch. I stamped the leaf from Berry Christmas in Old Olive, the berries in Real Red, and "make merry" in Soft Suede. That's popped up with Stampin' dimensionals. The ribbon stamp was stamped in Versamark then embossed with Silver embossing powder. The tag is from Christmas Punch, layered on a piece of Old Olive punched from the Wide Oval punch.
Here's my recipe:
Stamps: Berry Christmas and Delightful Decorations, Christmas Punch, Patterned Pines
Papers: Whisper white, Old Olive, Real Red, Christmas Cocoa Specialty papers
Inks: Old Olive, Real Red, Soft Suede, Versamark
Accessories: Circle Fire brad, Ornament Punch, Scallop oval punch, Wide oval punch, 1 1/4 inch Old Olive striped grosgrain ribbon, Silver embossing powder, Mistletoe ribbon, Stampin dimensionals

Christmas Gift Card Boxes

It's a gift card kind of Christmas so I wanted to have a little something special to give them in. I make these pizza boxes using the Christmas Jingle SSK. I found the template here on Jen del Muro's blog. They are so cute and easy!

The papers, snowflake stickers and Old Olive scallop circle sticker are all from the Christmas Jingle SSK. I used the Ticket Corner punch on the corners of the papers. I colored the "Holly Jolly" stamp from the Christmas Punch set with Chocolate Chip, Real Red and Old Olive Stampin' write markers. The "Make Merry" is from Berry Christmas and the little flower image is from Season of Joy. The ribbon is from the Sleigh Bells set in the Holiday Mini. I used my Crop-a-dile to punch the hole thru the chipboard circles and tied them on with Gold elastic cord.

Here's my recipe:

Stamps: Berry Christmas, Christmas Punch, Season of Joy

Papers: Very Vanilla, Real Red and Old Olive, Christmas Jingle SSK

Inks: Real Red and Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Real Red and Old Olive Stampin' Write markers

Accessories: Ticket Corner punch, scallop edge punch, Curly Label Punch, Crop-a-dile, Sleigh Bells ribbon, Gold elastic cord

Snow Simple Suede Snowflake

This was a really fast and easy card to make! I just let the Christmas Cocoa Specialty paper do all the work. I cut a piece of the flocked snowflake and layered that on a Soft Suede card base. The little snowflake is from the Christmas Punch stamp set and was punched out with the coordinating Boho Blossoms punch. I used white craft ink for the Teeny Tiny Wishes sentiment and embossed that with white embossing powder. A silver brad attaches the snowflake and some ribbon completes the card.

Here's my recipe:

Stamps: Christmas Punch and Teeny Tiny Wishes

Papers: Whisper white, Soft suede and Christmas Cocoa Specialty

Inks: Soft Suede and white craft ink

Accessories: word window punch, white embossing powder, boho blossoms punch, 1/2 inch soft suede polka dot grosgrain ribbon, silver brad

Splitcoast Sketch #250 Christmas Cheer

I made this quick and easy card for the

Splitcoast Sketch #250 here. When I saw the squares I instantly thought of the postage stamp image from the Christmas Punch stamp set. I inked that up in Real Red, Old Olive and Soft Suede, punched it out with the 1 1/4 inch square punch and layered it with the 1 3/8 inch square punch in coordinating card stock. The Old Olive polka dot papers are from the Olive Patterns DSP and the Red and Suede papers are from the Christmas Cocoa Specialty Papers.

Here's my recipe:

Stamps: Christmas Punch

Papers: Whisper White, Real Red, Old Olive, Soft Suede, Old Olive Patterns DSP, Christmas Cocoa Specialty

Inks: Real Red, Old Olive and Soft Suede

Accessories: 1 1/4 inch square punch, 1 3/8 inch square punch, Stampin dimensionals

Splitcoast Color Combo #231 Mellow Snow Swirled

I made this card for the Splitcoast Color Combo #231 here. The colors are White, Kraft and Mellow Moss. I only have 2 sheets of Mellow Moss-obviously not one of my favorites. And I used the patterned Mellow Moss from the Level 1 Hostess Patterns Pack DSP III. The tree is from Snow Swirled. Looks a lot different than my card from yesterday doesn't it? I embossed the snowflakes with Versamark and Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder on Kraft and Mellow Moss.

I used the three snowflake stamp from the Christmas Punch Hostess set and the coordinating Boho Blossoms punch. A strip of Kraft was run through the Scallop Edge punch. The Merry Christmas greeting is from Teeny Tiny Wishes and I punched that out with the Word Window Punch and layered it onto a Mellow Moss piece punched with the Modern Label Punch.

Here's my recipe:

Stamps: Snow Swirled, Christmas Punch, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Papers: Whisper White, Kraft, Mellow Moss, Pattern Pack DSP III

Inks: Mellow Moss, Versamark

Accessories: Clear Stampin' Emboss powder, Boho Blossoms punch, Scallop edge punch, word window punch, Modern label punch, 1/4 inch white grosgrain ribbon, white gel pen, Stampin' dimensionals

Mojo#106 Christmas Card

Happy Monday to you! I'm keeping up with the MojoMonday #106 sketch here. and just getting a head start on my Christmas cards. I used the Christmas Punch Hostess stamp set on this one. I inked up the main image with Soft Suede and Real Red markers and used the Real Red Classic Stamp pad for the snowflake. The Boho Blossoms punch coordinates with the three snowflakes stamp in this set. I popped the snowflake up with some Stampin dimensionals. Being a "red girl" at heart, I love to use the 3/4 inch Real Red polka-dot grosgrain ribbon too.

Here's my recipe:

Stamps: Christmas Punch

Papers: Whisper white, Real Red, Soft Suede, Christmas Cocoa Specialty DSP

Inks: Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad, Real Red and Soft Suede Stampin' Write Markers

Accessories: Boho Blossoms punch, 3/4 inch Real Red polka dot grosgrain ribbon, Stampin' dimensionals

Mojo Monday #97

It's Monday and that means another sketch at the Mojo Monday blog here. Obviously, I have the Christmas in July mojo going on. And once again, using my favorite color, red. Only another 79 more Christmas cards to make.
Here's my recipe:
Stamps: The More the Merrier, Christmas Punch
Papers: Whisper white, shimmery white(large circle), Real red, Pink Flamingo designer papers
Inks: Real red, white craft ink, bashful blue
Accessories: Modern label punch, word window punch, 3/4 in circle punch, Boho blossoms punch, Bigz Scallop circle #2 die, Coluzzle, 1/4 in white grosgrain ribbon, white embossing powder, Stampin' dimensionals, blender pen, white gel pen

Christmas in July

I made this card for two challenges.

First, this challenge for Stamping 411.

And then this challenge on Splitcoast-Christmas in July.

I'm a Real Red girl at heart and had to have this new 3/4 inch polka dot grosgrain ribbon the minute I saw it in the new catty!

I really love the Christmas Punch hostess set too cuz there are so many cute images you can just ink up and punch right out!

Here's the info:

Stamps: Christmas Punch

Papers: Whisper white, real red, old olive

Inks: real red and old olive

Accessories: 3/4 in real red polka dot grosgrain ribbon, scallop oval punch, stampin' dimensionals