Snowman Friday

I find myself rushing to get posts up as Christmas quickly draws near and time is of the essence.  I have zero... ZERO snowman stamps, so I had to do a punch snowman.  I cannot believe I have no snowman stamps.  That will have to be rectified when I make my annual Christmas card order next year.  At any rate, I love this week's Friday Mashup.  Awesome colors, and snowmen!  How could you go wrong?

And here's what I did to make the mash:

I've definitely seen this punch snowman with arms, but I couldn't get them to look right.  I may continue to try, but I had to post before the linky closed!

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First Time Creating with Connie and Mary

Really, it's just the first time I finished on time!  I used the great sketch this week at Create with Connie and Mary Challenge.

I skipped the greeting, but other than that I stayed pretty true to the sketch.  Also, I used a hobby blade to cut out the cross shape out of a single sheet of paper, but I'm going to nix that idea for the duplicates I make for my Christmas card stash.  Too fussy!  :-)

And just because I hate having cards that aren't posted to my blog (now that I have one that is all of a few months old!), a card from an old Connie and Mary sketch challenge that wasn't done in time to enter:

Funny thing, when I was making this second one, I was pulling the sketch from memory, and it didn't have the ribbon, and I thought, you know what this needs?  A banner here.  Then I saw the sketch again, and sure enough, there was a banner there!  I guess those gals Connie and Mary know what they're doing!  :-)

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Cute as a Punch Santa

I wish I could take credit for thinking up the idea behind this punch Santa, but I'm just not that creative.  The first time I saw it was on this card quite some time ago.  I've been wanting to use it, and when I saw this week's Freshly Made Sketch, I thought he would work perfectly.

Other than the glitter and figuring out how to assemble Santa's face, this card came together very quickly.  My sister is visiting, and I have a bunch of Christmas cards out in my stamp/guest room, and she declared this one her favorite.  I hope you like it, too!

And Santa a little closer:

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Supplies Used

Card stock:  Garden Green, Whisper White, Read Red, Blushing Bride, Candy Cane Christmas SDSP

Ink:  Real Red

Stamp Sets:  Petite Pairs

Other:  Wide Oval Punch, Small Oval Punch (retired), Bird Punch, Ornament Punch, 1" circle punch, glue, Dazzling Diamonds, dimensionals

 

Ornaments, Stripes & Glitter

It's a week to try new challenges, and today I played along at Stamping 411 Saturday Sketch Challenge.  I knew I could make a super quick and easy Christmas card with that sketch.  I'm not 100% sure I love the results, but it's cute.  I elongated the sketch just because that was the direction my scrap of DSP was facing!  :-)

I have ornament DSP, an ornament accent, stripes embossed in my DSP, stripes on the ornament, and two sources of glitter:

And a close-up of the shine:

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Supplies Used

Card Stock:  Real Red, Baja Breeze, Candy Cane Christmas SDSP, Silver Glimmer

Stamps:  None!

Ink:  None!

Other:  Big Shot, Stripes EF, Real Red satin ribbon, Ornament punch, Decorative Label punch, dimensionals