BC109 Christmas Joy

Happy Friday Everyone.  This week the Blogger Challenge group is doing,  "Christmas in July" for the theme.  It sure felt funny making a Christmas card when it was 100+ degrees outside here.       

For this card I started by picking out a very old piece of DP  ( Daisy D's) that I've had in my stash for several years now and then picking out a sketch I wanted.  This week I managed to get to the MojoMonday sketch on time.  I really love having a starting point when I make cards as it saves a lot of time.

Next I picked out my stamps.  I borrowed this really cute set of Birdhouse stamps (Hero Arts) from my mom and colored it with Prisma Color Pencils.  I stamped a 2nd image and cut out the wreath and mounted it with foam tape over the original.  Then I masked the image and sponged on some So Saffron Ink.  *Note I am admitting to goofing by stamping the image on Whisper White card stock and then stamping my background on Very Vanilla so that's why I added the sponged ink but it worked. Then I stamped the Linen BG on the reverse side of the pattern dp and used a Scallop Nestie.  I added a Felt Poinsettia (Hero Arts) and some punched fronds (MS) of Always Artichoke and a Fire Rhinestone brad for the flower center.

I stamped the background strips with the Holly Flourish BG stamp (Hero Arts) with Garden Green ink on VV cs and then cut it into 3 strips and mounted them onto Always Artichoke cs and layered that to my patterned paper.  Next I stamped the Linen BG stamp onto the reverse side of the DP with Riding Hood Red ink and stamped the sentiment with Hunter Green and punched it using a Martha Stewart punch. I tied on some cream ribbon and mounted it with foam tape.

I like how this turned out and hope you do as well.  It's fun getting a bit of a head start on Christmas cards so maybe I'll keep it up and try to do more before Christmas rolls around and I'm out of card making time.

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