merry & bright

Happy Saturday and thanks for taking the time to visit the charmed life blog. Fall is in the air and that makes me think of Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I bought my first Christmas gift yesterday. What I have been doing in the past few years is to shop online and the TV shopping channels.
It's an easy way to get what I am looking for. So I will see if that works for me again this year.

My card for today is for 2 challenges:

1.  Saturday is also the inspiration challenge on splitcoaststampers. I love playing in that challenge because it really gets your creativity flowing. This week the site Poster Cabaret was a bit challenging for me. So I really had to get my creative thought process in gear.


Most of the posters weren't taking me anywhere. Then I found the Christmas story movie poster. It got me to thinking about Christmas and Christmas trees and my card was taking shape.


this is our layout

2. The Waltzingmouse sketch challenge was a great one this week. As soon as I saw it, I knew it would work well for my Christmas card that I was about to create.


I used a die-cut from an old Stampin-Up scrappin' kit "sparkling holiday" for my main image. The sentiment is from the Stampin-Up 'all year cheer" stamp set. I punched a circle and added some gold cord.
My background papers are from Basic Grey's "fruitcake collection".

Another Christmas card completed!! I may use this layout and make some more of this design. I will have to stamp a tree but I have the perfect one to use.

Time to clean up my stamping area and I am going to try to get some of my paper organized. God Bless and have a great week-end!!

card recipe:
paper: su old olve textured, basic grey fruitcake, sparkling holiday scrap kit

ink: old olive, riding hood red
accessories: circle punches, gold cord