More Christmas

Happy Saturday and thanks for taking the time to visit the charmed life blog. Today I finished my Christmas cards and addressed them.
This process is a tedious one. I have to look through my cards and decide who gets what. I have my a, b, & c lists and then I have to divide my cards into a, b &c cards. My husband just laughs at me.

Now, I can move onto the decorating. I started to bring out boxes and managed to get my 3 nativity sets put out and some decorations on one of my trees.

Then I remembered that I had to order the sweatshirts that my grandsons asked for over a month ago. So that put a halt to the decorating for today.
I will work at it again some more tomorrow.

So now onto my card for today. I am showing more of the cards I made to send to family & friends.

 I used this sketch from the mojomonday blog. It's #164. I used it previously on this card. I liked the layout so well that I decided to use it again.

 I stamped, embossed and punched out the ornament from Stampin-Up's"tags till Christmas" set.

I paired it up with  designer paper from Stampin-Up's "jolly holiday" collection. I really liked this designer paper but I hardly used it for my Christmas cards and that was not my intent at all. Oh well, there is always next year.

My white panel is embossed with a cuttlebug folder from the winter wonderland collection. There are 6 different folders in this set.

I bought it from Bonnie McLain's "toyz for paper" store. She has great prices on cuttlebug & spellbinders dies.

I finished my card with some cherry cobbler seam binding and added my sentiment. That completed this card. It's addressed and being sent off to North Carolina.

I entered this card in a few challenges as well.

1.  craft your passion blog had an anything goes challenge this week,

2. Tthe daring cardmakers blog had a snow much fun challenge. You are to use snow somewhere in your card. My embossed panel is done in snowflakes. There is also a snowflake on my ornament.

3.  The paper pretties blog had a challenge to use punches. I used the stampin-up ornament punch.

4.  The stamps r us blog wanted us to make a holiday card.

5.  The stampavie blog has a Christmas challenge this week.

6.  The penny's paper crafty challenge has a "merry christmas challenge this week.

7.  The oh alice blog had a challenge of red & green +one. That's my card!!

And now it's time to dim the lights in charmed life land for today. Church in the morning and then we have a Christmas play at church that I volunteered to help serve desserts. So it will be a full day of activities. God Bless!!

card recipe:
stamps: su all year cheer
paper: su cherry cobbler,ww, jolly holiday dsp
ink: cherry cobbler
accessories: cb ef, seam binding, nesties, oval punches, gold ep