Christmas in July

Happy Wednesday and thanks for taking the time to visit the charmed life blog. Hope you are all enjoying the lazy, hazy crazy days of summer. I sure am.

We are having a fun week with our youngest grandson, Ethan. He has a basketball camp on our end of town and has been staying over with us all week. He loves it because his brothers aren't here, and he gets all the attention.

It's a big change in my routine and at the end of the day I am tired and so ready to go to bed (lol)!! Guess that's why you have kids when you are young.

Well, lets move onto my card because I have to leave in a bit to go and pick him up from the camp.

I made this one for the color challenge on splitcoaststameprs. Karen barber was our hostess and she picked a great trio of colors. She is calling it "not quite breezy cobbler". A catchy name wouldn't you agree?

It's not quite navy, baja breeze and cherry cobbler.

My flower pot & poinsettia image is something new I bought at the stamp show this week-end. Its from Darcie Stamps company..


They sell these images they call "u-cuts". Sort of like die-cuts but you cut them out. They are already pre-colored so it makes for a quicker card.

I bought some Christmas themed ones and decided to use the poinsettia and pot for this challenge. The pot would cover the baja breeze color requirement.

My patterned paper is from Stampin-Up's  "jolly holiday" collection.

On the not quite navy panel I used a cuttlebug snowflakes embossing folder. To the very vanilla border punched scallop layer, I added some cherry cobbler seam binding and bakers twine.

I popped on a button to complete the card.

Some other challenges:
1.  I used the layout from the Sweet Sunday sketch challenge #125.
2.  Simon Says Stamp has an anything goes challenge.
3.  The word play weekend challenge is Christmas /Winter.

That's it for today, so until next time................