CHRISTMAS REDS

One of my recent purchases was the Doodle Greetings 2 set CMS286 by Tim Holtz. It has one of my favourite Christmas sayings of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas as my favourite Christmas film is Meet Me In St Louis when Judy Garland sings that song.  I watch it every year! 

As the sentiments are so big I wanted them to take centre stage so did a selection of red cards with each of the sayings embossed in different colours.  The darker reds are the same red cardstock which have been inked up with some black ink.  It's very effective.

I'm adding these into the following challenges:

Colourful Options - Red 

Creative Fingers - AG 

The Outlawz Challenge - Christmas 

Krafty Chicks - AG 

Simon Says Stamp Wed - AG 

The holly and the Ivy - AG 

SMALL IMAGES

I seem to have been still in Christmas mode with my next card - hard to believe when we are suffering a heat wave in the UK that I should be thinking of Christmas! My card has been inspired by the challenge over at Less is More #400 which is small images.




Water Cooler Wednesday is doing Occasions and they mentioned Christmas so I'm adding that in there too

I've chosen a Clearly Besotted stamp set here called Shake it Up which has these cute little images to go inside the matching snow globe.  I stamped out my little images first and used a mask and then stamped the globe and the little small stamp showing the snow bank.  I coloured in the images with some SU watercolour pencils and a blender pen.  I fussy cut them all out and then hung them on some ribbon.  There is a touch of sparkle for the snow.