Merry Christmas Card

A warm hello to everybody, thank you for visiting my blog today.  I trust all my American friends and visitors have had an awesome Thanksgiving!  Blessings to all my browsers.

I have been busy working on my orders for Christmas Albums and have thus not entered any of my regular challenges for the past two weeks and I must share that have had some withdrawal symptoms "grin".  

So today I want to share a card I made last night to enter 2 of my most favourite challenges.  It has a distinct Christmas theme and will accompany a Christmas gift swap I am involved in; I hope you like it...

The brown and white striped paper is by My Minds Eye Peace sheet.  The red circled and the top layered paper is by Kaiser Craft and was a freebie with a magazine.  The post card, Christmas stamps and Merry Christmas sentiment is from the Place In Time Collection by Graphic45.  I used 2 crochet flowers, button by Prima while the heart shaped tag and flower die cut were gifts from a friend.The glittered heart, bling, twine, lace and ribbon from my stash.  Quick and easy!

At The Shabby Tea Room the current challenge is "tic tac toe' and you have to choose which items you are featuring in your project from one particular row - I have chosen 'buttons, sentiment and glitter'.  If you want to enter the challenge just click on their name above to be taken directly to the details on their website.

At the The Ribbon Reel the current challenge is 'crochet' - see the image below.  I love this challenge because it can be interpreted any way you choose. Just click on their highlighted name above to be taken directly to the challenge details on their blog.

I hope I have inspired you all enter the above challenges; they are awesome and so are their challenges.  Enjoy you stay and I hope to see you soon...

Rustic Shabby Card

Hey crafters, my project  today is a card with a tag and I am entering it in The Shabby Tea Room week # 136 "rustic elegance" challenge and in The Ribbon Reel # 39 challenge "shabby naturals" challenge.  If you are curious about their website just click on their names above to go directly to the challenge.  Awesome websites people and worth the effort!

I cut the checkered bag to the desired size using decorative scissors - the twine used in the tag peeps out from the pocket as the photograph below indicates...

The Prima burlap flower was got glued onto the center part of the vintage doily - I cut out that part and the tiny roses look so pretty in the center. 

I used canvas ribbon and lace from my stash  The leaves are also old stash which I have had for a long time - they were initially used for wedding favours I had made.

Its barely visible but I used white Adirondack paint dabber on the buttons to give it that shabby look and used ivory twine for the crisscross centers.  

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 The tag is quite simple to make - used the paint dabbers to shabby chic it and used the same vintage paper on the center.  

 The flowers in the center of the Jolees Boutique stickers is scented potpourri - love it!

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Products Used

brown checkered paper bag, brown cardstock

Vintage white embossed paper

Burlap, canvas ribbon, vintage crochet doily

Prima canvas flower, WOC tiny roses

Lace, WOC skeleton leaf, various leaves

Maya Road buttons and kraft tag

Jolees Boutique stickers, potpourri

Adirondack white paint dabber