Holiday Joy!

Happy, happy Friday to you all!  Dontcha' just love the weekends?  And this weekend the weather is supposed to be bee-u-tiful here in VA and I'm so happy about that!  We've got lots of stuff going on this weekend since its Homecoming weekend for my daughter---nail/hair appts, parties, football games, kids here at the house, lol--it all makes my head spin I tell ya!  And I'm hoping to go to the Pumpkin Patch on Sunday with the family too--love to have warm weather when I go to the patch, always unpredictable!  My mom will be up this weekend too :)  I hope you enjoy the fall weekend with your family as well!

NewsBitz:

-SCACD has some new goodies in stock that you don't want to miss!!  Beautiful NEW paper pads from Kaisercraft and Webster's Pages!  Also new Flower Soft in Gold & Silver--stunning and tinsel like!

-Also SCACD has a NEW surprise artist coming next week along with a new stamp line--they are GORGEOUS!!  To get you thru until the release there is a FABULOUS BLOG CANDY on the store blog HERE that you MUST ENTER starting Saturday, lol!  Don't miss out!

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Enjoy your Holiday!!

Today I have another Christmas card for you!  I send about 25-30 handmade cards out for the holiday so this is #5, lol, 20+ more to go, yikes!  I love, love Lockhart Stamp Co images--they're always fun to color and a nice break from the "cutesy" stamps that I usually create with.  This image is available at SCACD and its called "Christmas Candles & Presents"--see the whole new collection HERE!  This card is also for this week's TRY IT OUT CHALLENGE and this week I challenged the team with a sketch--see the store blog for more fab DT projects with this sketch I created!  I flipped the sketch for my card :)

I used the new paper pad from Basic Grey called "Jovial"--I love the elegant papers and the touches of black--very cool!   I used some NEW Petaloo Velvet poinsettia flowers and the pine branches were made with this die from Marianne Designs (love this). I bent the pine needles up a bit to make them look more realistic.  Three black buttons from PTI and threaded with red/white string finish it off!

Some stickles on the candles and pine needles and diamond glaze on the Xmas ornaments finish it off nicely.  The sentiment is from a new holiday set from PTI!

I sure hope you enjoy the weekend & I'll see you back here on Monday with a new project!!