Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays & a Wonderful New Year!

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Wonderful New Year to you all! Thanks for help making 2010 a fabulous, successful and wonderful year for me. I cherish your friendship, support and love so very much and I'm always ecstatic that anyone would want to stop by and see what I've done or read some of my nonsense, LOL!  It has been a year of ups and downs, surprises, many trips and new ventures for me and my family and some craziness all mixed in together.  But that's the way I roll I guess, hee hee and this year has been one of the best for me and my family with some bumps and bruises along the way--but that's life right!

I'm happy to say that I and my family are well, healthy and extremely looking forward to the holiday this year.  A little break for us all to really enjoy each other and reflect on the blessings and good times we've had this year!  I hope you and your family & friends get a chance to do the same and I hope it's a wonderful holiday week for you all!

Below in the post is my last holiday card for 2010 that I made---hope you enjoy it as it was fun to make!!

This is our family holiday card is and in my heart I'm sending it out to you all :)

NewsBitz:

-Remember my Holiday SALE is ongoing thru Jan. 4th, 2011 over at my Color Me Creative Classroom for all my online copic classes!  It's a great deal and they make great gifts too!  Go here to see details!

-Want to know where I'll be teaching my Copic Classes in the New Year?  See all the locations at www.cmcroad.com and more will be loaded soon (including Phoenix,AZ)!!  Earliest classes will be in January in Nashville and LA, CA!!

-Hidden Holiday Blog Candy in this post :)

-SCACD has it's carts closed down until Jan.2nd--so you can window shop but Susana is closing the store to take time off with her family :)  The Store will REOPEN on Jan.2nd with lots of NEW goodies!!

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Season's Greetings to you all!!

This is my last holiday card for 2010 sadly--I didn't even get to use all my beautiful holiday papers all up so they'll go in my holiday paper bin for next year's projects!  I have been wanting to use these beautiful holiday papers from BoBunny and this Magnolia stamp to do an all green card -- so I took time out yesterday to make this Christmas card.  I love the way it turned out and it may just be my holiday card to myself this year, hee hee!

I've entered this project in a few fun challenges including "Anything Goes" (to use the letter C for something--so C is for Christmas in my project), Papertake Weekly Challenge (anything goes), 365 Cards (something cute), Paper Playtime (anything Christmas) AND

This image is the "trigger" photo for Moxie Fab World's Trigger Challenge--so my interpretation is a wintry card of course below--except my Magnolia's mittens are just green & not striped :)

This card uses a fabulous winter image from Magnolia-licious from the Merry Christmas 2010 Collection called "Tilda in Winter Light" (she's out of stock right now) but the MINI version is in stock HERE!  But I have one to give away, so see the bottom of the this post for some Holiday Candy!  The papers are from Bo Bunny HERE and I used cs from PTI.  The pearl swirls are Prima and the sentiment is from PTI.  The holly punch-outs are from a MS Jumbo punch, then I inked the edges of the holly with white ink and then coated them with Stickles (stardust).  Do you love those embossing layers?  They are both done with Sizzix's NEW Basic Grey embossing folders which I adore--they emboss nice & deeply and ink up great (I inked them with SU River Rock ink).

 

I colored this cutie with Copics (G29,G24,G21,G20/E43,E42,E41,E40) and then I added Diamond Glaze to her boots.  To make her sparkly I used my Quickie Glue Pen to dot the fur trim on her coat and hat and then sprinkled Glamour Dust on top--love that stuff!  To add just a bit more dimension to the image I double-stamped the lantern and colored it twice.  Then I cut out the 2nd one and popped it up for dimension--the glass windows on it have diamond glaze and while wet I sprinkled more diamond glaze on top for extra sparkle!

Blog Candy:  I've got an extra Magnolia "Tilda in Winter Light" stamp, a Lacey Circles Nestability set (like I used above), and a pack of Basic Grey "Marjolaine" paper!  You can enter by leaving a comment telling me--

"What your holiday wish is for the New Year?"  

on this post only by Dec. 29th to win!  Winner will be announced by Jan. 5th!  thank you!

Have a very Merry Christmas and I'll see you at least once more before the New Year here at ScrapBitz!!  Happy Holidays to you all!