Christmas Card for the Sunday Swap!

I am going to our stamping groups monthly meeting on Sunday. I have my scrapbook pages done and ready to go and yesterday I finished up my "Holiday Card" for the swap. Don't be too excited over it, I think I may have cased it from a card I saw on SplitCoastStampers or someones blog. If I did case it please let me know who designed the card so I can give them credit and if I didn't case it well then, it's mine!!! LOL

Since this post I did get an email and I did case the card. I knew it looked familiar. The card I cased can be found here. It's by spandagirl74 (Maria). She did a fabulous job on her card. She stamped Merry Christmas on hers. Hey, I didn't say I was good at casing!!! LOL Check her card out and also her gallery of over 100 samples.

I REALLY liked the colors of this card and I was amazed at how adding only 2-1/8" piece of decorative paper not only adds a lot to the card but how far a 12" x 12" piece goes!!! I was able to make the cards for my swap and have some extra too! I don't know why I wanted extra, I have TONS of cards down here. I need to start boxing them up again for the soldiers. It all takes time and this time of the year is SO busy as it is. I've hardly touched my Christmas cards. I picked one with TOO many layers. But I know Katie will call me and tell me she will come over and help me with them!!! Right Katie?????

Back to the card. The adorable tree is from the Year After Year set. That is one fabulous set to own. There is a stamp in there for all the major events. The decorative paper is from the Stampin' Up! mini catalog and I used Always Artichoke for the main part of the card. When I finished it I felt the tree needed something so I added a little glue and glitter and it totally made the card!!!

This was a VERY fun and quick card to make and had I not cut all the card stock for my Christmas card I'd be making this one instead!!! I do have 39 days to make the cards before they are considered late!!! LOL

What is late is my Wednesday Sketch Challenge card. I'll be working on that tonight along with the last of the Santa Theme items. I do like Santa but I am a Snowman lover and to make these items into snowman stuff would be REAL simple. Just use white card stock and you're done!!! LOL Maybe a carrot nose now and then on a project!!! I do have a non-stamping snowman I'll put on the blog this weekend. He's a wonderful giftable item!!! Just teasing and tempting you here with all the new things coming up!!! You'll just have to come back to see them!

Thank you all for stopping by!
Wanda