Christmas Day

Once again, adding to my Christmas card stash, I used the Sweet Sketch Wednesday #153 sketch (but I did turn it on it's side) and the Crafty Hazelnut's Chrismtas challenge to create a project using traditional Christmas colors (red and green).  It turned out a little differently than I had planned, but I think it's growing on me.  The calendar image was a bit more involved than I had anticipated.  The main stamp and the calendar additions set (month names and year numbers) are from Clear Dollar Stamps (from their clearance section I believe).  But once I got into the set, I discovered that it didn't have all the numbers for the dates, so I had to dig out an Inkadinkado set I got a while ago in a big sample pack.  I used the Christmas tree from PTI's "Places, Please" and a small circle from their "Simply Stationery" set to draw attention to Christmas day.  The border die is from PTI and I used the leftover pieces from the inside of the die to create the tab on the left hand side of the main panel.

For interest on the inside of the card, I used the same calendar stamp (stamped off on scrap paper first to lighten it) and stamped the tree in the Christmas square but didn't use the numbers to make it a little more simple.  The sentiment is from Verve's "Ornamental Christmas" set.