Card Quartet

Happy New Year!!  Can you believe it is 2015?  Not only is it the start of a new year, it is the start of a new month and that means it is time for another challenge from Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra.  As always, it is a month-long Anything Goes challenge.  Our sponsor is the fabulous Bugaboo Stamps.  I used the super cute "Christmas Words--Jesus" image to create this card quartet:

 The challenge from Viva La Verve this month is to use one sheet of 6x6 double-sided to create 4 cards with the sketches and cutting layouts provided in the challenge post.  I had so much fun creating cards for this post that I decided to use the challenge again to create my cards for today.  Since I don't have any double-sided Christmas paper, I actually used 2 sheets of paper and cut both of them into the given measurements.  Then I created EIGHT cards!!  Yep, eight, all in one day!!  That might be a new record for me.  The other four are "thank you" cards and I will be posting them soon.  But enough talking, here are close up pictures of the four different cards:

 I used the same embossing folder, patterned papers, and sentiment (and obviously the image) for all of them, but the different layouts really make them each unique.

 I got a new little kitten a couple months ago, and every time I try to take a photo of my cards, she tries to get in on it.  It makes the photo sessions a bit difficult. : )

Challenges:

Viva La Verve Challenge--one-sheet wonder

Dragon's Lair Challenge #54--Christmas

Creative Inspirations #294--Christmas/New Year

Divas By Design--anything goes

The Paper Shelter--anything goes

Time Out Challenge #21--Christmas is Love with all the trimmings

Di's Digis--anything winter holiday

The Paper Nest Dolls #25--anything goes

Christmas Card Challenge #4--anything goes

Card Mania Challenge #63--anything goes

Supplies:

Stamps: Bugaboo Stamps "Christmas Words--Jesus" digi; Verve "Richly Blessed" sentiment

Dies/embossing folders: Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large"; Darice snowflake embossing folder