Warm and Wonderful

Happy Wednesday!!  Can you believe tomorrow is the last day of November?!  I checked my Christmas card stash and realized I need quite a few more, so now every card I make needs to be a Christmas card!  Luckily, The House That Stamps Built has a great sketch challenge starting today and it was perfect for a Christmas card!!

Isn't that fun!?  I love sketches; they are great starting points for cards.  Here is the card I created:

Besides needing to make Christmas cards, I also have a "bits and pieces" stash that is growing and I need to work on making it smaller instead.  So, I searched through the stash and pulled out anything I thought would work.  I ended up using the large snowflake, the speech bubble and one of the pieces of fencing.  Yeay, three pieces used.  I wasn't sure about the speech bubble, but then I decided to use the snowman and it worked perfectly AND adds a fun touch.  This snowman is just super cute!  He's part of a swing set but I only used the one image as well as two parts of the sentiment that are included in the set.  I paper pieced his scarf and used the same paper for the little banner at the top.  I finished it all off with a recycled button and some nuvo crystal drops for snow on the image.

Supplies:
Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Snowman 2-sided Swing Stamp Set" I used the entire side 2 of the set as well as the second part of the sentiment from side 1 and "Snowflake Solid, small"
Dies: PTI "Fancy Flakes"; Sweet n' Sassy Stamps fence; MFT "Smartphone" speech bubble

Challenges:
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper
Scrapper's Delights--anything goes
Creative Fingers #141--anything goes
Crimbo #146--anything goes
Winter Wonderland--traditional red and green
Crafty Catz #314--anything goes with winter colors
Just Add Ink #287--red, green, winter
Alphabet Challenge--S is for snow people
Cardz TV #23--anything goes
Sweet Stampin'--favorite Christmas colors (the traditional ones are my favorite though I do love non-traditional, too)
Crazy 4 Challenges #413--Christmas/winter
Shopping Our Stash #331--snow much fun
Cuttlebug Mania--let it snow
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #20--anything goes