Monday, October 22, 2012

Hold Christmas in Your Heart

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Hold on to your jingle bells!  It’s Monday AND my first official Christmas card of the year!!  We had our first snowfalls this weekend during the nights so it didn’t feel that weird to break out the ornament stamps, dies and my beloved little jingle bells :)  Seriously, if I could get away with using those all year long, I would! HA!  I had time to play with this week’s Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch and it made me think of the gorgeous Vintage Ornaments stamp set.  So then I hauled out my Christmas paper and started playing with a non traditional colour scheme.  I’m definitely a non traditional girl when it comes to Christmas colours so the pink, aqua and red from this Crate Paper pad made me a bit giddy :)

Hey, just to let you all know…I’m getting pretty close to 400 followers!  I know not everyone signs up to be a follower and just follows via bookmarks or google reader, but I thought it would be fun to have a little “400” blog candy when it occurs…so stay tuned!

Have a lovely Monday!

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what’s in it?

stamps: waltzingmouse vintage ornaments, compact sentiments

ink: versafine onyx, pti aquamist

paper: pti rustic cream, rustic white, echo park dp, crate paper dp

accessories: spellbinders vintage ornaments, oval dies, pti buttons, thread, Michaels jingle bells, silver cording, paper doily, Funkie Junkie lace trim

16 comments:

Stephanie said...

I LOVE this WM stamp set!! Beautiful colours for Christmas & a beautiful card :) Get you little miss popular, can't say I'm surprised - you provide so much inspiration & you never make a bad card xxx

Lynn said...

Maureen, I had to giggle when I read your comments. I thought..."Oh there she is with those gorgeous jingle bells!" I love, love, love them. And I need to take a que from your non-traditional colors. THey are beautiful!

Debbie said...

Gorgeous card and I just became follower 399!

Tracey McNeely said...

Gorgeous card Maureen, great take on the sketch challenge. Looks like 400 may happen really really soon.

Marisa said...

This is definitely a Moe colour card :) Love the ornament and of course, those bells. I'm on the hunt for the craft kits with them at Mike's again :) You will be having a ball with the PTI hop combo's I'm sure - one of them screams your name ;)

Only 1 degree here today - brrrr!! May have to finally turn on the heat in the house!

Kelly S. said...

This makes me want to start singing "White Christmas", Maureen! A dreamy Christmas card in pastels! Love the glittered jingle bells to match the button. The doily looks like a beautiful snowflake!

Anne-Elise said...

Gorgeous card, Maureen! Love the beautiful doily, the cute bells and buttons! Fab work!

The Paper Parade said...

I love that bright big ornament :) And the perfectly placed buttons and sparkly bells are pretty neat, too ;) I can't believe you already had a snowball fight, and wow...400 followers?! That's awesome!

Meredith MacRitchie said...

LOVE it!! I can't believe how the weather has turned on a dime around here... the local mountains got a GOOD dusting over the weekend too.

This card is SO pretty, I love every single part of it. My favourite element is the buttons tucked behind the sentiment oval - I love the way it looks!!

Kate said...

I love your non-traditional palette and particularly those sugary jingle bells. The card is simply exquisite.

Julia Aston said...

How pretty Maureen! love the blue ornament and your lovely lace and doily!

Cathy Weber said...

Oh wow...love all that lace and the jingle bells and even glittered up buttons. This is a beautiful ornament card!

Jeanne J. said...

Oh Maureen! What a vision - this is drop dead gorgeous!! I love the snowy jingle bell and all the white that just gets me thinking winter!

Vickie Z said...

Gorgeous!!! Love the colors, lace, buttons, stamp....Kay just everything!!! Thought of you when I used my jingle bells on my first Xmas card!!!

Patricia said...

I love this, it is just beautiful. Just my style of card and I have that die, might just have a play later. I have not given Christmas Cards a thought this year.
Have a Great Day

Patricia

Edna Morrisedie said...

The layering of elements is just perfect on this perfect balance of old word and shine, well done and thanks for playing along again this week!

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