Bring on the Christmas Cards!

I am taking advantage of a very cold day here in Dallas and knocking out a few projects - we went from low 80's yesterday to only 53 today and very grey.  So I warmed myself up with Christmas cards.  And yes, I even made hot chocolate.  I admit - 53 is not cold to most people.  But a 30 degree drop in a single day just left me a bit unprepared!

The first card is for this week's Mojo Monday as well as the banner challenges at Pink Elephant and Use Your Stuff.  The papers are Little Yellow Bicycle; ornament is from Circut Art Philosophy; the scroll stamp, scroll die, and banner dies are from Verve, and the sentiment is from Cutting Cafe;s All About Christmas set which is packed with great images and sentiments.

Onto the next card - horrible photo but cute card!  This one also uses a digital file from Cutting Cafe - the stocking-shaped word art image from the Christmas Sentiments set.  It comes with a cutting file, too, so it was easy to add the shadow layer!  The sketch is based on a layout sketch from Let's Get Sketchy - Scrap Friendzy had a challenge to convert a layout sketch to a card and I thought this one would work well.  The three pattern papers are from Bazzil Believe collection and the "merry christmas" stamp is from Hero Arts.

Thanksgiving with Cutting Cafe

Cutting Cafe has some great digi files (her penguins and Christmas Sentiment Shapes are my favorites).  I used three different images from the Autumn Days collection - two in the circle and then the sentiment in the scroll.  The scroll stamp and coordinated scroll die are from Verve and the sketch was inspired by this week's Viva la Verve challenge).  The leaves were left over from an older project.  I hope all these ribbons are enough fro the Little Scrap Pieces "Ribbon or Twine" challenge - ha ha!  They make it look a bit like a giant award ribbon - oh well.  At least I can say I used a lot of my stash!