Merry Monday #275 Pastel Colors

        It's the start of a new week. I kept putting off Merry Monday's challenge last week and guess what? Never did participate. So today I made it a priority to  create a Christmas card for the Merry Monday challenge this week.

     I am loving the mix & mat dies from PTI. I decided to use my new confetti die. Thought it resembled snow with a stretch of my imagination.  The colors in the inspiration photo are some of my favorites for creating an up beat Christmas card. This card came together pretty quickly. I fussy cut the penguin. (He's from an old Hero Arts Christmas set.. You know the time before dies were popular. lol)

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Balloon Bash:

  My niece had a birthday earlier this month. Her favorite color is yellow. Here's the card I made for her..

I'm entering it into the very popular Addicted to Stamps challenge this week.

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PTI Blog Hop January 2018

I can't remember when the last time I participated in one of  PTI"s Blog Hops. Since one of my New Year resolutions was to try to keep my blog active this year I decided to participate this month. Besides who could resist the gorgeous inspiration photo.

My card was inspired by the soft shades of pink. 

I used my new balloon template to sponge the balloon on the Confetti Mix and Mat in Pale Peony.

I used one of Melissa Philip's trick of using one edge of the Mix and Mat to ground my focal point.

I just loved the January release of PTI.

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Merry Monday #273 Red & Turquoise

Still having cold, snowy weather which continues to encourage me to work on my Christmas stash for 2018.  The challenge this week at Merry Monday is to create a card using the colors red & turquoise which I happen to think is a very pretty combination.
I pulled out my old Polka Dot tree stamp fro PTI to create this card. the sentiment is from Peaceful Poinsettia. i wanted to accent the top area around the tree with a mini stamp from rustic wreath, but somehow I have misplaced it. Hopefully, I'll locate it before December.

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Merry Monday #272 Glasses

Good Afternoon. With the snowy weather we are about to receive later this evening, it seems fit to be making a Christmas card. So I have decided to play along with this week's challenge at Merry Monday.

 If this card seems familiar to you my card is a muse of one of Melissa Phillips' card.

Just have to stamp a sentiment inside and I'll have card #6 done for 2018.

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Make-It -Monday # 308 2017 Ala Carte

Happy New Year. Once again, I'm making a resolution to keep my blog up for 2018.  The same resolution as last year. Looking over my posts, it only lasted until March. Hopefully, I'll do better this year.
My first post of 2018 is for Papertrey Ink's Make it Monday which is to pick one of the challenges from 2017 that one didn't participate in.  Seems like there were several for me to chose from.  I picked #296 which was done by Lexi Daly (Small images on repeat).
I chose to do a Christmas card because I don't want to be making 50 of them in November.
 (I already have 5 done.)

I used the small holly stamp from Holly Jolly (an oldie but goodie stamp set. The die is from Ways to Say Merry Christmas.

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