Christmas Card~Cardabilities#65

Good morning!  Hope you are having a good day!  This morning I am posting my very first card for Cardabilities new Design Team.  It was suppose to be posted yesterday but for some reason my automatic post didn't post.  I am sure it was NOT operator error (wink..wink).

I am very excited to be on this new Design Team.  Cardabilities posts a new sketch on the 15th and 30th of every month.  Hope you will join along.  Their sketches are so cute and makes a great blue print for making cards.

I started with my card base which is Crumb Cake.  The back piece to the cut out is in Olive card stock.  For the ornaments I used the Holiday Ornaments Framelits.  I all the new Framelits that Stampin' Up has now.  They make cutting so easy!

Make sure to head over to all the other design team members blogs and check out their creations. You can find their blogs on the right in the sidebar or head over to Cardabilities where you can find them all.

Christmas Card

Happy Friday.  I love Friday's.  Why?  Because I know it means the next two days I can sleep in.  YAY!   I am so NOT a morning person.  I am not one of those people that want to be up when the sun comes up.  The last thing I want to have to do is get up when it is still dark...and that time of year is right around the corner.  YUCK!  Of course I am thankful I get to be home with my kids and that I don't have to work outside the home right now.  But...I will still say it...I don't like the mornings.  Oh, well...such is life.  I do however like my evenings.  That is when I do most of my crafting. 

I got some crafting done tonight before my arm started to bother me.  Not a sharp pain or anything...but after using it and having to use pressure with it to stamp...it is a little achy.  But it is totally worth it because I made my first easel card.  Yeah me! 

I made my first easel card using Label Collection Framelits and Ornament Framelits Dies.   I also used the matching Festive Paper-Piercing Pack.  The ornaments were cut from the Festival of Prints Designer Series Paper Stack.

Yes...I have been in the mood lately to made Christmas cards.  I love Christmas time.   Not only Christmas, but it is my birthday too.  I figure since my birthday is on Christmas I can start looking forward to long before Christmas.  I love that time of year and like starting my cards early!

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Merry Christmas

Hi fellow crafters!  Hope you are all having a wonderful week.  I was happy I got to sit down and do a little crafting today.  I decided to play along with this weeks sketch over at Always playing with Paper.  I found this challenge a while ago and like to play along when I can...why?  Because I am one of those people that if I don't find some kind of challenge to play along with then my Christmas cards are rushed and I am stress or they don't get done at all.   If I play along with these challenges then I do get some of them done. 

For the ornaments I got out a stamp set that hadn't been inked it. It is the set from The Stamps of Life called holly4Christmas.  I decided not too  put bulky embellishments on it because most of my Christmas cards are mailed and well we all know what happens when we put bulky embellishments on our cards.

Thanks for stopping by~Have a good evening!