I missed posting my cards for the last Jingle Belle Challenge which was to add an ornament element to our cards. As you can see, this little bird is decorating his/her branch with some Christmas ornaments to make it a little more festive.
The bird on the branch stamp and die is from Your Next Stamp. I glued it on a die cut oval and added that to the card base that I used my new Tartan Builder stencils from The Greetery on. You can see I had a few of these cut and colored.
I also had this "creature" on the work table for the previous Christmas creature challenge. This stamp "Pablo the Penguin" comes from Crafty Individuals stamps, a European based stamp company that has a US distributor thankfully. I fussy cut this guy and accidentally colored the top of his head red on the first card, but I was hoping that it would pass for a hat instead of a headband as I didn't want to discard it after all that coloring and cutting. What do you think?
Here it is colored correctly.
I have a few more Christmas creatures you may see this year and there's a set of creatures that I used for Thanksgiving greetings you'll see later this week once they're received in the mail.
HWNSNBP shared his "allergies" - translate that to "cold" - with me 2 weeks ago and of course he recovered from it within a couple of days, but mine developed into bronchitis and a sinus infection and has really taken the wind out of my sails putting me farther behind than I intended to be at this time of the year. I finished one round of antibiotics and will start another one today and I'm hoping that there will be significant improvement so I can get our Thanksgiving preparations underway. I'm still about 8-10 cards short for Christmas but I'm not worried about that. We've started the shopping and need a few more ideas to get that done. But there are some hand-made projects that I wanted to get to and the house will need a good cleaning before the Christmas decorations come out. I know it will get done - it always does - I just don't want to be stressed about it and be able to enjoy it. Hard to do when you're not feeling up to it. Wish me luck.
Lovely cards, oh, feel better soon, bummer!
ReplyDeleteThe bird on the branch is just adorable - sweet ornaments he is decorating his bough with. You have made me think I need to use my plaid builder stencil more!!
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I think the first penguin totally works. I have a penguin with antlers from a magazine, and his antlers are definitely more on a beanie than a headband, so if you hadn't said, I wouldn't have noticed.
I don't think I needed to know about Crafty Individuals ;-). And since they don't say anything about whether they take tax off before shipping to Europe or whether the buyer is liable, I shall not take too close a look. Love the gingham ribbon on the dotted background.