52CCTD24 Love Joy Peace

Happy Tuesday, peeps! Hope all are doing well...thinking of those affected by Hurricane Debby!  The weather forecasters predict it will probably hit PA on Saturday...just when we were planning a boat ride on John's new boat!  Anyway, I whipped up a little card yesterday using the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown sketch for the month:

I had about a bazillion ideas for this and my final product didn't use any of them!  I found some unused papers in my stash from Kaisercraft and went to work:

The papers on the card base have leaping deer on it, amongst the trees, so that was my thought when adding the Memory Box deer.  Unfortunately, the center panel covered them up, LOL!  But I continued with my deer and snowflake theme anyway!  The corner panels have a border of Lost Lagoon; the center panel is Crumb Cake and the deer is Evening Evergreen, accented with a little sequin!  I stamped the panel with some snowflakes and Christmas words, then sponged some white ink around the edges:

Not exactly what I had envisioned, but the end result was okay!  Thanks for popping in today!

SO now we have a boat:

We had a little sailboat for several years but sold it a few years back.  John's been looking for this particular make and model of power boat ever since!  This was the maiden voyage, after many, many hours of engine repair, other repairs and hours and hours of cleaning in the hot sun!  He is one happy boater right now.  I haven't been on it yet, but I look forward to some cool river air very soon!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

God, who made the world and everything in it, is Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.  Nor does he need anything that we can supply by working for him, since it is he himself who gives life and breath and everything else to everyone. Acts 17:24-25

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Words (Impression Obsession), Snowflakes (Kaisercraft)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Lost Lagoon, Evening Evergreen (ret), Wonderland (Kaisercraft)
Ink	Craft White, Evening Evergreen (ret), London Fog (Memento)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Sequin from my Stash
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Deckle Edge Dies, Countryside Corners Dies, Dashing Reindeer Die (Memory Box), Sponge Dauber

AYSI170 Take Two Pink Poinsettia

Hi everyone!  Happy Friday!  I can't help being a wee little bit disappointed because we haven't had any participants in our latest As You See It Sketch, which I thought was really fun!  So I decided to do a second card, this time a Christmas card, and it also uses the poinsettia prompt from JoAnn at Merry Monday:

I went non-traditional with my poinsettia from Joyful Christmas, coloring it with Sweet Sugarplum ink after embossing it with gold embossing powder on Shimmery White cardstock.  Here we go:

It's too bad the photo doesn't really capture how pretty this is....I used a piece of Brushed Gold cardstock for my square panel, and the lacy image from Touches of Texture, stamped in Gold Encore ink, for my vertical image:

I added some sequins and a little burlap ribbon for an organic feel, then added a sentiment in Sweet Sugarplum on the inside:

I hope this will inspire you to play with our sketch this week....there are so many interesting possibilities with it!!  Show us yours at As You See It!

No Cassidy pictures today, but I did snap this before I went into the post office...our postmaster really keeps his flower beds neat and tidy, and it's proof that spring actually will arrives SOMEtime!:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Touches of Texture, Joyful Christmas (ret), Christmas Edition Collection  (Kaisercraft)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Sweet Sugarplum, Shimmery White, Brushed Gold (ret)
Ink	Sweet Sugarplum, Crushed Curry, Soft Suede, Gold Encore (ret)
Accessories	Gold Sequins (ret), Burlap Ribbon
Tools	Dimensionals, Aquapainter