It's a Grumpy Christmas

 Another lovely day at the cottage, another holiday card made and plans on the itinerary for another except I had not planned on a trip to Port Dover to Len's Mills for supplies, like foam dots, I realized I had not packed them so couldn't pop my image up. I decided to follow a Sheetload sketch from November 2024. there are instructions to make 8 cards but there is also the measurements for just making one and they help you use up patterned paper and scraps. I also followed the Jingle Belles tic/tac/toe challenge board. 

Stretching it a bit for the Jingle Belles it was the left vertical  line animal/diecut/red and I only have two die sets, circles and hexagons and a few word dies but they just didn't fit. I even had a scrap of smooshed water colour paper in my basket of scraps. It took me longer to pick out 2 patterned papers that I thought went together nicely than it took to make the card.

Finished the inside with a scrap of patterned paper and a wood block stamp from Michaels eons ago. It's so much easier when you have a couple of challenges that make it easy and a sketch that ties them together. 

So on to where I am adding this card.

Jingle Belles ~~ Tree Skirt Tic/Tac/Toe (left vertical line)

Animal/Diecut/Red 

Christmas Kickstart ~~ #100 Merry go round

I'm glad you stopped by today to see my newest holiday card, I hope you are making progress with yours, both these challenges are great for building your stash. 

All Bundled Up

 The challenge at the Jingle Belles is "All Bundled Up" which interprets to Lots of Layers. Layers are not a problem for me unless it's for a challenge then I have a problem, Not as many layers as I had planned but it's only my second trip to the cottage and my "gathering" wasn't as good as I thought,  Note to self organize a whole card including the inside sentiment. 

Isn't he the gumpiest of gumpys? I made a 5 1/4 inch square card, I have a base and two layers and the image and 3 layers. plus the sentiment popped up. The patterned paper is Carta Bells Cabin Fever.

As I said my gathering skills were not good last Sunday when I packed I only brought a couple of inside sentiments none were really worthy of the grumpy snow bear. 

I am adding this to:

Jingle Belles ~~ All Bundled Up

Thanks for stopping by today and check out the Jingle Belles Challenge they have awesome prompts. 

C is for Cats

It's a new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers....C is for Cats and as you know cats are known to have  Cattitude and that might just translate to "Snarky".  I used a grumpy cat digital image from Bugaboo Stamps and fitted him/her out for a snarky Christmas.

Bugaboo Design image,  didn't pay attention to which 6 X 6 paper pad I used (had three I was leafing through) ribbon was on my table so added it. Sentiment computer generated.

Couldn't resist a close up of Grumpy Christmas Cat.

The sentiment

The Punchline 

Since the challenge is cats I'm entering this in:

ABC Christmas Challenge ~~ C is for Cats

 Show us your Pussycats ~~ anything furry goes.

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #28 ~~ RED

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the MAIN BLOG and see what super snarky cats  the design team have made......they are hilarious.