Christmas Trio

I had time to play a little last night after mowing the lawn. We got it in before the start of the rain. As I was looking through a pile on my desk, (do you have piles like I do?) I found several Bugaboo Christmas image already colored and ready to go. So why not use them.

The image is Bugaboo's Christmas Trio Block. I'm pretty sure I used Copics to color this image.  I die cut the image with Gina Marie Cross Stitched Rectangles. I was following the Tuesday Morning Sketch design for this week.

So the sketch dictated some of my choices. I used the Laurel Leaf border punch to create the border under the image. The designer paper is from American Craft Christmas paper. I couldn't decide what I wanted to do with the little squiggles to the left but I finally decided to fashion this wreath out of Doodle Twine and found these wooden embellishments that I got eons ago from a Simon Says stamp kit. So the wreath ornaments and the embellishments bottom right are from that stamp kit. The sentiment is from Altenew Halftone Holidays. I stamped the sentiment with MFT Cherry Crisp Pigment ink and then embossed with clear embossing powder. But the red ink reacted with the green cardstock so it really looks black anyway. LOL! So I am entering these challenges:

• Tuesday Morning Sketches: sketch above
• Catch the Bug: anything goes
• Addicted to Stamps and More: holiday 
  
• Crafty Hazelnut Christmas challenge: anything goes
• The Outlawz Paper ala Mode: non-birthday celebration

Wishing you a happy Friday and a wonderfully relaxing weekend. We just found out that one of our sons is coming to the area for a wedding and we'll meet up with him in Indianapolis on Sunday for a brief visit before he flies back to Boston. I am really excited to get to see him. Thanks for stopping by. Take care!

Donna