A Very Vintage Christmas.....

Hello everyone: Every year, a little before the Holiday season starts, Brian King organizes a Holiday card swap for all of his blog followers, he asks us to make a card, using current SU products as much as possible and send it to him, along with a self addressed and stamped envelope, at his house, where he takes pictures of all the cards, mix them up and sends them back to all of us who participated, it's fun to receive a beautiful card from far away, thanks to him.  Then, at a later date, he starts sharing all of the cards that arrived in his overflowing mail box, with us on his blog.  It's so much fun seeing all of this beautiful cards on parade, where we can appreciate and get inspired by all of them, this is the card I sent, using the new Father Christmas stamp set and the Pretty Pines Thinlits Dies, I love, love both of this beautiful sets.

I used the Birch embossing folder on a panel of Cherry Cobbler card stock, added a strip of retired SU gold embossed vellum from the Winter Wonderland Designer Paper Stack, die cut the pine branches, pine cones and bows with the Pretty Pines dies and added a bit of Dazzling Diamonds for a bit of sparkle. The beautiful Santa image was stamped onto a piece of Strathmore multi media paper and colored with SU markers and an aqua painter, I added a few little Rhine Stones to the Christmas Tree as ornaments.

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Here is a picture of the finished inside of my card. This stamps are part of this beautiful set.

I would like to enter this card onto the following challenges.

TIME OUT CHALLENGES #71 "Christmas with an optional twist of glimmer/shimmer"

Moving Along With The Times challenge #34 "Anything Goes with Christmas"

Creative Knockouts challenge #169 "Tis the Season"

CRAFT ROCKET CHALLENGES #29 "Winter Time"

As You Like It "Favorite Christmas color combination and why?" 

Love the traditional Christmas colors of red, green and gold.

Thank you for stopping by, I always read all the comments you so kindly leave on my posts, I want you to know I appreciate this more than words can express.

Until next time, happy stamping.

Hugs from Maria.