A great new card challenge site has arrived. 
I can't stay out of my design studio, even on a holiday. So I have a real quick card today for Papertake Weekly (http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com ) and Charisma Cardz (http://www.charismacardz.blogspot.com/) challenges for Christmas cards. I actually used last week's sketch from Stamps and Smiles. This little house came from Cricut's Joys of the Season cartridge. I cut it at 4" three times, once each from yellow, green and kraft brown cardstock. Then I just layered the pieces together. The wreath on the house is a Quick Kutz die. I computer generated my sentiment with Word Art and placed it on a banner cut from Cricut's Christmas Cheer cartridge. Quick, easy and fast. The only embellishment I added were two red pearls on the banner.
What image reflects the bounties of the season more than a cornucopia? This cornucopia cut comes from Cricut's Paper Doll Dress Up. The pie is also from PDDU. I continue to see the versatility of this cartridge. There are so many images other than paper dolls. I also used A Child's Year cartridge for the table. I trimmed the table from the whole image which has a child sitting at a table for tea. Then I used a paper doily to get the lace tablecloth look I wanted. I used some light brown ColorBox chalk ink to distress the edges of the doily just a little. My background dp is from K&Company's Tim Coffey Designer mat pad. I just love K&Company papers and the mat pads are great to use on cards. The paper in this pad is double-sided. 
I cut all the fruit for the cornucopia from white paper then used my Copics to color the fruit in appropriate colors. I added a little glitter onto the fruit for a little sparkle. I used foam dots to pop both the pie and the cornucopia for a little dimension. My sentiment came from 
The Cricut Cardz Challenge this week was to make a Christmas card with the colors pink, green and white. I knew that I would use my Imaginisce two-sided paper called Santa's Secret Garden. One side is green with pink poinsettias and the other side is white with pink poinsettias, making it the PERFECT paper for this challenge. I used white for my base card and topped it with a solid shimmery green. Then I cut two strips from the patterned paper at 1 1'2"using the light side for the top strip and the green side for the bottom strip. I found a piece of pink textured cardstock with a white core from my stash and cut two squares at 2 1/2" using my Plantin' Schoolbook cartridge. I embossed them with the Divine Swirls Cuttlebug embossing folder then sanded them lightly to expose the white core. I cut a 2 1/2" square of white cardstock and embossed it with the Swiss Dot embossing folder. I ran Colorbox Chalk Ink in Rose Coral over the top to make the dots stand out. My poinsettia in the middle of the white square is from the Joys of the Season cartridge. I cut it from the pink cardstock twice at 2" and once from green cardstock so I could layer. Then I cut another pink layer at 1 1/2".
I layered with foam dots for dimension. I added MS fine crystal glitter to the edges of the pink flowers and used pearls for the center of the flower. I used a simple sheer green ribbon for a bow. 
With Thanksgiving just days away so many challenge sites are looking for Thanks cards. This card fits the bill for the following:My image is from Squigglefly, one of my favorite digital image sources. (I think this image is called My Cart Runneth Over). Instead of using my Copics, I used colored pencils to color my turkey. The sketch I used was this week's from Lord Have Mercy. I used light brown, dark brown and white cardstock. My pumpkin colored print paper with leaves is from Recollections Autumn stack. I printed the word Thankful on my computer with Word Art. I embellished with an orange flower and button from my stash.
This is the first chance I've had in awhile to participate in the Crafts 4 Eternity sketch challenge. (http://crafts4eternity.blogspot.com) Between design commitments and teaching papercraft and Cricut classes life has been busy. The sketch this week really called out to me so I whipped this card up. Not only did you have to follow the sketch, you had to have a snowman and use cotton/or wool. The print papers on this card are DCWV scraps from my stash. If I don't start using some of my scraps I'm going to need another paper rack in my design studio. Is it just me or does anyone else save all their scraps?
This little snowman and the sentiment are Studio G stamps. He needed a little sparkle so I added MS onyx glitter to his scarf. I colored the litte stars he's holding with a gold MS glitter pen. My "snow" is just part of a cotton ball, but it's real cotton and not the synthetic balls. My poor skin can't take those synthetic ones. I just added three white snowflake brads for embellishments. 
I knew when I saw the sketch challenge at The Pink Elephant this week that I had to play along. It's been awhile since I made a round card and I had the urge. I cut my card to be 5 1/4" from my Cricut Wild Card cartridge. My patterned paper is from Pebbles Inc. It is double-sided and called Snow Fun Tiny Flakes/Stripe. My digital image is from Sweet n' Sassy and is called Sweet Cocoa/ Sweet Cocoa Sentiments. I used Copics to color him in.
I punched the digi stamp out with a 3" circle punch. I used a blue cardstock circle cut from Cricut Plantin' Schoolbook at 3 3/4" to back my image. That left enough room on the blue cardstock for placement of my snowflakes. These darling little snowflakes are the leftovers from using an EK Success Snowflake border punch. I couldn't bring myself to throw them away because they were so perfect. I knew I would find a way to use them somewhere. I placed a clear rhinestone in the center of each snowflake to add a little sparkle. I will also enter this card in three other challenges: