Merry Monday #93

I am determined to get this posted on time so I can finally enter this challenge. Christmas Challenge #93 was to use Chocolate, Kraft, Vanilla, and Red with ribbon.

 I knew immediately that I wanted to use Stitched Stockings.  This is one of my very favorite Christmas stamp sets ever.  And the quilted ribbon is another favorite.  The sentiment comes from More Merry Messages.

Getting a Jump on my Christmas cards

I didn't get any Christmas cards sent out for 2013 and so I made it one of my goals for this year to participate in the Merry Monday challenges each week.   I've been following the challenges and wanting to participate for a while now, so now is the time.  This challenge (#90) was to use ribbon or twine.   Not so hard.   I used the stamp set Endless Wishes.  I embossed the smaller snowflake and sentiment with silver embossing powder and the bigger snowflake in Midnight Muse. I used the silver ribbon from the Holiday Catalog which has been carried over to the Occasions Catalog.  Love it.

I also stamped the inside.

And since I was making one, I thought I'd make four.

Dresser Card

I've had this dresser card idea saved for a while now, and decided that it would be best used as the birth announcement for my fourth boy. Being the fourth, we have everything we need and most things we want so he's not getting a lot of new stuff, so I want something about his arrival to be special and I thought this card would do it. I had to follow a couple of links, but the tutorial I used can be found on Jackie Topia's blog.

I used crumb cake cardstock and the word window punch for the drawers and retired brads and stamp set for the onesie. Then I used my birthday present, a Silhouette Cameo and MDS to cut out the stars. The monkey was also print and cut on my Cameo. The drawers were a little difficult to adhere, I hope they all made it attached, through the mail.

 I'm hoping this blog post brings the end of my 4 month hiatus, but with four boys, I just never know what my day will look like or where my time needs to be spent. Hope you enjoy this card.