Happy Christmas everybody!

Hello there!

I know it is only July and you haven't been on your summer holiday yet, so why am I talking about Christmas already?  Well, in the card-making world you have to start early if you are going to make enough cards to send to all your fiends and family.  There was a lady at the workshop on Saturday who set herself the target of one card a month - only to realise that meant she would only have 12 Christmas cards to send!!
The stamp sets we got from Barbara were all Christmas this time (and I think the next lot will be too!!), so I set about making Christmas cards on a swelteringly hot day in June!
Then Sam Crowe set us a challenge to put one Christmas card a day for 5 days on our timeline on facebook, so I decided to stop being a bah-humbug! for a while and join in!

This is the card I chose for day 3 and it is also one of the most popular of the samples from the TV

The Holly Wreath is made by pushing Grunge Paste through a lovely new stencil, then once dry, colouring with distress inks.  The words are simply stamped, but I used my own inkpad, created by dropping distress re-inkers on a piece of cut and dry felt.
As usual, pretty much everything I've used is available from Clarity
I have to admit to being quite pleased with this one, although I did cringe when they showed it really close up on the TV - it shows up all the mistakes!!!  (I'm not telling you what they are though!!!)

Thanks very much for dropping by
Janet xx