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Monday, September 23, 2024

Freshly Made Merry & Bright

 Good Morning!

It's Monday and my week just got a lot busier, but hopefully in a good way!  The hubs took my cards to work this weekend and sold around 40 of them.  One person bought all the Christmas cards I had so far, which weren't many but she cleaned me out!  LOL  And now several more of his colleagues are  requesting Christmas cards.  So again, a good problem to have except now I have to get down to creating!

So it's a good thing that yesterday evening I decided to make a card for the Freshly Made Sketches and made it a Christmas card.


I used these fun new nutcracker stamps by Catherine Pooler Designs for the main focal point of my card.  These are part of her Christmas Release from earlier this month. I tried to keep the rest of the card pretty simple to showcase these fun guys.  I had at first thought I'd add some patterned paper but in the end I liked the pink panel better.  So I just die cut it with the same die cut as my background.  After embossing the sentiment I decided it needed a little something extra and so I added a little bling on their hats and on the pink panel.

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Card Supplies: 

Stamps: Nutcrackers and sentiment - Nutcracker Sweet set (Catherine Pooler).
Paper: Neenah 110# Solar White
Ink: Be Mine(CP Ink); Versamark; Copics. 
Extras: Coverplate die - Christmas Glory (Catherine Pooler Designs); White embossing powder (WOW).

I'm thrilled you visited my blog. Have a creative day! 
 Come back soon! 💖

Nance 



4 comments:

Jacquie Southas said...

Love these brightly colored nutcrackers taking center stage! Thanks for playing along with us at FMS this week.

Linda Callahan said...

Adorable - delightful holiday card!

I Card Everyone said...

How wonderful you have such a great place to sell your cards, Nance! Even though I'm kinda freaked out by Nutcrackers these two are pretty cute! Oh man, do I love that background die!
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Bonnie said...

I love this background and these sweet nutcrackers, Nance! Yay for selling so many cards! Sounds like you are going to be busy.