Friday, August 5, 2011

Christmas in August...


Our family is off to the beach this morning!  A 14-hour drive with 3 kids in the back of a Honda Accord.  We have DVDs, we have snacks, and we have the hope that we'll arrive in VA beach with our sanity intact - ha!  As we leave for a waterfront week, enjoy this Christmas-y creation!  I'm entering it into a challenge over at SimonSaysStamp and also counting it as entry #2 for the lawnscaping challenge.

I used lawn fawn's "cozy christmas" to make this almost-monochromatic card.  I stamped the fireplace surround onto kraft cardstock and did some copic-marker highlighting...  


I then stamped the stockings onto chocolate chip cardstock (SU) and detailed them with my kids' names... you know, Pottery-Barn-style.  (My sister is obsessed with all things monogrammed and personalized... especially PB stuff!)


Here's the entire card, in all of its Christmas glory!  I used a martha stewart punch to create my green garland, and distressed the leaves with some brown ink.  The white mat was stamped with my vintage wallpaper stamp (marketstreet stamps) - doesn't it look like fabric wallpaper?  I also distressed all of the edges.  The sentiment is SU.

Thanks for looking!




8 comments:

  1. this is so beautiful!! love the greenery on the mantle!!

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  2. Very clever card. Love the little stockings, just waiting to be filled.

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  3. This is lovely! Your highlighting, coloring and distressing are perfect accents. Enjoy the beach

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  4. Love the garland, so creative!

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  5. Oh this is wonderful! I love this. And the garland is a wonderful addition to the card!!! And I am a huge fan of Pottery Barn so I am digging those stockings! Thanks for playing along with us at Lawnscaping this week. You've got me in the Christmas mood! Time to break out my Cozy Christma too!

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  6. I just did a Christmas card today as well. We must all be getting in the mood! Adorable card!

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  7. Love your fabulous Christmas card, what a great idea to make a fireplace with stockings
    Thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamps Challenge.
    luv
    Debby

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