For the third day of Christmas countdown

Hello,

I really think that this retired stamp set,'summer fun', lends its self to the famous Christmas carol... I saw three ships come sailing in.  The background stamp for the scallop circle is the large medallion stamp, so really useful.  I really like the festive colours of this card and hope you do too.  Thank you for dropping by.  See you again tomorrow, this is really so much fun, posting each day! X x

I saw three ships

Words from an old christmas carol came to mind as I was cleaning the ship from life's a breeze.  So I just had to create this card for christmas to show how versatile the stamp set really is.  I have used real red and apricot appeal together with close to cocoa.  The backgound paper is from bella blue and works so well.  I have cut the 'waves' out of chocolate chip using a scallop circle die.  I had to include the name of the christmas carol as my other half couldn't make the connection with christmas.... I hope you can!
The design of the card comes from an idea across at splitcoaststampers and belongs to Beate, it is called a tent card, they are really so easy to make, have fun.

Inspiration

You know when you buy a magazine and you just have to try it out yourself, well that is exactly where the inspiration for this birthday card came from.  I went to Doncaster to the craft show and bought Tim Holtz's 'foliage' set of metal work to complete the look. 

I have used our flight of the butterfly, vintage vogue and medallion background stamps.  The card stock was from the earth elements range, topped with very vanilla pearls form the pretties kit and gold brads.  Really hope you like it as much as I do.  It is winging it's way to my sister who has a BIG birthday this week. 

Notebook Project

This is a little project that I completed a while ago, I got the inspiration from debbiesinkysmudges. It uses the Medallion and Friendly background stamps together with choc chip, close to cocoa and creamy caramel cardstock.  The medallion has been embossed using white embossing powder.  The notebook is one of those that can be found in all well known stores for jotting down your shopping list!!!  I really think they make a super little gift.  I have given mine to Sally my friend who is emigrating to America soon and needs to make lists of lists!