Sidetracked

Ok, so it's currenly 7:20 pm, and while I was successful in being creative today,

I was extremely sidetracked by a fabulous blog that I happened upon!!!

So while I should have been putting up this blog post, I was instead

cleaning up the drool off my desk from all the lovelies...

so I will share the link and hope all of you out there in blogland have already happened across

this amazing blog and have tried some of her fab work!!!

http://homegrownhospitality.typepad.com/homegrown_hospitality/online-in-store-class-information.html

OK, so now that I've pulled myself away for long enough to write this here is (some of) what I've

been up to today!

Believe me I KNOW it's still 100 degrees out, and not even close to feeling like Christmas,

but if I don't get these things working now well then NO one will get a

Christmas card!

So a while back I picked up this Sizzix candy cane die cut for a measly 1.50 (I KNOW!!!)

and I hadn't broken it out as I was still playing with so many other fun finds

But today it was Christmas Creation day again!

I wanted to keep it pretty simple, so I started with a base card that has the polka dots

and added a few strips of washi tape.

Then I cut out the candy cane using my Big Kick and some scrap red/maroon paper.

You can't see it, but on the candy cane it puts these perforations where the stripes should be..

I didn't kow what to do with them, so I used my white gel pen and scribbled in the white parts

There is by the way a perfectly perfect red bow that came out with the red candy cane, but that was too much red for me,

so I cut out a green bow added some white accents, and some glitter in the middle, and voila,

A candy cane with a bow!

Then for the Merry Christmas on the other side of the card I had cut up some

Tim Holtz Christmas paper a while back (you'll see more of this I'm sure!)

I pulled out the sewing machine and added some red stitching along the edges

I added a little distressing to the edges, and stuck it down!! 

Pretty quick and easy right??  I wonder if I can make a candy cane chain using this die?? 

I'll have to play around with that one!! 

I want to enter this into the brand new challenge over at Cut it up!

I feel they are a kindred challenge blog as they opened just a week after Anything But A Card

and I feel it's only right to support their inagural challenge! 

Hope you have plans for a fab weekend!!! 

I'm going back to my blog hopping and drooling...

Craft if up!