A stampendous Christmas card!

                         It is still very hard to believe that it's almost December!

Today I was at the park in shorts and a tank top yet again! 

I know I live in Arizona, but I want it to feel like Christmas!

Soooo I made this pretty  Christmas card when I got back from my work out!

I'm playing along with the challenge over at the Stampendous Blog who is teaming up with

coredinations for a hard core Crop!

The challenge is to use a stampendous stamp (that would be Santa!)

And also to use coordinations color core Cardstock

The black with the red paper is coordinations, and the green background paper is also

coordinations! 

I embossed the black paper with my Tim Holtz embossing folder,

which made the paper crack, I then sanded it with my sander, and cut the edges with my

pinking sheers. (yep, I've used them before, and I'll use them again!)

For the green cardstock I also cut the top and bottom edges with my pinking sheers,

I then ran the edges thru my sewing machine

I then cut a piece of gold ribbon and added an antique button (estate sale find)

Here is a close up of Santa

as you can maybe see, I paper peiced the middle of him.  I love the little

added detail this brings!

I'm sure if you've been following my work at all you are getting super sick of this

same green color over and over... I have great news... Today I bought 2 new copic's

both in green!  I'm super excited to try them out tonight! 

I hope your Christmas Crafts are all on track! 

I am also entering this into:

Creative Inspirations: Traditional Christmas Colors (this is my second entry, if that is no acceptable please delete my prior entry thank you!)

Crafty Sentiments: Red, White, and green (and in my case black as well)