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Saturday 20 August 2016

Open Fires and Candy Canes

Hello.  Welcome.  A bit of Christmas cheer on my blog today.  We appear to have misplaced summer so I decided to craft.  One of this weeks MFP challenges is to make a stamped collage background so I decided to go wordy and chrismassy all in one. 

All stamps are MFP from the Holiday Tags, Nutcracker and Santa sets.  I cut a panel of my stamped, red-embossed background and mounted it on a blue card base.  I cut Cheery Lynn English Tea Party doily in white and the matching angel wing in red card and used it at the top of the card.  I cut and coloured three candy canes from the Holiday Tags set and 'hung' them from the doily.  Looking at it now I wonder if I should try and add a gold edge to the angel wing to match the gold bows.  Not sure I trust my pilot marker today!!  I think it might be getting empty and I had a couple of blobby moments earlier.  Hmmmm......
The sentiment is popped up and I added some red embroidery thread for interest.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 Joining the fun at
MFP Stamps Challenge 34 - Collage Stamping Tutorial
Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 236 - Doilies
Winter Wonderland - Embossed Background and a little gold LOL
Scrapyland Challenge 48 - Use an Image 
Stampotique Designers Challenge 254 - Text Background 
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20 comments:

  1. Sylvia 20 August 2016 at 23:28

    Beautiful Christmas card,Gail.

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  2. Kay Wallace21 August 2016 at 18:12

    Great Christmas cheer, Gail. I love the idea of red embossing, likely because I have no red embossing powder! These three stamp manufacturers that you have used to create your card work very well together, not always true. Well done, my friend.

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  3. Cornelia (fun stamping)22 August 2016 at 03:07

    Gorgeous! a beautiful Christmas card!

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  4. Pam Tiedtke, or Pammie Lou22 August 2016 at 05:06

    I love this! The candy canes look perfect and your thread behind the tag was a great touch. So glad you joined in at MFP Stamps Challenge!!!
    Hugs

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  5. Anet's Crafting22 August 2016 at 06:14

    Beautiful Christmas card Ionabunny. Thank you for playing along with our Challenge at Winter Wonderland. We would love to see you again ... Anet DTx

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  6. Cards By MI24 August 2016 at 08:31

    Fabby card with lovely image and design. Looks really cute. Thanks for joining our challenge over at the Winter Wonderland. On Friday we are back with a new fun challenge.
    Love n hugs
    Marie

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  7. Samra24 August 2016 at 14:24

    What a festive card! Thank you for joining Scrapy Land Challenge.
    Samra DT
    Paper Talk with Samra

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  8. Vickie Y25 August 2016 at 19:27

    Fun background and card. Thank you for sharing with us at MFP Stamps Challenge

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  9. Ravengirl26 August 2016 at 00:11

    That's a really fun background! Great work!

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  10. Kathi26 August 2016 at 18:27

    Lovely holiday card with a great text background.

    Thanks for playing along with us at Stampotique Designers Challenges.

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  11. *Arwen*26 August 2016 at 22:32

    Beautiful card!
    Thanks for joining us at Stampotique :)

    xx Arwen

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  12. Sam & Poppy27 August 2016 at 12:05

    So lovely :)
    Thanks for joining in with us at Stampotique :)

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  13. G Peplow27 August 2016 at 23:26

    Just love Christmas and your card is such a happy one :D Thank you for joining the text behind challenge @ Stampotique :D

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  14. Sternenglanz28 August 2016 at 08:48

    wonderful Christmas card!
    thank you for joining the Stampotique Designers Challenge

    Sternenglanz x

    GD

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  15. Julie S28 August 2016 at 15:50

    Lovely Christmas card (and it's never too soon to start, I say). I'm so glad you joined us for the text background challenge at Stampotique!

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  16. Tera Callihan29 August 2016 at 00:32

    fun Christmas card... Thanks for playing in the stampotique challenge!!!

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  17. Bonnie Garby29 August 2016 at 20:34

    Great card! Thanks so much for participating in the Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge this week and good luck.

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  18. evafromca30 August 2016 at 06:20

    What a fabulous christmas card! Thanks so much for participating in the Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge this week and good luck.

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  19. Jools Robertson30 August 2016 at 19:43

    Great card!
    Thank you for joining the Stampotique Challenge

    Jools x

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  20. Ginny @ Polly's Paper Studio31 August 2016 at 19:03

    Such a sweet card and great addition to our challenge. Thanks so much for joining us at Cheery Lynn Designs. Hugs from Ginny at Polly's Paper Studio.

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