It's beginning to look a LOT like Christmas.....

Hello, and welcome!

I am so very glad that you could pop in to see me, and I am so very sorry that (once again!) I am late with my post for the challenge over at 

Card Crafter's Circle 

What can I say?  Too many mince pies to bake, too many pressies to shop for, then wrap.....too many Christmas socials to attend.....and too many flippin' December birthdays!

I'm sure you are all in full-on Christmas-WILL-be-fun mode....and if not, why not?

I used to think that my life was extremely busy when I had 5 children at home, but nobody ever mentioned how hectic life would become when I was a grandma to 17 (nearly 18), and Christmas was almost upon me.....but I love every minute of it!

The busyness becomes craziness when you also have 9 family birthdays in December.....I'm only responsible for one of 'em (daughter #3 on the 17th)....the others are sons-in-law and grandkiddles, a brother and a nephew!

Speaking of my brother and nephew......John and Andrew (father and son) had a joint party, last night, and it was lovely to have the extended family all together....doesn't happen too often!

Anyway.....onto the business........

Our challenge theme for you this week is to be uncluttered, uncomplicated, but bold and fresh.... we want you to create using the colour trio of

RED, WHITE and GREEN!



No, it doesn't have to be a Christmas theme... this is a colour challenge... so get the red, white and green on!

We are excited to welcome back our sponsor for this week, Robyn's Fetish!

One randomly drawn winner will receive their choice of five (5) digital images from  Robyn's Fetish ...and there is so much to choose from!

Well, you know me....it had to be a Christmas card.........

 Very festive, don't ya think?  I love this jolly Santa with his pretty ickle tree.  I used a white card base and layered green and red papers with more white, and a lovely piece of white with shiny red dots.........all the papers are from my scrap mountain.....I cut 3 trees with my Marianne's die and used 3 different embossing folders to give them some texture.....d'you see the teeny star on the top of the centre tree?

I cut a lovely background for Santa, and coloured him up with a mixture of Promarkers and Spectrum Noir, then added some sparkly Mod Podge (I say that a lot, don't I?...ha)....

The cute sentiment label is from Craftwork Cards........

I cut a circle from that lovely dotty paper and used my Woodware punch to cut a couple of leaves, then placed a tiny bunch of berries in the centre.......

A strip of green and white dotty ribbon finishes off my Red White and Green card.......and now, it's over to you!

Come and play, and take a look at what our Design Team has been doing......some lovely inspiration, there!

hugs,

Anne-Marie x

Challenges:

http://audsentimentschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/  Anything goes with seasonal sentiment

http://perfectsentimentschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/  Christmas

http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/  Christmas related

http://craftyhazelnutschristmaschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/  Anything goes for Christmas

http://www.lollipopcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/happy-holidays-challenge-95.html  Happy Holidays

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/week-185-oh-christmas-tree_15.html  Oh Christmas Tree

http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/santa-claus-is-coming-to-town.html  Use a Santa

http://joannasheenchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/with-love-at-christmas.html  With Love at Christmas

http://christmascardsallyearround.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/december-challenge.html  Santa

http://christmasblogchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/  Oh Christmas Tree