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Thursday 25 June 2015

A Very Merry Christmas

Good morning all.

Yesterday I tackled the ironing mountain...almost needed the crampons to get to the top lol! I've started the holiday piles, hidden in eldest's room so hubby can't wear all his shirts between now and next Thursday!! 

A very simple one layer Christmas card to share today.


The ARTplorations Christmas tree stencil is from STAMPlorations, inked with various distress inks then embossed....the old fashioned way with an embossing tool and a glass door!  Sentiment is from Papermania....if I made the card again I'd re-position the sentiment without the holly I think.

Challenges entered:
Less is More - stencils
One Layer Christmas Card - opt twist green
Rudolph Day - anything goes
AAA - paste and/or stencil
CAS on Sunday - one layer

34 comments:

  1. Love this,just gorgeous.xxx

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  2. Brilliant, awesome images, colours and whole concept of the design is fabulous.xx
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  3. this looks great to me - you're a brave lady with the ironing - I just buy things that don't need ironing lol!!!! Hugs rachel x

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  4. Ironing, what is that? ahahaha
    I so enjoy DH being retired. I used to iron him two shirts and dress pants for each working day. He would always have a spare set if he got called to a meeting or as luck would have it, spilled down his shirt! I loved the days that he said, he had extras still and only iron one set!

    Now, he rarely wears dress pants so I can just do a quick lick and a spit on the creases of his golf slacks! Lucky me!

    Your card is lovely. That is a great stencil and the colour of the tree is great. Sort of shimmery looking!

    Thanks for taking part in the June Rudolph DAys Challenge.

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  5. A fabulous card Carol, great design.
    I'm sitting here looking at my pile of ironing, I might need to borrow your crampons - I suppose I'll have to do it eventually!
    Pauline
    x

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  6. so effective Carol.....loving your colour tones......ironing I haven't done any since I retired!.....too busy xxxx

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  7. This is gorgeous, love the tree! Good idea about hiding shirts, must remember that one ;)
    Hugs
    Linda xxx

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  8. Hi Carol, I am so envious that you have managed your mountain, mine just keeps growing. Hubby broke my iron this week so I couldn't do it, boo, yaah!
    Shame he's now bought me a new one.
    Got quite a few card orders to do first of course, anything to get out of it!

    A super card today, I love your tree stencil and the shades of green, a perfectly modern and CAS Christmas card, just how I like them.

    Hugs Erika.

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  9. Gorgeous card Carol. I love the tree and fabulous CAS design.
    Sue xx

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  10. I sometimes think the simple designs are the best. I like the wonky tree and the sentiment looks just fine with or without the holly. Kate x

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  11. Fantastic stencilling Carol and a great Christmas make.
    Thanks for playing along at AAA Cards and Less is More.
    Sarah x

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  12. What a gorgeous clean and simple card x

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  13. Your card looks wonderful as it is Carol!
    I often look at the light box in my drawer & think one day.........
    Hugs
    Dawn xx

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  14. What a cool tree and a fabulous CAS card.

    Kath x

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  15. I love that stylized Christmas tree and how you have designed this card, Carol! I'm glad you didn't fall on your way up Ironing Mountain! We don't have those much around here. All perma-press clothes in this country! We might do a lot of things wrong, but we got that one right!! Happy Rudolph Day! Hugs, Darnell

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  16. Love that stencil and what you did with it

    KAthyk

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  17. A great card Carol, I love the' no frills' simplicity of this card. Very effective. Thanks for stopping by my blog tonight.
    Hugs Jennifer xx.

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  18. Great card Carol. I'm smiling too, as I used to hide the holiday clothes once they were ironed. Chugs Rita xx

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  19. Love the graduation of colour and this simple yet elegant design.

    Hugs, Sarn xxx

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  20. Loving that Christmas tree stencil, so simple yet fluid. And ironing, yuk! Know that mountain climb feeling. Thanks for playing at AAA Cards.

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  21. Love this CAS Christmas card Carol. The embossing adds lots of dimension. Glad you got a good handle on your ironing ... what an awful task that it. I currently don't own an iron :) ... so no ironing for me. :) xx

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  22. Love it! Another stencil I need! It's brilliant and great for batch making whatever way it's used xx

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  23. Love this modern look on the traditional tree. The color of green you selected to enhance the embossing really fits so nicely with the design too. Been a long time since I did embossing this way - but it sure works still, doesn't it? Hugs & hope you can get rested up from all that awful ironing! Have a great wkend, TFS

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  24. A gorgeous card, the tree is so elegant. I think you're right about the holly, the card is so CAS it simply doesn't need it

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  25. lovely tree that I first thought was 3-d paste, but brought back memories that you did the window way! xxx

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  26. Great one layer card, and I love that you used the old fashioned method, I still have my lightbox, it may come out again at some point!
    Thanks for sharing with us.
    Anita x
    Less is More

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  27. Hi Carol, this is so stylish, I love the simple design too, hugs Kate x

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  28. Lovely card Carol, gorgeous stencil.

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  29. Catching up on my comments, sorry this is so late!
    Carol what fab inking on your tree
    Thanks for joining us last week
    Anne
    Less is More

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  30. Great card love it. Thanks for joining us over at CAS on sunday.

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  31. Beautiful job with the stencil, Carol! So happy you could join us at the OLCC challenge!

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  32. Great tree image, very artsy and the colours you used to colour it. Thanks for sharing at OLCCC.

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Many thanks for taking the time to comment on my post. Constructive comments are always welcomed and appreciated on my creations. Carol x