Simple Christmas

We took one last camping trip to our favorite spot at a bay off the Oregon coast.  We knew Saturday was going to be pretty rainy & boy was it! Good thing they have cable TV, so we spent the day watching college football. Poor Fritz just curled up on the bed & napped--so boring for a puppy dog!  Got a treat our last day when a pelican was fishing right in front of our site--first time this year we've seen one.

Finally did get a card & tag made. The PTI MIM challenge is Assembly Line Card-Making. Mostly I make individual Christmas cards, but I do make the same card for a few groups including hubby's cousins.  I'm loving all the red & white Christmas cards in Blogland lately, including snowflakes.  This is my first time to put all the stamps into my Mini MISTI at once which worked great with these images from PTI Take Three Winter.  I started by cutting 4 white panels & used Memento Love Letter to ink the stamps twice for each panel.  Then I spritzed them all with Perfect Pearls mist.  

While the panels dried I sponged the edges of 4 white cards with the red ink. Before mounting the panels, I rounded all the corners.  Quick & fun to make, although, if hubby likes this design I'm going to use red cardstock instead of sponging for the rest of the cards--would be quicker & easier on my hand.  I'm also entering Christmas Card Challenges, CropStop, Penny Black & More & Stamping Sensations.

I don't make a lot of tags, but Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas Tags is so inspiring.  I can always turn the tags into cards & probably will.  For this tag I cased Tracey's Day 4 Tag.  I love the beautiful gold embossed sentiment & jingle bells.  

I used a red cardstock scrap die cut with AJVD Polka Dot Backdrop Rectangle. The sentiment is from Penny Black's joyous. I love being able to use one of my little jingle bells & a piece of red twine I won long ago from The Playground, where I'm also entering my tag.
Happy Veteran's Day to my USA friends & thank you to all veterans & their families. 

Tracey's Tag