EXCITING NEWS . . .

 Hello Friends!

Did you know there's a brand new Christmas challenge blog out there in Blogland starting TODAY?  As you can see by their beautiful logo above, the name is 

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge

We can all use a little more 'peace' in our lives these days and of course we all have holiday cards to get started on before time gets away from us so why not come join in their challenge fun.  The theme is ANYTHING CHRISTMAS and there will be 2 challenges a month on the 1st & 3rd Sunday of each month.

Here's an inspiration board we are offering to inspire you ...

Here's what I've created for our 1st challenge ... as you can see, I was inspired by the stocking in the lower left corner.

   I went through my holiday dies and found this fun Spellbinder Holiday Cheer die set containing a stocking that I thought would work for what I had in mind.  Unfortunately, this set is retired but can still be found in places like EBay and Amazon.

 

 As you can see by the image above, the stocking has snowflake pop outs and since I wanted to use a stencil on the stocking, I decided to trace around the die and fussy cut out a couple.

Then I used the Tim Holtz 'Holiday Knit' stencil and carefully positioned it so I would get the zig zag edge to create the illusion of a white fur top.  I also used white Nuvo crystal drops zig zagged along the top for texture (difficult to see in photo but cool IRL).

 

I finished off my card with a Penny Black sentiment from the 'Winter Cheer' die set.

Please stop over and check out our teams and the wonderful inspiration they have to share with you today.  Here's another quick link for you . . .

Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge
 
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