Ten Minute Monday!

Truthfully, this may have been more of an 11 or 12 minute card. However, that's only because I decided to add a bow instead of a knot, and also because I kept changing my colour combination. After that was settled, it came together quickly. I didn't do any complex shading on the presents, that sped things up. I also didn't cut them out amazingly precisely. They're close, but I left a white edge around them to quicken things. Supplies: Stamps: Santa's Sweet Shoppe, and Sentiments Ink: Tuxedo Black Paper: Really Red, White Accessories, etc.: Copic markers, pop dots, large scalloped rectangle nestabilities, green ribbon

FTL20

I had these PTI patterned papers out from the last card I made so I thought I'd use the scraps. I like Natasha's layout a lot. The sentiment is from Impression Obsession. I forgot to place brads in the corners before I adhered the polka dotted paper to the cardbase so I left them off the card - I don't like the backs showing through on the inside of the card. Supplies: Stamps - Impression Obsession; Ink - SU! Chocolate Chip; Paper - PaperTrey; Misc - May Arts Satin ribbon

FTL 20

Hello! I'm so glad it's the weekend. I haven't had much time for anything this week. Doing something every night is a bit much sometimes. I certainly don't mind be a homebody at times.

Anyway, here's the sketch! I hope you find time to play along! If you do, post a link in the comments or upload using the keyword FTL20

Here's my card. Nice and quick, and I liked the twist on a layout that I would typically do vertically. Supplies:

Stamps: Take a Bough

Ink: Rich Cocoa, Rhubarb Stalk, Bamboo Leaves

Paper: White, Old Olive, Cranberry Crisp, Holiday Thyme DP

Accessories, etc: White brads, Twill

Embrace Dies

Keeping it simple for the holidays means using details to add interest, like dies, patterned paper and simple embellishments like a button. Supplies: stamps - Christmas Magic (Little Yellow Bicycle) paper - artichoke, shimmery white, Wassail (Basic Grey) ink - riding hood red, artichoke acc - Wassail buttons, rhred gg, nesties label die

Embrace Dies

For this card I used my Cuttlebug, a Cuttlebug snowflake die and my nestabilities. After cutting the snowflake out I put it into the accompanying embossing folder and ran it through the Cuttlebug again. Then I smooshed (very technical term!!) it onto the glue pad and then added sparkley diamond glitter. With this glue pad you don't even need to use a heat gun for the glitter to stick! I used my Nestabilities to cut out the mats and ran the bottom mat through the swiss dots embossing folder. I used my Scor-pal to score a pattern on the top mat. I finished the card off with an adhesive pearl and the sentiment. Supplies: Stamps - Printworks; Ink - Memento; Paper - PaperTrey Stampers Select; Misc - Cuttlebug, Snowflake die, Snowflake embossing folder, Scor-pal, self adhesive pearl, glitter, The Essential Glue Pad.