I am also entering this into three other SCS challenges:
2017 Christmas Cards - March - CC17MAR, which requires poinsettias or floral, which is why when "improving" my Letter I card, I decided I should add poinsettias!
Dare to Get Dirty Christmas Challenges: September 2017 - SCSCCSEP17, which requires a card based on Christmas "memories." My Christmas memory was a family tradition started when I was little, and that I carried on with my four children. On every Christmas Eve, Mom read the book (which is actually a poem) "The Night Before Christmas" while my brother, my little sister, and I, drank our hot chocolate with a candy cane and marshmellows...fun times and warm and fuzzy memories this brings back!
My next challenge entry is for Teapot Tuesday #447--"On Dasher, On Dance, Is That a Tractor?" Bring some Christmas Cheer, some trees, decorations, presents, lights; especially lights. We need to get the Christmas spirit flowing. My card is definitely all about Christmas with twinkling starlight in the night sky!
My final challenge entry is for "Use It 2017," which requires you to give some love to "forgotten" stamps, dies, paper...in your Stash! My old 1996 stamp works for sure!
Ingredients: Papers: Master's Touch 140# Watercolor Paper (WalMart); Core'dinations Silk Glitter Opulent Oval cs; Stampin' Up--Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer cs (retired), Night of Navy (card base). Stamp: PSX (Personal Stamp Exchange)--Dasher Dash Away All! Ink: Stampin' Up--Night of Navy, Rose Red, Marine Mist; Versamark--Watermark Ink. Paint: Folk Art Metallic Pearl White (splatters). Gelly Roll White Gel Pen. Stampin' Up White Embossing Powder. Dies: Stampin' Up--Card Front Builders; Spellbinders--Layered Poinsettias; MemoryBox--Poinsettia Trio Blooms. Offray Ribbon: White/Silver Striped Organdy (stash). MISTI Stamping Tool. Techniques: Heat Embossing; Watercolor background; Splattering. Size: 4-3/4" x 6". Inside: Computer verse.
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Sat, Sep 16, 2017 @ 9:23 AM
Love the first card, but I can see the changes on this one! Like how you you used the card builders and added the poinsettias! Beautiful bow on both cards! Gorgeous card!
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Sun, Sep 17, 2017 @ 5:01 AM
You have showcased this Christmas song so Beautifully, Carlene! Your sky is an Amazing work or art in itself, but then add the beautiful ribbon and poinsettias, plus the framing and deer and you've got yourself one Gorgeous Christmas creation! Loved the story behind it too~
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Mon, Sep 18, 2017 @ 5:45 PM
Oh wow Carlene, this looks incredible. I loved your original card and now I love this one too. The poinsettias look so great and so does the ribbon in the opposite corner. Little Christian will love this! ~Karen.
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