All I want for Christmas ....

.... is you!  Hello!   I hope that you all had a great day yesterday.  It's Boxing Day today - something that is celebrated in the UK and former British colonies.  It used to be when employees got a "Christmas Box" from their bosses - not so much now!  It is however another fun day being spent with family.

Today I'm sharing the card that I made for my wonderful husband, Jonathan.  He's an amazing man - great dad, friend, partner, supporter and my love!  Here's the card:

Stamps:  Dylusions - Shrooms, Seasonal Christmas Set; Stampin' Up! - Christmas Messages
Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black; SU - Real Red, Crumb Cake
Dies: Waltzingmouse - Stitched Tag, Folding Tag
Accessories: White Lustre Card; Kaisercraft DP - Home for Christmas; Copic Markers, Raffia

I had fun with this card.  I used a few challenges in the design.  Merry Monday - MM#185 want to see boots on the card - done.  I've used the layout from Mojo Monday - MOJO#428.  And, of course, the theme at The Male Room - TMR#25-15 is masculine Christmas.

I used several different papers to cover the card.  I stamped Santa's (Jonathan's) boots on white card, coloured them with Copic markers and cut them out.  I die cut a couple of stitched tags.  I stamped a tree, some holly, a heart and Ho Ho Ho on the tag in the background, and on the foreground tag I stamped the sentiment - which continues inside the card.  I used a mat of design paper and on the white panel added another tree and some parcels.

And that's all from me today!  Bye for now.

ASM - Anything Goes ....

.... Good evening.  It's time for our ever popular ANYTHING GOES challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More!  I've been busy working on some art journal pages - I've got lots of backgrounds prepared, so I decided to create some pages!  I posted my first finished page yesterday, and today I've a fun and funky dance themed page:

Stamps: Rick St Dennis Digi - Dance Club Witch; Dylusions - Say What You Mean, Doodle Parts, Shrooms; Cas-ual Friday Stamps - Love Notes, Big Treble; Stamper's Anonymous - Brett Weldele Racer Girl
Inks: Archival - Jet Black, Plum; Distress - Shabby Shutters; Versafine - Deep Lagoon, Spanish Moss; Memento - Tuxedo Black; Dylusions Inks - shades of pink
Accessories; White Lustre Card; Copic Markers; Wink of Stella - Clear; White Gel Pen; Stencils - Various

I started by printing the wonderful Dance Club Witch - a very fun and funky young lady - on white card, coloured with Copic markers and cut out with a scalpel.  The background was prepared in class using three shades of pink Dylusions inks and a variety of stencils.  I randomly stamped some stars and music themed images to add more depth.  I stamped the shrooms on white card, coloured them with Copics and adhered them to the page.  I found a fun sentiment that seemed to be perfect for the page, stamped it on white card and coloured over with shades of green.  After adhering all the elements I drew round them with a black marker.  I finished the page by adding some clear Wink of Stella to the witch's outfit, the mushrooms and the clefs.   Here's a close up showing the sparkle on the mushrooms and witch.

 Don't forget to visit the blog to see what the rest of the team have made today.  Have fun!

Edited:  Oops!  I completely forgot to tell you that Addicted to Stamps and More! is having a DT Call - full details here!