Are you sitting down?

I made a CARD!  After many months of doing nothing crafty (does adding pictures to my Pinterest boards count?), I finally decided it was time to get back to it!  I'm not surprised really, this time of year  always puts me in a crafty mood.  

I decided to pull out an old Club Scrap kit to work with, Memoirs from July 2009.  This was the last kit I received from them before I stopped my membership, and it's been sitting in the box ever since.  It's not a "Christmas" kit, but I thought that the paper colors of red, green, kraft, and white would work well for the card I had in mind.

I used a number of different stamp sets on my card, including Vintage Christmas from Close To My Heart, Tree Trimming Trio and Love Birds from PTI (the sentiment, and birds), a background stamp from Art Impressions, and a stamp from the Club Scrap kit.  I love mixing and matching my stamps, it just seems to add endless versatility to my projects!

I did lots of inking and distressing on this, the vintage look of the CTMH stamps cry out for it!  I wanted to point out a technique I used on the picture below.  First I used the large collage stamp from Vintage Christmas, and stamped it on the white paper panel using green ink, then I placed the green paper panel part way over the stamped image and stamped again using Versa Mark ink to get a water mark of the image.  I was just careful to line up the 2nd stamping with the 1st one so that I would get one whole tree.  Does that make sense?  Hope so :)

I actually made 5 of these cards all the same.  Club Scrap offers a wonderful option with their kits called Greetings to Go, which includes scored card bases, pre-cut panels, and coordinating envelopes.  It makes making multiples of your cards a SNAP!

I'm so happy to have been able to share this time with you today, my faithful readers!  I notice that my follower count didn't go down during my long absence, I so appreciate your patience with me :)