Happy Christmas Anniversary! ATCAS; Curtain Call; CFC #120; MM #83; PSP #99

How's it going?  Are you getting a chance to get your craft on this weekend?  In whatever crafty way that is, I hope so!

I have to say I had a jolly good time making my card to show you today. 

One of my favorite challenges, Addicted to CAS, is celebrating their first anniversary!  Which just proves that time really does fly when you're having fun!  In honor of that special occasion, the code word is anniversary.

The new sponsor for this challenge is Deedee's Digis and there are other sensational prizes on offer as well!

 

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I'm also excited to see a fun marriage of another two go-to challenges I enjoy!  This week the fantastic Curtain Call is teaming up with the equally fantastic CAS-ual Fridays in a two-for-one inspiration challenge, using this photo:

You get to make one project and link in both places and CAS-ual Fridays Stamps is offering an uber cool prize!

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And, last, but not least, another favorite challenge, Merry Monday, threw me for a curve this week when the clever Lesley gave us a brief of stripes, and red, and white, and stars, or hearts. 

Oh, and chocolate.  Oh, goodie, an edible card!  Well, call me late me to class, but I couldn't figure out how to do that, so I ate some chocolate while I pondered what to make.  I'm pretty sure that counts.

See, what I really wanted to make was a happy holiday anniversary card with a Mr. and Mrs. Snowman on it, because lots of people get married around the Christmas holiday, including my SIL and BIL!  The thing is, I don't have a Mr. and Mrs. Snowman image, so . . . round and round the hamster ran, forming ideas.  "Hey," it said, "how about using your circle stamps?"  Shazambam, I love my hamster brain when it clicks in coz, after all, aren't snow people made of circles?

So I took all these wonderful supplies and set to work.

Snow peeps are made by rolling up huge snowballs and when I was a girl growing up in Iowa, we always rolled up three of them to make our snow people.  We gave them bottoms, and middles, and tops.  So, at first I tried making my stamped snow people that way, like this:  (It became scratch paper, so excuse the smudges.)

Yeah, no, I wasn't feelin' it.  This happy snow couple look like they are from the Land of Long and Lean and that's just wrong.  Snow people should be from the Land of Round and Rounder.  (I'm an honorary member there.)

 

So I tried again, using only two circles, and I made this lovable card:

 

Awww, much better, right?  I think they are as cute as freckles with their sweet glances and their carrot noses affectionately engaged in Eskimo kisses!  Which reminds me.  There are snippets used on this card, so a trip to Pixie's Snippet's Playground is in order!  I think my playmates will get a kick out of this!

Oh, and those scarves?  In a happy coininkydink, I found them on free printed Christmas cards sent to me by a charity I donate to, so I fussy-cut them and repurposed them on my card.  BTW, I really did use chocolate.  I altercated my striped ground using SU! "cranberry crisp" red and PTI "dark chocolate" brown.  The circles and hearts were stamped with the dark chocolate ink, too, which looks black in the photos.

 

I hope you had as much fun looking at my card as I did making it!  Now I have an urge to go and make some dark chocolate and cranberry bark.  Yummo!

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Enjoy your day!  No, seriously, enjoy.  LITS*  

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and special thanks to you if you take the time to leave a comment and/or join as a follower!  Please let me know you came by, so I can be sure and return the flavor! 

  

 

*Life Is Too Short! 

Paper:  PTI white

Stamps:  SU! circle, sediment; unmarked
  stripe; PS "Sunny Side Up" circle; hearts
  by Technique Tuesday "Dig You"
Inks:  PTI dark chocolate, SU! cranberry crisp
Black sparkly Washi tape for eyes, buttons
Corner Chomper