These are the Moments. STAMPlorations GD

Hi there! What's happening with Blogger and spacing and justification lately? So fussterating! But anyway, here you are! You've whooshed through another week like a blur on a thistle!

I'm pleased to be here today all dressed in green and white as a Guest Designer for the December STAMPlorations Challenge which is "Stamps & A Holiday!" Given that it is a month of holidays, we should see boodles of inspiration in the gallery!

I'm starting you off  with this:

Because I have so many holiday cards to make, they tend to be QACAS (quick and clean and simple). Okay, even when I don't have a lot of holiday cards to make, my cards tend to be QACAS! For this card, I went back in time.

Years ago, I purchased these full-size note cards that are (were) made of glossy paper with a beautiful forest green marbling pattern on the front and back. Fast-forward to the modern time of dies and I thought that the card paper would make terrific die-cut evergreen trees.

Just to be diff'ernt, I made my snowbank a scalloped one, using a Spellbinder's die. The "Evergreen Trees" die is from Memory Box. The sediment is from Shery's own STAMPlorations set called "Noteworthy."

And here is the inside, decorated with more tree cuts and a sediment from MFT's "Seasonal Sentiments":

 

I used forest green ink on that sediment, but the photo processing software gremlin preferred it in teal. (In case you thought Hammy had gone color blind living in Never-Ending Chaos in the newly-dubbed Madhouse!)

Thank you, Shery, for picking my card as the winner last September so I could enjoy the prize of Guest Designing for this challenge! I hope all of you will join in and link up your holiday cards in the STAMPlorations December Challenge!

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Speaking of trees, I have a few more:

This die is called "Christmas Tree Words" from Die-Versions.

This sediment is also from the same MFT stamp set, heat-embossed in white. That white swirl was spose to be a snow hill, but when I was playing around with it, I loved the look of having it schwoop down from the corner. I always wanted hair that schwupt like that.

Once again, same beautiful stamp, this time heat-embossed in black. The corner die is part of a four-die NBUS set from Memory Box called "Distressed Holiday Collage." I first saw them used on a fall card made by my friend Sheri and I had to go and immediately order the set. She has a remarkable jewel-colored background behind her die, which I hope to CASE in the future.

Challenges

• Memory Box Challenge: Season's Greetings. (Cards 1 and 4.)
• Pixie's Snippets Playground: Use your snippets. Any of my cards would work today! Be careful where you step in the Playground right now as there are scattered nails about and scaffolding overhead because the stage is being built for the Nativity play!
• Shopping Our Stash: No Stamping. (Card 2.)
• Stamp Ink Paper: Card-Maker's Choice. (Card 1.)
• The Paper Players: Bingo. (Card 1. Middle vertical row: patterned glossy paper used.)

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