Santa Baby

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The weather turned cold and dreary here this week. Brrrr…. Winter is on its way. Although I enjoy curling up near the fire with my blanket, cup of tea, and a good book, I made my way up to my craft room to make another Christmas card. To keep things easy, I used one of the pre-colored digital images from Meljen’s Designs. The colors perfectly matched my new Echo Park papers. This Santa looks so happy that I just want to pinch his rosy cheek. (But I won’t. I don’t want to end up on the “Naughty” list.)

A couple of weeks ago I finally scored at an antique store. Every one always shows off all their great thrift store or antique store finds but I feel like I never find anything “good”. I saw a sign that a local antique store was closing and that everything was on sale. Since I had time, I decided to stop to see if I could find anything “good”. I did! I got 3 quart mason jars full of buttons for $5. Once I got them home and sorted through them, I found there were quite a few lovely vintage buttons, a few other novelty type buttons, and a lot of plain ol’ buttons. I’m happy with my purchase. I plan on dying some of the plain buttons using a tutorial I found on Pinterest. I brought all this up because I used one of the buttons I bought on this card. Plus, I like looking at the jars of buttons on the shelf in my craft room.

Since it’s Thursday, there is a new release and a new challenge for Meljen’s Designs. Here is a look at the new digis going into the store today. Aren’t these mice super cute?

Of course they go perfectly with the new Meljen’s Designs challenge – use Orange and/or Brown. Stop by the Meljen’s Designs blog to see the projects from Team A using the new images.

Thank you for stopping by! Have a great day!

Supplies:

• Stamps: Santa’s Jolly Smile (precolored digital stamp) from Meljen’s Designs, Signature Christmas & Just the Ticket from Papertrey
• Inks: Close To My Heart Cranberry, Stampin’ Up Garden Green, Distress Inks Old Paper
• Papers: Papertrey white CS, Echo Park Holly Jolly Christmas DP pad, misc. red CS from stash
• Tools: Sewing machine, Martha Stewart edge punch
• Embellishments: Sakura Gellyroll stardust clear glitter pen, Tiara glitz Stickles, misc. button & twine

Challenges:

• ABC DT Challenge – Christmas
• Anything Goes Challenge – Stitching
• C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - Cute
• Cards for Men – Christmas
• Catch the Bug – Anything goes
• CES Challenge – Song or Film inspired (inspired by song “Santa Baby”)
• Creative Inspirations – Stitching (10 max challenges)
• Digital Tuesday – Anything goes
• Do You Stack Up – Inspired by song (“Santa Baby”)
• Feature Me Fridays – Always Anything goes
• Floweret – Christmas
• I Did It Creations – Winter/Christmas
• Incy Wincy – Stitching
• Lothian Crafts – Christmas
• Mami Doodles – Christmas
• Ooh-La-La creations - Stitching
• Paper Pretties – buttons
• Papertake Weekly – Christmas
• Really Reasonable Ribbon – Christmas
• Top Tip Challenge – anything goes Christmas
• Totally Stampalicous – anything goes
• Christmas Inspirations – Bows