Christmas 2016 card nine

What are your Christmassy plans for today? Are you singing carols, decorating the house, making or writing cards? Whatever you're up to, enjoy the festive season! I just love all the the pretty lights.
Today my task is the tree.
Here's some more inspiration for your card making.

For this card, I used the beautiful Holly embossing folder and Mint Macaroon cardstock to create my background piece. I stamped the little tree from the (retired) scentational season stamp set in Mint macaroon ink. I cut two layering circles from the die set, one in white and one in real red.
 I stamped the holly image from the Father Christmas stamp set three times around the circle in Emerald Envy ink and stamped the greeting from the same set in real red in the centre. I wrapped a piece of gold twine around the mint macaron piece before adhering to a white card base. So that's my card for today. Hope you like it and get inspired.
Enjoy your Sunday!
Susanne

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Christmas 2016 card eight

Happy December everyone!
I hope you have a month of good things planned.
It is that time of year when everything gets crazy.
A perfect time to sneak away for an hour and enjoy some crafty time.

So here is some further inspiration for you.

Our Merry mice are decorating the tree! That's my job for tomorrow or perhaps the weekend.
This card uses another image from the Merry Mice stamp set. Can you tell I love this set?
The base card is Cherry cobbler and the pretty candy strip of paper is from the Presents and pine cones paper pack. The tree is a vintage stamp that is one of my favourites, Swirly Christmas (retired) which I stamped in Emerald Envy. The greeting is also stamped in Emerald envy on a scrap of pool party card and cut out with the banner punch. I punched a second banner with silver paper and layered them on my card. I stamped a couple of the star images with pool party also either side of the banner. The cute mice were coloured in with markers.
Hope you are enjoying this series.
Back tomorrow,
Susanne