Mix It Up by Keeping it Simple!

Christmas, Clean and Simple, Holidays, Scrapbook.com, Seasons, Winter

Hello friends!  Happy November!  It seems like I was just thinking about Autumn with cooler temps…and now we’re getting REAL close to Christmas and the end of the year! Time is going so quickly!  Are you getting your Christmas cards started yet?

So let’s take a moment for ourselves and work on keeping life simple!  This brings me to a new challenge over at the Mix It Up Challenge Blog.    The challenges always run for 6 weeks so there is plenty of time to enter.  The theme given for us this time is: KIS (Keep It Simple) or you can always do the ‘Anything Goes” too.  Here’s the card that I came up with for the challenge using the theme:

I thought that “keeping it simple” for Christmas cards and getting down to the wire for making them and sending out would be a good thought for this challenge!

I pulled out this cute Scrapbook.com stamp set called “Holiday” to create a simple design with the solid bauble images and added a few heat embossed elements over two of them and then heat embossed a hook for each.  I heat embossed the sentiment in gold to match the hooks and then just stamped a couple of doo-dads around the panel and drew lines from the ornament hooks coming off the edge with a gold fine line pen.  That’s pretty much it!  I did die cut a few “Mini Bows” from Taylored Expressions for each ornament.  Then I layered the ornament panel onto gold and then onto a white A2 card base.

This would certainly be a very easy design to mass produce using the MISTI tool.

I hope you like my card and will stop by the challenge blog to see what the rest of the design team has created too!  *NOTE* This is the last project that I’m making for this challenge blog as I have decided to step down from the design team.  Thank you to Tina for having me as part of the challenge team this year and keeping the blog running.  Best wishes for the coming year!

Thanks so much for dropping in today!  Wishing you a wonderful weekend!

Challenges:

  1. Ally’s Angels – Anything Goes
  2. Crafter’s Cafe – Anything Goes with optional: Christmas
  3. ABC Christmas -‘U’ is for Uncluttered (CAS) & ‘V’ is for Vertical
  4. CRAFT – Christmas
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26 thoughts on “Mix It Up by Keeping it Simple!”

  1. Your clean and simple design is such a breath of fresh air—those bold baubles paired with the delicate gold embossing strike a perfect balance between festive and elegant. I love how the fine gold lines draw the eye upward, giving the ornaments a sense of movement and charm. The mini bows are a delightful finishing touch, adding just the right pop of dimension. What a beautiful way to celebrate the season and wrap up your time with the team.

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    2. So beautiful and elegant Vicki and love the shine of the gold bows and sentiment..gorgeous Cas card..

      luv CHRISSYxx

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  9. A beautiful Christmas card. Thank you so much for entering our challenge at CRAFT Challenge, looking forward to see you again next challenge.
    Hugs Sheryl xx CRAFT DT

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  10. Absolutely beautiful CAS card Vicki, love the beautiful baubles and little gold bows, not made any Christmas cards yet—shhhh the one I blogged today was one of a couple of last minute ones from last year that hadn’t been blogged.

    Carol x

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  13. oh my yes time is flying ! And no, I haven’t started any cards much less Christmas cards. But this card is fantastic. I wouldn’t even describe it as “simple” with all the little extras you have included. Wow, I’ve missed you and your inspirational work! I do hope all is well.

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    1. Hello my friend! I was wondering if you were coming back to your blog! It’s great to hear from you! I’ve missed you and hope all is well with you too! Thank you for your stopping by with your kind comment! BIG HUGS

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