Kazan's #36 & Dawn McVey's #17

yay, a combo card challenge!

i finally got to participate in two challenges this week, which is major for me since i've been so busy lately with school (open house on thursday) and coaching the swim team (2 meets this week--phew!)

anyway, i was able to participate in the Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #17 over at Dawn McVey's blog (use the colors aqua, red, brown, kraft, and cream) as well as Kazan's sketch #36 over at 2sketches4you. hope you check both of them out as the participants have LOVELY entries :D

here i was able to make a super sweet "ho ho ho" Christmas card with one of my favorite stamp lines--DoodleFactory stamps... isn't that Santa the cutest? :D

well, i've gotta run--i'm going to see "Whip It" with my sister tonight--should be good.

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enjoy, and thanks for looking!

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #11

sooo, this is my first time participating in Dawn McVey's Color Challenge, but i'm super excited about playing along some more!

this color combo reeaaaaaaaallllllllyyy stretched me... i love red, pink, and green (oooh, and black too!) but i just was struggling with what i wanted to be my "accent" color. i was tossed between having pink as the main color, couldn't make it work, and settled on green. wasn't too happy, but then, once i picked out the paper (perfect stuff from Amy Butler!) and the stamped image i wanted, the rest came together!

i actually made two cards, and tried to decide which to post, but when i asked my brothers for opinions, they picked different ones... so i'm posting both! you decide which one you like better (there's not *that* big a difference, but still).

see, my brother Joey liked the one above, and Pete liked the one below.

but how can you really not like the sentiment? it's so cute :D i'm giving myself a pat on the back as we speak *smiles*

thanks for looking, and have a great Monday! i may be back to post more :D