Home for Christmas

Saturday's Surprise has as its theme: Home for the Holidays. This card was made using a picture from the past. It was a Christmas we had traveled from Texas to Alabama to spend with my in-laws. On the left is my son; on the right is his cousin Mary. It was so nice to be able to be with family during the holidays that year.

Saturday Surprise - Unconventional Colors for Christmas

These two cards I made for Saturday Surprise, using unusual colors (not the usual red and green) to make a Christmas or holiday card. The angel stamp is Celestial Angel by Stamps Happen from Laura, my art friend. The snowflakes came from Nancy Maxwell-James, from a drawing.

Two Challenges - Sketch Saturday and Saturday Surprise

Using the sketch given us by Sketch Saturday, I have made the card using my creation, Li'l Redhead, as the focus. She is set inside a circle which qualifies this card for Saturday's Surprise where the theme is In the Round.

Saturday Surprise and One Stop

Once upon a time is the theme for Saurday Surprise, a challenge I haven't entered before. I thought of a time when dresses were sewn on a treadle machine and washed in big zinc washtubs. What an improvement it must have been to be able to use this new-fangled "celebrated home washer"!

One Stop Challenge has as its theme: newspaper, text, writing, so I am entering this in that challenge also.

My background is a combination of mists and sprays, home-made and bought. The sewing machine stamp is Stampin' Up. The other items came from Nancy Maxwell James in a random drawing which I won.