The 12 Kits of Occasions: November with Kim

Hi everyone! For those of you in the States, hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. It's the last day of the month and time for the 12 Kits of Occasions group to reveal this month's creations. The theme is "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" and what could be more appropriate. Have you gotten your decorations out and started your shopping? Did anyone jump into the rush of Black Friday? Definitely not me!!

Our wonderful and very talented hostess this month was Kim, Cupcakes, Cards and Kim. And below is a photo of all the goodies we each received. Our kits were stuffed full of fabulous stamped images and sentiments, wonderful die cuts and plenty of great embellishments. Thank you so much, Kim--I loved your kit!!

PHOTO BY KARA

Kim included several Santa images. This was such an easy card to make and one of my favorites. Kim even included that fantastic stamped envelope. I used my die cut 'Merry' on another card but had the same die set so I cut out a dark green version for this 'Merry Christmas'.

Below is the inside of the card.

Another great Santa! I was tempted to add some color but decided to stay with the black and white image and add this gorgeous die cut done in silver.

I thought the inside should be coordinated on this card too!

I added embossed snowflakes to go with this sweet bunny. All the snowflakes were brushed with clear Wink of Stella but that unfortunately doesn't show in the photo. Love the large framed die cut!

This next card was so easy. The papers are the front and back of a single sheet. Perfect design to use the jingle bells Kim included!

There were a couple of sheets of black cardstock so I thought black would make a great background for the sweet owl. I added a birch tree die cut using a Taylored Expressions die and a Mama Elephant sentiment that went with the 'Merry' in my kit.

Hope you find some inspiration for your holiday cards from all of the 12 Kits designs. That is if you haven't gotten everything done already!!! Just click HERE to connect with the 12 Kits blog where you can find links to all the other designers' blogs. A list of all the materials included in Kim's kit can be found at the top of the page.

Enjoy the hop1 And thanks so very much for dropping by,

Sharron

The 25 Days of Christmas Tags, Day 11

The 12 Kits are joining Tracey today with tags for her 25 Days of Christmas Tags! Have you been visiting her blog? There is so much inspiration with tags featured every day. There will also be prizes so be sure to leave comments on Tracey's blog plus on all the participants blogs as well.

 

I bought this wonderful Bo Bunny paper pad called Woodland Winter quite a while ago. Wish there was more of this particular design. Doesn't it make a fantastic background! I used one of the Anytime Tags dies from Lil' Inker. Stamps are from Mama Elephant's Winter Wonderland. Actually a quick tag--the only slow part was fussy cutting the deer. Sentiment was embossed with white embossing powder and a star (hidden behind some ribbon) was embossed in silver.  Some Wink of Stella added a little sparkle to the snow in front.

Be sure to visit Tracey's blog every day for many more tags and endless inspiration for your Christmas creating!!!

Enjoy,

Sharron