Hello and welcome to the Roost! I’m busy today getting ready to make cards with about 300 kids tomorrow at the Santastravaganza in Watertown, Minnesota. It’s so much fun seeing the kids get excited about creating an image with stamps. It’s also exhausting and total chaos!

If you have kiddos and live in the area be sure to stop by. It runs from 9 am to noon at the Community Center. There is a whole day of fun planned.

• Santa is coming to town
• a tree lighting by the bridge
• hay rides to view lights
• a candy cane hunt
• a luminary walk with s’more stops

I do still have a few Christmas card themed swaps to share. The four that I have today are classic and elegant.

The large Merry Christmas stamp released this year is one of my favorites. Amanda VanHavermaet has embossed it in Gold Embossing Powder. The Cherry Cobbler base with the Elegant Pines Designer Paper give the card a rich feel. The greeting done on Very Vanilla is layered over the designer paper. The Mossy Meadow and Gold trim strips really accent the greeting.

The next card created by Cathy Seal uses Shaded Spruce, Real Red and White colors with pops of gold and pink. The stitched die cut layers are from the Branching Out Dies. The beautiful Gold Foil Embossed greeting was created with the Christmas Words Collage Hybrid Embossing Folder and Die set. Used together they emboss and cut at the same time. The beautiful flowers are actually die cut from the Traditions of Christmas Designer Series Paper with the Christmas Greenery Dies.

This card really brings us back to the heart of the season. Unfortunately, the creator didn’t put his/her name on the card so I don’t know who created it. I love the simplicity and colors. The Secret Sea, Basic White, and Cloud Cover colors leave us focusing on the real message.

When I first saw the A Child is Born set, I didn’t care for it because of the lack of faces. Which, when I think about it is ironic because have an entire Susan Lordi Nativity, which I love. No faces there either, lol.

My final card today created by Holly Sutton Batla uses the same Traditions of Christmas Designer Paper as the second card. The DSP is cut into 1 1/2″ x 1 3/4″ rectangles and layered onto a 3 1/4″ x 3 3/4″ piece of Old Olive paper. A Cherry Cobbler matte is used that is 3 1/2″ x 4″. The entire thing is popped up with dimensionals. The greeting which is from the Traditional Labels stamp set and cut with the matching Traditional Labels Dies is also popped up.

Three Faceted Snowflake gems finish off the card.

Thanks for stopping by the Roost! Hope you have a wonderful weekend. Will you be attending fun Christmas events or out hunting down some awesome presents?

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