Poinsettia with embossing

The past few years it has been my goal to make at least 2 Christmas cards each month and I have done well.....until this year. I'm quite behind in my holiday cards. I have tried to do some cleaning in my craft area and I found this wonderful freebie from Beccy's Place that I colored long ago and had sitting in a pile waiting to be put together. So I played instead of cleaned....again. I dry embossed the background and heat embossed the Tim Holtz sentiment.

Patterned Paper: Sweet Shoppe
Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollections
Stamp:  Beccy's Place (see above for direct link)
Sentiment:  Tim Holtz
VersaMark
Embossing Powder: Stampendous
Embossing Folder:  Cuttlebug

Challenges
Christmas Card Throwdown - March Sketch
Beccy's Place Challenge - March
CHNC - Ch. 532 Anything Christmas or optional Father Christmas
CCAYR - March something that starts with e or f (embossing)
CRAFT -  Ch. 589
Merry Little Christmas - Ch. 32
Fezziwigs Festive Frolics - Vintage

Tulip Bunny Gift Bag

I think that everyone is feeling the panic of what is happening with the virus and going stir crazy from not being able to be social, but for us crafters to be crafting is not as bad as others.  I am still having to go to work, but I have offered to donate projects to my daughter who is a school teacher and she refuses them. We have patients who are upset about their routine clinic appointments being cancelled and when they are offered televisits or phone calls they are upset with that option. I understand that it's not ideal, but it's for their protection. Now this morning I had my microwave oven "go out" and I don't use it that often, but now it's just another inconvenience to deal with right now.  Luckily for the world my coffee pot still works, lol.
For my anything but a card project I had to laugh, because I made a gorgeous gift bag for my daughter....just don't know if I will be able to give it to her, lol. It is using the image Tulip Bunny that I put onto a gift bag that I picked up from Target.  Oh well....there is always next year.  Hang in there and stay safe.

Cardstock:  Bazzil

Patterned Paper:  Core-dinations

Stamp:  Tulip Bunny (see above for direct link)

Sentiment:  Tim Holtz

Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo Black

Flowers:  Wild Orchid Crafts

Fern:  Cottage Craft

Gift Bag: Spritz from Target

Challenges
Not Just Cards - March
Aud Sentiments - Ch. 247 Spring/Easter
Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 626 Just for Fun
CRAFT - Ch. 549 Anything Goes
Crafty Gals Corner - Ch. 205 Flowers
Crafty Sentiments - Spring is coming

Let it Snow

We are scheduled for snow the next few days, and I am not trying to encourage anything. However, I got some new snowflake dies from Tim Holtz and Birch Press and just love how they look together. The papers on the inside are shimmer which don't show up well in the photo and then I added some brads. The snowflakes on the outside are glitter and shimmer along with sequins.

Cardstock:  Core-dinations; Paper Studio; Bazzil

Dies:  Birch Press; Tim Holtz; Creative Expressions

Brads:  Paper Studio

Sequins:  Stash

Challenges

CHNC - Ch. 473 Anything Christmas with optional use a sentiment

Tuesday Throwdown - Ch. 449 Layered die cuts

Crafty Sentiments - Winter

Hand Stamped Sentiments - Ch. 331

Sparkles Monthly - Ch. 124Winter Blues

Scrapping 4 Fun - Ch. 158 Winter/Spring

Cardz 4 Galz - Ch. 113 White ad Blue

Creatalicious - Ch. 179 Anything Goes with optional add a snowflake

Creative Knockouts - Ch. 333 Finish the inside

If you give a crafter a cookie - Ch. 133