Cheers to a warm and toasty Christmas

Living in Wisconsin, we tend to have snow for Christmas so I can't imagine a tropical or beach Christmas; however, I do have some friends that I send cards to that are in areas like that.  For this card, I used sentiment from TLC, background paper and surf board from Imagine That Digistamp and image from Bugaboo.

Patterned Paper: Imagine That Digistamp - Beach Blanket Girl(see above for direct link)

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollection

Stamp:  Bugaboo - tropical Santa drink

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - Cheers Warm and Toasty Christmas

Circle Punches:  EK Success

Gem:  Mark Richards

Challenges

Catch the Bug - Thursday Photo Inspiration

CHNC Extra - July

ABC Christmas Challenge - N for No Rules

Dragonfly Journeys - Ch. 65 July Jingle Bells

Robyn's Fetish - Ch. 324 Anything with water

A Gem of a Challenge - Ch. 173 Let's get krafty

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie - Ch. 48 Christmas

Sending sunny thoughts

This weekend we had beautiful weather here so it was perfect to be outside.  We were able to go to an Art Fair and see many gorgeous things and then I have thoughts of re-doing my entire house.....if I could only afford to do that, not.  Instead the only item I bought was a toad house.  I have a shaded back yard so I have lots of toads in my grass and when I go out to cut it they are always hopping out of my way.  When I saw this find I thought it was too funny so I had to get me one.
For my card, I used a pre-colored image from the Paper Shelter and then I created my own background.  I embossed the sun background and sponged on some ink.  Then I sprayed on some Krylon paint to look like sand.  Now I could  go for some fruity drink, but it seems like I'm "on-call" for work all the time.  The sentiment is from TLC.

Cardstock:  Bazzil: Recollections

Stamp:  Paper Shelter - Summer Holidays

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - Sunny Thoughts

Circle Punches:  EK Success

Ink:  Distress - Mustard Seed

Paint: Krylon

Embossing Folder:  Sizzix

Flowers:  Prima

Gems:  Paper Studio

Challenges

Paper Shelter - Ch. 256 Sunny Days

Crafty Sentiments - Flowers

4CC - Ch. 306 Summer

Aud Sentiment - Ch. 159 For a girl

OSSAT - Ch. 266 Elements of Nature

That's Crafty - Feminine Challenge

Come & Get It - Make your Own Background