Homespun Christmas

I promise these are the last Christmas cards you'll see from me for awhile, but since I had everything out, I found this pad of Simple Stories Handmade Holiday papers and decided to make a couple more country-style cards.

This one has no stamping, no die-cuts, just the papers from the pad.  Since I wasn't doing too much that was creative, I decided to add some hand-stitching (using a We R Memory Keepers stitch piercer) in between each of the panels of paper.  And I colored some wood veneer stars with a red marker and glued them over the ornaments on the tree.  The twine is Lawn Fawn.

This next one uses just 1 of the papers - I love the bits of music, the swirls, and the snowflakes in it.  I simply added it to a cream card base and, to enter the Pretty Pink Posh die-cut blog Hop, added a Simon Merry Christmas die-cut and a Sizzix (?) snowflake die that I think is now discontinued;I think it originally came with the first Cuttlebug machines.  I borrow it every couple of years from my friend Yvonne and cut a zillion of them.  I added a Prima wood button that I also darkened with a marker, threaded with some twine.

I'm adding this last card to the Pretty Pink Posh Cutting Edge Blog Hop

and both of these cards to PaperCrafts & Scrapbooking Holiday Cards & More link party.