A Christmas Sleigh Card

It’s another Friday which means another week has come and gone. They are putting in high fibre optic cables in most of the streets in Chatham and because we live right by the intersection, our lawn has had the most construction. It’s a mess! And this week they had a machine running from morning until 5:00 and the high pitched sound irritated my brain disorders so it has not been a pleasant week again. Luckily I could barely hear it in the sewing room so two guess what I did this week! If you guessed quilting, you only needed one guess…..and I didn’t mind being stuck in there!

        This is a long weekend in Canada – Thanksgiving Day is on Monday! It’s a weekend and day to be thankful for the bountiful harvest we have in Canada and for the farmers that grow it….. and of course, thankful for other things in our lives.

        I’ve also been busy making Christmas cards and then it dawned on me that I have to get the grandkids Halloween cards and bookmarks made too. Yipes! How did it get to be so close to Halloween already! And one grandson has a birthday near the end of October so I guess I should put the Christmas stash away now.

But until then, here’s another Christmas card.

 

I bought a die and stamp set from Aliexpress that included this sled, skies and a snow shoes plus some other goodies. As soon as I saw it, it brought back memories from using a sled like that when I was a child. I wasn’t sure what to do with them so I die cut the sleigh twice from brown cardstock and glued them together. To add some interest I sponged some Walnut Distress Ink around the edges and added the jute rope. As I was flipping through my 6” paper packs I spotted this ‘Let It Snow’ paper and decided it was perfect for this card. It was quickly cut down to fit the standard 4.25 x 5.5 card base and glued on. Then the ‘happy winter’ sentiment was die cut from white cardstock (another Aliexpress die) and I hand cut the snow bank leaving the word ‘winter’ attached…. the ‘happy’ die cut separately anyway so it was easy to add it where ever I wanted it…it was die cut twice and glued together.

Then the snow bank was glued on around the edges and bottom which left the top free so I could pop the sleigh in. The wreath stamp and matching die and the bow were also part of this set so I glued one on to the sleigh. Then I decided the snow bank needed some glitter so I ran a glitter pen back and forth for some shimmer…..and called it finished.  

        Have a wonderful weekend everyone and if you are Canadian, Happy Thanksgiving. Be thankful for every day because every day this side of the dirt is a good one and there is always something to be thankful for….sometimes you have to search for it, but its there…so never stop searching.

Cheers

Violet

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