Ho! Ho! Ho!

Well, I spent the day crafting when I should have been packing. It's my husband's birthday tomorrow, so there was a lot of Cricut Kids stuff going on (more on that tomorrow), and then I was working on a card for the Jingle Belles challenge this week. I like the whole make Christmas cards early idea. Just makes for a more relaxing December.

So this one stumped me. The theme over at Jingle Belles is "Oh Holey Night", and the idea is to put a window in your card. Sounds easy enough, but it wasn't (for me, anyway, but I AM still a novice!). I think a Gypsy would have helped, but mine is STILL lost in the mail system somewhere. The good news is that the wonderful folks over at Scrappers Must Haves have determined that I have been waiting far too long, and they've shipped me another one (hooray!). The second Gypsy is sitting in Canada Customs right now, so very soon I should have her in my very own hands. :) ANYWAY, I found the whole window thing kind of hard. I ended up using an exacto knife, and I had to modify my original idea (about 6 or 7 times! ha!), but this is how it came out.

The penguins are from Simply Charmed, and the sentiments are both MPS. The glittery striped paper is from the DCWV Glitter Stack, and I embossed the presents with the Cuttlebug Snowflakes folder (again, I have no idea what it's really called) and the Swiss Dots folder. I wish I could tell you where the penguin's Santa hat came from, but I have no idea - I found it in my stash of unused Circut cuts.

Because I used penguins (I have a family member who LOVES penguins, so this card was designed specifically with her in mind), I'm also entering this one in the BBTB2 use a penguin challenge.

Still not sure if I'm happy with this one. Sometimes I think I'm Christmas card-challenged. :D  But practise makes perfect, right?

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day! :)